Feedback Strategies for Hypersonic Pursuit of a Ground Evader
Yoonjae Lee, Efstathios Bakolas, Maruthi R. Akella

TL;DR
This paper introduces a game-theoretic feedback guidance law for hypersonic pursuit vehicles, enabling real-time interception of evasive ground targets by linearizing nonlinear dynamics and precomputing optimal trajectories.
Contribution
The paper develops a novel linearization-based guidance method using Linear Quadratic Differential Games for hypersonic pursuit, allowing efficient real-time trajectory adjustments.
Findings
Effective in simulated pursuit scenarios
Handles evasive maneuvers with online trajectory modification
Demonstrates improved interception performance
Abstract
In this paper, we present a game-theoretic feedback terminal guidance law for an autonomous, unpowered hypersonic pursuit vehicle that seeks to intercept an evading ground target whose motion is constrained in a one-dimensional space. We formulate this problem as a pursuit-evasion game whose saddle point solution is in general difficult to compute onboard the hypersonic vehicle due to its highly nonlinear dynamics. To overcome this computational complexity, we linearize the nonlinear hypersonic dynamics around a reference trajectory and subsequently utilize feedback control design techniques from Linear Quadratic Differential Games (LQDGs). In our proposed guidance algorithm, the hypersonic vehicle computes its open-loop optimal state and input trajectories off-line and prior to the commencement of the game. These trajectories are then used to linearize the nonlinear equations of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGuidance and Control Systems · Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics · Magnetic confinement fusion research
