New Course Announcement for Fall 2006!
AE 740, Sec 002.
Special Topics in Flight Dynamics and Control.
T Th 10:30-12:00, 2160 GGB 3 credit hours
Autonomous Aerial Vehicles: Cooperation
and Control
Instructor: Anouck Girard
Basic theme: Introduction to problems of cooperation and
control of autonomous flight vehicles, emphasizing basic techniques and
methodologies, and the underlying mathematical structures and computational/software
tools (for design, analysis, simulation, verification and code generation).
Topics covered:
1)
Review of vehicle
dynamics, stability and control
a.
Vehicle dynamics,
equations of motion
b.
Disturbances and
environmental models
c.
Stability
d.
Strategies for
nonlinear vehicle control
2)
Formation control
a.
Basic formation
control laws
b.
String/mesh
stability
3)
Cooperation
frameworks
a.
Control
architectures
b.
Hybrid systems
and associated software tools
c.
Supervisory
control
d.
Switching and
blending of control modes
e.
Dynamic teams
(merge, split etc…)
f.
Wireless
communications and effect on control
Organization: The intended audience includes (but is not restricted
to) graduate students in engineering or computer science, with interests in
dynamics and controls, and networks of collaborative autonomous vehicle
systems. The class will be entirely homework and project-oriented (no exams!)
and the students are strongly encouraged to choose a project that is relevant
to their own area of research.
Projects: The
following two types of projects are possible in this course:
1. Solution
of a research problem relevant to the student’s area of research
2.
Independent study of a topic not covered in class (e.g., reading a paper
or book chapter).
Prerequisites: Graduate
standing or permission of instructor. Aero 550/EECS 560/ME 564. (Linear Systems
Theory) or equivalent is highly recommended.
Textbooks:
No textbook will be required. An extensive bibliography of papers will be
provided.