Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 52: Integrated Technology Methods and Applications in Aerospace System Design discusses the various techniques and applications in aerospace systems. This book presents automation and integration techniques in optimizing aircraft structural design. It also covers a number of technologies used in aerospace systems such as active flutter suppression, flight control configuration, aeroassisted plane change missions, flight control systems, and impaired aircraft. This book concludes by demonstrating some modeling issues in command, control, and communication networks. This book is a significant reference source for engineers involved in aerospace systems design.

Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 54: System Performance Improvement and Optimization Techniques and their Applications in Aerospace Systems covers the issue of aerospace system performance and optimization techniques in aerospace systems. This book is composed of 12 chapters and begins with an examination of the techniques for aircraft conceptual design for mission performance. The succeeding chapters describe the balances and optimized design for aircraft and spacecraft structures through finite element procedures and the application of the knowledge-based system techniques for pilot aiding. These topics are followed by discussions of the optimal sensor placement for on-orbit modal identification experiments; the optimization techniques for helicopter airframe vibrations design; the size reduction techniques for efficient aeroservoelastic model determination; sensitivity analysis of eigendata of aeroelastic systems; and a simplified solution for transient structural dynamic problems with local nonlinearities. Other chapters explore a reduction algorithm for systems with integrators and the techniques for overcoming the difficulty of nonuniqueness of mode shape in modal analysis when random input data are not or cannot be measured. The last chapters consider the combined concepts of Krylov vectors and parameter matching and their application to develop model-reduction algorithms for structural dynamics. These chapters also provide the techniques for the development of new tracking algorithms that would incorporate explicit models of the maneuvering/nonmaneuvering phases of target encounter. This book will prove useful to aerospace, control, systems, and design engineers.

Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory in Applications, Volume 32: Advances in Aerospace Systems Dynamics and Control Systems, Part 2 of 3 deals with significant advances in technologies which support the development of aerospace systems. It also presents several algorithms and computational techniques used in complex aerospace systems. After discussing flight management systems (FMS), this volume presents techniques for treating complex aerospace systems models. These techniques include parameter identification, asymptotic perturbation method, reliability techniques, constrained optimization techniques, and computation methods for decoy discrimination and optimal targeting. This book is an excellent reference for research and professional workers in the field who want a comprehensive source of techniques with significant applied implications.