Missile Guidance Course
Instructor: Paul
Zarchan, MIT
About the Course Instructor:
Paul Zarchan has more than 40 years of experience designing, analyzing,
and evaluating missile guidance systems. He has worked as Principal Engineer
for Raytheon Mission Systems Division and has served as Senior Research
Engineer with the Israel Ministry of Defense and has worked as Principal Member
of the Technical Staff at C.S. Draper Laboratory. Mr. Zarchan is currently
working on problems related to theater missile defense as a Member of the
Technical Staff for MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA,
author of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Fourth Edition and co-author
of Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering: A Practical Approach Second Edition, both
of which are books in the AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Series.
Who
Should Attend:
The course provides an up-to-date
tutorial and overview of missile guidance theory and practice.
It is intended for both practitioners
and researchers in the field.
Course
Outline:
Day 1
Numerical Techniques (1 hour)
Fundamentals
of Tactical Missile Guidance (1.5 hour)
Method
of Adjoints and the Homing Loop (1.5 hour)
Noise
Analysis (1 hour)
Proportional
Navigation and Miss Distance (1.5 hour)
Kalman
Filters and the Homing Loop (1 hour)
Endoatmospheric
Ballistic Targets (1 hour)
Extended
Kalman Filtering (1.5 hour)
Other
Forms of Tactical Guidance and Tactical Zones (1/2 hour)
Strategic
Considerations (1 hour)
Boosters
(1 hour)
Lambert
Guidance (1 hour)
Strategic Intercepts (1 hour)
Miscellaneous Topics (1 hour)
Radome Slope Estimation (1.5 hour)
Predictor Corrector Guidance (1 hour)
Multiple Target Problem (1 hour)
Intercept Point Prediction Error for
Ballistic Targets (1 hour)
Boost Phase Estimation (1 hour)
Theater Missile Defense and Guidance (1
hour)
Filtering Options For Tracking
Exoatmospheric Targets (1 hour)
Airframe Linearization (1 hour)
Introduction to Flight Control System
Design (1 hour)
The Three Loop Autopilot (1 hour)
Weaving Targets and Proportional
Navigation (.5 hour)
Optimal Guidance Against Weaving Targets
(.5 hour)
Filtering and Guidance For Weaving
Targets (1 hour)
Feedback Linearization (.5 hour)
A Filtering Approach For Getting Small
Miss Distances (1 hour)
Comparison of Statistical Digital
Simulation Methods (1 hour)
Flight Control Compensation (1 hour)
The Most Unusual Guidance Method (.5
hour)
Other Methods For Guidance Law
Development (1 hour)