Guidance Design for Escape Flight Vehicle Using Dynamic Programming Method Based on Virtual Calculation Technique
摘要
The Maneuvering flight strategy based on the guidance commands is an effective approach to keep the escape flight vehicle (EFV) away from the pursuit flight vehicle (PFV). In this paper, we consider the scenario where the EFV utilizes a dynamic programming method for generating guidance commands, while the PFV employs the proportional navigation method. Our objective is to progressively maximize the evasion distance, defined as the minimum distance between the EFV and the PFV during the battle process. For solving this challenging max-min problem, a two-step strategy is conceived. In the first step, within a reduced-size solution space, we employ the brute-force search method to identify four sets of locally optimal solutions. In the second step, we dynamically determine the reasonable range of the discrete guidance commands at each time instant, and execute the optimal guidance commands with the largest predictive evasion distance, which is ascertained in a virtual scenario. The results indicate that the evasion distance can be continuously improved by using the proposed guidance design method, and the evasion distance has positive correlation with the number of the virtual calculation step.