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Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 1000	yes	IIT Kanpur

Why control system in Aircraft? Automatic control to Aerospace Systems. Elements of Closed-loop Control System. Linear Time Invariant System. Equilibrium Points, Static and Dynamic Stability.

Stability Analysis with Respect to Equilibrium points, Example on Nonlinear System, Linearization method, State-space model, Laplace transform and Transfer Function, Examples.

Linearization to Aircraft’s Rotational Motion. Linear state model of aircraft attitude motion. Transfer function of aircraft attitude motion with respect to reference attitude, disturbance, and noise. Effect of controller in closed-loop transfer function. Typical control laws- Proportional, Proportional plus Derivative, and Proportional-Integral- Derivative.

Transient and steady state Response, Standard 2nd order System, Effect of Damping Ratio on system’s closed-loop poles. Time Domain Specifications for modifying the transient response. Steady State Specifications.

Effect of Disturbance on steady state performance, Examples. Stability Analysis for Autopilot Design: Routh Stability Criteria, Marginal Stability, Root Locus.

Rules to find the stability margins for autopilot design using Root Locus, Examples, Effect of Addition of Poles and Zeros to the autopilot system, Compensators.

Gain Tuning method, PID control for the design of autopilot using Root Locus, Examples, Review on Aircraft Equation of motion, Aircraft Reference Model, Small perturbation to Aircraft Equation.

Linearized State-Space Model of Longitudinal and Lateral / Directional Equations of Motion for the Aircraft Autopilot Design. Longitudinal motion approximation. Short period approximation.

Linearized State-Space Model of Longitudinal and Lateral / Directional Equations of Motion for the Aircraft Autopilot Design. Longitudinal motion approximation. Short period approximation.(Cont.,)