Performance Evaluation and Design of Flight Vehicle Control Systems [Hardcover]

The purpose of this book is to assist analysts, engineers, and students toward developing dynamic models, and analyzing the control of flight vehicles with various blended features comprising aircraft, launch vehicles, reentry vehicles, missiles and aircraft.

• Graphical methods for analysing vehicle performance
• Methods for trimming deflections of a vehicle that has multiple types of effectors
• Presents a parameters used for speedily evaluating the performance, stability, and controllability of a new flight vehicle concept along a trajectory or with fixed flight conditions

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1 Description of the Dynamic Models 7

1.1 Aerodynamic Models, 8

1.2 Structural Flexibility, 9

1.3 Propellant Sloshing, 10

1.4 Dynamic Coupling between Vehicle, Actuators, and Control Effectors, 12

1.5 Control Issues, 13

1.6 Coordinate Axes, 15

Nomenclature, 16

2 Nonlinear Rigid-Body Equations Used in 6-DOF Simulations 19

2.1 Force and Acceleration Equations, 19

2.2 Moment and Angular Acceleration Equations, 21

2.3 Gravitational Forces, 22

2.4 Engine TVC Forces, 22

2.5 Aerodynamic Forces and Moments, 24

2.6 Propellant Sloshing Using the Pendulum Model, 28

2.7 Euler Angles, 29

2.8 Vehicle Altitude and Cross-Range Velocity Calculation, 30

2.9 Rates with Respect to the Stability Axes, 30

2.10 Turn Coordination, 31

2.11 Acceleration Sensed by an Accelerometer, 31

2.12 Vehicle Controlled with a SylS(