A Practical Approach to Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Started Sept 26, 2023) 26 September - 19 October 2023 Online

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Flight Dynamics and Control - Hypersonic Vehicles















Instructed by Bong Wie, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University

  • From September 26 - October 19, 2023 (4 Weeks, 8 Lectures, 16 Total Hours)
  • Every Tuesday and Thursday at 1300-1500 Eastern Time (all sessions will be recorded and available for replay; course notes will be available for download)
  • This course introduces a practical approach to flight dynamics and control of aircraft, missiles, and hypersonic vehicles, which utilizes MATLAB’s computational tools of control systems design and simulation
  • It will also cover a variety of flight control design examples to enhance the learning experience. They include Boeing 737 Max aircraft’s MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System); SAS (Stability Augmentation Systems); ILS (Instrument Landing Systems); skid-to-turn, bank-to-turn, and coordinated turn of flight vehicles
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course


OVERVIEW

This course is intended for GNC engineers/researchers, flight control systems engineers, and graduate students, who are interested in a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of flight dynamic modeling, analysis and control design of conventional aircraft/missiles as well as hypersonic vehicles. The lecture notes are in part based on numerous classical and modern textbooks on flight dynamics, guidance, and control published during the past 70 years.

However, this course employs a modern practical approach to flight dynamics and control of aircraft and missiles, which utilizes MATLAB’s computational tools of control systems analysis, design, and simulation. Consequently, some traditional/classical flight dynamic characterization methodologies of utilizing transfer functions, root-locus plots, and Bode plots, which have been treated in detail in most textbooks on flight dynamics and control, are not elaborated in this course by exploiting a modern practical approach to flight dynamics and control. Furthermore, recent advances in flight control systems design for conventional aircraft/missiles as well as hypersonic vehicles will also be emphasized.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • The basic physical concepts and mathematical tools required for the flight dynamic modeling, analysis, design, and simulation of aircraft and missiles
  • The fundamental principles of flight control systems design methodologies
  • MATLAB’s computational tools of control systems analysis, design and simulation, as applied to a variety of flight vehicles
  • Illustrative examples of practical flight control systems (FCS)

KEY COURSE TOPICS

  • Nonlinear 6-DOF equations of motion of flight vehicles
  • Linearized state-space models (dx/dt = Ax + Bu, y = Cx + Du) of aircraft (such as Navion, Boeing 747, F-104, F-16) and hypersonic aircraft such as X-15 and X-43
  • Modern state-space control design tools
  • Practical FCS examples of aircraft and missiles, including Boeing 737 Max aircraft’s MCAS.
  • High-AOA flight dynamics; LCDP; velocity vector roll; nonlinear dynamic inversion; Herbst maneuver
  • Flight dynamic modeling, guidance, and control of hypersonic vehicles

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is intended for GNC engineers/researchers, practicing FCS engineers, and graduate students, who want to enhance their basic understanding of the fundamental principles of flight dynamics and control. This course reviews the basic physical concepts and mathematical/computational tools required for FCS analysis and design of aircraft and missiles. It emphasizes a modern practical approach to flight dynamics and control, which utilizes MATLAB’s computational tools for linear dynamical systems.

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- AIAA Member Price: $895 USD
- Non-Member Price: $1,095 USD
- AIAA Student Member Price: $495 USD

CLASSROOM HOURS / CEUs: 16 classroom hours, 1.6 CEU/PDH


Contact: Please contact Lisa Le or Customer Service if you have questions about the course or group discounts (for 5+ participants).
Outline

COURSE OUTLINE: 8 lectures (2 hrs each)

Lecture 1. Introduction to Flight Control Systems (FCS)

· FCS Overview

· Nomenclature of Flight Dynamics

· FCS Example: Boeing 737 Max MCAS

· Hypersonic Vehicle Guidance and Control Overview

Lecture 2. 6-DOF Equations of Motion of Flight Vehicles

· Static Stability and Control

· Crosswind Landings and Coordinated Turns: Static Analysis

· 6-DOF Flight Vehicle Dynamics Modeling

· Small Perturbations from Trim Condition

Lecture 3. Longitudinal Dynamics and Control

· Longitudinal State-Space Models: dx/dt = Ax + Bu

(Navion, Boeing 747, F-104, F-16)

