Abstract:

A combat agility management system(CAMS) is designed with the optimal control theory so that it can play a more important role in enforcing an aircraft's ability in a close combat condition. At the same time, a multiple shooting algorithm for direct solution of optimal control problems is improved by only giving the control variable's values at the knots. The study results show that some optimal control problems with constraints can be solved more quickly and efficiently with the improved algorithm because the dimensions of the non linear programming problem deduced from an optimal control problem are cut down very much; CAMS designed with the optimal control theory can decrease an aircraft's turning time by 20% approximately.

Key words: combatagility management system, optimal control, direct multiple shooting algorithm, non-linearpr ogramming, sequential quadric programming