Performance and Stability Investigation of a line of sight based Guidance System in the Presence of Measurement Noise

Abstract

Usually vehicles are equipped with guidance algorithm based on line of sight (LOS) angle. In this way, some measurements like target acceleration, LOS rate, and closing velocity are provided for the guidance algorithm. The noise effect on the guidance loop would be neglected when the variance of the measurement noise is small. However, the stability property and/or performance of the guidance loop may be effected when the measurement noise is considerable. In this paper, a suitable guidance law is proposed in the presence of measurement noise. Then, a numerical example is provided. The effectiveness of the proposed method in the simulation results is shown in comparison with the previous results.

Keywords

• line of sight angle
• guidance law
• stability analysis
• guidance loop