Guidance and Control of Homing Missiles

Homing missiles have gained wide popularity in the field of guidance and control regarding the short and medium range purposes in recent years. In this study, the three-dimensional formulation of the Proportional Navigation Guidance (PNG) law is done. Another contribution of this study is the derivation of the Linear Homing Guidance (LHG) and the Parabolic Homing Guidance (PHG) laws. Then, all these three methods are implemented on both the considered missile model for the uncanted and canted tail wing configurations, and a generic single-body missile model. Also, the acceleration, rate and angular autopilots are designed in order to realize the guidance commands generated by these guidance laws on the considered missile models. Finally, the overall guidance and control models are constructed by integrating the obtained models and then numerous computer simulations are carried out to test the performance of the system in different scenarios.