Project Title: Missile Control Systems and the Iron Dome
BASIS Advisor: Dr. Shahar
My Posts
Final Post
Jun 21, 2022
Hi everyone. Sorry I have not been posting recently. I was busy finalizing my Senior Project and actually presenting it! Overall, it went very well, and I am very proud of what I accomplished. Here is the link to my final slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bmZUMuA8kLj26B0Fbvmbh9XCL4tzE04NQY8vTs2nUdI/edit?usp=sharing Thank you all for following along. It was a great experience. Next […]
Week 9: A deep dive into Pure Pursuit and some more interviews!
May 27, 2022
Hi everyone! Welcome back to my Senior Project. This past weekend, I was able to talk to an Israeli Police Officer (ex-military), named Motty, whom my aunt knew. He discussed with me how the Iron Dome works, how to police force works, and his experiences with Palestinians in the area (both during his time as […]
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 […]