A study on the applicability of augmented proportional navigation guidance

Augmented proportional navigation requires the information of a target acceleration, which must be estimated by a filtering logic. The process necessary accompanies a time lag, which degrades the guidance performance. A trade-off study between augmented and conventional proportional navigation is conducted with the time lag taken into consideration. The result shows that the conventional proportional navigation has better performance against a target maneuver in the missile-target coplane, while the augmented has better performance against out-of-coplane maneuver.