The design of particle swarm optimization guidance using a line-of-sight evaluation method

Abstract

In this paper, an improved particle swarm optimization guidance (IPSOG) is proposed. The particle swarm optimization guidance (PSOG) is presented to solve nonlinear and dynamic missile guidance problems. However, the miss distance (MD) tends to be large. The objective function of the relative distance in the PSOG leads the missile to the current position of a target. Therefore, the PSOG is similar to pursuit guidance. In the IPSOG, a new objective function for the PSOG is introduced to improve the guidance performance. The line-of-sight (LOS) rate is taken as the objective function. The fitness function is then evaluated according to the defined objective function. Numerical simulation results show that the guidance performance of the IPSOG is better than the PSOG.