Project Title: Missile Control Systems and the Iron Dome
BASIS Advisor: Dr. Shahar
My Posts
Week 7/8 – More qualitative info, and a new model!
May 20, 2022
Hi everyone! Welcome back to my Senior Project blog. I realized I hadn’t posted last week, so I will be covering two weeks in this one. I have been very busy with things outside of my Senior Project, so it wasn’t top of mind. Due to college decisions as well as schoolwork I had to […]
Week 6: Interviews
May 06, 2022
Hi everyone! Welcome back to my Senior Project. This past week I began having interviews regarding the Iron Dome system. On Wednesday, I interviewed Dr. Ted Postal, a professor emeritus at MIT. He is well known for his criticisms of the effectiveness of US Missile Defense systems, such as the Patriot Defense system, and wrote […]
Week 5: Going a bit deeper into Proportional Navigation
Apr 29, 2022
Hi everyone. Welcome back. This past week, I looked more in depth at 2D planar PN engagements. Using a system of equations and being introduced to the basics of second-order Runge-Kutta numerical integration, I was introduced to some code that actually successfully modeled the trajectories of interceptor missiles in a 2D plane. I also analyzed […]
Week 4: Proportional Navigation
Apr 26, 2022
Hi everyone. Sorry for publishing this late. For the project so far, I have been trying to find someone outside school to work with. However, this has proven fruitless and I instead now must try to locate people to interview. This has taken up a bit of time (and distracted me from the material of […]
Week 3: Probability Models and Proportional Navigation
Apr 15, 2022
Hi everyone! Welcome back to my Senior Project blog! I started this week by taking a break from navigation laws and control. Instead, I began the week looking at a probability model to measure the effectiveness of missile defense systems from Stanford. Using conditional probability, binomial distributions/probability, and other somewhat basic probability and statistics information, […]
Week 2: New Guidance Systems (Mainly Pure Pursuit)
Apr 08, 2022
Hi everyone. Welcome back to my senior project. This week, I began by finishing up the guidance laws of LOS guidance, solving various differential equations using proportion and derivative controllers to derive a system of equations that will allow the missile to stay on the LOS between O and T. One of the equations describes […]
Week 1: Simple Guidance Systems
Apr 01, 2022
Hi everyone! Welcome back to my Senior Project! This past week, I began reading Missile Guidance and Pursuit: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control by N.A. Shneydor. Specifically, I began learning about LOS (Line of Sight) Guidance. This general idea behind this guidance law is simply to keep your intercept missile (called M) on the straight line right […]
Week 0: Welcome to my Senior Project
Mar 18, 2022
Hello everyone! My name is Murphy Klein. I have been at BASIS ever since 6th grade, and I love the applications of math and physics to aerospace and military defense technologies. Welcome to my Senior Project on the Iron Dome system. I will exploring a wide range of topics related to this system, both qualitatively […]