State Dependent Riccati Equation Based Roll Autopilot for 122mm Artillery Rocket

State-dependent Riccati equation based controllers are becoming increasingly popular because of having attractive properties like optimality, stability and robustness. This paper focuses on the design of a roll autopilot for a fin stabilized and canard controlled 122mm artillery rocket using state-dependent Riccati equation technique. Initial spin is imparted to rocket during launch and it quickly decays due to straight tail fins. After the spin phase, the roll orientation of rocket is brought to zero with the canard deflection commands generated by the roll autopilot. Roll autopilot has been developed by considering uncoupled roll, pitch and yaw channels. The canard actuator is modeled as a second-order nonlinear system. Elements of the state weighing matrix for Riccati equation have been chosen to be state dependent to exploit the design flexibility offered by the Riccati equation technique. Simulation results under varying conditions of flight demonstrate the wide operating range of the proposed autopilot.

Authors:

• Muhammad Kashif Siddiq
• Fang Jian Cheng
• Yu Wen Bo

Keywords:

• Fin stabilized 122mm artillery rocket
• Roll Autopilot
• Six degree of freedom trajectory model
• State-dependent Riccati equation.

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