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Proportional Navigation

Proportional Navigation (PN) is a guidance law that generates command accelerations proportional to the rate of change of the line-of-sight angle between a pursuer and target. Introduced by Lin-Hsiung Chu in the 1950s, it became the foundation of modern missile guidance systems. PN solves the pursuit-evasion problem by ensuring that the pursuer intercepts a moving target with minimal computational overhead.

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Proportional Navigation Guidance Law
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / aerospace
  • Knox, W. P. (1971). On optimal proportional navigation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, AES-7(3), 417–426. · URL
  • Guelman, M. (1971). Proportional navigation with a maneuvering target. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, AES-8(3), 364–371. · DOI 10.1109/taes.1972.309520
  • Lin, C. F., & Tsai, L. L. (2007). Guidance Laws for Missiles. In Modern Control Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Butterworth-Heinemann. · URL
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