Generalized Formulation of Weighted Optimal Guidance Laws with Impact Angle Constraint
This work provides a theoretical framework for designing guidance laws with impact angle constraints, which is relevant for missile guidance and aerospace applications, though it is an incremental extension of existing optimal control methods.
The paper derives a generalized formulation for weighted optimal guidance laws with impact angle constraints, identifying the feasible set of weighting functions that yield analytical solutions, thereby offering additional design flexibility.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the generalized formulation of weighted optimal guidance laws with impact angle constraint. From the generalized formulation, we explicitly find the feasible set of weighting functions that lead to analytical forms of weighted optimal guidance laws. This result has potential significance because it can provide additional degrees of freedom in designing a guidance law that accomplishes the specified guidance objective.