Advanced Aerospace Mechanics And Control

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• As part of the exam and coursework, students will model, analyse, and design a sensing system for control of multiple-input-multiple-output systems.
• As part of the exam and coursework, students will model and analyse multiple-input-multiple-output systems mathematically.
• As part of the exam and coursework, students will design and evaluate closed-loop control strategies to ensure stability of multiple-input-multiple-output systems.

Full CEng Programme Level Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• C9/M9 As part of the exam and coursework, students must use risk management strategies such as stability margins, noise suppression and performance measures to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks that arise due to uncertainty in the plant model, sensor failure/contamination and external disturbances.
• C17/M17 As part of the coursework, students will communicate effectively in a lab report on complex engineering matters with technical and non-technical audiences, evaluating the effectiveness of the methods used to control aerospace vehicles.
• C2/M2 As part of the exam and coursework, students must formulate and analyse complex control problems to determine if their controlled system can meet specified dynamic performance requirements. They must use mathematical and engineering principles to design sufficiently robust control strategies that consider missing information, e.g. lack of direct measurements from sensors, or uncertainty in the plant model. Limitations of techniques such as linearisation, lack of controllability/observability and frequency analysis are quantified in the exam and coursework.
• C8/M8 As part of the coursework, students will identify and analyse ethical concerns and make reasoned ethical choices informed by professional codes of conduct. Relevant case studies of recent aviation accidents related to control systems will be discussed.
• C12/M12 As part of the coursework, students will use practical laboratory and workshop skills such as the flight simulator to investigate complex problems.
• C3/M3 As part of the coursework, students must select appropriate computational (python, matlab, Simulink, etc.) and analytical techniques (stability analysis, pole placement, nested feedback loops) to model complex control problems. Students discuss the limitation of the tools in their ability to model real-world conditions such as time delays, sensor noise and external disturbances.
• C6/M6 As part of the coursework, students apply a systems approach to model the dynamical behaviour of systems. The resulting block diagram or state-space representations are the basis for solving complex control design problems.
• C1/M1 As part of the exam and coursework, students must apply mathematics, statistics and engineering principles to solve complex control design problems. Example tools include complex analysis, frequency response and linearisation. Much of the knowledge is at the forefront of control theory and the design of the controller is informed by a critical awareness of new developments in the field as well as the wider context of aerospace engineering.

Partial CEng Programme Level Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• C5/M5 As part of the coursework, students will design solutions for broadly defined problems that meet a combination of societal, user, business and customer needs reflecting on stability, margins and control performance. This will involve consideration of applicable health and safety, codes of practice and industry standards such as the MIL standard and handbook.
• C13/M13 As part of the coursework, students will apply appropriate engineering technologies and processes, recognising their limitations.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.