Abstract:

Under the circumstances of multiple missiles cooperative engagement, it is becoming more urgent and difficult to coordinate the sequence of the launching operations and calculate all the missiles’ launch timing fast. In order to solve the problem of scheduling the launch sequential timing of multiple missiles cooperative engagement, a mixed integer programming model of multi-missile and multi-waypoint is built, and the last sequential timing is optimized to the minimum as the objective. A fast heuristic algorithm is designed, which may help commanders provide a launch sequential timing plan with the priority requirement. The method is formulated to handle the trajectory intersection based on time dimension optimization, and the solving algorithm of launch timing and the feasible solution evolution strategy based on space compression are presented. A case study of 30 missiles is used to verify the model and the algorithm. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed method on such a problem.