Performance Evaluation and Design of Flight Vehicle Control Systems (eBook)

Eric T. Falangas (Autor)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-13487-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The purpose of this book is to assist analysts, engineers, and students toward developing dynamic models, and analyzing the control of flight vehicles with various blended features comprising aircraft, launch vehicles, reentry vehicles, missiles and aircraft.

* Graphical methods for analysing vehicle performance

* Methods for trimming deflections of a vehicle that has multiple types of effectors

* Presents a parameters used for speedily evaluating the performance, stability, and controllability of a new flight vehicle concept along a trajectory or with fixed flight conditions

Autor

Eric T. Falangas was a Lead Engineer/ Specialist and Project Manager at Boeing, Rockwell International and Aerospace Corporation in the fields of flight control design, spacecraft attitude control, vibration control and active vibration isolation, and other control and dynamics related projects. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of London and a MS in Control Systems from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Eric has published several papers in magazines and conferences and was awarded 4 patents for developing active vibration control systems using piezo-electric actuator devices, and Flixan, which is a flight vehicle modelling and performance evaluation methodology, implemented in a Windows based program.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.12.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Schlagworte: Aeronautic & Aerospace Engineering • Control Systems Technology • Electrical & Electronics Engineering • Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik • Luft- u. Raumfahrttechnik • Maschinenbau • mechanical engineering • Regelungstechnik • Systems Engineering & Management • Systemtechnik • Systemtechnik u. -management
• ISBN-10: 1-119-13487-0 / 1119134870
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-13487-9 / 9781119134879