This book provides readers with a design approach to the automatic flight control systems (AFCS).

The AFCS is the primary on-board tool for long flight operations, and is the foundation for the airspace modernization initiatives. In this text, AFCS and autopilot are employed interchangeably. It presents fundamentals of AFCS/autopilot, including primary subsystems, dynamic modeling, AFCS categories/functions/modes, servos/actuators, measurement devices, requirements, functional block diagrams, design techniques, and control laws.

The book consists of six chapters. The first two chapters cover the fundamentals of AFCS and closed-loop control systems in manned and unmanned aircraft. The last four chapters present features of Attitude control systems (Hold functions), Flight path control systems (Navigation functions), Stability augmentation systems, and Command augmentation systems, respectively.

� propos de l?auteur:

Dr Mohammad Sadraey is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Aeronautics at the Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, and the national Vice President of Sigma Gamma Tau honor society in USA. Dr. Sadraey's main research interests are in aircraft design techniques, aircraft performance, flight dynamics, autopilot, and design and automatic control of unmanned air vehicles. He received his M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering in 1995 from RMIT, Australia, and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas, USA in 2006. Dr. Sadraey is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and is in Who's Who in America for many years. He has over 24 years of professional experience in academia and industry. Dr. Sadraey is the author of six other books including Aircraft Design: A Systems Engineering Approach, Design of Unmanned Aerial Systems, published by Wiley Publications in 2012, and 2019, and Aircraft Performance Analysis by CRC in 2016.

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