Optimal impact angle control guidance law considering the seeker’s field-of-view limits

A new optimal guidance problem with impact angle constraint and seeker’s field-of-view limits is investigated for a missile with a strapdown seeker. Impact angle control to satisfy the terminal flight path angle constraint causes missile trajectories to be very curved. Since a strapdown seeker has a narrower field-of-view than a gimbaled seeker, a missile with a strapdown seeker using the impact angle control guidance law can miss its target within the field-of-view during the homing phase, leading to the failure of the mission. Therefore, considering the seeker’s field-of-view limits is a key issue for missiles with strapdown seekers when implementing the impact angle control guidance law. To handle the seeker’s field-of-view limits in the homing guidance problem, a look angle, which is defined as the angle between the velocity vector and the line-of-sight, is considered as an inequality constraint. Based on the optimal control theory with a state variable inequality constraint, the optimal impact angle control guidance law with the seeker’s field-of-view limits is designed. The proposed guidance law is made up of three types of optimal acceleration commands: the first command is to reach the maximum look angle of the seeker, the second is to keep the seeker look angle constant on the constraint boundary, and the third is to intercept the target with the desired impact angle. Nonlinear simulations are performed to validate the proposed approach. In addition, comparisons with other guidance laws considering the limitation of the seeker look angle are carried out via nonlinear simulations, and the results show that the proposed guidance law is more efficient in terms of the control energy.

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