DIGITAL CONTROL OF AEROSPACE SYSTEMS

Course Objective: To impart ideas of various techniques of digital autopilot design for aerospace vehicles

Syllabus:

Introduction; review of Z-transforms, Modified Z-transform, Controllability and Observability, Digital autopilots for aircrafts, missiles, launch vehicles, Classical controller design, Digital autopilot design via Pole placement and Eigen structure Assignment, Observers, PID control, Optimal control, Regulator and tracking systems, Kalman Filters, LQG / LTR, H₂ / H_µ and  Robust controller design, Adaptive control, Design of Digital controller for Aircraft, Missiles, launch vehicles and  spacecrafts.

References:

1. ‘Digital Control of Dynamic Systems’

–         Franklin G F, Powell  J D and Worknann M L

–         Addison – Werley 1990

2. ‘The H_µ Control photolens’

–         Stoorvogel A

–         Prentice Hall, 1992

3. ‘Linear Robot control’

–         Green M, Liniebeer D

–         Prentice-Hall, 1995