Missile

About: Missile is a(n) research topic. Over the lifetime, 12829 publication(s) have been published within this topic receiving 94307 citation(s). The topic is also known as: guided missile & missiles.

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

Abstract: blockbuster. In the first 16 years (for which figures are available), more than 70,000 copies of Essence of Decision were sold; by its 25th anniversary, more than 1,600 journal articles referenced in the Social Science Citations Index had cited the work. It was a staple on the reading lists. As controversial as it was famous, critiquing Essence of Decision became a cottage industry. In the recent publication of the second edition of Essence of Decision, Allison is joined by co-author Philip Zelikow, director of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, former Bush administration official, and Allison's former Harvard colleague. The second edition is as fascinating and as frustrating as the original, and surely will remain in the canon of political science. It is 78 pages longer than the original and is illustrated with up-to-date examples from the Clinton and Bush administrations. The authors meticulously use newly available historic materials on the case, and the theory chapters draw from more recent academic scholarship.

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

Abstract: A penetrating study of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis examines the workings of American decision-making and foreign policy.

Tactical and strategic missile guidance

Abstract: Numerical Techniques Fundamentals of Tactical Missile Guidance Method of Adjoints and the Homing Loop Noise Analysis Convariance Analysis and the Homing Loop Proportional Navigation and Miss Distance Digital Fading Memory Noise Filters in the Homing Loop Advanced Guidance Laws Kalman Filters and the Homing Loop Other Forms of Tactical Guidance Tactical Zones Strategic Considerations Boosters Lambert Guidance Strategic Intercepts Miscellaneous Topics Ballistic Target Properties Extended Kalman Filtering and Ballistic Coefficient Estimation Ballistic Target Challenges Multiple Targets Weaving Targets Representing Missile Airframe with Transfer Functions Introduction to Flight Control Design Three-Loop Autopilot. Appendices: Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance Software Converting Programmes to C Converting Programmes to MATLAB Units.

Self-scheduled H ∞ control of linear parameter-varying systems: a design example

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the design of gain-scheduled controllers with guaranteed H∞ performance for a class of linear parameter-varying (LPV) plants. Here the plant state-space matrices are assumed to depend affinely on a vector θ of time-varying real parameters. Assuming real-time measurement of these parameters, they can be fed to the controller to optimize the performance and robustness of the closed-loop system. The resulting controller is time-varying and automatically ‘gain-scheduled’ along parameter trajectories. Based on the notion of quadratic H∞ performance, solvability conditions are obtained for continuous- and discrete-time systems. In both cases the synthesis problem reduces to solving a system of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The main benefit of this approach is to bypass most difficulties associated with more classical schemes such as gain-interpolation or gain-scheduling techniques. The methodology presented in this paper is applied to the gain scheduling of a missile autopilot. The missile has a large operating range and high angles of attack. The difficulty of the problem is reinforced by tight performance requirements as well as the presence of flexible modes that limit the control bandwidth.

Automatic control of aircraft and missiles

Abstract: Longitudinal Dynamics. Longitudinal Autopilots. Lateral Dynamics. Lateral Autopilots. Inertial Cross-Coupling. Self-Adaptive Autopilots. Missile Control Systems. Guidance Systems. Integrated Flight/Fire Control System. Multivariable Control Systems. Structural Flexibility. Application of Statistical Design Principles. Pilot Modeling. Appendices. Index.