Cooperative Covering Guidance Strategy Design: A Virtual Targets Approach

A novel cooperative guidance law is designed in this paper to intercept a maneuvering target, where the concept of virtual targets is proposed and utilized. Taking the bounds of the target's maneuverability as a prior knowledge, each missile executes the improved proportional guidance law and covering strategy to intercept the real target. In addition, when a complex maneuvering target is considered, the probability of successful interception is calculated based on the reachability analysis. Numerical simulations are performed to verify the developed strategy.