Abstract
A new method of integrated guidance and control for homing missiles with actuator fault against manoeuvring targets is proposed. Model of the integrated guidance and control system in the pitch plane with actuator fault and some uncertainty is developed. A control law using combination of adaptive backstepping and sliding mode approaches is designed to achieve interception in the presence of bounded uncertainties and actuator fault. Simulation results show that new approach has better performance than adaptive backstepping and has good performance in the presence of actuator fault.
1. Introduction
The traditional way to design a missile guidance and control system is to form subsystems separately followed by integrating them. This method presents successful results and demonstrates some remarkable performance in designing several missile guidance and control systems. However, since in this method interactive relationships between the cooperating subsystems cannot be completely exploited, the overall system performance may be constrained. Therefore, a design method named as integrated guidance and control (IGC) system is provided by incorporating some control theories to enhance the performance of the whole system.
There are a variety of methods to solve IGC problem that some of them are presented in the following. In [1] an adaptive nonlinear IGC approach is proposed by adopting a backstepping scheme for missile-target engagement model with uncertainties without fault. Reference [2] has addressed IGC problem using nonlinear optimal control technique which is called method. In work [3] an integrated guidance and autopilot system is designed for homing missiles against ground fixed targets. To this intent, an integrated model in the pitch plane is formulated, and then the adaptive nonlinear control law is designed by adopting the sliding mode control approach. Also, other control theories have been employed in the design of guidance laws, including control [4], variable structure control [5], feedback linearization scheme [6], sliding mode control [7], and adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control [8].
A fault tolerant control system is capable of controlling a system with satisfactory performance even if one or several faults occur in the system. Fault tolerant control systems can be classified into two main families: passive fault tolerant controllers and active fault tolerant controllers. In a passive fault tolerant controller, deviations of the plant parameters from their actual values or deviations of the actuators from their expected position may be efficiently compensated by a fixed robust feedback controller [9]. Many control design laws described by fault tolerant control have been proposed in [10–12] for different practical systems. In [13] some fault tolerant controllers designed guidance strategy in the presence of actuator faults. Furthermore, authors of [14] have proposed a fault tolerant control for induction motors based on backstepping strategy.
In this paper, first, IGC system in the pitch plane with an actuator fault and some uncertainties is modelled. Since the actuator fault uncertainty is multiplied by input, we must use some scheme of such sliding mode. Then a control law using combination of adaptive backstepping and sliding mode is designed to achieve the interception in the presence of bounded uncertainties and actuator fault. The proposed control law is compared with control law of [1] for a free fault system. Then, the performance of designed law control is investigated for the faulty system.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, missile-target engagement geometry will be derived in the pitch plane. In Section 3, actuator fault is modelled. In Section 4 control law is derived using the proposed new approach. In Section 5 control law is derived for the faulty system. Simulation results and their analysis are presented in Section 6. Finally, a conclusion is made in Section 7.
2. Engagement of Model Derivation
In this section, the integrated guidance and control model for two-dimensional point mass missile-target engagement geometry is driven in the pitch plane [1]. In order to establish a better understanding of the concept, engagement strategy is illustrated in Figure 1. Consider an inertial coordinate system fixed to the surface of a flat-earth model. The corresponding kinematic equations of motion are given as follows:where is the range along the line of sight (LOS); is the LOS angle; and are the speed of missile and target, respectively, that both are assumed to be constant. and are missile and target’s flight path angles, respectively. Differentiating yieldswhere , and are normal acceleration of missile and target, respectively, and is the projection of bounded target acceleration perpendicular to the line of sight.
For modelling of planar missile dynamics, proposed model in [1, 7] is used as follows:Thereforewhere is the pitch attitude angle and is the missile pitch rate; is deflection angle for pitch control and and are the mass and moment of inertia, respectively. Also, is the pitch moment and is the lift forces, whereThereforewhere , , and in which and are bounded uncertainties. On the other hand, missile acceleration can be written asBy substituting (7) into (2) and defining , , and one can obtainwhere The above closed-loop system dynamics are actuator fault-free. In next section, closed-loop system dynamics with actuator fault is driven.
3. Modeling of Actuator Fault
A loss of effectiveness actuator fault is considered in this work. For this, the desired control input was disconnected and replaced by a faulty control signal that takes control over the plant. The true input of the plant can be written as [9]where The faulty control signal can be expressed as follows:where is a random constant that . If becomes less than 0.3, the actuator is saturated. Therefore, a faulty system can be written:In the following sections, first, a control law using new approach is derived for a free fault system so one can be able to compare the results of the new approach with the results of [1]. Next, the given approach is applied to the faulty system.
4. Integrated Guidance and Control Design Using Combination of Sliding Control and Backstepping
System (8) is not in the standard form of common backstepping procedure because appeared in the nonlinear term of . In order to deal with this situation, [1] has introduced an adaptive backstepping control scheme to design an IGC law that can zero LOS rate and maintain stability of the overall system.
In this paper, sliding mode control is used to improve the performance of proposed IGC in [1] and we can consider actuator fault. To this purpose, suppose that virtual controls and in two backsteps are obtained such that they keep around zero and guarantee and to be input-to-state stable with respect to uncertainties, respectively [1]; considerwhere , , , and the expressions of partial derivatives and can be found in [1].
Now, instead of using of backstep again for calculating , sliding mode control is used. To this purpose, sliding surface is selected asIt is obvious that if a dynamic state feedback control law is designed such that the trajectories of the closed-loop system are driven on the sliding surface and kept along it, then the guidance strategy can be achieved. Therefore, differentiation of must be zero:ThenWith the given sliding surface, the control law is obtained aswhere
In order to prevent chattering, one can write
5. Fault Tolerant Control Design
For the faulty system, sliding surface is selected as before. Differentiation of must be zero; thenEquation (20) can be rewritten aswhere is the nominal value of . By considering the input as (21) can be expressed as follows:where By substituting (25) in (24),From (26) it follows thatwhere Values and can be calculated from [1] easily. By definingcontrol law is obtained as
6. Numerical Results and Analysis
To evaluate performance of the proposed approach, in this section, first the proposed approach is compared with the results of [1] for free fault system. This comparison is shown in Figure 2. As it can be seen, the proposed control law, with less acceleration applied to the missile, causes smaller miss distance. This shows efficiency of the proposed approach to use for faulty system:The initial missile and target flight path angles, their initial velocities, and the relative motion parameters can be found in [1].
Next, performance of the proposed control law is investigated for faulty system. For this purpose, actuator effectiveness is selected between 30% and 100%; in other words . It is assumed that the actuator commands are taken as a first-order lag system with a time constant 0.001 and limited by .
As can be seen in Figures 3–6, the controllers are robust to achieve the missile interception in the presence of the target acceleration and actuator fault. It is clear that the less efficiency of actuator increases the time to go, interception distance, and deflection angle for pitch control. Also, it increases the control effort (Figure 7).
7. Conclusion
In this paper, we introduce a new approach to design of guidance laws for two-dimensional point mass missile-target engagement in the presence of bounded uncertainties and actuator fault. In proposed approach, sliding mode control is combined with adaptive backstepping to improve the performance. Numerical results show that the new control law has better performance than adaptive backstepping and has good performance in faulty system.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.