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Use of an Aircraft Lateral Beam Guidance System Simulation in the Teaching of Control Engineering
David J. Murray-Smith
- pp 337-342
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An analogue computer simulation of an aircraft lateral beam guidance system is described and an account of its use within a control systems course for undergraduate students of electronics and electrical engineering is given.Abstract:
Experiments based upon computer simulations of engineering control systems can provide students with an introduction to interesting problems of analysis and design and can complement more conventional analytical and computational work. These simulation-based studies also complement the traditional type of laboratory experiments found in most control engineering courses and extend the range of control systems applications to which students are exposed. This paper describes an analogue computer simulation of an aircraft lateral beam guidance system and gives an account of its use within a control systems course for undergraduate students of electronics and electrical engineering.read more
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Methods of system identification, parameter estimation and optimisation applied to problems of modelling and control in engineering and physiology
TL;DR: The aspects of the research described in this thesis that relate to applications of identification, parameter estimation and optimisation techniques for model development and model validation mainly involve nonlinear continuous time models.
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Case Study II — An Aircraft Automatic Landing System
TL;DR: A fully automatic aircraft landing system provides an interesting example of an engineering system for which simulation techniques offer important advantages at the design stage, especially in the initial stages of system testing and evaluation.
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Automatic control of aircraft and missiles
TL;DR: Inertial cross-coupling is used in this article for lateral autopilots, and it is shown to be useful for self-adaptive auto-pilots.
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Present Trends in Research Towards All-Weather Landing for Civil Aircraft
Abstract: Summary Following a brief description of the basic radio aids and the terminology used, the paper discusses in some detail the differences between the original British and American approaches to all-weather landing; the different types of equipment resulting from these two approaches are broadly described. The mixing of ideas which occurred at the IATA Conference at Lucerne in 1963 and the more recent tendency towards a blending of British and American ideas are then discussed, and some predictions are made as to the form of the ultimate all-weather landing system. Certain Australian contributions to display research and the simulation of low visibility in flight are mentioned in context.