Digital Guided Weapons Technology. Volume III. Programmable Digital Autopilot

摘要

This report describes how current technology was used to produce a programmable digital autopilot (PDAP) capable to satisfying the requirements for three configurations of the Pave Strike glide weapon (GBU-15(V)). A digital design for the three GBU-15(V) analog autopilots was produced. From this design, the requirements for a common PDAP were determined. Two Brassboard PDAPs were then built and evaluated--one in the Hybrid Simulation Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base and one in a similar simulation at Hughes Aircraft Company. The simulation validated the design concept.