Impact angle guidance law to prevent the detection degradation of a seeker

Author(s):  
Jun-Yong Lee ◽  
H Jin Kim

An impact angle control guidance (IACG) law applicable to a homing missile equipped with a strapdown imaging seeker is investigated against a stationary target. Given an impact angle constraint, usually a detour is generated and the change of the look angle is inevitable. A rapid change of the look angle can cause a fast relative target motion in the seeker’s image plane, which can lead to a motion blur effect. The main contribution of the paper is that an IACG law is designed to minimize the look angle rate to prevent the loss of the target signal. Based on the variational approach, the optimal look angle rate that satisfies the impact angle constraint is derived, and the guidance law is designed to follow the optimal look angle rate. Using various weighting functions, a guidance law that has low sensitivity to the initial condition is also developed. Numerical simulation supports the performance of the guidance law. The result illustrates that the proposed guidance law reduces the rate of look angle in comparison with other IACG laws.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoqiang Zhang ◽  
Shengjing Tang ◽  
Jie Guo ◽  
Wan Zhang

A two-phased guidance problem with terminal impact angle constraints and seeker’s field-of-view limit is addressed in this paper for a missile against a nonmaneuvering incoming target. From the conventional PN guidance without any constraints, it is found that satisfying the impact angle constraint causes a more curved missile trajectory requiring a large look angle. To avoid the look angle exceeding the seeker’s physical limit, a two-phased look angle control guidance scheme with the terminal constraint is introduced. The PN-typed guidance law is designed for each guidance phase with a specific switching condition of line-of-sight. The proposed guidance law is comprised of two types of acceleration commands: the one in the initial phase which aims at controlling the missile’s look angle to reach the limit and the other for final phase which is produced by switching the navigation gain. The monotonicity of the line-of-sight angle and look angle is analyzed and proved to support the proposed method. To evaluate the specific navigation gains for both initial and final phases, the scaling coefficient between them is discussed by solving a quadratic equation with respect to the initial navigation gain. To avoid a great abrupt acceleration change at the switching instant, a minimum coefficient is chosen. Extensive simulations are performed to validate the efficiency of the proposed approach.


Author(s):  
Min-Guk Seo ◽  
Chang-Hun Lee ◽  
Tae-Hun Kim

A new design method for trajectory shaping guidance laws with the impact angle constraint is proposed in this study. The basic idea is that the multiplier introduced to combine the equations for the terminal constraints is used to shape a flight trajectory as desired. To this end, the general form of impact angle control guidance (IACG) is first derived as a function of an arbitrary constraint-combining multiplier using the optimal control. We reveal that the constraint-combining multiplier satisfying the kinematics can be expressed as a function of state variables. From this result, the constraint-combining multiplier to achieve a desired trajectory can be obtained. Accordingly, when the desired trajectory is designed to satisfy the terminal constraints, the proposed method directly can provide a closed form of IACG laws that can achieve the desired trajectory. The potential significance of the proposed result is that various trajectory shaping IACG laws that can cope with various guidance goals can be readily determined compared to existing approaches. In this study, several examples are shown to validate the proposed method. The results also indicate that previous IACG laws belong to the subset of the proposed result. Finally, the characteristics of the proposed guidance laws are analyzed through numerical simulations.


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.


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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 10857
Author(s):  
Mingyu Cong ◽  
Xianghong Cheng ◽  
Zhiquan Zhao ◽  
Zhijun Li

Cooperative terminal guidance with impact angle constraint is a key technology to achieve a saturation attack and improve combat effectiveness. The present study envisaged cooperative terminal guidance with impact angle constraint for multiple missiles. In this pursuit, initially, the three-dimensional cooperative terminal guidance law with multiple constraints was studied. The impact time cooperative strategy of virtual leader missile and follower missiles was designed by introducing virtual leader missiles. Subsequently, based on the distributed model prediction control combined with the particle swarm optimization algorithm, a cooperative terminal guidance algorithm was designed for multiple missiles with impact angle constraint that met the guidance accuracy. Finally, the effectiveness of the algorithm was verified using simulation experiments.


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.


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.


IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 29755-29763
Author(s):  
Mu Lin ◽  
Xiangjun Ding ◽  
Chunyan Wang ◽  
Li Liang ◽  
Jianan Wang

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