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Waypoints Following Guidance for Surface-to-Surface Missiles

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The paper proposes waypoints following guidance law. In this method an optimal trajectory is first generated which is then represented through a set of waypoints that are distributed from the starting point up to the final target point using a polynomial. The guidance system then works by issuing guidance command needed to move from one waypoint to the next one. Here the method is applied for a surface-to-surface missile. The results show that the method is feasible for on-board application.

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  1. School of Astronautics, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, 100083, China

    Hao Zhou, Elsayed M. Khalil & Wanchun Chen

  2. Directorate of Engineering, Bangladesh Air Force, Dhaka, 1206, Bangladesh

    Tawfiqur Rahman

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Zhou, H., Khalil, E.M., Rahman, T. et al. Waypoints Following Guidance for Surface-to-Surface Missiles. JASS 19, 183–195 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42405-018-0007-5

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