Distributed and Cooperative Control for Swarming Munitions

摘要

Distributed and cooperative control autonomous architectures in guided munitions are important to the military for the delivery of lethality to multiple or distributed targets with minimal cost and collateral damage. Traditional technologies involve GPS and single flights which are limited to stationary targets and by GPS feedback availability. A smooth, distributed formation control architecture is analyzed for convergence within the desired range-to-go. Only some of the collaborative munitions have information regarding the position of the target while others only have local, intra-swarm information. Convergence is shown using Lyapunov stability analysis. An example simulation is shown for a swarm of six munitions. The contribution of this paper is the inclusion of dynamics in this unique environment of collaborative, swarming munitions, the distributed control architecture and requirements for convergence in the Lyapunov sense.