Flight management system

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Department of Aerospace Engineering

Synopsis:

The course is focused on flight mechanics principles and design of control laws for winged aircraft and space probes. Both the classical approach based on SISO loops sequential design as well as the modern MIMO approaches, like LQ control, are covered.

Requirements:

No requirements.

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Flight control systems.

2.Dynamical properties of aircraft.

3.Nonlinear flight mechanics models.

4.Attitude autopilots.

5.SAS, CAS.

6.Path tracking algorithms

7.Final approach, ILS.

8.LQ and LQG control.

9.Robust autopilots.

10.Attitude stabilization and control for space probes

11.Aeroelsaticity issues

12.Control laws for flexible aircraft

13.Active damping systems

14.Wrap up

Syllabus of tutorials:

The labs are devoted to selected topics discussed at the lectures and to work on team semestral projects.

Study Objective:

Flight control algorithms for winged aircraft and space probes.

Study materials:

?B.Stevens, F.Lewis, Aircraft Control and Simulation

?Bryson, Control Systems for Aircraft and Spacecraft

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: