Guidance and Control of Flight Vehicles

3 Credits.

This course introduces the fundamental concepts of guidance and control of rockets and will highlight methodologies often employed in industry. The topics covered include: aerodynamic control, review of flight control principles (transfer functions, block diagram reduction, root locus, frequency domain methods), nonlinear representation of an airframe, linearization of an airframe, flight control design of a rocket, three-loop autopilot design, and fundamentals of tactical guidance (proportional navigation guidance theory, zero effort miss).