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Advances in Missile Guidance Control and Estimation: Challenges and Solutions for the Design of Auto



The book features contributions by renowned experts from government, the defense industry, and academia from the United States, Israel, Korea, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. It starts from the ground up, developing equations of missile motion. It reviews the kinematics of the engagement and the dynamics of the target and missile before delving into autopilot design, guidance, estimation, and practical implementation issues.


A guide to advanced topics in missile guidance, control, and estimation, this invaluable book combines state-of-the-art theoretical developments presented in a tutorial form and unique practical insights. It looks at how tracking, guidance, and autopilot algorithms integrate into a missile system and guides control system designers through the challenges of the design process.




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Following the successful 1st CEAS (Council of European Aerospace Societies) Specialist Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control (CEAS EuroGNC) held in Munich, Germany in 2011, Delft University of Technology happily accepted the invitation of organizing the 2nd CEAS EuroGNC in Delft, The Netherlands in 2013. The goal of the conference is to promote new advances in aerospace GNC theory and technologies for enhancing safety, survivability, efficiency, performance, autonomy and intelligence of aerospace systems using on-board sensing, computing and systems. A great push for new developments in GNC are the ever higher safety and sustainability requirements in aviation. Impressive progress was made in new research fields such as sensor and actuator fault detection and diagnosis, reconfigurable and fault tolerant flight control, online safe flight envelop prediction and protection, online global aerodynamic model identification, online global optimization and flight upset recovery. All of these challenges depend on new online solutions from on-board computing systems. Scientists and engineers in GNC have been developing model based, sensor based as well as knowledge based approaches aiming for highly robust, adaptive, nonlinear, intelligent and autonomous GNC systems. Although the papers presented at the conference and selected in this book could not possibly cover all of the present challenges in the GNC field, many of them have indeed been addressed and a wealth of new ideas, solutions and results were proposed and presented.


High-speed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are more and more widely used in both military and civil fields at present, especially the missile swarm attack, and will play an irreplaceable key role in the future war as a special combat mode. This study summarizes the guidance and control methods of missile swarm attack operation. First, the traditional design ideas of the guidance and control system are introduced; then, the typical swarm attack guidance and control methods are analyzed by taking their respective characteristics into considering, and the limitations of the traditional design methods are given. On this basis, the study focuses on the advantages of intelligent integrated guidance and control design over traditional design ideas, summarizes the commonly used integrated guidance and control design methods and their applications, and explores the cooperative attack strategy of missile swarm suitable for the integrated guidance and control system. Finally, the challenges of missile swarm guidance and control are described, and the problems worthy of further research in the future are prospected. Summarizing the guidance and control methods of missile will contribute to the innovative research in this field, so as to promote the rapid development of unmanned swarm attack technology.


To sum up, this study summarizes and studies the swarm guidance and control of high-speed unmanned aerial vehicles in complex air combat environment. First, the separation design idea of the traditional guidance and control system is introduced, the typical swarm attack guidance and control methods are analyzed, and the limitations of traditional design methods are given. On this basis, this study focuses on the advantages of integrated guidance and control design compared with traditional design ideas, summarizes the commonly used integrated guidance and control design methods and their applications, and then explores the swarm cooperative attack strategy suitable for the integrated guidance and control system. Finally, the challenges of UAV swarm guidance and control are described, and the problems worthy of further research in the future are prospected.


For some key targets or special targets, a single missile is often not enough to form a complete destruction capability, and multiple missiles are required to attack the target at the same time or at a specific impact angle, respectively. Therefore, the coordination of multiple missiles is reflected in the coordinated integrated guidance and control strategy of multiple missiles in the dive attack phase. The cooperative factors among multiple missiles must be considered comprehensively in order to realize the cooperative saturation attack or angle penetration attack on specific targets.


As is shown in Figure 2, the traditional guidance and control system design idea of missile is to separate the guidance system from the control system and then carry out system design separately [23, 24]. The core of the traditional guidance and control design method lies in the design of guidance law. The regularly expected control command is given through the guidance law, and then, the flight control system executes the control command to control the missile to maintain a stable flight attitude and perform the task of attacking battlefield targets.


In terms of missile precision attack control, proportional guidance law was first applied to the design of the missile guidance and control system and proved to be a simple and effective method. Gu et al. [25] designed the three-dimensional proportional guidance law of missile based on the RBF neural network, which not only met the control accuracy but also improved the robustness of proportional guidance law. In 1970s, the optimal guidance law began to be widely used. Morgan et al. [26] designed the optimal guidance law with minimum energy consumption according to the specific direction constraints of the missile velocity vector.


Although the traditional design has been proved to be an effective method, the time constant of the guidance loop becomes smaller and the bandwidth becomes larger at the end of missile attack, with the reduction of the relative distance between the missile and the target. At this time, the assumption of spectrum separation will no longer hold. If the traditional method is used to design the guidance system and control system, respectively, it often leads to problems such as large miss distance and flight instability. At the same time, the separation of the guidance system and control system also brings some problems, such as system design redundancy and high engineering design cost, and is not conducive to give full play to the overall potential and efficiency of weapons, which seriously restricts the precision strike capability and combat effectiveness of missiles.


Since Williams et al. [34, 35] proposed the concept of IGC in 1983, scholars at home and abroad have proposed a variety of design methods for integrated guidance and control, mainly including the optimal control method, backstepping control method, sliding mode control method, trajectory linearization control method, and dynamic surface control method.


Optimal control is the earliest method used for missile fusion guidance and control [36]. In fact, Williams et al. designed the IGC control system of tactical missile by using the optimal control and estimation theory in literature [34, 35], and the numerical simulation of BTT missile attacking movable target verifies the correctness of IGC concept and the effectiveness of the optimal control method. Menon and Ohlmeyer [37] transformed the IGC control problem into an optimal control problem and designed the IGC controller by using the linear quadratic regulator method. The control goal was to make the miss distance zero and ensure the stability of the missile flight state. Zhao and Zhau [38] adopted the improved exponential average method to predict the target trajectory, transformed the integrated guidance and control of the missile into a nonlinear optimization problem in finite time domain, and designed the rolling time domain IGC control strategy based on the Gaussian pseudospectrum method. Although the optimal control method is simple and effective, its deficiency lies in the lack of effective analytical solution.


When dealing with nonlinear problems, the sliding mode control method has the advantages of rapid convergence, simple algorithm, and strong robustness. At the same time, it is also the most widely used method in integrated guidance and control design [43]. Huo et al. [44] designed the integrated guidance and control system using the high-order sliding mode method. The simulation results showed that this method can not only ensure the stability of the missile system but also greatly improve the system response time and target strike accuracy. Hong et al. [45] designed an active disturbance rejection control method for missile IGC based on sliding mode control and extended state observer technology. This method can not only ensure that the missile has small miss distance and smooth flight trajectory but also make the missile robust to system uncertainty and external interference. Jian et al. [46] established a kind of reference model of missile and designed a novel control law by using the backstepping idea and sliding mode control algorithm, so that the missile can accurately attack the battlefield target with strong mobility. The biggest disadvantage of the sliding mode control method is that it has the problem of chattering. In the flight process of attacking the battlefield target, the missile not only needs to minimize the roll but also ensure its flight stability and trajectory smoothness. Therefore, the sliding mode control method has great limitations in practical application. 2ff7e9595c


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