FLIGHT STABILITY AND CONTROL COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Code |
Name of the Course Unit |
Semester |
In-Class Hours (T+P) |
Credit |
ECTS Credit |
| UCK304 |
FLIGHT STABILITY AND CONTROL |
6 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
Objectives and Contents |
| Objectives: |
Learning flight dynamics, stability and control aircraft design and analysis. Analysis of flight equations and characteristics and design of automatic control systems. |
| Content: |
Introduction. Flight mechanics, basic definitions of control and control surfaces. General structure of flight control systems. Aircraft static and dynamic stability and stability derivatives. Nonlinear dynamic equations. Linearization of equations. Longitudinal and lateral stability. Aircraft longitudinal and lateral dynamic equations. Longitudinal and lateral transfer functions. Longitudinal modes. Short and long period approximation. Transient responses of aircraft dynamics. Basic concepts of aircraft control systems. Autopilot types. Autopilot design. Position autopilot design by root locus method. Inner and outer loop concepts. Pitch orientation control system. Root locus analysis. Acceleration control system. Matlab Simulink simulations of aircraft autopilot. |