Controlling flight vehicle spatial motion along a given route

Abstract

The problem of the unmanned flight vehicle moving along the given route in a perturbed environment comes down to that of pursuing a target which simulates motion of the reference flight vehicle in compliance with its task. A scheme was proposed of a control system selecting the control strategy according to the current states of the flight vehicle and target. Consideration was given to the issues of the lead determination of the point of meeting of the flight vehicle with the target and rearrangement in the transfer functions of the equations of longitudinal and lateral motions of the flight vehicle in a restless tmosphere. The systems of automatic stabilization of the pitch and yaw angles with autopilot are used as the internal control loops. In the experimental part of the paper, the FV motion is modeled under the control constraints.