Performance Evaluation and Design of Flight Vehicle Control Systems

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

Keywords: flight vehicle modelling; static performance analysis; static stability; control authority; tail-wags-dog; maneuverability; structural flexibility; flex modes; propellant sloshing; flight control design; LQR; H-infinity; trimming; mixing-logic; control effectors combination; contour plots; vector diagrams; angle of attack estimator; lateral control departure parameter; LCDP; Cn-beta-dynamic; TVC; engine throttling; aero-surfaces; RCS; actuators; time to double amplitude; hinge moments; spin departure; spin susceptibility; Eric Falangas, Aeronautic & Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering & Management, Aeronautic & Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering & Management