GUIDANCE AND CONTROL OF MISSILES AND LAUNCH VEHICLES

Course Objective: To give basic ideas underlying guidance laws of missiles and guidance and control aspects of launch vehicles

                    

Syllabus:

History of guided missile for air defence applications. Classification of missiles- fundamentals of guidance Basic results in interception and  avoidance Taxonomy of guidance laws, command and booming guidance, classical guidance laws – persuit, LOS, CLOS, BR, Proportional Navigation and its Variants like TPN, PPN, BPN and IPN. Modern guidance laws-guidance laws derived from optimal control. PPN with non–maneuvering and maneuvering torgets. Comparative study of guidance laws from the point of view of time, missdistance, launch boundaries, control effort and implementation difficulties.

Basic concepts of launch vehicle guidance, Explicit and Implicit guidance, Flat Earth guidance,  Perturbation guidance, Velocity to be gained guidance concept, Delta guidance, Q guidance, Cross product steering, linear perturbation guidance, Open loop and Closed loop guidance.

References:

1. ‘Tactical and strategic Missile guidance (2^nd edition)’

–        Paul Zarchan

–        AIAA, Inc. 1994

2. ‘Test and Evaluation of the Tactical Missile’

–        Eichblatt E J

–        AIAA Inc, 1989

3. ‘Modern Navigation, Guidance, and Control Processing’

–        Ching-Fang-Lin

–        Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N J, 1991