Aerial Vehicles Guidance and Control
Abbreviation: UPRVOĐZR Load: 30(L) + 15(E) + 0(LE) + 0(S) + 0(FLE) + 0(PEE)
Lecturers in charge: dr. sc. Karolina Krajček Nikolić
Lecturers: Miroslav Šegvić ( Exercises )
Course description: Longitudinal and lateral aircraft stability. Transfer functions of longitudinal and lateral motion. Controllability, observability and stability. Attitude control system for longitudinal and lateral motion. Coordinated turn flight control. Altitude Flight Control. Flight Speed Control. Direction and Heading Control System. Automatic radio beacon monitoring system. Airplane guidance on landing and take-off. Autopilot example of MiG-21 and A320 aircraft. Actuators and sensors in aircraft control systems. Inertial navigation systems (gyroscopic and coupled platforms). Autopilot simulation and testing. Off-line, real-time and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. Synthetic flight trainers, configurations, classifications and legislation.
Lecture languages: - - -
Compulsory literature:
1. Kostić, T.: Upravljanje i vođenje zrakoplova, lekcije PDS, Fakultet prometnih znanosti, Zagreb, 2003.
2. McLean, D.: Automatic Flight Control Systems, The Prentice Hall International, 1990.
3. Lin, C.F.: Modern Navigation, Guidance, and Control Processing, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1991.
Recommended literature:
4. Stevens, B.L., Lewis, F.L; Johnson, E.N.: Aircraft Control and Simulation, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2016.
5. Beard, Randal W., McLain Timothy, W.: Small Unmanned Aircraft - Theory and Practice, Princeton University Press, 2012.
6. Durham, W.: Aircraft Flight Dynamics and Control, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013.
Legend
L - Lectures
E - Exercises
LE - Laboratory exercises
S - Seminar
FLE - Practical foreign language exercises
PEE - Physical education excercises
* - Not graded