AE3830: Aerospace Guidance and Control - NPS Online
Aerospace Guidance and Control
Course #AE3830
Est.imated Completion Time: 3 months
POC: NPS Online Support
Overview
Overview and fundamental components of Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems. State-space representation of dynamical systems. Simulation of nonlinear dynamical systems. Sources and effects of navigation and modeling errors on guidance and control systems. Error propagation techniques and Monte Carlo simulations. Review of PID controllers. Introduction to basic optimal control theory. Linear quadratic double-integrator problems and foundations of real-time optimal control (RTOC). Guidance theory via RTOC. Class project on a two-degree of freedom Guidance-Control System architecture.
Included in degrees & certificates
- 299
- 569
Prerequisites
- ME2801
- EC2300
- MA2121
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
- Understand the fundamentals of the state of practice in spacecraft guidance and control.
- Acquire a first-hand experience in the emerging principles for a design of a Guidance & Control subsystem.
- Acquire the foundations for some prerequisites for follow-on 4000-level courses.
- Design a 2-DOF Guidance and Control System architecture.
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