Special software is required to use some of the files in this section: .m, .mdl.
| 1 |
Equilibrium States
Aircraft Performance
Introduction to Basic Terms |
(PDF) |
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| 2 |
Static Stability
Aircraft SS (Longitudinal)
Wing/Tail Contributions |
(PDF) |
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| 3 |
Coordinate Systems
Euler Angles
Quaternions |
(PDF) |
navion_1.m (M) |
| 4 |
Aircraft Dynamics |
(PDF) |
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| 5 |
Aircraft Dynamics (cont.) |
(PDF) |
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| 6 |
Aircraft Longitudinal Dynamics |
(PDF) |
Matrix Diagonalization (PDF)
lecture4.m (M) |
| 7 |
Approximate Longitudinal Dynamics Models |
(PDF) |
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| 8 |
Aircraft Lateral Dynamics
Spiral, Roll, and Dutch Roll Modes |
(PDF) |
lecture11.m (M) |
| 9 |
Basic Longitudinal Control |
(PDF) |
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| 10 |
State Space Control |
(PDF) |
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| 11 |
State Space Control (cont.) |
(PDF) |
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| 12 |
Aircraft Lateral Autopilots |
(PDF) |
ac3.m (M)
newr.m (M)
ac3_lat.mdl (MDL) |
| 13 |
Aircraft Longitudinal Autopilots
Altitude Hold and Landing |
(PDF - 1.0 MB) |
altit_simul.m (M)
altit.mdl (MDL) |
| 14 |
Equations of Motion in a Nonuniform Atmosphere
Gusts and Winds |
(PDF) |
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| 15 |
Inertial Sensors
Complementary Filtering
Simple Kalman Filtering |
(PDF) |
Examples of Estimation Filters from Recent Aircraft Projects at MIT (PDF) |
| 16 |
System Identification |
(PDF) |
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| 17 |
Model Validation |
(PDF) |
Distributed Coordination and Control Experiments on a Multi-UAV Testbed (PDF) |