• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.10
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• pp.817-824
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• 2017

This paper presents the characteristics of wing-tail interference for a tail-controlled missile. The magnitude of wing-tail interference was calculated with wind tunnel test results and its effects on aerodynamic coefficients were investigated. The downwash angle of tail wing was calculated with experimental data and the effect of wing-tail interference was expressed as a ratio of angle of attack. Numerical simulations were made to examine flow characteristics of wing-tail interference and the vorticity contour of missile were compared with respect to angle of attack. Experimental and numerical analysis results show that the wing-tail interference has significant effects on static stability of tail-controlled missile.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.85-93
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• 2021

In this paper, the aerodynamic characteristics of general tail controlled missile were predicted and corrected the result using semi-empirical analysis tool. The cause of the error was confirmed by comparing the aerodynamic characteristics prediction result of the semi-empirical analysis tool with the wind tunnel test result, and the main error factor of the semi-empirical analysis tool was the interference component between the main wing and the tail wing. The semi-empirical analysis results were corrected using the wind tunnel test results and the computational analysis results, and it was confirmed that the corrected data agrees well with the wind tunnel test results. Through this study, it was confirmed that the wing-tail interference component correction is needed when predicting the aerodynamic characteristics of a general tail controlled missile using a semi-empirical analysis tool.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.633-638
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• 2002

We study how the missile autopilot with three loop acceleration structure is related to the aerodynamic characteristics. First, the relationships between the response characteristics of wingless-tail controlled missile and aerodynamics are derived. Next the maximum allowable performance limit of autopilot and the design direction for a missile shape are indicated using the property of zero. The method proposed in this paper may give a help to the missile autopilot system design and determination of the shape of aerodynamic. Also, the validity of proposed method is demonstrated via numerical example.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.547-555
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• 2003

This paper presents an adaptive control against uncertainties in tail-controlled STT (Skid-to-Turn) missiles. We derive an analytic uncertainty model from a parametric affine missile model developed by the authors. Based on this analytic model, an adaptive feedback linearizing control law accompanied by a sliding mode control law is proposed. We provide analyses of stability and output tracking performance of the overall adaptive missile system. The performance and validity of the proposed adaptive control scheme are demonstrated by simulation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.2-2
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• 2000

This paper presents an adaptive control against uncertainties in tail-controlled STT (skid-to-Turn) missiles. First, we derive an analytic uncertainty model from a parametricaffine missile model developed by the authors. Based on this analytic model, an adaptive feedbacklinearizing control law accompanied by a sliding model control law is proposed. We provide analyses of stability and output tracking performance of the overall adaptive missile system. The performance and validity of the proposed adaptive control scheme is demonstrated by simulation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.537-541
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• 2003

In order to control the missiles by aerodynamics, control surfaces sometime called fins are used. Deflection angles of these fins are the right control variables of the aerodynamics, but aerodynamicists prefer to use analytic variables called aileron, elevator and rudder instead of these physical variables, because these three analytic variables dominantly influence on the roll, pitch and yaw channels of the missile maneuver, respectively, and each can be assumed a linear combination of four fin deflection angles. On that basis, roll, pitch and yaw autopilots for controlling the attitudes or lateral acceleration of the missile are designed, and as a consequence outputs of each autopilot are aileron, elevator and rudder commands, respectively. In the existing fin control scheme for the typical tail-fin controlled cruciform missiles, firstly these outputs are distributed to four fin defection commands, and after that four fins are actuated by fin controllers so that their deflections follow the commands. This paper shows that performance of such control schemes can be degraded significantly when fin actuators have certain physical constraints such as slew rate, voltage or current limit, uncertainty of actuator dynamics, and so on, and propose a new control scheme which alleviates such problems. This scheme can be widely applied to various fin actuation systems. But in this paper, for convenience, tail-fin controlled cruciform missile is taken as an example, and it is shown that a proposed control scheme gives better performance than the existing one.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.2 s.25
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• pp.143-151
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• 2006

This paper investigates effects of reaction control jet on the aerodynamic performance of generic interceptor missile operating at supersonic flight condition. Parallelized CFDS code is used as a viscous flow solver. The generic interceptor missile configuration composed of a long and slender body and fixed tail fins. The behavior of normal force, axial force and pitching moment characteristics at altitude conditions corresponding to 10 km is studied according to the given control jet conditions, different angle of attacks based on the analysis of aerodynamic characteristics.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.727-731
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• 2000

This paper presents a new practical autopilot design approach to acceleration control for tail-controlled STT(Skid-to-Turn) missiles. The approach is novel in that the proposed parametric affine missile model adopts acceleration as th controlled output and considers the couplings between the forces as well as the moments and control fin deflections. The aerodynamic coefficients in the proposed model are expressed in a closed form with fittable parameters over the whole operating range. The parameters are fitted from aerodynamic coefficient look-up tables by the function approximation technique which is based on the combination of local parametric models through curve fitting using the corresponding influence functions. In this paper in order to employ the results of parametric affine modeling in the autopilot controller design we derived a parametric affine missile model and designed a feedback linearizing controller for the obtained model. Stability analysis for the overall closed loop sys-tem is provided considering the uncertainties arising from approximation errors. the validity of the proposed modeling and control approach is demonstrated through simulations for an STT missile.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.120-125
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• 2003

Recently, lateral jet has been adopted as an effective control device for high maneuverable tactical missiles in supersonic regime. Aerodynamic interference caused by the lateral jet can be categorized into two phenomena : local interaction redistributing surface pressure near the jet exit region and downstream interaction affecting tail control effectiveness. As part of on-going research, this paper deals with the aerodynamic modeling to predict the variation of force and moment when lateral jet of is activated on the missile body. For this purpose, a series of numerical simulation has been performed and the results are presented. Using the information obtained by CFD, aerodynamic model of preliminary level has been constructed and is reviewed. Some relevant comparison with wind tunnel tests are presented.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.74-81
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• 2014

This article documents the design of a novel two-loop acceleration autopilot based on $\mathcal{L}_1$ adaptive output feedback control for tail-controlled missiles. The inner loop is an adaptive angle-of-attack tracking loop and the outer loop is the traditional PI controller for error compensation. A systematic low-pass filter design procedure is provided for minimum phase system and is applied to the inner loop design while the parameters of the outer loop are obtained from the multi-objective optimization problem. The effectiveness of the proposed autopilot is verified through numerical simulations under various conditions.