Proportional Navigation With Adaptive Terminal Guidance For Aircraft Rendezvous (Preprint)

Abstract

1. PN with adaptive terminal guidance is shown to be a viable guidance method for aircraft rendezvous in 6DOF simulation. 2. Adaptive PN and Velocity controller combination is shown to effect successful rendezvous. 3. Adaptation accounts for errors caused by assumptions (stationary RZ location), wind, and tanker maneuvers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA467109

Entities

People

  • Austin L. Smith

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Guidance
  • Maneuvers
  • Military Research
  • Navigation
  • Proportional Navigation
  • Rendezvous
  • Simulations
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • Terminal Guidance
  • Terminals
  • Vehicles

Readers

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