Integrated Guidance and Control Using Model Predictive Control with Flight Path Angle Prediction against Pull-Up Maneuvering Target.

Integrated guidance and control using model predictive control against a maneuvering target is proposed. Equations of motion for terminal homing are developed with the consideration of short-period dynamics as well as actuator dynamics of a missile. The convex optimization problem is solved considering inequality constraints that consist of acceleration and look angle limits. A discrete-time extended Kalman filter is used to estimate the position of the target with a look angle as a measurement. This is utilized to form a flight-path angle of the target, and polynomial fitting is applied for prediction. Numerical simulation including a Monte Carlo simulation is performed to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm.