Meeting the challenges of modern interceptor guidance by non-conventional approaches
The challenge of intercepting threats with non conventional warheads, the major drive for the development of ballistic missile defense systems since the first Gulf War of 1991, became even more serious when the reentry vehicles were assumed to be capable of maneuvering. Successful interception of such targets, requiring very small miss distances, cannot be guaranteed by the classical guidance and estimation methods that have been used against manned aircraft. Future interceptor guidance strategy has to be based on pursuit-evasion game concepts and the estimator design has to be integrated with the guidance law. Following such non conventional approaches has the potential to achieve the requirement of hit-to-kill accuracy against randomly maneuvering threats.
Distribution of Miss Distance in Discrete-Time Controlled System with Noise-Corrupted State Information
Miss distance is an important parameter of assessing highly maneuvering targets interception. Due to the noise-corrupted measurement and the fact that not all the state variables can be directly measured, the miss distance becomes a random variable with a priori unknown distribution. Currently, such a distribution is mainly evaluated by the method of Monte Carlo simulation. In this paper, an analytic approach is obtained in discrete-time controlled system with noise-corrupted state information. The system is subject to a bang-bang control strategy. The analytic distribution is validated through the comparison with Monte Carlo simulation.
Representation of systems disturbed by wide band noise
In this paper, a method of handling and working with wide band noise is developed. We represent wide band noise as a distributed delay of white noise and use it to reduce a nonlinear system disturbed by wide band noise to a nonlinear system disturbed by white noise. An application of this reduction to a nonlinear filtering problem under a wide band noise disturbance is discussed.