Optimal Stochastic Guidance Laws for Tactical Missiles

Abstract

Guidance laws are developed for tactical missiles which take into account the following important dynamic and random effects: random target motion, homing sensor measurement noise, bounded control level, bounded acceleration level, and missile autopilot dynamics. Several different guidance laws are derived using optimal stochastic control theory and evaluated by computer simulation. An important conclusion of this work is that when intercept accuracy is appreciably limited by missile maneuvering capability, a control policy obtained by taking control saturation into account can yeild significantly better performance than control policies derived assuming that control levels are unconstrained.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0731714

Entities

People

  • Charles F. Price

Organizations

  • TASC, Inc

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airframes
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Control Theory
  • Differential Equations
  • Guidance
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Stochastic Control
  • Stochastic Processes

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Operations Research
  • Statistical inference.