Flight Control Design for Air Vehicles is a comprehensive seminar 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 seminar 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

• Design Optimization

• Guidance Algorithms

• Separation

• Flight Software

• Flight Testing

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

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