Aircraft Stability and Control

Lecture Notes

LEC #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES	SUPPORTING FILES
1	Equilibrium States Aircraft Performance Introduction to Basic Terms	(PDF)
2	Static Stability Aircraft SS (Longitudinal) Wing/Tail Contributions	(PDF)
3	Coordinate Systems Euler Angles Quaternions	(PDF)	navion_1.m (M)
4	Aircraft Dynamics	(PDF)
5	Aircraft Dynamics (cont.)
6	Aircraft Longitudinal Dynamics	(PDF)	Matrix Diagonalization (PDF) lecture4.m (M)
7	Approximate Longitudinal Dynamics Models	(PDF)
8	Aircraft Lateral Dynamics Spiral, Roll, and Dutch Roll Modes	(PDF)	lecture11.m (M)
9	Basic Longitudinal Control	(PDF)
10	State Space Control	(PDF)
11	State Space Control (cont.)
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)
15	Inertial Sensors Complementary Filtering Simple Kalman Filtering	(PDF)	Examples of Estimation Filters from Recent Aircraft Projects at MIT (PDF)
16	System Identification	(PDF)
17	Model Validation	(PDF)	Distributed Coordination and Control Experiments on a Multi-UAV Testbed (PDF)