A fighter jet flying above the clouds in the sky.

Our Courses

Flight Control Design For Air Vehicles (3 days)

  • $2,500 per student with a minimum 8 students

  • $35,000 for unlimited attendence

Flight Control Design for Air Vehicles is a comprehensive course that provides the principles and processes of developing guidance and autopilot algorithms for air vehicles. It includes the required information to efficiently design, analyze, and test airframes from paper to flight.

Participants will learn the expertise to design and develop real life flight control designs applied in industry in a minimal amount of time while guaranteeing performance requirements. The seminar blends the foundations with actual applications to ensure attendees acquire both knowledge and practical applications. Topics include performance analysis and testing methodologies essential for developing and optimizing flight control systems.

Whether working on military or commercial projects, this course provides critical competencies to enhance system performance in high-demand aerospace applications. This course is beneficial to engineers new to the workforce, experienced designers, and agencies who are required to review the validity of flight control designs.

Topics

• Dynamics and Modeling

• Basic Control Systems Review

• Aerodynamics

• Models

• Flexible Structures in Air Vehicles

• Autopilot Architectures

• Autopilot Development

• Autopilot Gain Optimization

• Guidance Algorithms

• Separation from Launch Vehicles

• Flight Software Design

• Flight Testing Analysis

Example Course Slides

Diagram of an aircraft with coordinate axes and angles showing velocity vectors, rotation rates, and attack angles, related to the coordinate frame definition in aerospace.
A computer screen displays a simulation of an airplane flying in the sky, with graphs showing altitude, Mach number, and throttle over time on the right side of the screen.
A scientific slide explaining the mathematical process of calculating trim for an object, including matrices and iterative equations, with annotations about Jacobian and process equations.
Slide titled 'Example Optimal Design Process' showing three Nyquist plots for roll, pitch, and yaw axes, with a red circle representing the desired vector margins, and a note to plot Nyquist plots for each axis and the desired vector margins circle.
Diagram of a fighter jet with a labeled linear decoupled pitch axis model, showing vectors, angles, and a control block diagram underneath.
Diagram of a military aircraft with labeled frames, including the carriage frame, launched vehicle frame, and launcher frame, with axes x and z indicating orientation.

keywords

guidance, autopilot, yaw damper, flight director, acceleration autopilot, altitude hold, flight path hold, proportional navigation, mach hold, waypoint guidance, stability augmentation sytem, control augmentation system, flight control design, GNC, guidance navigation and control, flight separation, flexible body models, control acuation systems (CAS), inertial measurement units (IMU), aerodynamics, quaternions, direction cosine matrix, strap down navigation, nonlinear analysis, linear stability analysis, Bode, Nyquist, stability