Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Uçak Uçuş Kontrol Sistemleri
	English	Aircraft Flight Control Systems
Course Code	UUM 534	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Elbrus Jafarov Elbrus Jafarov
Course Objectives		1.Aircraft flight stability and control is one of a basic necessary courses for teaching of an aeronautical engineering students. 2.This subject is given to students after Aerodynamics, Flight Mechanics and Automatic Control courses. 3.Stability and control are among the most important aspects of the analysis and design of aircrafts. 4.Analysis of flying and handling characteristics and successful design of automatic flight control systems.
Course Description		Introduction. Basic definitions of flight mechanics, control and control surfaces. General structure of flight control systems. Aircraft static and dynamic stability and stability derivatives. Static longitudinal and lateral stability. Aircraft longitudinal and lateral dynamic equations. Nonlinear dynamic equations. Linearization of equations. Longitudinal and lateral transfer functions. Longutinal modes of motion. Short and long period approximation. Transient response of aircraft dynamic. Basic concept of aircraft control systems. The types of autopilot. Autopilot design. Design of displacement autopilot by the Root Locus method. Inner and outer loop concepts. Pitch orientational control system. Root locus analysis. Acceleration control system. Matlab Simulink simulation of aircraft autopilots.
Course Outcomes
Pre-requisite(s)		(UCK362E MIN DD) AND (UCK322E MIN DD) [Automatic Control 1,2; Dinamik; Aerodinamik; Flight Mechanics;] Linear Control
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook		1.Robert C. Nelson, 1998, Flight Stability and Automatic Control, Second Edition, Boston, Mc Graw- Hill, ISBN:0-07-115838-3.
Other References		1.Thomas R. Yechout with Steven L. Morris, David E. Bossert,, 2003, Introduction to aircraft flight mechanics, AIAA, Reston, VA, ISBN:1563475774 2.Bernard Etkin, Lloyd Duff Reid, 1996, Dynamics of flight : stability and control, New York : Wiley, ISBN:0471034185. 3.John H. Blakelock, 1991, Automatic control of aircraft and missiles, New York : Wiley., ISBN:0471506516.

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