User's Guide for an Optical Contrast Seeker Monte Carlo Terminal Homing Simulation

Abstract

This report documents the development and incorporation of a stochastic Optical Contrast Seeker Model into the existent Monte Carlo point target terminal homing 6-DOF simulation program. In addition the basic pitch and yaw seeker platform dynamics, parameter target size, seeker breaklock, seeker blind range, transport log, and helicopter induced launch transients are included. Platform imperfections such as mass unbalance and rate gyro drifts were modeled. Each data point generated by the simulation is obtained from the statistical reduction of approximately 25 individual runs (depending on number of breaklocks), each of which has new random starting and within run variations. The runs are reduced by parametric or nonparametric means, depending on the normality of the miss distance points, to yield the miss bias (mean) and the circular error probability (CEP).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 1975
Accession Number
ADA012645

Entities

People

  • A. W. Lee Jr.
  • C. L. Lewis
  • S. L. O'hanian

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Military Vehicles
  • Angular Acceleration
  • Automatic Pilots
  • Coefficients
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contrast
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Couplings
  • Equations
  • Guidance
  • Homing
  • Miss Distance
  • Numerical Integration
  • Probability Distributions
  • Terminal Homing
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Missile Defense Systems.