A Target/Missile Engagement Scenario Using Classical Proportional Navigation

Abstract

This thesis deals with a simulation of a missile versus target engagement scenario. After driving simplified transfer functions for the missile seeker head, missile autopilot, missile dynamics, and target dynamics, a three dimensional simulation is developed using classical proportional navigation. The scenario is simulated using state variable design. A forward time solution of the two dimensional problem is developed which is converted to an adjoint model. The adjoint model is used to determine the optimal time to initiate simplified and tactical evasion maneuvers in order to maximize the final miss distance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA243123

Entities

People

  • Francis C. Lukenbill

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic Pilots
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Dynamics
  • Equations Of State
  • Flight Paths
  • Geometry
  • Guidance
  • Miss Distance
  • Navigation
  • Proportional Navigation
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transfer Functions
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States Naval Academy

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Missile Defense Systems.