Flight Dynamics In Six Degrees-Of-Freedom

With Guidance & Control & Navigation

What you'll learn
Become an expert in high-fidelity flight dynamics
Apply guidance, control, and navigation
Analyze performance of missiles, aircraft, and hypersonic vehicles
Conduct and evaluate Monte Carlo stochastic analyses
Explore six degrees-of-freedom simulations in C++
Requirements
Grounded in flight dynamics, guidance, and control
Proficient in C++ programming
Time allocation for this comprehensive course
Description
Be challenged by my post-graduate course on flight dynamics, vivified by my high-fidelity simulations of missiles, aircraft, and hypersonic vehicles with their aerodynamics, propulsion, autopilots, guidance, and INS/GPS navigation.The first Section reviews my tensor modeling approach and all the coordinate systems you will ever encounter, while deriving the six DoF equations-of-motion, driven by the aerodynamic and propulsive forces. Then you go to work and run the first introductory simulation of the NASA X30 hypersonic vehicle in my CADAC++ environment on your Windows based computer with Microsoft’s C++ compiler.In the second Section, the remaining subsystems of autopilot, guidance, and seekers complete the missile, aircraft, and hypersonic vehicle models including their noise sources so they can be executed in full stochastic Monte Carlo simulations. Now you will execute the full-up six DoF air-to-air missile simulation and analyze the missile’s launch envelope and terminal miss distance performance.In the third Section you study the F16 aircraft stability and control using the six DoF simulation. Then learn about INS/GPS navigation and fly the NASA X30 from Cape Canaveral to the stratosphere, release a transfer vehicle into orbit, and, in-turn, launch an interceptor towards a satellite. Using the Monte Carlo methodology, you determine the accuracy of the intercept.

Overview

Section 1: Flight Dynamics

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Tensor Modeling

Lecture 3 Coordinate Systems

Lecture 4 Kinematics

Lecture 5 Six DoF Equations-of-Motion

Lecture 6 Aerodynamics and Propulsion

Lecture 7 NASA X30 3 DoF Simulation

Section 2: Guidance and Control

Lecture 8 Autopilot

Lecture 9 Seeker

Lecture 10 Guidance

Lecture 11 Monte Carlo Analysis

Lecture 12 Air-to-Air Missile Simulation

Lecture 13 Miss Distance Analysis

Section 3: Performance Analysis

Lecture 14 Analysis Methodology

Lecture 15 F16 Aircraft Simulation

Lecture 16 F16 Stability and Control

Lecture 17 INS/GPS Navigation

Lecture 18 NASA X30 Simulation

Lecture 19 Hypersonic Trajectory Analysis

Students striving for expertise in modeling & simulation of high-fidelity flight dynamics,Engineers supporting design & testing of aerospace vehicles,Faculty preparing students for their challenging aerospace career,Developers exploring high-fidelity aerospace simulations in C++