Aircraft Systems

Code: EME13230L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Engenharia Aeroespacial

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

The objective of this curricular unit is to insert the principles involved in the operation of aircraft systems and to operate them. Principles of data acquisition for aircraft systems; Working with Matlab for data acquisition and processing; Modeling and simulation of the dynamics of aircraft systems (electrical, electronic, hydraulic and pneumatic aircraft systems); Design automatic controllers to control the dynamics of aircraft systems (PID and LQR).

Instrumental Electronics Rectifiers. Semiconductors and transistors. Amplifiers. Spectral decomposition; Nyquist-Shannon theorem. Data Acquisition: sampling, A/D and D/A conversions. Signal Processing.

Aircraft Systems General description of aircraft systems. Aircraft electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems. Control surfaces. Pressurization systems. Landing gear. Anti-icing/de-icing. Emergency systems. Fuel systems.

Analysis and Control of Aircraft Systems Laplace transforms and transfer functions. First and second order systems. Analysis in the time and frequency domains. State space modeling. Stability analysis. PID and LQR Controller design.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes using Powerpoints, videos and quizes
Practical classes that include summaries and exercises.
Presentations by invited experts.

Assessment
Project 60%
Two Test 40%