Avionics, Navigation and Guidance of Aerospace Vehicles

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: AEROSP 470 or graduate standing. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Principles of aerospace navigation and guidance. Deterministic and stochastic linear perturbation theory. Position fixing and celestial navigation with redundant measurements. Recursive navigation and Kalman filtering. Pursuit guidance, proportional navigation, ballistic guidance and velocity-to-be-gained guidance.