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This article proposes a leader–follower cooperative salvo guidance strategy to intercept nonmaneuvering targets by exploiting the advantages of supertwisting sliding mode control. An improved estimate of time-to-go, that does not assume interceptor's small heading angle, is used in the guidance design. This allows the guidance strategy to remain effective even for large initial heading of the interceptor. Under the action of supertwisting control, the error in impact time settles precisely to zero in finite time. The proposed guidance strategy provides robustness against uncertainties and a smooth control signal, along with finite-time convergence of error. The guidance performance has been shown for one-to-one engagement, and in a cooperative framework, to achieve a salvo in a predetermined time. Numerical simulations are presented for various engagement scenarios to aid the analysis, and illustrate the efficacy of the proposed guidance scheme, even under noisy environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents impact angle guidance based on finite-horizon robust optimal control. This approach, a fusion of newly proposed finite-time state-dependent Riccati equation and integral sliding-mode-control, solves finite-horizon tracking problem for input-affine nonlinear systems with specified terminal conditions. It also ensures robustness against external disturbances and uncertainties from beginning. The technique for ensuring specified final-time involves deriving closed-form control expression in terms of approximate solution of differential Riccati equation, which further reduces to solutions of algebraic Riccati and Lyapunov equations. This yields computationally efficient algorithm. To alleviate chattering, the supertwisting algorithm is incorporated with the proposed technique. Guidance strategy is derived after converting impact angle problem to tracking one using the proposed algorithm. Efficacy of the proposed guidance is vindicated for various engagement geometries, and also compared with an existing guidance strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]