Optimum Navigation Study. Phase 1

Abstract

Current and future defensive missile systems have to counter threats that operate at great speeds at high altitudes and that employ increasingly more sophisticated self-screening countermeasures. To counter such a threat, it is essential that the United States exploit both current and future missile systems to their maximum potential by developing optimum midcourse and terminal guidance laws that will minimize terminal miss distance and require a minimum amount of energy. The optimum navigation study presented will develop the optimum navigation laws for RVs equipped with terminal homing capability and will demonstrate the performance os such an RV in terms of actual miss distance. Keywords: Navigation; Optimum; Modern control; Kalman Filtering; miss distance; Midcorse guidance; Guidance terminal; Guidance laws. (JHD)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA213452

Entities

People

  • Barry Mons

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airframes
  • Algorithms
  • Computational Science
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Guidance
  • Guidance Computers
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Navigation
  • Terminal Guidance

Readers

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