Elements of Aeronautics 11 min read
Monoplanes and Biplanes
he Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis pictured in figure 4.1 popularized the monoplane configuration in America and marked the beginning of…
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Elements of Aeronautics 5 min read
Ornithopter
Ornithopter, machine designed to fly by the flapping of its wings in imitation of birds. The wooden bird said to…
Elements of Aeronautics 7 min read
Balloon flight
Balloon flight, passage through the air of a balloon that contains a buoyant gas, such as helium or heated air, for which reason it…
Elements of Aeronautics 6 min read
History of flight
History of flight, development of heavier-than-air flying machines. Important landmarks and events along the way to the invention of the…
Control Engineering 2 min read
State Space Model
The state space model of Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system can be represented as, ˙X=AX+BU Y=CX+DU The first and the second equations are…
Control Engineering 1 min read
Control Systems – Controllers
The various types of controllers are used to improve the performance of control systems. In this chapter, we will discuss…
Control Engineering 1 min read
Compensators
here are three types of compensators — lag, lead and lag-lead compensators. These are most commonly used. Lag Compensator The…
Control Engineering 1 min read
Nyquist Plots
Nyquist plots are the continuation of polar plots for finding the stability of the closed loop control systems by varying…
Control Engineering 1 min read
Polar Plots
we have two separate plots for both magnitude and phase as the function of frequency. Let us now discuss about…
Control Engineering 2 min read
Construction of Bode Plots
Rules for Construction of Bode Plots Follow these rules while constructing a Bode plot. · Represent the open loop transfer function…
Control Engineering 3 min read
Construction of Root Locus
The root locus is a graphical representation in s-domain and it is symmetrical about the real axis. Because the open loop poles…