Space subsystems design: (navigation, control, structure and…)
Reza Sheikhbahaei; Saeed Khankalantary
Volume 14, Issue 4 , December 2021, , Pages 51-59
Abstract
In this study, on the basis of proportional navigation strategy, design of explicit optimal guidance law for missiles tracking maneuvering targets in three-dimensional space using model predictive control is addressed. The model predictive control employs a model to predict the future process behavior ...
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In this study, on the basis of proportional navigation strategy, design of explicit optimal guidance law for missiles tracking maneuvering targets in three-dimensional space using model predictive control is addressed. The model predictive control employs a model to predict the future process behavior and calculates an optimal control input at each time step through the optimization of an objective function. Generalized model predictive control approach, employed in this study, solves the optimization problem offline to obtain the closed form optimal control law. In this paper, firstly, the equations describing the missile-target relative motion kinematics are formulated. Then, the optimal control law, as an explicit function of the state vector is obtained. The evaluation of the proposed scheme is studied by the comparison of the simulation results with the augmented proportional navigation system. Simulation studies, in three different scenarios, demonstrates appropriate performance for the proposed guidance system specially against maneuvering targets.