Modern Control Theory for Army Missile Guidance.

Abstract

A Singular perturbation guidance law has been developed for medium-range surface-ti-air missiles. This guidance law is a significant extension of a previously developed guidance law for short-range missiles; in medium-range intercepts, the problem of energy management should be addressed in addition to homing guidance. The mathematical formulation has been simplified by introducing separation of time scales. Target Trajectory Estimation: A recursive algorithm for estimation of autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model parameters from noisy samples has been developed. Application of this algorithm to parameter estimation problems has exhibited its fast convergence and unbiasedness in the presence of noise, even with short data records. The algorithm has two versions, a Recursive Maximum Likelihood (RML) form and a Recursive Prediction Error (RPE) form, both of which possess a parallel structure that makes them highly suitable for parallel-processing implementation. Adaptive autopilots: Lattice-form algorithms have been developed for fast, recursive identification and control of time-varying systems. These algorithms have excellent numerical properties and a modular structure that makes them suitable for on-board real-time implementation. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA121899

Entities

People

  • H. Lev-ari
  • Naman Gupta
  • R. H. Travassos

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Automatic Pilots
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Control Systems
  • Control Theory
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight Paths
  • Guidance
  • Homing
  • Integrated Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Navigation
  • Parallel Computing
  • Proportional Navigation
  • Tactical Ballistic Missiles

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Statistical inference.