Analytical impact time and angle guidance via time-varying sliding mode technique.

To concretely provide a feasible solution for homing missiles with the precise impact time and angle, this paper develops a novel guidance law, based on the nonlinear engagement dynamics. The guidance law is firstly designed with the prior assumption of a stationary target, followed by the practical extension to a moving target scenario. The time-varying sliding mode (TVSM) technique is applied to fulfill the terminal constraints, in which a specific TVSM surface is constructed with two unknown coefficients. One is tuned to meet the impact time requirement and the other one is targeted with a global sliding mode, so that the impact angle constraint as well as the zero miss distance can be satisfied. Because the proposed law possesses three guidance gain as design parameters, the intercept trajectory can be shaped according to the operational conditions and missile׳s capability. To improve the tolerance of initial heading errors and broaden the application, a new frame of reference is also introduced. Furthermore, the analytical solutions of the flight trajectory, heading angle and acceleration command can be totally expressed for the prediction and offline parameter selection by solving a first-order linear differential equation. Numerical simulation results for various scenarios validate the effectiveness of the proposed guidance law and demonstrate the accuracy of the analytic solutions.

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