What is it about?
To increase the lethality of missiles, they should hit the target at a certain angle, and (for the case of multiple missiles) hit the target at the same time. This paper presents a method to control a missile to achieve a particular impact angle at a particular time.
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Why is it important?
In addition to controlling the missile to achieve a certain impact angle, this paper provided a new method of calculating the impact time, which enables the user to systematically adjust parameters in order to achieve a particular impact time. This is an improvement over previous methods, which assume that the missile is flying in a straight line (which is a restrictive assumption), as well as another method which calculates the impact time but is unable to achieve a certain impact angle.
Perspectives
Writing this article was very satisfying as it had solved a long-standing problem of achieving a desired impact angle at a particular time.
Chee Pin Tan
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: Autopilot and guidance law design considering impact angle and time, IET Control Theory and Applications, October 2017, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET),
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2016.1525.
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