IMAGING TERMINAL GUIDANCE SEEKER

Abstract

A certain guidance seeker is designed to aim at the location of the most vulnerable point of a moving target. The seeker extracts an appropriate feature of the target and continuously tracks it using a tracking algorithm. The performance of the tracker was evaluated in terms of probability of acquisition and positional error. The algorithm was verified using a data base obtained from the flight of an A-7E aircraft. The cockpit of the aircraft was continuously identified by a rectangular gate as the seeker’s aimpoint.