· Short-Period and Long-Period (Phugoid) Modes

· Steady Pull-Up Maneuvers

· Longitudinal Control Analysis and Design

· ILS Landing: Glide-Slope Tracking Control

Lecture 4. Lateral-Directional Dynamics and Control

· Lateral-Directional State-Space Models: dx/dt = Ax + Bu (Navion, Boeing 747, F-104, F-16)

- High-AOA flight dynamics; LCDP; velocity vector roll; nonlinear dynamic inversion; Herbst maneuver

· Dutch-Roll, Roll-Rate, Spiral Modes

· Coordinated Circling Turn Maneuvers

· Lateral-Directional Control Analysis and Design

· ILS Landing: VOR/LOC Tracking Control

Lecture 5. Missile Guidance Principles

· Introduction to Missile Systems

· PN Guidance and Its variants

· Predictive/Explicit Guidance

· Optimal Feedback Guidance

· ZEM/ZEV Guidance and Its Variants

Lecture 6. Missile Flight Control Design

· Missile Flight Dynamics and Control (Case Study)

· Missile Guidance & Control Systems Overview (Literature Review)

· Ascent Flight Control of Launch Vehicles (Case Study)

· TVC Design of a Sounding Rockets (Case Study)

Lecture 7. Hypersonic Vehicle Guidance

· Historical Overview of Hypersonic Vehicles

· Hypersonic Mars-Entry Guidance (Case Study)

· Apollo 10 Hypersonic Reentry Guidance (Case Study)

· CAV Hypersonic Glide vehicle Guidance (Case Study)

Lecture 8. Flight Dynamics and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles

· Historical Overview of Hypersonic Flight Dynamics and Control

· State-Space Models: dx/dt = Ax + Bu (X-15, X-30, X-43, etc.)

· Flight Control System Examples of Hypersonic Vehicles

Materials

COURSE DELIVERY AND MATERIALS

  • The course lectures will be delivered via Zoom. You can test your connection here:https://zoom.us/test
  • All sessions will be available on-demand within 1-2 days of the lecture. Once available, you can stream the replay video anytime, 24/7. All slides will be available for download after each lecture.
  • No part of these materials may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted, unless for course participants. All rights reserved.
  • Between lectures, the instructor will be available via email for technical questions and comments.
Instructors
Bong Wie is Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. He holds a B.S. in aerospace engineering from Seoul National University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. In 2006 he received AIAA’s Mechanics and Control of Flight Award for his innovative research on advanced control of complex spacecraft such as solar sails, large flexible structures, and agile imaging satellites equipped with control moment gyros. He is the author of two AIAA textbooks: “Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control(2nd edition, 2008)” and “Space Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Astrodynamics (2015).” He has published 210 technical papers including 80 journal articles. He has three US patents on singularity-avoidance steering logic of control moment gyros. In early 2010s, he was actively involved in guidance, control, and astrodynamics research for deflecting or disrupting hazardous near-Earth objects (NEO). From 2011-2014, he was a NIAC (NASA Advanced Innovative Concepts) Fellow for developing an innovative solution to NASA’s NEO impact threat mitigation grand challenge and its flight validation mission design. His NIAC study effort has resulted in two distinct concepts for effectively disrupting hazardous asteroids with short warning time, called a hypervelocity asteroid intercept vehicle (HAIV) and a multiple kinetic-energy impactor vehicle (MKIV). During late 2010s, his research focused on further developing the ZEM/ZEV feedback guidance strategies for robotic/human Mars precision powered descent & landing with hazard avoidance and retargeting. He is currently exploring technically challenging, guidance and control problems of hypersonic reentry vehicles and an advanced guidance problem of missiles with precision impact time and angle control (ITAC) requirements. He is co-Editor of Astrodynamics, an international journal established in 2018. The following on-demand, online short courses by Dr. Wie are available from AIAA:

 

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