Dynamics and Control Courses
AOE 3034 VEHICLE VIBRATION AND CONTROL
Free and forced motions of first order system. Free and forced motions of second order systems both undamped and damped. Frequency and time response. Introduction to control, transfer functions, block diagrams, and closed loop system characteristics. Higher order systems. This course is normally taught in the fall semester. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. ESM 2304 is a prerequisite.
AOE 3104 AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE
Performance of aircraft. Analysis of fluid statics and dynamics affecting aircraft performance. Hydrostatics of the standard atmosphere and development of basic equations of fluid dynamics. Lift and drag. Aircraft static performance. Rates of climb, endurance, range, take off and landing, and turn performance. This course is normally taught in the spring semester. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. ESM 2304 is a prerequisite.
AOE 3134 STABILITY AND CONTROL
Equations of vehicle motion. Linearized analysis. Estimation of stability derivatives, longitudinal and lateral-directional static stability, and control requirements. Dynamic characteristics including stability and mode shapes. This course is normally taught in the spring semester. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 3034 is a prerequisite.
AOE 4134 ASTROMECHANICS
Application of Newton's Laws to the dynamics of spaceflight. Two-body problem, Kepler's Laws, energy and time relations, orbit specification and determination. Orbital maneuver and transfer, patched conic approximations, relative motion, and elements of optimal maneuvering. This course is normally taught in the fall semester. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. ESM 2304 is a prerequisite.
AOE 4144 AIRCRAFT AUTOMATIC FLIGHT CONTROL
Introduction and history of aircraft automatic flight control. Mathematical models of linear systems elements. Bode amplitude and phase plots of longitudinal and lateral control system analysis. Inputs and system performance assessment. Multi-loop flight control systems. Applications to representative aircraft. This course is normally taught in the spring semester. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 3134 and MATH 4564 are prerequisites.
AOE 5214 AIRCRAFT DYNAMICS AND CONTROL
General equations of aero/hydrodynamic vehicular motion including the ffects of flexibility and changing mass. Consideration of buoyant, aerodynamic, gravitational and thurst forces, jet damping, thrust offset, and rotating machinery contributions. Reduction of equations to linearized form, aero/hydrodynamic stability derivatives. Stability and response charecteristics. Application of classical control theory to aircraft control. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 3134 is a prerequisite.
AOE 5224 LINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
State-variable and transfer function description of linear systems relation of canonical matrices to state models; transition matrices; controllability,observability, stability, Lunberger observers, optimal linear feedback control laws, kalman filtering, optimal olutions to deterministis and stochastic linear quadratic gaussian regulators. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. MATH 4531 is a prerequisite.
AOE 5234 ORBITAL MECHANICS
Lagrange's equations of motion, two-body problem, conic sections, Kepler's laws, orbit determination. Multi-body problems and integrals of motion. Fundamentals of perturbation theory, variation of parameters, and lagrange's planetary equations. Regularization and alternative formulations of equations of motion. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 4134 is a prerequisite.
AOE 5244 OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
Ordinary minimum problems with constraints. The classical multiplier method, descent methods, and quasi-Newton's methods. Optimal control and the maximum principle. Second order necessary conditions. Singular control. Continuous gradient methods, conjugate gradients. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 3134 and MATH 4564 are prerequisites.
AOE 6214 TOPICS IN MECHANICS AND CONTROL OF
FLIGHT Special topics in important areas related to the mechanics and control of flight. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 5214 is a prerequisite.
AOE 6234 SPACEFLIGHT DYNAMICS
Orbital operations including transfer, intercept and rendezvous, Kepler, and Lambert(Gauss) problems, and numerical considerations. Attitude dynamics, motion about the centre of mass, gravity gradient, and stability. Methods of attitude control both active and passive. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 4134 and AOE 5234 are prerequisites.
AOE 6244 ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
Neighbouring optimal concept and guidance applications. Singular perturbation techniques in optimal control. Applications to atmospheric flight; energy modelling, elements in game theory. Pursuit/evasion games with air combat applications. It involves three hours of classes per week and is worth three semester credits. AOE 5244 is a prerequisite.