Integrated Guidance and Control for Aerospace Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

Traditionally, the guidance and control systems of aerospace vehicles are designed independently, and their basic premise is based on the assumption of the spectrum separation principle. In recent decades, with the enhanced maneuverability and flight speed of aerospace vehicles, this assumption does not always make sense. In particular, the independent design becomes powerless under the fast dynamic performance and high precision requirements during high-speed flights with large maneuvers. To this end, the integrated guidance and control (IGC) design concept appeared and has attracted significant attention recently. The basic line of the IGC concept is to consider the relative motion and the dynamic characteristics as an integrated model governed by the guidance and control goals to be achieved. The IGC algorithm is capable of avoiding the delay between the inner and outer loops, simplifying the design cost, and improving the guidance and control performance from the perspective of all of the flight indicator requirements. Numerous techniques, including optimal control, sliding mode control, intelligent control, adaptive control, etc., have been employed to investigate the IGC system design problem. Although the recent progress in this field has witnessed various contributions, the design problem of IGC using various advanced control theories under multiple physical constraints or requirements remains open. To promote the development of aerospace technology, highlight the most recent advances, and provide a wide range of state-of-the-art trends in the IGC designs, as well as their applications, this Special Issue aims to collect the recent development of IGC design and share the latest results in relation to the theoretical and experimental investigations of the IGC concept for aerospace vehicles. It mainly invites articles from technical areas including but not limited to the new IGC design concept, modeling, analysis, and experimental verification.

Dr. Bin Zhao
Dr. Tuo Han
Prof. Dr. Pengyu Wang
Dr. Wei Dong
Guest Editors

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