Nonlinear modified bias proportional navigation guidance law against maneuvering targets

Abstract

To realize the terminal acceleration constraint for a bias proportional navigation guidance law without usage of switching logics, this paper proposes a modified bias term and presents a terminal acceleration constrained bias proportional navigation guidance law against maneuvering targets. First, a so-called virtual planar coordinates whose origin is attached to the point mass of the target is built, so that the original maneuvering target is transformed to a virtual stationary target. On this basis, the common structure of bias proportional navigation guidance law is presented. To realize the terminal acceleration constraint, a modified bias term related to the relative distance between target and missile is used to improve the bias proportional navigation guidance law. With the virtual look angle and the line-of-sight angle constrained, the proposed modified bias proportional navigation guidance law can intercept the maneuvering targets in a desired attack angle. Comparisons with the optimal guidance law in the linear system are carried out, and the proposed law is proved to be near-optimal. The numerical simulation results demonstrate the all-aspect interception capability of the proposed law against maneuvering targets.