Missile fixed-structure μ controller design based on constrained PSO algorithm

This paper provides a method of fixed-structure μ controller design with a novel particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. The structured synthesis problem based on optimization is formulated and solved by a kind of constrained PSO algorithm which is relatively simple and without any new parameters added in the objective function. The experimental results tested on a set of 12 benchmark functions show that the proposed algorithm can outperform others in most cases. What is more, an air-to-air missile longitudinal channel control structure based on the proposed algorithm is studied and the simulation results are compared with other algorithms. The final comparison results also show the superior performance improvement over other algorithms.