Cooperative Guidance and Target Assignment for a Heterogeneous Interceptor Team

In multi-target, multi-interceptor engagements cooperation between the group members can be exploited to benefit from synergetic effects on the overall intercept performance. The main challenge associated with such a scenario is the high dimensionality of the combined problem of target assignment policy and trajectory design. Thus, dimensionality reduction is essential for providing a real-time scalable solution. To this end, we will discuss the approaches for building assignment-aware guidance frameworks, which simultaneously allow for imposing the required intercept constraints and providing the necessary performance measures as feedback for the assignment algorithm.