User's Guide for a Monte - Carlo Point Target Terminal Homing Simulation Program.

Abstract

The report documents a newly developed all-digital, six degree of freedom point target laser guidance Monte - Carlo miss distance simulation program. It is modularly constructed to facilitate adaptation of the program to reflect changing hardware components, different levels of environment modeling detail, etc. The Monte - Carlo approach to statistical miss distance analysis was chosen because a realistic model can be employed (in particular, a linear model is not required) because error coupling is inherently included, and because confidence intervals can be readily calculated. Eight random error sources relating to laser point target guidance are modeled in the program. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 1974
Accession Number
AD0781992

Entities

People

  • A. W. Lee Jr.
  • C. L. Lewis
  • D. S. Taylor

Organizations

  • United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Couplings
  • Environment
  • Guidance
  • Homing
  • Intervals
  • Laser Guidance
  • Miss Distance
  • Simulations
  • Terminal Homing
  • Terminals

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Computer Science.
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy