Intelligent control of air-breathing hypersonic vehicles subject to path and angle-of-attack constraints

• Published in: Acta astronautica Vol. 198; pp. 606 - 616
• Main Authors: Wang, Guan, An, Hao, Wang, Yiming, Xia, Hongwei, Ma, Guangcheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Angle-of-attack constraint; Deep deterministic policy gradient; Flight control; Hypersonic vehicle; Path constraint; Deep deterministic policy gradient; Hypersonic vehicle; Path constraint; Angle-of-attack constraint; Flight control

This paper investigates the path and angle-of-attack constrained longitudinal control problem for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles with the help of a two-step intelligent design. The first step generates the path constrained optimal trajectory via a deep neural network, while the second step develo...