Optimal sensor configuration control applied to a missile launcher control problem

A system and sensor configuration control problem has been formulated for a class of linear stochastic control systems corrupted by Gaussian noise. The criterion function is a weighted trace of the terminal error covariance matrix for the optimal linear estimator of the state of the system. A numerical optimization algorithm for this problem has been based on a parameter optimization approach. This approach is applied to a problem of optimal missile launcher control while estimating the relative alignment of two inertial instrument packages.