Cooperative guidance law against active defensive aircraft in two-on-two engagement

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Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 1629-1644.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2025.000163

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Cooperative guidance law against active defensive aircraft in two-on-two engagement

Xintao WANG¹^,²(), Ming YANG¹^,²(), Mingzhe HOU³(), Songyan WANG¹^,²(), Tao CHAO¹^,²^,*()

¹ Control and Simulation Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
² National Key Laboratory of Complex System Control and Intelligent Agent Cooperation, Harbin 150001, China
³ Center for Control Theory and Guidance Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

Received:2024-09-18 Online:2025-12-18 Published:2026-01-07
Contact: Tao CHAO E-mail:healer121380@qq.com;myang@hit.edu.cn;hithyt@hit.edu.cn;sywang@hit.edu.cn;chaotao2000@163.com
About author:
WANG Xintao was born in 1994. He received his M.E. degree from Heilongjiang University in 2020. He is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in control and science engineering with the School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.His research interests include aircraft cooperative guidance and intelligent game confrontation. E-mail: healer121380@qq.com

YANG Ming was born in 1963. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control and science engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1985, 1988 and 1997, respectively. He is currently a professor with the Control and Simulation Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. His research interests include system simulation theory, credibility assessment of complex systems, guidance and control. E-mail: myang@hit.edu.cn

HOU Mingzhe was born in 1982. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control and science engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He is currently a professor with the Center for Control Theory and Guidance Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. His research interests include nonlinear control theory and spacecraft control. E-mail: hithyt@hit.edu.cn

WANG Songyan was born in 1976. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control and science engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1999, 2001 and 2007, respectively. She is currently an associate professor with the Control and Simulation Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. Her research interests include guidance, control and simulation E-mail: sywang@hit.edu.cn

CHAO Tao was born in 1983. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control and science engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2005, 2007 and 2011, respectively. He is currently an associate professor with the Control and Simulation Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. His current research interests include intelligent unmanned systems, modeling and simulation of complex systems, trajectory optimization, guidance and control. E-mail: chaotao2000@163.com
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62273119).

Abstract

Abstract:

A cooperative guidance law is proposed in a two-on-two engagement scenario with large-heading-errors by choosing zero-effort miss distance as a sliding surface, which consists of an attacker, a protector, a defender, and a target, based on fixed-time sliding mode control theory. Based on the nonlinear method of fixed-time sliding mode control, the performance of the cooperative guidance law remains satisfactory even with large-heading-errors scenarios where the linearization-based approaches might be invalid. By virtue of this law, the attacker pursues the target with the assistance of the protector, which can intercept the defender in the engagement scenario. Furthermore, if the attacker is intercepted by the defender, the guidance law of the protector could guarantee that the protector attacks the target. A robust adaptive term is included in the guidance law to deal with the case of the unknown disturbance upper bound of the defender-target team. Finally, the feasibility of the guidance law is verified by nonlinear numerical simulations, and the superiority of it is illustrated by comparing with the linearization guidance law.

Key words: cooperative guidance, adaptive control, fixed-time sliding mode control, two-on-two engagement, active defensive

Xintao WANG, Ming YANG, Mingzhe HOU, Songyan WANG, Tao CHAO. Cooperative guidance law against active defensive aircraft in two-on-two engagement[J]. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 36(6): 1629-1644.

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Parameter	Attacker	Protector	Defender	Target
Position/m	(0,100)	(0,100)	(2 000,100)	(2 400,100)
Course/(°)	6	10	110	160
Velocity/(m/s) Time constant/s	300 0.1	300 0.1	310 0.1	320 0.1

Parameter	Attacker	Protector	Defender	Target
Position/m	(0,0)	(0,100)	(2 000,0)	(2 100,100)
Course/(°)	5	10	160	150
Velocity/(m/s) Time constant/s	320 0.1	200 0.1	350 0.1	360 0.1

Parameter	Attacker	Protector	Defender	Target
Position/m	(0,100)	(300,100)	(2 600,100)	(3 500,100)
Course/(°)	6	10	170	170
Velocity/(m/s) Time constant/s	310 0.1	310 0.1	310 0.1	320 0.1

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