Advances in Missile Guidance Theory

Citation

(2001), "Advances in Missile Guidance Theory", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 73 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2001.12773aae.003

Advances in Missile Guidance Theory

Advances in Missile Guidance Theory

Joseph Z. Ben-Asher and Isaac YaeshIsrael Military Industries – Advanced Systems DivisionAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and AstronauticsISBN: 1563472759£59.95

In the preface the authors state that this book deals with advanced guidance methods and is oriented toward practising engineers or engineering students. Successfully applied ideas from the past few decades are addressed, which are now widely established.

The introduction with objectives and motivation leads on to the mathematical background. It is noted that the guidance problems in the book will be presented as special cases of an LQ differential game or as various extensions of it.

This is followed by two chapters on optimal guidance, in the first of which it is based on linear-quadratic one-sided optimization and in the second of which it is based on linear-quadratic differential games. In the latter chapter differential games or various extensions of them were formulated corresponding to different guidance laws. This enables the modelling of the evader's manoeuvrability against which the guidance laws can be designed.

Robust guidance methods are described and optimal guidance with multiple targets, which provides an extension of previous chapters. In this the minimum effort multiple-target interception problem has been solved by identifying it as a cubic-spline interpolation problem. The book is also provided with appendices, one giving a justification of the sweep assumption, and the other two describing mathematical computations with MAPLE and numerical computations with MATLAB. These complement the descriptions of this complex subject.