Automatic flight control systems
This book provides readers with a design approach to the automatic flight control systems (AFCS). The AFCS is the primary on-board tool for long flight operations, and is the foundation for the airspace modernization initiatives. In this text, AFCS and autopilot are employed interchangeably. It presents fundamentals of AFCS/autopilot, including primary subsystems, dynamic modeling, AFCS categories/functions/modes, servos/actuators, measurement devices, requirements, functional block diagrams, d…
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- Full title :Automatic flight control systems / Mohammad Sadraey.
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This book provides readers with a design approach to the automatic flight control systems (AFCS). The AFCS is the primary on-board tool for long flight operations, and is the foundation for the airspace modernization initiatives. In this text, AFCS and autopilot are employed interchangeably. It presents fundamentals of AFCS/autopilot, including primary subsystems, dynamic modeling, AFCS categories/functions/modes, servos/actuators, measurement devices, requirements, functional block diagrams, design techniques, and control laws. The book consists of six chapters. The first two chapters cover the fundamentals of AFCS and closed-loop control systems in manned and unmanned aircraft. The last four chapters present features of Attitude control systems (Hold functions), Flight path control systems (Navigation functions), Stability augmentation systems, and Command augmentation systems, respectively.
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- Publication Date:2020
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- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 28, 2020).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 159 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781681737294, 1681737299, 9783031796494, 3031796497
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-79649-4
- oclc:on1142821792
- LC Classification:TL589.4
- Dewey Decimal:629.132/6
Table of Contents
1. Fundamentals of automatic flight control systems -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Elements of an AFCS -- 1.3. Flight dynamics -- 1.4. AFCS categories and modes -- 1.5. Flying qualities -- 1.6. Questions
2. Closed-loop control systems -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Fundamentals of control systems -- 2.3. Servo/actuator -- 2.4. Flight control requirements -- 2.5. Control laws -- 2.6. Control system design process -- 2.7. Questions
3. Attitude control systems -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Cruising flight requirements -- 3.3. Pitch attitude hold -- 3.4. Altitude hold -- 3.5. Mach hold -- 3.6. Wing leveler -- 3.7. Turn coordinator -- 3.8. Heading angle hold -- 3.9. Vertical speed hold -- 3.10. Questions
4. Flight path control systems -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Landing operation procedures -- 4.3. Approach localizer tracking -- 4.4. Approach glide slope tracking -- 4.5. Automatic flare control -- 4.6. Automatic landing system -- 4.7. VOR tracking -- 4.8. Automatic flight level change -- 4.9. Automatic climb and descent -- 4.10. Terrain-following control system -- 4.11. Heading tracking system -- 4.12. Tracking a series of waypoints -- 4.13. Detect and avoid system -- 4.14. Questions
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