On 3D simultaneous attack against manoeuvring target with communication delays

Abstract

This article investigates the simultaneous attack problem of multiple missiles against a manoeuvring target with delayed information transmission in three-dimensional space. Based on the kinetic model of the missiles, the problem is divided into three demands: the velocity components normal to line-of-sight converge to zero in finite time, the component of motion states along line-of-sight should achieve consensus and converge to zero. The guidance law is designed for each demand and by theoretical proof, the upper bound of delay which can tolerate is presented and the consensus error of the relative distances can converge to a small neighbourhood of zero. And simulation example presented also demonstrates the validity of the theoretical result.