A path following control architecture that drives a gliding missile, that is a missile without thrust, toward a prespecified linear path in an inertial frame using only torque control is developed and flight results are presented. A fast time-scale inner-loop control system stabilizes the orientation dynamics with a custom control law. Two slow time-scale outer-loop designs are proposed that render the inertial path exponentially stable for the missile’s translational dynamics. Since a gliding missile has no thrust input, the outer-loop is unable to directly actuate its control. Instead, we present an orientation extraction scheme to convert the outer-loop’s control signal into a desired orientation for the inner-loop. The control algorithm is implemented on a proprietary missile and empirical flight data are presented to demonstrate its effectiveness.
Path Following Control Design for a Gliding Missile
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; 58 , 1 ; 485-495
2022-02-01
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Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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