Missile autopilot design using adaptive nonlinear dynamic inversion

This paper describes the continuing project adaptive nonlinear dynamic inversion (ANDI). The ANDI autopilot uses nonlinear dynamic inversion with an adaptive element to account for any errors in the inversion. A reference model is included to provide the desired output performance. This allows the missile performance to be tuned by simply adjusting the reference model parameters. This will result in a design that is robust with respect to aerodynamic modeling inaccuracies and to external disturbances.