Distributed cooperative guidance for multiple heterogeneous networked missiles

A distributed leader-follower heterogeneous multi-missiles cooperative guidance law was proposed based on local nearest-neighbor communication. The distributed local communication topology between the missiles was modeled using the graph-theoretic methods. The relations between the communication topology and the performance of cooperative guidance system for multiple heterogeneous networked missiles were investigated. Only the measurable states of missiles were required to be communicated between the nearest-neighbor missiles for the proposed distributed heterogeneous multi-missiles cooperative guidance law, which resulted in the characteristics of scalability and little communications. As an example, the distributed leader-follower missile cooperative guidance law for one leader and four followers was designed. The simulation results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed distributed cooperative guidance law.