Solutions of the second IEEE benchmark control problem [missile autopilot]

Results submitted for the continuous-time missile autopilot problem that was prepared by P. Hawley and T. Stevens (1986) are reported. The problem was released by the Benchmark Working Group of the IEEE Committee on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD) to the control community at large in October 1987. The problem statement is described and the results submitted to date are summarized. This problem requires time simulations, pole and zero calculations, and frequency response plots for a linear, continuous-time system of relatively high order, specified as an interconnection of first- and second-order blocks. The problem comes in three levels of complexity, involving models having 13, 42, and 74 state variables. Plans for future benchmark problems are included