Online trajectory planning algorithm for hypersonic glide re-entry problem

In order to improve the capability of the glide reentry vehicle to respond to dynamic missions and improve the robustness of its guidance system, an online solving method for hypersonic glide re-entry trajectory planning problem is established. The method approximates the original problem by a series of convex subproblems. By choosing arc length as the independent variable and introducing logarithmic velocity as the state instead of velocity, the nonlinearity of the dynamic equation is greatly reduced, and the dynamic pressure and heat flow constraints completely become linear constraints. No-fly zone constraints are treated by using a cutting plane method like mixed integer programming to avoid unnecessary calculation as much as possible. By taking the product of aerodynamic coefficient and atmospheric density as the control quantity directly, the pseudo-linear control model is constructed to further weaken the nonlinearity. The non-convex constraint is relaxed appropriately to ensure the feasibility of the subproblem. In order to avoid excessive relaxation, the upper and lower boundaries of the given off-line height and speed are used to estimate the corresponding parameters in order to accelerate convergence. The X-33 re-entry task is taken as an example to verify the effectiveness of the method. The method can take simple constant function as initial value and converge after several iterations. © 2020, Editorial Board of JBUAA. All right reserved.