Cooperative Allocation and Guidance for Air Defence Application

Abstract This project proposes a centralised algorithm to design cooperative allocation strategies and guidance laws for air defence applications. Scenarios in naval and ground context have been defined for performance analysis by comparison to a benchmark target allocation policy. The cooperative target allocation algorithm is based on the following features: No Escape Zones (differential game NEZ) computation to characterise the defending missile capturability characteristics; In Flight (re) Allocation (IFA algorithm, late committal guidance) capability to deal with target priority management and pop up threats; capability to generate and counter alternative target assumptions based on concurrent beliefs of future target behaviours, i.e. Salvo Enhanced No Escape Zone (SENEZ) algorithm. The target trajectory generation has been performed using goal oriented trajectory extrapolation techniques. The target allocation procedure is based on minimax strategy computation in matrix games.