Practical Aspects of Optimal Midcourse Guidance For Air-to-air Engagement

Singular control can be used to be solve midcourse guidance problem in real time for air-to-air engagement. optimal solution. The objective function can be as simple as minimizing flight tune. This near optimal solution works excellently in real time to enhance missile kinematic range compared to same obtained using classical PN guidance law in air-to-air engagement,. Here both shooter aircraft and target aircraft kinematics varies dynamically. Implementation of such guidance law can give sonic practical problem due to nonlinearities in aerodynamic data, atmospheric model and maneuvering target models. In this paper these practical problems have been highlighted and method of solution in high fidelity six degrees of freedom simulation environment has been discussed. (C) 2016, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.