(1)                 GENERAL INFORMATION

FACULTY

APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES

DEPARTMENT

AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

LEVEL OF STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE

MODULE CODE

AE4130T

SEMESTER OF STUDIES

7th

COURSE TITLE

ΑUTOMATIC FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS

INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK

CREDIT UNITS

Lectures, Practice 

4

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COURSE TYPE

 

Specialty course

PRE-REQUIRED COURSES:

 

 

TEACHING AND EXAMINATION LANGUAGE

GREEK

THE COURSE IS OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDETNS 

 

COURSE WEBSITE (URL)

http://eclass.gunet.gr/courses/LABGU269/

 

(2) LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Learning Objectives

 

 

After succellsfully completing the course students should be able to:
• Describe the automatic control systems of the aircraft
•Solve problems of guiding, navigation and control of aeronautical vehicles. 

General Skills

 

 

 

 

Autonomous work

Group work

Study of aircraft mechanichal flight characteristics

 

(3) COURSE CONTENT

 Unit 1: Introductory concepst

Unit 2: Conventional flight control systems

Unit 4: Longitudinal static stability and control

Unit 5: Latteral-directional static stability  and control

 Unit 6: Aircraft transfer functions, phugoid movemets, short period, Dutch roll, roll subsidence, spiral

Unit 7: Aircraft Flight capability

Unit 8: Basic concepts of automatic control

Unit 9: Addition of Artificial stability

Unit 10: Displacement autopilots, ILS system

Unit 11: Aircraft motion modelization in the situation space

Unit 12: Pole position for aircraft control systems

 

 

(4) TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS

TEACHING METHODS

Face to face in the classroom

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Support of learning procedure through the use of e-class platform

 

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

 

Activity

Semester Work Load

 

60

Group work

20

Autonomous study

30

Practical training focusing on application of methodologies and case study analysis in smaller groups of students

20

 

 

 

 

Total

130

 

STUDENT EVALUATION

 

 

 

Ι. Final written examination  (60%) including :

- Multiple choice questions 

- Problem solving questions focusing on autopiloting 

- Comparative evaluation of theoretical elements

ΙΙ. Presentation of group assignment  (40%)

 

(5) SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Σπαθόπουλος Β., Συστήματα Ελέγχου Αεροσκαφών, Κάλλιπος, 2015.