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Pitch/Yaw Coupling Due to Roll of an Axisymmetric Missile with Autopilot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

P.W. Fortescue
P.W. Fortescue*
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Southampton University
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Summary

The types of pitch/yaw coupling which may result from roll motion of a conventional tail-controlled cartesian missile have been categorised. The consequences of the couplings upon:

  1. (a) the response to a step demand for manoeuvre, and

  2. (b) the decay of error in a beam-rider system are presented.

Potentially the most damaging forms of coupling are due to

  1. (a) mis-match of the Invariant Frames of airframe and servos,

  2. (b) angular mismatch between parts of the system, and

  3. (c) gyroscopic coupling.

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Research Article
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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , May 1982 , pp. 124 - 139
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1982

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