Swarm-optimized Adaptive Augmentation of Missile Autopilot

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Main Authors: Dorsey, Alexander, Oveissi, Parham, Barton, Jeffrey D., Goel, Ankit
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Published: 2025
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author Dorsey, Alexander
Oveissi, Parham
Barton, Jeffrey D.
Goel, Ankit
author_facet Dorsey, Alexander
Oveissi, Parham
Barton, Jeffrey D.
Goel, Ankit
contents This paper considers the problem of optimizing a missile autopilot. In particular, the paper investigates the application of an online learning technique to learn and optimize the gains of a three-loop topology autopilot for a planar missile modeled with nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear aerodynamics forces and moments. The classical autopilot for a missile is based on a three-loop topology, where each loop consists of tunable proportional gains. An adaptive three-loop autopilot is constructed by augmenting the classical autopilot's fixed-gain controllers with a learning-based controller, which is recursively optimized using retrospective cost optimization. Numerical simulations show that online learning improves the tracking performance of the classical autopilot in both nominal and off-nominal interception scenarios.
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spellingShingle Swarm-optimized Adaptive Augmentation of Missile Autopilot
Dorsey, Alexander
Oveissi, Parham
Barton, Jeffrey D.
Goel, Ankit
Systems and Control
This paper considers the problem of optimizing a missile autopilot. In particular, the paper investigates the application of an online learning technique to learn and optimize the gains of a three-loop topology autopilot for a planar missile modeled with nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear aerodynamics forces and moments. The classical autopilot for a missile is based on a three-loop topology, where each loop consists of tunable proportional gains. An adaptive three-loop autopilot is constructed by augmenting the classical autopilot's fixed-gain controllers with a learning-based controller, which is recursively optimized using retrospective cost optimization. Numerical simulations show that online learning improves the tracking performance of the classical autopilot in both nominal and off-nominal interception scenarios.
title Swarm-optimized Adaptive Augmentation of Missile Autopilot
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07748