Direct impact angle control guidance for passive homing missiles

Author(s):  
Dongsoo Cho ◽  
Seung-Hwan Kim

A guidance problem for impact angle control applicable to a missile equipped with a passive seeker is investigated. The proposed guidance law based on the sliding mode control consists of the proportional navigation guidance term with a varying navigation constant and the additional biased term which is a function of the novel sliding surface. The guidance law directly uses the impact angle error but does not require any range information to be estimated by the additional filter loop of the passive seeker. The asymmetric limit of the passive seeker’s field-of-view is also taken into account, which is not violated by introducing a continuous switching function. The finite time convergence properties are analyzed, and nonlinear simulations are performed to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed guidance law.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianning Wang ◽  
Shengjing Tang ◽  
Jie Guo ◽  
Haoqiang Zhang

The implementation of advanced guidance laws with bearings-only measurements requires estimation of the range information. To improve estimation accuracy and satisfy the impact angle constraint, this paper proposes a two-phase optimal guidance law consisting of an observing phase and an attacking phase. In the observing phase, the determinant of Fisher information matrix is maximized to achieve the optimal observability and a suboptimal solution expressed by leading angle is derived analytically. Then, a terminal sliding-mode guidance law is designed to track the desired leading angle. In the followed attacking phase, an optimal guidance law is integrated with a switching term to satisfy both the impact angle constraint and the field-of-view constraint. Finally, comparison studies of the proposed guidance law and a traditional optimal guidance law are conducted on stationary targets and maneuvering targets cases. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed guidance law is able to improve the range observability and achieve better terminal performances including impact angle accuracy and miss distance.


Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
Qi Liu ◽  
Chen-Yu He ◽  
Xiao-Qing Liu

This paper investigates the three-dimensional guidance with the impact angle constraint, actuator faults and input constraint. Firstly, an adaptive three-dimensional guidance law with impact angle constraint is designed by using the terminal sliding mode control and nonhomogeneous disturbance observer. Then, in order to solve the problem of the input saturation and actuator faults, an adaptive anti-saturation fault-tolerant three-dimensional law is proposed by using the hyperbolic tangent function based on the passive fault-tolerant control. Finally, the effectiveness of the designed guidance laws is verified by using the Lyapunov function and simulation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhe Yang ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
Defu Lin ◽  
Luyao Zang

A guidance problem for impact time and angle control applicable to cooperative attack is considered based on the sliding mode control. In order to satisfy the impact angle constraint, a line-of-sight rate polynomial function is introduced with four tuning parameters. And the time-to-go derivative with respect to a downrange orientation is derived to minimize the impact time error. Then the sliding mode control surface with impact time and angle constraints is constructed using nonlinear engagement dynamics to provide an accurate solution. The proposed guidance law is easily extended to a nonmaneuvering target using the predicted interception point. Numerical simulations are performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed guidance law for different engagement scenarios.


Author(s):  
Shashi Ranjan Kumar ◽  
Debasish Ghose

This paper proposes a guidance strategy, which caters to both impact angle and impact time terminal constraints. This guidance scheme is based on switching between impact time and impact angle guidance laws. Unlike the existing impact time guidance laws, the proposed guidance strategy takes into account the curvature of the trajectory due to requirement of impact angle. The guidance law is derived using sliding mode control theory with the switching surface based on impact time error. The interceptor first corrects its course to nullify the impact time error and then aims to achieve interception with desired impact angle. In order to reduce transitions between the two guidance laws, a novel hysteresis loop is introduced in the switching conditions. The guidance law is initially designed for stationary targets, and later it is extended to constant velocity targets using the notion of predicted interception point. In order to validate the efficacy of the proposed guidance strategy, simulation results are presented with constant as well as realistic time-varying speed interceptor models for different engagement scenarios against stationary and constant velocity targets. The performance of the guidance law is evaluated under noisy measurements and the presence of system lag and its performance is compared with other existing guidance laws.


2022 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
S. Liu ◽  
B. Yan ◽  
R. Liu ◽  
P. Dai ◽  
J. Yan ◽  
...  

Abstract The cooperative guidance problem of multiple inferior missiles intercepting a hypersonic target with the specific impact angle constraint in the two-dimensional plane is addressed in this paper, taking into consideration variations in a missile’s speed. The guidance law is designed with two subsystems: the direction of line-of-sight (LOS) and the direction of normal to LOS. In the direction of LOS, by applying the algebraic graph theory and the consensus theory, the guidance command is designed to make the system convergent in a finite time to satisfy the goal of cooperative interception. In the direction of normal to LOS, the impact angle is constrained to transform into the LOS angle at the time of interception. In view of the difficulty of measuring unknown target acceleration information in real scenarios, the guidance command is designed by utilising a super-twisting algorithm based on a nonsingular fast-terminal sliding mode (NFTSM) surface. Numerical simulation results manifest that the proposed guidance law performs efficiently and the guidance commands are free of chattering. In addition, the overall performance of this guidance law is assessed with Monte Carlo runs in the presence of measurement errors. The simulation results demonstrate that the robustness can be guaranteed, and that overall efficiency and accuracy in intercepting the hypersonic target are achieved.


