| Title |
Missile Aerodynamic Structure and Parameter Identification Using the Extended Kalman Filter and Maximum Likelihood Method |
| Abstract |
Determination of an aerodynamic structure is a very important problem in missile modeling. The structure problem is to choose an appropriate set of aerodynamic coefficients to represent chosen missile dynamics. A methodology and criteria to determine a structure from windtunnel data are presented in this paper. Aerodynamic coeffecients in the determined structure are then identified by parameter identification algorithms. The identified coefficients are in turn used to verify appropriateness of the structure. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) and the maximum likelihood mithod (ML) are adopted as the parameter identification algorithm. Both methods exhibit satisfactory results. While the model identified by the ML more closely follows dynamics of the chosen missile than that by the EKF. |