Yingzi He

Han Yan, Yingzi He

A robust entry guidance law without drag rate measurement is designed for drag-tracking in this paper. The bank angle is regarded as the control variable. First, a state feedback guidance law (bank angle magnitude) that requires the drag and its rate as feedback information is designed to make the drag-tracking error be input-to-state stable (ISS) with respect to uncertainties. Then a high gain observer is utilized to estimate the drag rate which is difficult for a vehicle to measure accurately in practice. Stability analysis as well as simulation results show the efficiency of the presented approach.

Han Yan, Yingzi He, Chunling Wei

This paper studies the drag-tracking guidance design problem of uncertain entry vehicles. With employing a Nussbaum type function to deal with input saturation constraint, an output feedback guidance law (bank angle magnitude) with a high-gain observer is constructed that makes the drag-tracking error converge near zero in the presence of uncertainties. It is also worthy to claim that, in contrast to the existing results whose envelope of uncertainty merely depends on the drag error, the considered uncertainty is allowed to be not bigger than a function of drag error and integral term of drag error, which inevitably occurs in practice. The Monte Carlo simulation is done to illustrate the advantage of the developed method.