Three-dimensional pursuer convoy by using guidance laws

This paper investigates the problem of modeling and controlling pursuer convoy in three-dimensional space. The guidance laws applied for convoy, the velocity pursuit, the deviated pursuit and the proportional navigation, steer the pursuer using the rate of line-of-sight (LOS) between successive pursuers. On the basis of the differential equations for the range, the pitch angle of LOS and the yaw angle of LOS between successive pursuers, the guidance laws are proposed to derive decentralized control strategy for pursuer convoy. The results concerning the pursuer convoy are rigorously proven. Simulations are conducted to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.