ArcLine Guidance

Abstract

Since World War II ground-to-air and air-to-air missiles have been an important part of military arsenals. The subject of Missile Guidance has been dominated over much of that time by the Proportional Navigation guidance law. The simplicity of this law has been its greatest strength, but therein also lies some of its weaknesses. Early guidance laws were required to work with the limited computer processing power of the time. Increases in processing power over the years allow us to introduce more sophisticated techniques. In this thesis we develop a new missile guidance algorithm, taking advantage of the advance in processing power. The new guidance algorithm will be designed to improve upon Proportional Navigation, effectively working in a broader range of situations. i Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Statement of Problem 1 3 Background 1 3.1 Proportional Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3.2 Theoretical Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..