• This course presents a comprehensive overview of the recent, emerging technological advances in hypersonic flight vehicles, with an emphasis on solving a variety of guidance and control problems of hypersonic vehicles.
• It includes numerous illustrative GN&C design examples of various hypersonic vehicles, such as hypersonic aircraft/missiles, Mars hypersonic entry vehicles, hypersonic reentry vehicles, and hypersonic missile interceptors, to enhance the learning experience.
• All students will receive a copy of MATLAB code employing the numerical predictor-corrector guidance algorithm as applied to various hypersonic entry guidance problems.
• All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.

OVERVIEW
This course is intended for GN&C engineers, researchers, and graduate students, who are interested in a comprehensive overview of guidance, control, and flight dynamics of hypersonic vehicles. This course presents a variety of numerical case study examples of hypersonic GN&C analysis, design, and simulation. The recent advances in GN&C systems design for hypersonic aircraft/missiles, including the emerging, technically challenging problem of intercepting hypersonic maneuvering glide vehicles, will also be presented.

KEY COURSE TOPICS

• GN&C overview for hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV), hypersonic cruise missiles (HCM), etc.
• The basic physical concepts and mathematical tools required for the dynamical modeling, analysis, design, and simulation of GN&C systems of hypersonic aircraft/missiles
• Nonlinear 3-DOF and 6-DOF equations of motion of hypersonic flight vehicles
• Linearized flight dynamic models of hypersonic aircraft/missiles (dx/dt = Ax + Bu)
• Conventional missile guidance laws and hypersonic entry guidance algorithms
• Numerical case studies of various hypersonic vehicles (Mars ED&L missions, Apollo 10 reentry, HGV/HCM guidance, hypersonic missile interceptors, etc.) by utilizing a MATLAB package that employs the numerical predictor-corrector guidance algorithm.

AUDIENCE: This course is intended for GN&C engineers/researchers, flight dynamics/control engineers, hypersonic technical program managers, and/or graduate students, who want to enhance their basic understanding of GN&C and flight dynamics of hypersonic vehicles such as HGV, HCM, and hypersonic interceptors.

MATERIALS: All course slides and additional references will be available for immediate download. Stream the 16 hours of video recordings anytime, 24/7. No part of these materials may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted, unless for course participants. All rights reserved.

CERTIFICATE: Receive an AIAA Course Completion Certificate upon viewing all course recordings. Please contact Lisa Le for a certificate.

COURSE FEES (Sign-In To Register)
- AIAA Member Price: $995 USD
- Non-Member Price: $1,195 USD
- AIAA Student Member Price: $495 USD

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OUTLINE

• Class 1:  Introduction to Hypersonic Vehicles (2 hrs)
• Historical Overview of Hypersonic Vehicles (X-15, X-30, X-43, CAV, X-51, HAWC, etc.)
• Overview of Atmospheric Entry Guidance (Lectures 5, 6, 7, and 8)
• Class 2:  Introduction to Guidance and Control Systems (2 hrs)
• GN&C Systems of Flight Vehicles
• Flight Control of Hypersonic Aircraft
• Class 3:  Fundamentals of ADCS, DACS, and Navigation (2 hrs)
• ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem)
• DACS (Divert and Attitude Control Subsystem)
• Strapdown Inertial Navigation
• Class 4: Conventional Missile Guidance Algorithms (2 hrs)
• Introduction to Missile Guidance and Control Systems
• PN Guidance and Its variants
• Predictive/Explicit Guidance
• Optimal Feedback Guidance
• ZEM/ZEV Feedback Guidance and Its Variants
• Impact Time Control (ITC) Guidance
• Impact Time and Angle Control (ITAC) Guidance
• Class 5: Hypersonic Entry Guidance Algorithms (2 hrs)
• 3-DOF Entry Guidance Design Model
• Open-Loop Guidance vs Closed-Loop Feedback Guidance
• Numerical Predictor-Corrector Guidance (NPCG) Algorithm
• Bank Reversal Algorithms for Crossrange Control
• Class 6:  Hypersonic Entry Guidance for Mars ED&L Missions (2 hrs)
• Mars Robotic ED&L (Case Study #1)
• Mars Human ED&L (Case Study #2)
• Class 7:  Hypersonic Reentry Guidance for Apollo 10 Mission (2 hrs)
• Historical Overview of Apollo 10 Reentry
• Apollo 10 Reentry Guidance Design (Case Study #3)
• Class 8:  HGV Entry Guidance and Counter Hypersonics (2 hrs)
• Baseline HGV Entry Guidance (Case Study #4)
• Advanced HGV Entry Guidance for Avoiding No-Fly Zones (Case Study #5)
• Anti-Ballistic Intercept Missile Guidance
• Introduction to Counter Hypersonics (SM-3, Glide Breaker, GPI, SM-6, etc.)