TARGET TRACKING OF THE S60 SINGLE-BARREL 57 MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN SYSTEM USING HYBRID CONTROL METHOD

The barrel of a cannon is used to propel and stabilize the movement of a projectile out of its end at a high velocity. Some of the S-60 single-barrel 57mm anti-aircraft gun systems owned by the air defense artillery division of Indonesian army (Arhanud) still have to be operated manually to provide the direction course of the projectile following the target to be fired. This paper presents the design of target tracking control using PID-fuzzy logic hybrid method to be implemented on the anti-aircraft cannonry system. It is purposed to maintain the direction stability of the cannon barrel when it moves toward the desired direction, in terms of both azimuth and elevation of the target. It is shown that the implementation of PID and fuzzy-logic hybrid control method provides certain advantages, indicated with the conformity between the barrel movement along the azimuth and elevation directions and the input data given through a joystick.