In this paper, a new guidance problem with the impact time constraint for cooperative attack of multiple missiles is investigated, which can be applied to salvo attack of anti-ship missiles. It can be used to guide multiple missiles to hit a stationary target simultaneously at a desirable impact time. The considered impact time control problem can be transformed into a range tracking problem. Then the range tracking problem can be viewed a consensus problem of multi-missile systems. As the application of the distributed consensus controller of multi-agent systems, three distributed protocols are given to solve the cooperative attack problem for the advantages such as reducing cost, improving system efficiency, increasing flexibility and reliability of distributed control. Simulation results demonstrate the performance and feasibility of the given protocols.
The leader-following consensus of multiple linear time invariant (LTI) systems under switching topology is considered. The leader-following consensus problem consists of designing for each agent a distributed protocol to make all agents track a leader vehicle, which has the same LTI dynamics as the agents. The interaction topology describing the information exchange of these agents is time-varying. An averaging method is proposed. Unlike the existing results in the literatures which assume the LTI agents to be neutrally stable, we relax this condition, only making assumption that the LTI agents are stablizable and detectable. Observer-based leader-following consensus is also considered.
In this paper, we address distributed control structures for multi-agent systems with linear controlled agent dynamics. We consider the parametrization and related geometric structures of the coordination controllers for multi-agent systems with fixed topologies. Necessary and sufficient conditions to characterize stabilizing consensus controllers are obtained. Then we consider the consensus for the multi-agent systems with switching interaction topologies based on control parametrization.
In this paper, the distributed output regulation problem of uncertain multi-agent systems with switching interconnection topologies is considered. All the agents will track or reject the signals generated by an exosystem (or an active leader). A systematic distributed design approach is proposed to handle output regulation via dynamic output feedback with the help of canonical internal model. With common solutions of regulator equations and Lyapunov functions, the distributed robust output regulation with switching interconnection topology is solved.