Author(s):  
Jinrae Kim ◽  
Namhoon Cho ◽  
Youdan Kim

An impact angle control guidance law is proposed for stationary target interception considering missile's field-of-view limit and speed changes. The proposed impact angle control guidance law is structured as a biased proportional navigation with a time-varying bias. The proposed guidance law does not involve any switching logic for maintaining lock-on; hence, the guidance command is continuous during the entire engagement. Unlike the most existing studies, the proposed method guarantees that the impact angle error converges to zero before interception without the constant-speed assumption. To realize these desirable properties, the positive invariance of the bounded look angle interval and the change of independent variable are utilized. Numerical simulations are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed guidance law.


Author(s):  
Xiaojian Zhang ◽  
Mingyong Liu ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Feihu Zhang

This paper discusses the issue of impact angle control over guidance in scenarios of an interceptor against the maneuvering targets. Inspired by switched nonlinear system, an integral sliding mode manifold is first developed. Then, the impact angle control over guidance is derived by using the integral sliding mode manifold with finite time control. To obtain precise guidance effect, the second-order of extended state observer is proposed in the case of unknown target acceleration. Finally, composited impact angle control over guidance based on extended state observer is developed. The stability analysis of the proposed guidance law is demonstrated by using Lyapunov function, and theoretical proof that the line-of-sight angle and line-of-sight angular rate can converge to the desired value in finite steps, respectively. Numerical simulation results are illustrated to validate the performance of the proposed guidance law.


Author(s):  
Zhou Zhiming ◽  
Xiaoxian Yao

In this paper, the impact angle control problem is investigated by applying the polynomial shaping method. By shaping the light-of-sight angle with relative range, a guidance law called range polynomial guidance is proposed, and the coefficients are determined by boundary conditions. The range polynomial guidance law can be applied to maneuvering targets. By profiling the seeker look angle with the light-of-sight angle, a guidance law called line-of-sight polynomial guidance is developed for impact angle control under a limitation on the seeker look angle. The line-of-sight polynomial guidance law is also effective in intercepting a non-maneuvering moving target at the desired impact angle. Guidance laws with different gain sets are discussed in this paper. The proposed guidance laws take the form of proportional navigation with a time-varying navigation gain. Nonlinear simulations are performed to validate the efficacy of the proposed guidance laws in various engagement conditions. Comparison with other studies demonstrates the practicality and flexibility of the proposed guidance laws in the design of desired impact angles and maximum look angles.


Author(s):  
Kakoli Majumder ◽  
Shashi Ranjan Kumar

In this article, a sliding mode control–based nonlinear guidance scheme for controlling both impact angle and impact time simultaneously is proposed. The problem of impact angle control is first transformed to that of controlling line-of-sight angle and its rate, while the requirement of impact time is achieved by tracking the desired time-to-go. The chosen time-to-go estimate accounts for the curvature required to meet the impact angle requirements toward the target interception. In order to satisfy both of these terminal constraints, the sliding surface is defined as a combination of impact time error and the variable pertaining to the errors in line-of-sight angle and its rate, with appropriate gains assigned to them. The interceptor first performs necessary maneuvers to meet the impact time requirements and then steers its course to achieve the target interception at a desired impact angle. The guidance law is initially derived using nonlinear engagement kinematics against stationary targets and then extended to cater to constant velocity targets using the concept of predicted interception point. Numerical simulations are performed to validate the efficacy of the proposed guidance scheme for various initial engagement geometries. The performance of the proposed guidance scheme is also compared with those of the existing guidance laws and shown to be superior.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Fang Yang ◽  
Kuanqiao Zhang ◽  
Lei Yu

A nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode guidance law with an impact angle constraint is proposed to solve the problem of missile guidance accuracy and impact angle constraint for maneuvering targets. Aiming at the singularity problem of the terminal sliding mode, a fast terminal sliding mode surface with finite-time convergence and impact angle constraint is designed based on fixed-time convergence and piecewise sliding mode theory. To weaken chattering and suppress interference, a second-order sliding mode supertwisting algorithm is improved. By designing the parameter adaptive law, an adaptive smooth supertwisting algorithm is designed. This algorithm can effectively weaken chattering without knowing the upper bound information of interference, and it converges faster. Based on the proposed adaptive supertwisting algorithm and the sliding mode surface, a guidance law with the impact angle constraint is designed. The global finite-time convergence of the guidance law is proved by constructing the Lyapunov function. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed guidance law, and compared with the existing terminal sliding mode guidance laws, the proposed guidance law has higher guidance precision and angle constraint accuracy.


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