Leader-following cooperative guidance law with specified impact time

The problem of guidance law is investigated for multiple interceptors to attack a target cooperatively. A leader-following cooperative guidance strategy is presented to render the leader and the followers reach the target at specified impact time. The guidance law of leader is given to meet the demand of specified impact time. The arrival time is synchronized by enforcing the ranges-to-go of followers keep consensus with that of leader. The convergence time bound is estimated without dependence on the initial states, since the proposed leader-following cooperative guidance law is fixed-time convergent. The simulation is developed to validate the availability of proposed cooperative guidance law.