This paper aims to examine the potential of using the emerging deep reinforcement learning techniques in missile guidance applications. To this end, a Markovian decision process that enables the application of reinforcement learning theory to solve the guidance problem is formulated. A heuristic way is used to shape a proper reward function that has tradeoff between guidance accuracy, energy consumption, and interception time. The state-of-the-art deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm is used to learn an action policy that maps the observed engagements states to a guidance command. Extensive empirical numerical simulations are performed to validate the proposed computational guidance algorithm.
Computational Missile Guidance: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Journal of Aerospace Information Systems ; 18 , 8 ; 571-582
2021-06-28
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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