Virtual motion camouflage based phantom track generation through cooperative electronic combat air vehicles

As an example of complex cooperative missions, coherent phantom track generation through controlling multiple electronic combat air vehicles is currently an area of great interest to the defense agency for the purpose of deceiving a radar network. However, it has been a challenge to design optimal coherent trajectories for this type of problems due to the high dimensionality and kinematic, dynamics, and geometric constraints. This paper describes how an interesting bio-inspired motion strategy can be used to design real-time trajectories for a (1) feasible constant speed coherent mission, (2) maximum-duration constant speed coherent mission, and (3) optimal trajectory mission for general cases.

[1]  Paul Glendinning,et al.  The mathematics of motion camouflage , 2004, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences.

[2]  Randal W. Beard,et al.  A coordination architecture for spacecraft formation control , 2001, IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol..

[3]  P.V. Reddy,et al.  Motion camouflage in three dimensions , 2006, Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

[4]  S.N. Balakrishnan,et al.  Neuroadaptive model following controller design for a nonaffine UAV model , 2006, 2006 American Control Conference.

[5]  Suhada Jayasuriya,et al.  Phantom track generation through cooperative control of multiple ECAVs based on feasibility analysis , 2007 .

[6]  P.R. Chandler,et al.  A Review of Recent Algorithms and a New and Improved Cooperative Control Design for Generating a Phantom Track , 2007, 2007 American Control Conference.

[7]  Suresh P. Sethi,et al.  A Survey of the Maximum Principles for Optimal Control Problems with State Constraints , 1995, SIAM Rev..

[8]  M.J. Mears,et al.  Cooperative electronic attack using unmanned air vehicles , 2005, Proceedings of the 2005, American Control Conference, 2005..

[9]  Phillip R. Chandler,et al.  Feasible Flight Paths for Cooperative Generation of a Phantom Radar Track , 2004 .

[10]  I. Michael Ross,et al.  Costate Estimation by a Legendre Pseudospectral Method , 1998 .

[11]  Yunjun Xu,et al.  Pre and Post Optimality Checking of the Virtual Motion Camouflage based Nonlinear Constrained Subspace Optimal Control , 2009 .