Improved sliding mode guidance law based on fuzzy variable coefficients strategy

2014 ◽  
Vol 118 (1202) ◽  
pp. 435-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Xiong ◽  
S.J. Tang ◽  
J. Guo ◽  
T.N. Wang

AbstractAn adaptive sliding mode guidance law guiding the line-of-sight angular rate to converge to zero was highly appraised. However, compared with the conventional proportional navigation law, adaptive sliding mode guidance law leads to large acceleration demand of the interceptor before the line-of-sight angular rate converging to zero, especially in a situation where the target has strong manoeuvrability as well as high velocity. In this paper, a strategy making the coefficients of the guidance law vary according to a fuzzy rule is proposed. Smaller guidance coefficients are selected at the beginning of the terminal guidance. Therefore, the guidance command is reduced and a smaller acceleration of the interceptor is incurred. As the coefficients grow to the fixed and desired values, the line-of-sight angular rate converges to zero rapidly, so that the convergence to the sliding surface is guaranteed. It is concluded that the fuzzy variable coefficients strategy is highly effective for tail-chase, head-on interception and head pursuit engagements as shown in the simulations.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 168781401988639
Author(s):  
Xuan-Ping Liao ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Ke-Bo Li ◽  
Lei Chen

A novel adaptive sliding mode guidance law is proposed in this article. The target is assumed to have an arbitrarily but upper bounded maneuvering acceleration which is considered as the system disturbances and uncertainties. The guidance law is consisted of three terms. The first one is a proportional navigation–type term. The second one is a term used for compensating the target maneuvering acceleration. And the last one is a term for controlling the convergence time of the line-of-sight angular rate. In this guidance law, the upper bound of the target acceleration is estimated by an adaptive estimator with a tunable updating law. Hence, the prior knowledge of the upper bound of the target acceleration is not essential for this guidance law. The novel adaptive sliding mode guidance law can guarantee the asymptotical convergence of the line-of-sight rate to zero or its neighborhood, or even the finite time convergence of the line-of-sight rate conditionally. Finally, the new theoretical findings are demonstrated by numerical simulations.


Author(s):  
Sheng Sun ◽  
Di Zhou ◽  
Jingyang Zhou ◽  
Kok Lay Teo

The true proportional navigation guidance law, the augmented proportional navigation guidance law, or the adaptive sliding-mode guidance law, is designed based on the planar target-to-missile relative motion dynamics. By a proper construction of a nonlinear Lyapunov function for the line-of-sight angular rates in the three-dimensional guidance dynamics, it is shown that the three guidance laws mentioned above are able to ensure the asymptotic convergence of the angular rates as they are directly applied to the three-dimensional guidance environment. Furthermore, considering the missile autopilot dynamics as a first-order lag, we design three-dimensional nonlinear guidance laws by using the backstepping technique for three cases: (1) the target does not maneuver; (2) the information of target acceleration can be acquired; and (3) the target acceleration is not available but its bound is known a priori. In the first step of the backstepping design of the control law, there is no need to cancel the nonlinear coupling terms in the three-dimensional guidance dynamics in such way that the final expressions of the proposed guidance laws are significantly simplified. Thus, the proposed nonlinear Lyapunov function for the line-of-sight angular rates is a generalized function for designing three-dimensional guidance laws. Simulation results of a missile interception mission show that the proposed guidance laws are highly effective.


2021 ◽  
pp. jeb.238493
Author(s):  
Caroline H. Brighton ◽  
Katherine E. Chapman ◽  
Nicholas C. Fox ◽  
Graham K. Taylor

The aerial hunting behaviours of birds are strongly influenced by flight morphology and ecology, but little is known of how this relates to the behavioural algorithms guiding flight. Here we use GPS loggers to record the attack trajectories of captive-bred Gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus) during their maiden flights against robotic aerial targets, which we compare to existing flight data from Peregrines (Falco peregrinus). The attack trajectories of both species are well modelled by a proportional navigation (PN) guidance law, which commands turning in proportion to the angular rate of the line-of-sight to target, at a guidance gain. However, naïve Gyrfalcons operate at significantly lower values of N than Peregrines, producing slower turning and a longer path to intercept. Gyrfalcons are less manoeuvrable than Peregrines, but physical constraint is insufficient to explain the lower values of N we found, which may reflect either the inexperience of the individual birds or ecological adaptation at the species level. For example, low values of N promote the tail-chasing behaviour that is typical of wild Gyrfalcons and which apparently serves to tire their prey in a prolonged high-speed pursuit. Likewise, during close pursuit of typical fast evasive prey, PN will be less prone to being thrown off by erratic target manoeuvres at low guidance gain. The fact that low-gain PN successfully models the maiden attack flights of Gyrfalcons suggests that this behavioural algorithm is embedded in a guidance pathway ancestral to the clade containing Gyrfalcons and Peregrines, though perhaps with much deeper evolutionary origins.


