Title :
Assessment of air-to-air missile guidance and control technology
Author :
Cloutier, James R. ; Evers, Johnny H. ; Feeley, Joseph J
Author_Institution :
Air Force Armament Lab., Eglin AFB, FL, USA
Abstract :
Current air-to-air missile guidance and control technology is assessed. Areas explored include target state estimation, advanced guidance laws, and bank-to-turn autopilots. The assumptions, benefits, and limitations of recent applications of nonlinear filtering, adaptive filtering, modern control, adaptive control, dual control, differential game theory, and modern control design techniques to the air-to-air missile problem are discussed.<>
Keywords :
aerospace computer control; missiles; reviews; adaptive control; adaptive filtering; advanced guidance laws; air-to-air missile guidance; bank-to-turn autopilots; control technology; differential game theory; dual control; modern control; modern control design techniques; nonlinear filtering; target state estimation; Acceleration; Adaptive control; Adaptive filters; Aerodynamics; Filtering; Force control; Missiles; Modems; State estimation; Target tracking;
Journal_Title :
Control Systems Magazine, IEEE
