// SYSTEM.COURSES_ARCHIVE
> AEE5590: Space Vehicle Controls
Topics Covered:
- Graduate Level Course
- Vehicle Dynamics: Euler's equations of rigid body motion, principal inertia matrix decomposition, stability analysis, equations of motion in rotating frames, coordinate frame transformations, orbital dynamics
- Attitude determination: Determination algorithms (TRIAD Method, Q-Method, QUEST Algorithm, Kalman Filters, etc.), sensors (star trackers, sun sensors, magnetometers, IMU, fine guidance sensors, etc.), historic guidance packages (satellite, missile, terrestrial)
- Control theory and control laws: Time domain specification, root locus analysis, Lyapunov analysis, closed-loop control laws (bang-bang, PID), optimal control laws (LQR), null-space control, quaternion feedback control, etc.
- Disturbance torques: Atmospheric disturbance torque modelling, solar radiation pressure modelling, gravity gradient torque modelling, structural modal excitation
- Control actuation: Internal torquers (momentum wheels, reaction wheels, CMG arrays), external torquers (magneto-torquers, thrusters, drag sails), wheel desaturation maneuvers
- Grade: A
> AEE4262: Rockets and Mission Analysis
Topics Covered:
- Senior Level Course
- Rocket engines analyzed to great depth: cycles (expander, gas-generator, pressure-fed, full-flow staged), nozzles (de Laval, conical), injector types and analysis, turbopump analysis (turbomachinery numerical simulation), combustion chamber design, chemical reaction rates, steady-state heat transfer, feed systems, combustion chamber instability and mitigation (Helmholtz resonators)
- Electric propulsion systems: Ion engines, pulsed plasma, arcjets, Hall effect, and their respective analysis (thrust calculation, beam power, charge density, efficiency analysis, specific impulse)
- Mission analysis: Maximum theoretical delta-v, payload mass calculation, acceleration curves, burn time, specific impulse, fuel performance analysis, reacting flow effects
- Grade: A
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