Constrained Integrated Guidance and Control Scheme for Strap-Down Hypersonic Flight Vehicles with Partial Measurement and Unmatched Uncertainties

Abstract

This paper investigates the issue of integrated guidance and control (IGC) design for strap-down hypersonic flight vehicles with partial measurement information and unmatched uncertainties. A constrained IGC scheme is proposed by combining the barrier Lyapunov function-based backstepping methodology and the specific output-based finite-time disturbance observer. Different from the existing methods, which require the state information and matched disturbances, the main features of the presented approach is capable of addressing the partial measurement knowledge and unmatched uncertainties simultaneously. The IGC model of hypersonic flight vehicles is first formulated, and based on that, the specific output-based finite-time disturbance observer (OFTDO) is proposed to achieve the finite-time estimation of the unmatched uncertainties through the output. Then, the constrained IGC strategy is constructed via the backstepping technique. The stability of the closed-loop system including the estimation and tracking errors dynamics is analyzed in detail. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by numerical simulations and Monte-Carlo tests.