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Synthesis of optimal feedback guidance law for homing missiles using neural networks

✍ Scribed by N. Rahbar; M. Bahrami


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
81 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0143-2087

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✦ Synopsis


Most existing missiles are guided by proportional navigation guidance (PNG) law, but PNG is a particular case for LQ guidance rule with two main assumptions of small line-of-sight angles and negligible acceleration along the line-of-sight. However, most missile engagements exceed these limits because of high tangential and normal accelerations. Unfortunately, it is not possible to determine the feedback guidance law for non-linear systems such as homing missiles in real-time. We use arti"cial neural networks to synthesize feedback laws for homing missiles with non-linear state equations. We "rst obtain an open-loop optimal numerical solution for non-linear state equations and then use these data to train a feed-forward multilayer neural network in an o!-line session. The network is then used e!ectively in a real-time for feedback guidance method. Simulation results show that this neural networks guidance method can e$ciently produce an optimal feedback law in spite of relatively simple network architecture.