As the missile approaches to and locks on the challenging missile, it needs to change from mid-course guidance to terminal homing guidance [3]. Since the handover point is determined in consideration of missile performance such as the seeker detection range and scan angle, radar power, missile nose shape and sensor uncertainties pattern, no common value exists for the handover point. Whilst [7] supposes the terminal range as 20Km for ballistic missiles, [6] applies 500m in their common curvature guidance paper. In terms of time of the terminal phase rather than distance, it is generally the last 4 to 6 seconds of flight [3].However, in order to enhance the performance, we should consider all the key issues of the handover: target detection and tracking, guidance command saturation during the terminal phase and intercepting target before it strikes its object. Since the key issues are coupled with each other, theymust be considered together. For example, the handover and heading errors can be large due to the effect of environmentalxplicitly related to the target acquisition and terminal homing capabilities, but also have the property of trade-off: Each of them requires longer range to reduce their errors and increases the error of the other.In this paper, it is assumed that the terminal range for the handover is around 6Km (switch from uplink data to seeker data) to investigate the performance of the proposed cooperative missile guidance scheme. The handover range has been determined according to the seeker performances. However, in order to take into account potential guidance command saturations, terminal homing capabilities (capturability) and to ensure target interception before ground base destruction we propose in the following an original mid course guidance law design plus an orignal target allocation algorithm. The switch from mid course guidance to terminal guidance (in this case DGL/1) is no more synchronized with handover logics but with capturability logics. Therefore, we decoupled the handover logics (uplink to seeker switch) from the guidance law switch. The first logic is based on data accuracy and the second one on attainability capabilities. However, this approach may still not consider some other parameters as missile gimbal angle limitations (to be addressed in future study).
As the missile approaches to and locks on the challenging missile, it needs to change from mid-course guidance to terminal homing guidance [3]. Since the handover point is determined in consideration of missile performance such as the seeker detection range and scan angle, radar power, missile nose shape and sensor uncertainties pattern, no common value exists for the handover point. Whilst [7] supposes the terminal range as 20Km for ballistic missiles, [6] applies 500m in their common curvature guidance paper. In terms of time of the terminal phase rather than distance, it is generally the last 4 to 6 seconds of flight [3].<br>However, in order to enhance the performance, we should consider all the key issues of the handover: target detection and tracking, guidance command saturation during the terminal phase and intercepting target before it strikes its object. Since the key issues are coupled with each other, they<br>must be considered together. For example, the handover and heading errors can be large due to the effect of environmental<br>xplicitly related to the target acquisition and terminal homing capabilities, but also have the property of trade-off: Each of them requires longer range to reduce their errors and increases the error of the other.<br>In this paper, it is assumed that the terminal range for the handover is around 6Km (switch from uplink data to seeker data) to investigate the performance of the proposed cooperative missile guidance scheme. The handover range has been determined according to the seeker performances. However, in order to take into account potential guidance command saturations, terminal homing capabilities (capturability) and to ensure target interception before ground base destruction we propose in the following an original mid course guidance law design plus an orignal target allocation algorithm. The switch from mid course guidance to terminal guidance (in this case DGL/1) is no more synchronized with handover logics but with capturability logics. Therefore, we decoupled the handover logics (uplink to seeker switch) from the guidance law switch. The first logic is based on data accuracy and the second one on attainability capabilities. However, this approach may still not consider some other parameters as missile gimbal angle limitations (to be addressed in future study).
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