Hardware-software trade-offs for digital flight control of guided missiles
Abstract
Hardware and software requirements are compared for guided missile flight control systems. The utility and application of three main analog flight control systems are discussed - the open loop system, the rate gyro controlled system, and the accelerometer controlled system. For each of these analog systems, digital requirements are derived and comparisons of the requirements and performance of each system are made. The discussions point out hardware and software trade-off issues that occur in the design process.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- February 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982STIN...8223188N
- Keywords:
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- Computer Programs;
- Digital Computers;
- Digital Systems;
- Flight Control;
- Hardware;
- Missile Control;
- Accelerometers;
- Architecture (Computers);
- Damping;
- Dynamic Response;
- Gyroscopes;
- Homing;
- Loops;
- Mach Number;
- Systems Engineering;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles