Synopsis
Missiles provide the essential accuracy and standoff range capabilities that are of paramount importance in modern warfare. Technologies for missile guidance are rapidly emerging, resulting in the frequent introduction of new missile guidance systems. The capability to meet essential requirements is often driven by missile guidance.
This course provides a system-level, integrated method for missile guidance design, development, and system engineering. It addresses requirements such as performance, cost, risk, and launch platform integration. The prediction methods presented are generally simple closed-form analytical expressions that are physics-based, to provide better insight into the primary driving parameters. Typical values of missile guidance parameters and the characteristics of current operational missiles are discussed as well as the enabling subsystems and technologies and the current/projected state-of-the-art. Seeker/sensor/data link alternatives include radar, infrared, and laser. Seeker robustness considerations include performance with adverse weather, clutter, automatic target recognition, and countermeasures. Navigation alternatives include Global Positioning System (GPS) and inertial reference. Flight control alternatives include tail, canard, wing, thrust vector, and reaction jet control. Carriage and fire control interfaces are presented for aircraft, ground vehicle, and ship launch platforms. Discussion of guidance simulation includes conceptual design modeling, preliminary design modeling, and hardware-in-loop modeling. The missile guidance development process, test facilities, and development tests are presented. Videos illustrate missile guidance activities and performance.
The instructor’s textbook, Missile Design and System Engineering (Fleeman, AIAA, 2012), will be provided as part of the course registration.
Learning Objectives
Who Should Attend
The course is oriented toward the needs of missile engineers, system engineers, system analysts, marketing personnel, program managers, university professors, and others working in the area of missile guidance systems and missile guidance technology development. Attendees will gain an understanding of missile guidance design, guidance technologies, targeting and launch platform integration, missile guidance measures of merit, and the missile guidance system development process.
Course Information:
Type of Course: Instructor-Led Short Course
Course Level: Intermediate
Course Length: 2 days
AIAA CEU's available: Yes
Contact: Please contact Lisa Le if you have questions about the course or group discounts (for 5+ participants).
The instructor’s textbook, Missile Design and System Engineering (Fleeman, AIAA, 2012), will be provided as part of the course registration.
InstructorsEugene L. Fleeman has 50+ years of government, industry, academia, and consulting experience in the design and development of missile systems ( web site ) . Formerly a manager of missile programs at the US Air Force Research Laboratory, Rockwell International, Boeing, and Georgia Tech, he is an international lecturer on missiles and the author of 200+ publications, including three textbooks. His textbooks and short courses on Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering emphasize physics-based prediction methods, for enhanced insight, speed, and accuracy to the conceptual design process. Since the year 1999 his short courses have been held over one hundred times in fifteen countries and five continents. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow, an AIAA Distinguished Lecturer, and a former chair of the AIAA Missile Systems Technical Committee.
