Two distributed guidance approaches for rendezvous of multiple agents

Consensus refers to the agreement upon some specific variable between the agents of the system. In this paper, we adopt consensus techniques in order to derive distributed guidance laws which make multiple agents rendezvous at a desired target point. Such rendezvous maneuver can be applied to a salvo attack of multiple missiles, or cooperative surveillance of multi-UAVs. We propose two distributed rendezvous methods that use different consensus variables, namely the distance-to-go and time-to-go, in order to derive the guidance laws. We show the effectiveness of the proposed methods through numerical simulations.