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Chapter 6 / Missile Guidance<br />

_ _<br />

range, and increases the LOS angular error. Conceptually there are two<br />

gimbal arrangements: roll-pitch or yaw-pitch.<br />

Roll-pitch configurations take less volume and are preferred for high offboresight<br />

scenarios because the small roll inertia means their response time<br />

is shorter. Unfortunately for targets on boresight a singularity exists with<br />

sight-line rate errors increase to infinity which requires specialised gimbal<br />

steering algorithms in this region. In contrast yaw-pitch gimbals are larger,<br />

have higher inertia and hence a slower response time however, they do not<br />

magnify the sight-line rate error close to boresight. For both mechanisations<br />

hardware obscuration and imperfect radomes at high off-boresight angles<br />

placing further restrictions on optimal guidance solutions.<br />

Consider the LOS rate error and its parasitic effect on the PN guidance law.<br />

Treating the Alignment frame as an inertial reference for convenience, the<br />

inertial LOS rates for a YP seeker,<br />

T<br />

S<br />

B<br />

⋅ ω<br />

B<br />

A,<br />

B<br />

+ ω<br />

S<br />

B,<br />

S<br />

: =<br />

T<br />

S<br />

B<br />

Expanding, and collecting terms,<br />

ω<br />

ZS<br />

A,<br />

S<br />

−<br />

ω<br />

XB<br />

A,<br />

B<br />

Θ &<br />

S<br />

A<br />

⋅ sin Θ<br />

S S B S<br />

( Θ , Ψ ) ⋅ ω + [ Θ ]<br />

YS<br />

A,<br />

S<br />

B<br />

6-19<br />

ω<br />

S<br />

A,<br />

S<br />

B<br />

XB<br />

A,<br />

B<br />

: =<br />

A,<br />

B<br />

S<br />

B<br />

B<br />

YB<br />

A,<br />

B<br />

⋅<br />

⎛<br />

⎜<br />

⎜<br />

⎜<br />

⎝<br />

0<br />

0<br />

Ψ&<br />

: = ω + ω ⋅ sin Ψ − ω ⋅ cos Ψ<br />

S<br />

B<br />

Ψ &<br />

⋅ cos Ψ<br />

S<br />

A<br />

S<br />

B<br />

⋅ cos Θ<br />

−<br />

ω<br />

YB<br />

A,<br />

B<br />

S<br />

B<br />

: =<br />

⋅ sin Θ<br />

S<br />

B<br />

⋅ sin Ψ<br />

S<br />

B<br />

−<br />

S<br />

B<br />

⎞<br />

⎟<br />

⎟<br />

⎟<br />

⎠<br />

+<br />

⎛<br />

⎜<br />

⎜<br />

⎜<br />

⎝<br />

0<br />

Θ&<br />

S<br />

B<br />

0<br />

⎞<br />

⎟<br />

⎟<br />

⎟<br />

⎠<br />

Equation 6.5-29<br />

S<br />

B<br />

Equation 6.5-30<br />

ω<br />

ZB<br />

A,<br />

B<br />

⋅ cos Θ<br />

S<br />

B<br />

Equation 6.5-31<br />

These equations show that detector stabilisation depends on the gyroscope<br />

errors leaking into the gimbal control loop. Combining these results with<br />

Equation 6.5-22 confirms that parasitic errors are not magnified in the YP<br />

gimbal configuration. Typically gimbal steering loops have bandwidths of<br />

70-90 Hz and care must be taken to minimise parasitic coupling between the<br />

airframe and target sight-line dynamics, Nesline [N5-6] . In the past inertial<br />

isolation is performed using a dedicated rate sensors in the seeker. This<br />

complication, and expense, is removed using a centralised missile observer<br />

to fuse gimbal pick-off and gyroscope measurement data. Reduction in<br />

acquisition range due to parasitic errors often limits the missile observer<br />

bandwidth, a balance between measurement noise suppression and latency.

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