Author(s):  
Feng Chen ◽  
Guangjun He ◽  
Qifang He

To improve the performance of tracking and intercepting the low-altitude target, a nonlinear integral sliding mode guidance law is designed firstly, which can guarantee that the line-of-sight angle converges to a desired tracking angle and the line-of-sight angular rate converges to zero in finite time. Meanwhile, to solve the chattering problem caused by the high gain coefficient of the sign function in the guidance law, a sliding mode disturbance observer is designed to estimate the maneuvering acceleration of the target. Moreover, a composite nonlinear integral sliding mode guidance law is designed by introducing the estimated value of the acceleration, which can weaken the chattering phenomenon effectively. Finally, considering the magnitude loss fault of the guidance command that may occur in the practical implementation, a composite guidance law with strong fault-tolerant performance is designed by introducing a fault compensation command, which can effectively improve the reliability of the system.


2010 ◽  
Vol 40-41 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Yan Kai Cui ◽  
Li Fu ◽  
Xiao Geng Liang ◽  
Ling Luo

Aiming at terminal guidance law design of airborne boost-phase ballistic missile interception under acceleration of target without availability, we study on optimal sliding-mode terminal guidance law design of Kinetic-Kill Vehicle. Motion characteristic and infrared characteristic of ballistic missile are analyzed basing on founding ballistic missile boost-phase motion equations. Optimal terminal guidance law of Kinetic-Kill Vehicle is designed basing on undershoot quantity least and energy minimum. Optimal guidance law and augmented proportional navigation law having the same form is proved in theory. Optimal sliding-mode terminal guidance law is designed under acceleration of target without availability, using optimal control theory and sliding-mode control theory. Simulation show that optimal sliding-mode terminal guidance law satisfies required index, reaching the aim to direct hit the target. The correctness and effectiveness of the optimal sliding-mode guidance law are proved.


Author(s):  
Meijun Duan ◽  
Di Zhou ◽  
Dalin Cheng

Guidance laws are designed for a near space interceptor with line-of-sight angle as input and on–off type thrust as output. The dynamics of thruster is viewed as a first-order lag with on–off working style and is integrated with the target–interceptor engagement dynamics to design bang-bang type sliding mode guidance laws. An extended state observer is designed to estimate the line-of-sight angular rate and the acceleration of target with the line-of-sight angle as a measurement. It is rigorously proved that the states of guidance system converge to a neighborhood of sliding mode in finite time and the line-of-sight angular rate converges to a neighborhood of the origin along the sliding mode in finite time under the designed guidance laws. Furthermore, in order to reduce the switching frequency of thruster, a sliding mode guidance law with hysteresis-band according to the sufficient condition for finite time convergence is proposed. Then, it is integrated with the bang-bang type sliding mode guidance law to yield a composite guidance law. Simulation results show that the extended state observer can effectively estimate the line-of-sight angular rate and the target acceleration, and the proposed sliding mode guidance laws have better performance than typical proportional guidance law.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline H. Brighton ◽  
Katherine E. Chapman ◽  
Nicholas C. Fox ◽  
Graham K. Taylor

ABSTRACTThe aerial hunting behaviours of birds are strongly influenced by their flight morphology and ecology, but little is known of how this variation relates to the behavioural algorithms guiding flight. Here we use onboard GPS loggers to record the attack trajectories of captive-bred Gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus) during their maiden flights against robotic aerial targets, which we compare to existing flight data from Peregrines (Falco peregrinus) The attack trajectories of both species are modelled most economically by a proportional navigation guidance law, which commands turning in proportion to the angular rate of the line-of-sight to target, at a guidance gain N. However, Gyrfalcons operate at significantly lower values of N than Peregrines, producing slower turning and a longer path to intercept. Gyrfalcons are less agile and less manoeuvrable than Peregrines, but this physical constraint is insufficient to explain their lower guidance gain. On the other hand, lower values of N promote the tail-chasing behaviour that is typical of wild Gyrfalcons, and which apparently serves to tire their prey in a prolonged high-speed pursuit. Moreover, during close pursuit of fast evasive prey such as Ptarmigan (Lagopus spp.), proportional navigation will be less prone to being thrown off by erratic target manoeuvres if N is low. The fact that low-gain proportional navigation successfully models the maiden attack flights of Gyrfalcons suggests that this behavioural algorithm is embedded in a hardwired guidance loop, which we hypothesise is ancestral to the clade containing Gyrfalcons and Peregrines.SUMMARY STATEMENTNaïve Gyrfalcons attacking aerial targets are modelled by the same proportional navigation guidance law as Peregrines, but with a lower navigation constant that promotes tail-chasing rather than efficient interception.


Author(s):  
Chunwang Jiang ◽  
Guofeng Zhou ◽  
Rui Lv ◽  
Haifeng Tu ◽  
Fengjun Yang ◽  
...  

For reentry vehicle attacking a stationary target on the ground, impact-angle-constrained guidance law guaranteeing convergence before attainment of desired line-of-sight range is studied in this paper. Initially, a novel guidance model is established, in which line-of-sight range is treated as an independent variable, describing the relative motion between the vehicle and the target. Subsequently, a guidance law with impact angle constraint is designed based on the guidance model, which is presented in the form of normal overload. Compared with traditional guidance laws, the proposed one guarantees line-of-sight angular rate converges to zero and line-of-sight angle converges to the commanding impact angle before line-of-sight range decreases to the desired value. Finally, comparisons among proportional navigation guidance, optimal navigation guidance, and the proposed guidance are carried out by numerical simulation, which demonstrate the correctness and advantage of the novel guidance model and guidance law. The guidance model and guidance law proposed in this paper provide a new way for the design of fast convergent guidance law with impact angle constraint.


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