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On-line optimal autonomous reentry guidance based on improved Gauss pseudospectral method

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The on-line optimal autonomous reentry guidance of the hypersonic vehicle is proposed based on the improved Gauss pseudospectral method (IGPM). The autonomous reentry guidance requires the hypersonic vehicle can generate the optimal trajectory for the latest flight mission on line and track the new trajectory well under the uncertainty. These two problems are simplified into a nonlinear optimal control problem with nonlinear constraints. The IGPM is introduced to solve the above two problems. The trajectory has to change according to the flight mission and therefore the new optimal trajectory can be obtained by IGPM within about 10 s. The optimal feedback guidance law is used to track the reference trajectory to handle the uncertainty. In order to deal with the CPU time delay, which comes from optimizing the new trajectory, the new on-line optimal autonomous reentry guidance is depicted. Finally, the numerical simulation shows that the proposed autonomous guidance can generate optimal trajectory for the new flight mission and have a high tracking accuracy.

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  1. Center for Control Theory and Guidance Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China

    Yong Sun, MingZhe Hou, GuangRen Duan & XiaoLing Liang

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Sun, Y., Hou, M., Duan, G. et al. On-line optimal autonomous reentry guidance based on improved Gauss pseudospectral method. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 57, 1–16 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-013-4922-6

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