A Time Domain Simulation of a Beam Control System

Abstract

The Airborne Laser Laboratory (ALL) is being developed by the Air Force to investigate the integration and operation of high energy laser components in dynamic airborne environment and to study the propagation of laser light from an airborne vehicle to an airborne target. The ALL is composed of several systems; among these are the Airborne Pointing and Tracking System (APT) and the Automatic Alignment System (AAS). This report presents the results of performing a time domain dynamic simulation for an integrated beam control system composed of the APT and AAS. The simulation is performed on a digital computer using the MIMIC language. It includes models of the dynamics of the system and of disturbances. Also presented in the report are the rationales and developments of these models. The data from the simulation code is summarized by several plots. In addition results from massaging the data with waveform analysis packages are presented. The results are discussed and conclusions are drawn. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 28, 1981
Accession Number
ADA097423

Entities

People

  • Jerrel R. Mitchell

Organizations

  • Mississippi State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Automatic
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Dynamics
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • High Energy
  • High Energy Lasers
  • Image Motion Compensation
  • Language
  • Lasers
  • Mississippi
  • Simulations
  • Time Domain
  • Waveforms

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy