Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2019, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 633-641.doi: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.04.01

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A quantitative method for calculating irradiation area of laser target designator

Jiandong ZHANG*(), Zhiyi HUANG(), Guoqing SHI()   

  • Received:2018-06-04 Online:2019-08-01 Published:2019-08-29
  • Contact: Jiandong ZHANG E-mail:jdzhang@nwpu.edu.cn;zhiyi.huang@hotmail.com;Shiguoqing@nwpu.edu.cn
  • About author:ZHANG Jiandong was born in 1974. He is an associate professor at the Department of System and Control Engineering in Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in systems engineering from the same university. His research fields and interests include modeling of complex weapon system, effectiveness evaluation of complex systems and advanced fire control theory. E-mail: jdzhang@nwpu.edu.cn|HUANG Zhiyi was born in 1994. He received his bachelor degree in Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, in 2016. Since 2016, he has been a postgraduate student majoring in systems engineering in Northwestern Polytechnical University. His main research interests are modeling of guided weapons, multi-UAVs target assignment and its application on control and decision of UAVs. E-mail: zhiyi.huang@hotmail.com|SHI Guoqing was born in 1974. He is an associate professor at the Department of Systems and Control Engineering in Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in systems engineering from the same university. His research fields and interests include modeling and simulation of aeronautical weapon system, integrated avionics system measurement & test technologies, development and design of embedded real-time systems, modeling simulation and effectiveness evaluation of complex systems. E-mail: Shiguoqing@nwpu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(ASFC-20135153031);the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(ASFC-20135553035);the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(ASFC-2017ZC53033);This work was supported by the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (ASFC-20135153031; ASFC-20135553035; ASFC-2017ZC53033)

Abstract:

In laser-guided bomb attacking process, the target indication from the laser target designator is the premise for the bomb to hit the target accurately. Considering the lack of quantitative study of the irradiation area of the laser target designator, this paper, based on the existing aircraft motion model and the laser transmission model, uses two aircraft as respectively the carrier of the laser-guided bomb and the carrier of the laser designator and proposes a method to calculate the global irradiation area of the airborne laser designator. By using the proposed algorithm, the global irradiation area when attacking a large flat target or a large spherical target is simulated respectively. Finally, according to the simulation results, the influences of different factors on the shapes of the irradiation area are discussed in detail.

Key words: laser-guided bomb, irradiation area, laser target designator, semi-active guidance