Design of the optimal glide scheme for the airdropped mine using GPOPS

The mine can be laid more covert and unexpected by airdrop, with the installation of the gliding wing components, the airdrop needs of traditional mine will be satisfied immediately. This paper addresses the problem of how to determine an optimal glide scheme in a maximum range manner by using a rapid method for generating optimized trajectories. The optimization is performed by the adaptive Radau Pseudospectral Method (RPM) in the General Pseudospectral Optimization control Software (GPOPS) which is applied to equations governing the motion of a point mass model of the airdropped mine. The basic problem description is to find an optimized trajectory rapidly under certain aerodymamic reconfiguration scheme to take a rough idea for the optimal glide characteristic of the airdropped mine. The results obtained in this study provide insight into the structure of the optimal glide scheme design and demonstrate the generality, computational efficiency, and accuracy of the adaptive Radau pseudospectral method in GPOPS.