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Formation Control of a Guided Munition Swarm with Potential Function Method
Furkan Zeki Ayhan Senior Specialist Engineer, Roketsan Missiles Inc, TMS Precision Guided Systems Dept, 06780, Ankara, Turkey.
Ali Emre Turgut Assoc. Prof. Dr., Middle East Technical University, Mechanical Engineering Department, 06800, Ankara, Turkey
Veysel Gazi Prof. Dr., Yıldız Technical University, Control and Automation Engineering Dept., 34349, İstanbul, Turkey.
Neşe Başak Bingöl Taştankaya Senior Leader Engineer, Roketsan Missiles Inc, TMS Precision Guided Systems Dept, 06780, Ankara, Turkey
Abstract:
Munition swarm is favorable for many reasons when it is compared to a single munition attack. Coordinated simultaneous attack can provide flexible attack opportunities and inflict more severe damage. In addition to that, it is harder to defend an area when the number of attackers is increased. Formation control of these air to ground munitions offers a coherent arm flight. Various methods are applied for this purpose to different systems such as UAV's, missiles, fighters and quadrotors. Potential function method can be useful to provide cooperative flight. The method creates virtual potential energy for different positions for agents of a swarm. These potential functions are used to create position commands for agents. Agents move toward the positions with less potential energy. Position commands are realized using position tracker. PD controller is designed for position tracker which creates acceleration commands. Full state feedback acceleration autopilots are designed to apply these commands. A 6-DoF simulation is created with MATLAB/Simulink to investigate the results of the proposed method. Finally, simulation results are shown in figures and discussed.
Keywords: cooperative guidance; formation control; potential function method; guided munition swarm
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Furkan Zeki Ayhan, Ali Emre Turgut, Veysel Gazi, Neşe Başak Bingöl Taştankaya: Formation Control of a Guided Munition Swarm with Potential Function Method. Proceedings of the 2024 CEAS EuroGNC conference. Bristol, UK. June 2024. CEAS-GNC-2024-035.
BibTeX entry:

@Incollection{CEAS-GNC-2024-035,
    author = {Ayhan, Furkan Zeki and Turgut, Ali Emre and Gazi, Veysel and Bing\"ol Ta\c{s}tankaya, Ne\c{s}e Ba\c{s}ak},
    title = {Formation Control of a Guided Munition Swarm with Potential Function Method},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 {CEAS EuroGNC} conference},
    address = {Bristol, UK},
    month = jun,
    year = {2024},
    note = {CEAS-GNC-2024-035}
}