The course structure for the Guidance of Missiles (Web) program under M Tech Aerospace Engineering offered by National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) under the Center for Continuing Education of IISc Bangalore is as follows:

This course covers the basic of missile guidance theory and its applications to tactical missiles.
The classical to modern developments in missile guidance is covered using both an empirical approach and then a control theoretic approach.

This is an aerospace applications course that covers an important application of control theory to guided missiles, and will be suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students, and scientists/engineers/researchers in the area of missile guidance.


Module Topic

1 History of guided missiles; Category of guided missiles for air defence.

2 Major components of guided missiles.

3 Fundamentals of guidance.

4 Basic results in interception and avoidance.

5 Capturability in relative velocity space.

6 Taxonomy of guidance laws.

7 Command and homing guidance.

8 Classical guidance laws - Pursuit, Line-of-Sight, Command to Line-of-Sight,
Beam Rider, Constant Bearing guidance laws.

9 Proportional Navigation (PN) and its variants like T (True) PN, P (Pure) PN,
B (Biased) PN, G (Generalized) PN, and I (Ideal) PN

10 Modern Guidance laws - Optimal control based guidance laws, linear formulations.

11 Non-linear formulations; Two point boundary value problems.

12 Approximations and closed-form solutions; Equivalence with PN guidance laws.

13 Numerical solutions for guidance problems.