Special software is required to use some of the files in this section: .m, .mdl.
| LEC # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES | SUPPORTING FILES |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Equilibrium States Aircraft Performance Introduction to Basic Terms | (PDF) | |
| 2 | Static Stability Aircraft SS (Longitudinal) Wing/Tail Contributions | (PDF) | |
| 3 | Coordinate Systems Euler Angles Quaternions | (PDF) | navion_1.m (M) |
| 4 | Aircraft Dynamics | (PDF) | |
| 5 | Aircraft Dynamics (cont.) | (PDF) | |
| 6 | Aircraft Longitudinal Dynamics | (PDF) | Matrix Diagonalization (PDF) lecture4.m (M) |
| 7 | Approximate Longitudinal Dynamics Models | (PDF) | |
| 8 | Aircraft Lateral Dynamics Spiral, Roll, and Dutch Roll Modes | (PDF) | lecture11.m (M) |
| 9 | Basic Longitudinal Control | (PDF) | |
| 10 | State Space Control | (PDF) | |
| 11 | State Space Control (cont.) | (PDF) | |
| 12 | Aircraft Lateral Autopilots | (PDF) | ac3.m (M) newr.m (M) ac3_lat.mdl (MDL) |
| 13 | Aircraft Longitudinal Autopilots Altitude Hold and Landing | (PDF - 1.0 MB) | altit_simul.m (M) altit.mdl (MDL) |
| 14 | Equations of Motion in a Nonuniform Atmosphere Gusts and Winds | (PDF) | |
| 15 | Inertial Sensors Complementary Filtering Simple Kalman Filtering | (PDF) | Examples of Estimation Filters from Recent Aircraft Projects at MIT (PDF) |
| 16 | System Identification | (PDF) | |
| 17 | Model Validation | (PDF) | Distributed Coordination and Control Experiments on a Multi-UAV Testbed (PDF) |