An anti-tank guided missile is a weapon system primarily designed to hit and
destroy armored tanks and other armored vehicles. Developed first-generation
command-guided and second-generation semi-automatic command guided
missiles had many disadvantages and lower hit rates. For that reason, third
generation imaging infrared fire-and-forget missile concept is very popular
nowadays.
In this thesis, mainly, a mathematical model for a fire-and-forget anti-tank missile
is developed and a flight control autopilot design is presented using PID and LQR
techniques. For target tracking purposes, &ldquo / correlation&rdquo / , &ldquo / centroid&rdquo / and &ldquo / active
contour&rdquo / algorithms are studied and these algorithms are tested over some
scenarios for maximizing hit rate. Different target scenarios and countermeasures
are discussed in an artificially created virtual environment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610111/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 October 2008 |
| Creators | Ozcan, Ali Erdem |
| Contributors | Leblebicioglu, Kemal |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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