Analytical design of terminally guided missiles

The newly developed dominant data matching method has been successfully extended to design a digital pitch control system of a semiactive terminal homing missile system. As a result, the designed digital controller can be implemented on a microprocessor. Also, a direct decoupling method for multivariable control system designs has been developed and modified. This newly developed simple and practical method can be readily applied by a practicing control engineer for coupled high order multivariable control system designs. The feasibility of synthesizing a multi port controller without using integrators has been studied. As a result, a new matrix Sturm series and block canonical form of a matrix transfer function has been developed. The practical applications of the newly developed results on multiport network synthesis are further investigated. Other new findings of this research are reported in the appendix.