Improving The High Altitude Performance of Tail -Controlled Endoatmospheric Missiles
Improving The High Altitude Performance of Tail -Controlled Endoatmospheric Missiles
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提高尾控大气层导弹的高空性能
DOI:
10.2514/6.2002-4770
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发表时间:
2002
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通讯作者:
Joel Alpert
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作者:
P. Zarchan;E. Greenberg;Joel Alpert
It is demonstrated that at high altitude the performan ce of a tail -controlled aerodynamic missile can degrade because of the existence of low frequency right-half plane zeroes in the airframe transfer function when either proportional navigation or optimal guidance is used. A new guidance law that accounts f or the airframe zeroes is developed numerically and shown to have superior performance to existing guidance laws at the higher altitudes. Although no closed -form solution for the guidance law is presented, the resultant numerical values for the control ga ins of the guidance law can easily be stored as a multidimensional table in existing on -board flight control computers. Two methodologies for computing the guidance law control gains are presented. Background Endoatmospheric interceptor missiles were originally designed against aircraft threats. Since the maximum threat altitude was governed by aerodynamics, missiles were not designed to operate much above the altitude limits of piloted aircraft. The Gulf War has shown that tactical ballistic mi ssile threats are also important. Unintentional spiraling made these threats difficult to hit by the pursuing interceptor. Since spiraling occurs in the more dense atmosphere one can avoid the spiraling threats by trying to perform intercepts at higher a ltitudes (i.e., before spiraling occurs). However, very high altitude intercepts cause new problems for tail -controlled endoatmospheric interceptors. Problem