Description
This book is written primarily as a textbook, but with today's extensive military emphasis on unmanned flight drones and highly maneuverable vehicles, practicing aerospace engineers in the industry, as well as electrical engineers working in flight controls, will find this book a valuable reference.
The field of flight dynamics has evolved considerably, and is still evolving in large part because of the prevalence of feedback control systems that now dominate the dynamic response of most new aircraft. Thus, in addition to a thorough and readable treatment of more conventional topics, this book provides a much more rigorous emphasis on dynamics coupled with extensive linear-system analysis to meet the needs of today's engineers and designers
Extensive Coverage of Advanced Topics such as the rigorous development of non-linear equations of motion in coordinate frames, direction-cosine matrices for transformations among coordinate frames, plus treatment of the effects of variable mass and a rotating, spherical earth on the equations of motion are included.
Strong Coverage of Feedback Stability Augmentation. With the evolution of today's drones and other pilotless vehicles, feedback stability is integral to the study of flight dynamics.
Learning-Focused Organization including Just-In-Time examples, lumped-mass vibration analysis, and loop-shaping design of feedback systems. These help refresh students on material they have covered in earlier courses.
Case Studies involving unusual aircraft, such as hypersonic vehicles, UAVs, and airships are included.
Coupled Dynamic Elastic Effects are covered thoroughly to give the student or practitioner strong understanding of this important topic.
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Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction and Topical Review Chapter 2: Equations of Motion of the Rigid Vehicle Chapter 3: Structural Vibrations- A "Just-In-Time Tutorial" Chapter 4: The Equations of Motion for Elastic Vehicles Chapter 5: Basic Aerodynamics of Lifting Surfaces Chapter 6: Modeling the Forces and Moments on the Vehicle Chapter 7: Effects of Elastic Deformation on the Forces and Moments Chapter 8: Math Model Assembly and Flight Simulation Chapter 9: Analysis of Steady and Quasi-Steady Flight Chapter 10: Linear Flight-Dynamics Analysis Chapter 11: Feedback Stability Augmentation Chapter 12: Automatic Guidance and Control'Autopilots Chapter 13: Control Characteristics of the Human Pilot Appendix A: Properties of the Atmosphere Appendix B: Data for Several Aircraft Appendix C: Models of Atmospheric Turbulence Appendix D: Cramer's Rule for Solving Simultaneous Equations