Course description
This course is specifically designed as an introduction course for the control and guidance module.
The course offers a solid foundation of control system theory specifically for Guided Weapon Systems thus incorporating the key assumptions and challenges surrounding guided weapons.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is suitable for officers seeking to fill appointments concerned with military guided weapons systems in the MOD and trials and training establishments. In particular the course is designed for employees within the MOD, the Armed Forces, and the international defence industry to enable them to work more effectively in the fields of designing and specifying realistic/system requirements for the control of guided weapon systems.
Students must have successfully completed the Guided Weapons Propulsion and Aerodynamics Theory in order to take this as a Short Course for Credit. There are no prerequisites if taken as a Standalone Short Course.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
You will be provided with an understanding of fundamentals of classical/modern control theory as a basic background of GW control and guidance.
Training Course Content
Core content
- control theory for dynamical system modelling
- time and frequency response
- Laplace transform and state-space representation of dynamical systems
- frequency and root-loci methodologies for compensation design
- application of control theory to design compensators.
Course delivery details
Course structure
Lectures, tutorials/discussions, individual case study (MATLAB Dynamic/performance Simulation based for a missile fin actuator system to analyse and design for system bandwidth, frequency response, RL performance design, architectures for feedback, stability.
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