Receding horizon guidance laws for constrained missiles with autopilot lags

In this paper, a new stabilizing receding horizon control (RHC) scheme is p roposed for linear continuous time-invariant systems with input and state c onstraints. The control scheme is based on the minimization of the finite h orizon cost with a finite terminal weighting matrix subject to constraints. A new algorithm is suggested to implement the RHC scheme for a constrained receding horizon guidance law (CRHG). The proposed CRHG, which does not us e information on the time-to-go, is obtained by using linear matrix inequal ity (LMI) optimization. Through simulation examples, the performance of the proposed CRHG is illustrated. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.