Impact Angle Control Guidance Law Considering the Seeker’s Field-of-View Constraint Applied to Variable Speed Missiles

Abstract

Recently, multiple constraints have been considered in the design of guidance laws. Most of the existing impact angle control guidance laws considering the seeker's field-of-view constraint are only applicable to constant speed missiles and have other limits to some extent. This paper is concerned with the field-of-view constrained impact angle control guidance law applied to variable speed missiles based on the sliding mode control theory. In the design of the sliding mode controller, we use a quadratic Lyapunov function to achieve the impact angle control. Moreover, we introduce an integral barrier Lyapunov function with an adaptive control item to address the field-of-view constraint and prevent the undesirable chattering caused by the disturbance of the nonlinear system. Then, the asymptotic stability of this close-looped system is verified. Eventually, numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed guidance law.

Keywords

• Adaptive control
• field-of-viewconstraint
• impact angle control
• Lyapunov function
• sliding mode control