Motion State Recognition and Trajectory Prediction of Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Based on Deep Learning

Hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) has brought severe challenges to the existing defense system due to its characteristics of high maneuverability, high speed and high precision. Simultaneously, these characteristics also bring great difficulties to trajectory prediction. In this paper, a method for HGV motion state recognition and trajectory prediction based on deep learning is proposed. The proposed method consists of two modules, namely the motion state recognition module and the trajectory prediction module. The motion state recognition module can identify the HGV’s motion state according to state information, and divide it into eight categories. The softmax function is added to the state recognition module to calculate the probability of each motion state. The trajectory prediction module comprises a nonlinear prediction part and a linear prediction part. According to the result of motion state recognition, the appropriate prediction scheme is adopted to better extract the linear and nonlinear characteristics of HGV trajectory, which improves the robustness and prediction accuracy of the proposed method. The experimental results of HGV trajectory prediction show that the proposed method can maintain good stability when the HGV maneuver state changes, and has higher accuracy than the four benchmark methods.