Flight Control Systems
Flight Control Systems
W.-H. Chen Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Loughborough University
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Flight Control Systems by W.-H. Chen, AAE, Loughborough
Contents
1 Introduction 1.1 Overview of the Flight Envelope 1.2 Flight control systems . . . . . . 1.3 Modern Control . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Introduction to the course . . . . 1.4.1 Content . . . . . . . . . . 1.4.2 Tutorials and coursework 1.4.3 Assessment . . . . . . . . 1.4.4 Lecture plan . . . . . . . 1.4.5 References . . . . . . . . . 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 10 11 13 13 16 16 17 17 18 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 24 25 25 25 25 26 27 27 29
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2 Longitudinal response to the control 2.1 Longitudinal dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 State space description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.1 State variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.2 General state space model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Longitudinal state space model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Numerical example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.2 The choice of state variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Aircraft dynamic behaviour simulation using state space models . 2.4.1 Aircraft response without control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4.2 Aircraft response to controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4.3 Aircraft response under both initial conditions and controls 2.5 Longitudinal response to the elevator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6
W.-H. Chen Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Loughborough University
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Flight Control Systems by W.-H. Chen, AAE, Loughborough
Contents
1 Introduction 1.1 Overview of the Flight Envelope 1.2 Flight control systems . . . . . . 1.3 Modern Control . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Introduction to the course . . . . 1.4.1 Content . . . . . . . . . . 1.4.2 Tutorials and coursework 1.4.3 Assessment . . . . . . . . 1.4.4 Lecture plan . . . . . . . 1.4.5 References . . . . . . . . . 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 10 11 13 13 16 16 17 17 18 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 24 25 25 25 25 26 27 27 29
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2 Longitudinal response to the control 2.1 Longitudinal dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 State space description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.1 State variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.2 General state space model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Longitudinal state space model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Numerical example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.2 The choice of state variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Aircraft dynamic behaviour simulation using state space models . 2.4.1 Aircraft response without control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4.2 Aircraft response to controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4.3 Aircraft response under both initial conditions and controls 2.5 Longitudinal response to the elevator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6