Optimal Guidance and Control in a Missile Defense System

Abstract

This report summarizes the work done by the Information and Control Laboratory during 1967 in the area of optimal guidance and control in a missile defense system. General problem formulations for the optimal interception of both ballistic and maneuvering reentry vehicles are given. A computer program based on dynamic programming for pre launch calculations is described. A second computer program that utilizes the gradient method for in-flight guidance is also discussed. Finally, a game-theoretic approach to the problem of intercepting maneuvering reentry vehicles is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0914023

Entities

People

  • A. Shefi
  • D. G. Luenberger
  • L. Meier
  • R. M. Dressler
  • R. S. Ratner
  • W. G. Keckler

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Defense Systems
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight Paths
  • Game Theory
  • Information Science
  • Interception Probabilities
  • Kalman Filters
  • Miss Distance
  • New York
  • Probability Density Functions

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Operations Research
  • Theoretical Analysis.