Design of distributed guidance laws for multi-UAV cooperative attacking a moving target based on reducing surrounding area

Abstract: In this paper, two cooperative guidance laws based on the area around the target of multiattackers are designed to deal with the problem of cooperative encirclement or simultaneous attack in the case of known target acceleration and unknown target acceleration. Multi-attacker communication network only needs to contain a directed spanning tree, and does not require all attackers to observe the target information, where at least one can observe the target. The components along the attacker-target line of sight in the novel guidance laws can reduce the relative remaining distance between the attacker and the target at the same speed, thus completing simultaneous attack and avoiding the calculation of the remaining time. The components of the guidance laws perpendicular to the attacker-target line of sight can make the normal overload of relative motion zero, so that the trajectory will not be distorted and the collision problem within the attacker group can be avoided. The simulation results verify the practicability of the novel guidance laws.