Active gyro-dumping for missile with pitch/yaw disturbance sensitive homing head

Abstract

The Missile with an imperfect pitch/yaw rate disturbance sensitive homing head will have oscillatory rudder deflection during the homing phase of a missile without a lateral autopilot. Implementing only one body-fixed velocity gyro sensor in internal negative feedback loop, the presented active gyro-damping method, will stabilize the whole homing loop and eliminate missile rudder oscillations.