Three-Dimensional Bearing-Only Helical Homing Guidance

Yadong Wang; Ziyi Wu; Haiyin Piao; Shaoming He

doi:10.1109/TAES.2024.3380585

Three-Dimensional Bearing-Only Helical Homing Guidance

Yadong Wang, Ziyi Wu, Haiyin Piao, Shaoming He

School of Aerospace Engineering

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This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) homing guidance law against a stationary target by using only bearing or angle measurement. The unobservable conditions of the 3D bearing-only relative kinematics are derived and the weak observability under classical proportional navigation guidance (PNG) is revealed. An analytical observability-enhancement guidance law considering the energy consumption and interception accuracy is then designed based on optimal control theory in the interception plane. To further improve the system observability, we develop a helical guidance law by artificially enforcing a rotating acceleration command. We show that the guidance command derived aligns with the PNG law under certain conditions. Both numerical simulations and physical experiments are provided to illustrate the characteristics of the proposed algorithm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2024.3380585
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2024

Keywords

3D guidance
Missiles
Observability
Position measurement
Three-dimensional displays
Vectors
Velocity measurement
Weaving
bearing-only
helical guidance
observability enhancement

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