Design of a CLOS guidance law via feedback linearization

An application of the feedback linearization technique to the design of a new command to line-of-sight (CLOS) guidance law for short-range surface-to-air missiles is described. The key idea lies in converting the three-dimensional CLOS guidance problem to the tracking problem of a time-varying nonlinear system. The result may shed new light on the role of the feedforward acceleration terms used in the conventional CLOS guidance laws. Through computer simulation, the effect of the dynamics of the ground tracker and the autopilot on the guidance performance of the new CLOS guidance law is investigated