Dynamic Analysis and Optimal Design Formulation of a Weapon-Vehicle System

Abstract : A dynamic model of an automatic weapon-vehicle system is analyzed and formulated as an optimal design problem. The design concept adopted is to find the design parameters such that the gun barrel has a desirable property of least possible disturbance from a perturbation due to continuous bursts under uncertainty of environments such as road conditions and the azimuth angle. Thus, the optimal design problem becomes a 'parametric optimal design' problem with a system of highly nonlinear differential equations that describe the state of the system. A numerically implementable transcription is given such that the formulation fits into the finite dimensional parametric optimal design problem.