Time-efficient cooperative attack strategy considering collision avoidance for missile swarm

doi:10.23919/JSEE.2025.000088

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 1306-1316.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2025.000088

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Time-efficient cooperative attack strategy considering collision avoidance for missile swarm

Yixin HU¹(), Yun XU¹^,²^,*(), Zhaohui DANG³()

¹ College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
² School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
³ School of Aerospace, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

Received:2024-03-14 Online:2025-10-18 Published:2025-10-24
Contact: Yun XU E-mail:12332055@zju.edu.cn;xuyunxy@hfut.edu.cn;dangzhaohui@nwpu.edu.cn
About author:
HU Yixin was born in 2001. He received his B.S. degree in aircraft control and information engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in college of control science and engineering in Zhejiang University. His research focuses on aircraft control. E-mail: 12332055@zju.edu.cn

XU Yun was born in 1994. She received her B.S. degree in guidance and control from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China in 2016, and Ph.D. degree in aerospace science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2022. She worked as a postdoctor in College of Control Science and Engineering in Zhejiang University. Now she is a professor in Hefei University of Technology. Her research interests include modeling of relative motion and self-organizing control for large-scale clusters. E-mail: xuyunxy@hfut.edu.cn

DANG Zhaohui was born in 1987. He received his B.S. degree in aircraft design from National University of Defense Technology, and Ph.D. degree in aerospace science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2015. Now he is an associate professor in Northwestern Polytechnical University. His research interests include space orbit game technology, space artificial intelligence technology, and spacecraft formation flight technology. E-mail: dangzhaohui@nwpu.edu.cn
Supported by:
This research was supported by the Intelligent Aerospace System Leading Innovation Team Program of Zhejiang (2022R01003).

Abstract

Abstract:

In the realm of missile defense systems, the self-sufficient maneuver capacity of missile swarms is pivotal for their survival. Through the analysis of the missile dynamics model, a time-efficient cooperative attack strategy for missile swarm is proposed. Based on the distribution of the attackers and defenders, the collision avoidance against the defenders is considered during the attack process. By analyzing the geometric relationship between the relative velocity vector and relative position vector of the attackers and defenders, the collision avoidance constrains of attacking swarm are redefined. The key point is on adjusting the relative velocity vectors to fall outside the collision cone. This work facilitates high-precision attack toward the target while keeping safe missing distance between other attackers during collision avoidance process. By leveraging an innovative repulsion artificial function, a time-efficient cooperative attack strategy for missile swarm is obtained. Through rigorous simulation, the effectiveness of this cooperative attack strategy is substantiated. Furthermore, by employing Monte Carlo simulation, the success rate of the cooperative attack strategy is assessesed and the optimal configuration for the missile swarm is deduced.

Key words: missile swarm, cooperative attack strategy, collision avoidance constraint, artificial potential function

Yixin HU, Yun XU, Zhaohui DANG. Time-efficient cooperative attack strategy considering collision avoidance for missile swarm[J]. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 36(5): 1306-1316.

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Object	$ \left( {x(0),y(0),z(0)} \right)/{\text{m}} $	$ \left\\| {V(0)} \right\\|/({\text{m}}/{\text{s)}} $	$ \theta (0)/{(^\circ)} $	$ {\psi _V}(0)/(^\circ) $
Defender	$ \left( {0,0,0} \right) $	400	45	0
Attacker	$ \left( {3,1.5,0.6} \right) \times {10^4} $	600	0	180

Object	Index	$ \left( {x(0),y(0),z(0)} \right) $
Defender	D1−D3	$ \left( {0,0,0} \right) $
Defender	D4−D6	$ \left( {7.8,0,0} \right) \times {10^3} $
Attacker	A1	$ \left( {5,1.5,0.4} \right) \times {10^4} $
	A2	$ \left( {5,1.5,0.6} \right) \times {10^4} $
	A3	$ \left( {5,1.5,0.8} \right) \times {10^4} $
	A4	$ \left( {5,1.8,0.6} \right) \times {10^4} $
	A5	$ \left( {5,1.8,0.8} \right) \times {10^4} $
	A6	$ \left( {5,1.8,1} \right) \times {10^4} $

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