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ACAFT L01 Introduction

This document provides an introduction to the course "Automatic Control of Aircraft" to be taught by Dr. Sikha Hota at IIT Kharagpur. The course will cover topics like open and closed loop control systems, transfer functions, stability analysis, classical and modern control design approaches. It lists the prerequisites, syllabus, grading criteria which includes exams, assignments, class participation. Finally, it recommends some textbooks relevant to basic control theory, automatic control of aircraft, nonlinear, optimal and digital control theories.

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ACAFT L01 Introduction

This document provides an introduction to the course "Automatic Control of Aircraft" to be taught by Dr. Sikha Hota at IIT Kharagpur. The course will cover topics like open and closed loop control systems, transfer functions, stability analysis, classical and modern control design approaches. It lists the prerequisites, syllabus, grading criteria which includes exams, assignments, class participation. Finally, it recommends some textbooks relevant to basic control theory, automatic control of aircraft, nonlinear, optimal and digital control theories.

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Automatic Control of Aircraft

Introduction

0 1 ST A U G U S T 2 0 2 3

LECTURE 1

DR. SIKHA HOTA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR

[email protected]

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” —Helen Hayes


Related Information

Prerequisites: AE21008, AE31007

Syllabus :
 Open loop and closed loop control,

 Typical objectives of control analysis of linear invariant systems: governing equations, input-output approach, free and forced-
responses, impulse response,

 Transfer function and its graphical representation, Role of transfer function in stability,

 Block diagram algebra and signal flow graph;

 Analysis of feedback control system; common control objectives, typical system layout, classical stability and error analysis;

 Design of control systems: classical approach; root locus

 Frequency response,

 Design of control systems: classical approach; Bode plot

 Modern approach using state variables; modern approach regulator problem.

 Dynamics of sensors and actuators used in aerospace systems,

 Longitudinal and lateral stability augmentation and autopilot systems,

 Automatic landing system.

 Advance control theory: Selected topics from nonlinear , digital and optimal controls for aerospace applications
Grading

ACTIVITIES MARKS

Attendance 5

Class Test 1 5
Class Test Marks will
Assignment 1 2.5

Class response 5 be “better of the two”

Mid-semester Exam 30

Class Test 2 5

Assignment 2 2.5

Final-semester Exam 50

Attendance
Greater than equal to 90% 5
80% -90% 4
Books

Basic Control Theory

 Ogata, Katsuhiko. Modern Control Engineering. 4th ed. Prentice Hall, 2002.

 N S Nise, Control Systems Engineering, 4th Ed, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, 2009.

Automatic Control of Aircraft

 J.H. Blakelock, Automatic Control of Aircraft and Missiles, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, 1991.

 R.C. Nelson, Flight Stability and Automatic Control, McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition, 2007.

Nonlinear Control Theory

 Jean-Jacques E. Slotine and Weiping Li, Applied Nonlinear Control, Prentice-Hall, 1991

Optimal Control Theory

 D. S. Naidu, Optimal Control Systems, CRC Press, 2002

Digital Control Theory

 DISCRETE-TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS, Second Edition, Ogata, Katsuhiko. Prentice-Hall International, Inc.

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