Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control

Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control
Author: Bong Wie
Publisher: AIAA
Total Pages: 692
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781563472619

A textbook that incorporates the latest methods used for the analysis of spacecraft orbital, attitude, and structural dynamics and control. Spacecraft dynamics is treated as a dynamic system with emphasis on practical applications, typical examples of which are the analysis and redesign of the pointing control system of the Hubble Space Telescope and the analysis of an active vibrations control for the COFS (Control of Flexible Structures) Mast Flight System. In addition to the three subjects mentioned above, dynamic systems modeling, analysis, and control are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace Vehicles

Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace Vehicles
Author: Ali Zolghadri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1447153138

Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace demonstrates the attractive potential of recent developments in control for resolving such issues as flight performance, self protection and extended-life structures. Importantly, the text deals with a number of practically significant considerations: tuning, complexity of design, real-time capability, evaluation of worst-case performance, robustness in harsh environments, and extensibility when development or adaptation is required. Coverage of such issues helps to draw the advanced concepts arising from academic research back towards the technological concerns of industry. Initial coverage of basic definitions and ideas and a literature review gives way to a treatment of electrical flight control system failures: oscillatory failure, runaway, and jamming. Advanced fault detection and diagnosis for linear and linear-parameter-varying systems are described. Lastly recovery strategies appropriate to remaining actuator/sensor/communications resources are developed. The authors exploit experience gained in research collaboration with academic and major industrial partners to validate advanced fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control techniques with realistic benchmarks or real-world aeronautical and space systems. Consequently, the results presented in Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace, will be of interest in both academic and aerospatial-industrial milieux.

Fundamentals of Aerospace Navigation and Guidance

Fundamentals of Aerospace Navigation and Guidance
Author: Pierre T. Kabamba
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1107070945

This text covers fundamentals in navigation of modern aerospace vehicles. It is an excellent resource for both graduate students and practicing engineers.

Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics

Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics
Author: Peter H. Zipfel
Publisher: AIAA
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781563474569

A textbook for an advanced undergraduate course in which Zipfel (aerospace engineering, U. of Florida) introduces the fundamentals of an approach to, or step in, design that has become a field in and of itself. The first part assumes an introductory course in dynamics, and the second some specialized knowledge in subsystem technologies. Practicing engineers in the aerospace industry, he suggests, should be able to cover the material without a tutor. Rather than include a disk, he has made supplementary material available on the Internet. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control

Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control
Author: Florian Holzapfel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642198171

Over the last few decades, both the aeronautics and space disciplines have greatly influenced advances in controls, sensors, data fusion and navigation. Many of those achievements that made the word “aerospace” synonymous with “high–tech” were enabled by innovations in guidance, navigation and control. Europe has seen a strong trans-national consolidation process in aerospace over the last few decades. Most of the visible products, like commercial aircraft, fighters, helicopters, satellites, launchers or missiles, are not made by a single country – they are the fruits of cooperation. No European country by itself hosts a specialized guidance, navigation and controls community large enough to cover the whole spectrum of disciplines. However, on a European scale, mutual exchange of ideas, concepts and solutions is enriching for all. The 1st CEAS Specialist Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control is an attempt to bring this community together. This book is a selection of papers presented at the conference. All submitted papers have gone through a formal review process in compliance with good journal practices. The best papers have been recommended by the reviewers to be published in this book.

Fault-tolerant Flight Control and Guidance Systems

Fault-tolerant Flight Control and Guidance Systems
Author: Guillaume J. J. Ducard
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2009-05-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1848825617

This book offers a complete overview of fault-tolerant flight control techniques. Discussion covers the necessary equations for the modeling of small UAVs, a complete system based on extended Kalman filters, and a nonlinear flight control and guidance system.

Automatic Control of Atmospheric and Space Flight Vehicles

Automatic Control of Atmospheric and Space Flight Vehicles
Author: Ashish Tewari
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2011-08-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0817648631

Automatic Control of Atmospheric and Space Flight Vehicles is perhaps the first book on the market to present a unified and straightforward study of the design and analysis of automatic control systems for both atmospheric and space flight vehicles. Covering basic control theory and design concepts, it is meant as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in modern courses on flight control systems. In addition to the basics of flight control, this book covers a number of upper-level topics and will therefore be of interest not only to advanced students, but also to researchers and practitioners in aeronautical engineering, applied mathematics, and systems/control theory.

Aerospace Navigation Systems

Aerospace Navigation Systems
Author: Alexander V. Nebylov
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119163072

Compiled by leading authorities, Aerospace Navigation Systems is a compendium of chapters that present modern aircraft and spacecraft navigation methods based on up-to-date inertial, satellite, map matching and other guidance techniques. Ranging from the practical to the theoretical, this book covers navigational applications over a wide range of aerospace vehicles including aircraft, spacecraft and drones, both remotely controlled and operating as autonomous vehicles. It provides a comprehensive background of fundamental theory, the utilisation of newly-developed techniques, incorporates the most complex and advanced types of technical innovation currently available and presents a vision for future developments. Satellite Navigation Systems (SNS), long range navigation systems, short range navigation systems and navigational displays are introduced, and many other detailed topics include Radio Navigation Systems (RNS), Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), Homing Systems, Map Matching and other correlated-extremalsystems, and both optimal and sub-optimal filtering in integrated navigation systems.