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Flight Mechanics 2

AERO4560

This unit aims to develop an understanding of the application of flight mechanics principles to modern aircraft systems. Students will gain skills in problem solving in the areas of dynamic aircraft behaviour, aircraft sensitivity to wind gusts, control systems development and aircraft handling analysis. At the end of this unit students will be able to: Uunderstand the nature of an aircraft's response to control inputs and atmospheric disturbances, including the roles of the various modes of motion; Analyse an aircraft's response to control inputs in the frequency domain using Laplace Transforms and Transfer Function representations; Represent and model wind gust distributions using stochastic methods (Power Spectral Density); Analyse an aircraft's response to disturbances (wind gust inputs) by combining Transfer Function representations with gust PSD's; Uunderstand the principles of stability augmentation systems and autopilot control systems in aircraft operation, their functions and purposes; Understand basic feedback control systems and classical frequency domain loop analysis; Understand the characteristics of closed loop system responses; Understand the characteristics of PID, Lead, Lag and Lead-Lag compensators, and to be competent in designing suitable compensators using Bode and Root-locus design techniques; Design multi-loop control and guidance systems and understand the reasons for their structures.

Unit of study details

Unit of study level: Honours

Credit points: 6

Commencing semesters: 1

Further unit of study information

Unit of study handbook: AERO4560

Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships

Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates

Available for study abroad and exchange: Yes

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