Research on the fast nose-point control of a fighter

The fast nose-point control of a fighter is researched in the frame of integrated control system with a multi-strata hierarchical structure. Based on the relationship between nose pointing rate and attitude angle, the nose pointing command including the normal load command and bank angle command is got to make the nose fast point to the expected direction by introducing the expecting nose pointing model. The actuator-allocation controller is designed as the maneuvering command tracker to execute the given command. Then, the nose pointing control is applied to the air to air gunnery mode of integrated flight/fire control in which the fast nose pointing control is the most important. The simulation result shows that the control methodology of nose pointing can fast eliminate the error of aiming.