The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of a systematic single-range controller design procedure to control a cruise missile.

    Design/methodology/approach

    The controller design approach is based on one describing function model of the missile followed by linear system identification. The missile includes discontinuous nonlinear terms, and therefore, a small signal model is not obtainable by straight linearization. Once a linear approximation to the quasilinear model of the missile is obtained, a H controller is designed to achieve a robust nonlinear closed-loop system.

    Findings

    It is found that performance of the closed-loop system with the applied simple controller design approach competes with one other complicated describing function-based controller design technique.

    Research limitations/implications

    At present, the research is limited to design of linear H controllers.

    Practical implications

    The major outcome of this paper is the verification that the applied simple describing function-based H controller design procedure may be used to design high-performance controllers for cruise missiles.

    Originality/value

    This is the first paper that adopts an existing single-range H controller design procedure to design high-performance controllers for cruise missiles.


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    Title :

    Single-range controller design for a cruise missile


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    Publication date :

    2009-07-03


    Size :

    5 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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