A Distributed Cooperative Guidance Law with Prescribed-Time Consensus Performance
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- The aircraft achieves cooperation within a prescribed time. Unlike traditional laws that only provide an upper time limit, this law enables preset cooperation time, allowing for precise consensus control.
- Unlike general methods, this law directly handles flight time under the communication topology, enhancing accuracy without requiring arrival time estimation.
- The proposed law imposes no restrictions on the number of cooperating aircraft and has been validated in single-node failure scenarios, ensuring high applicability to complex missions.
2. Basic Theory and Motion Model
2.1. Basic Theory
2.2. Motion Model
3. Main Result
3.1. Design Strategy
3.2. Undirected Topology Cooperative Guidance Law
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- is twice continuously differentiable on the interval .
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- is monotonically increasing from to , where represents the prescribed time.
- 3.
- .
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- and when .
3.3. Directed Topology Cooperative Guidance Law
4. Numerical Simulations
4.1. Undirected Topology
4.2. Directed Topology
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Initial Relative Range (m) | Velocity (m/s) | Initial Heading Angle (deg) | Initial LOS Angle (deg) | |
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1 | 8320 | 270 | 50 | −17.37 |
2 | 7760 | 230 | 60 | −14.95 |
3 | 7000 | 180 | 50 | 0 |
4 | 7070 | 220 | 65 | −8.15 |
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Ou, C.; Shen, A.; Cheng, Z.; Long, Y. A Distributed Cooperative Guidance Law with Prescribed-Time Consensus Performance. Aerospace 2025, 12, 169. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12030169
Ou C, Shen A, Cheng Z, Long Y. A Distributed Cooperative Guidance Law with Prescribed-Time Consensus Performance. Aerospace. 2025; 12(3):169. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12030169
Chicago/Turabian StyleOu, Chao, Ao Shen, Zhongtao Cheng, and Yaosong Long. 2025. "A Distributed Cooperative Guidance Law with Prescribed-Time Consensus Performance" Aerospace 12, no. 3: 169. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12030169
APA StyleOu, C., Shen, A., Cheng, Z., & Long, Y. (2025). A Distributed Cooperative Guidance Law with Prescribed-Time Consensus Performance. Aerospace, 12(3), 169. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12030169