Abstract: A distributed cooperative guidance law is proposed to solve the problem of multiple aircrafts cooperatively attacking a stationary target with field-of-view constraints. Firstly, the nonlinear motion model is transformed into a second-order agent model through the motion equations for engagement in the velocity coordinate system, and the field-of-view constraints are transformed into agent velocity constraints. Combined with the velocity constraint consistency protocol, an arrival time cooperative guidance law is designed to realize the cooperative attack of multiple aircrafts with field-of-view constraints. The proposed guidance law overcomes the problem of numerical singularities in the traditional cooperative guidance law, and there is no need to switch the guidance law in the cooperative process. Finally, through numerical simulation and comparative study, the effectiveness of the proposed guidance law is verified, which still has stable guidance performance in the presence of measurement noise and communication delay.

Key words: multipleaircrafts, simultaneousarrival, cooperativeguidancelaw, FOVconstraints