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Authors
Paulo C. Pellanda; Pierre Apkarian; Hoang Duong Tuan; Daniel Alazard

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.3182/20020721-6-ES-1901.01571

Page Numbers:
1569-1569

Index Terms
missile autopilots,LPV synthesis,LFT,mixed H2/H˞,multi-channel control,gain scheduling

Abstract
The missile pitch-axis autopilot design is revisited using a new and recently available LPV control technique. The missile plant model is characterized by an LFT representation. The synthesis task is conducted by exploiting new capabilities of the LPV method: a set of H2/H∞ criteria is considered and different Lyapunov and scaling variables are used for each channel/specification. The method is shown to provide additional flexibility to tradeoff conflicting and demanding performance and robustness specifications for the missile while preserving the practical advantage of previous single-objective LPV methods.

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