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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 107 - Boulder - March 2011
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Research Institutions, Industry and University Reports 4.2.1 Universities 4.2.1.2 University of Colorado
Title	University of Colorado
Presenter	Dave Schmidt
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Abstract	Dave Schmidt Professor Emeritus University of Colorado A new book entitled Modern Flight Dynamics will be published by McGraw-Hill in March 2011. The almost 900-page offering is written as a textbook for senior-level engineering undergraduates who have been introduced to intermediate dynamics, aerodynamics, and classical feedback control. The text contains many examples and exercises, using data for several aircraft, and makes copious use of MATLAB/Simulink. Many MATLAB routines related to the examples are made available to the reader. Though easily followed by undergraduates, the book is a more rigorous work than many existing texts, especially with regard to the derivations of the nonlinear equations of motion in several reference frames, as well as the treatment of direction-cosine matrices, small-perturbation theory, and linear-systems analysis. Three chapters address the modeling of the forces and moments on the vehicle, plus static and dynamic aeroelastic effects are treated extensively in the presentation, including a case study on active structural mode control of the B-1 aircraft. Feedback-stability augmentation is directly tied to, and motivated by the results from the linear analysis of the vehicle’s dynamics. Common autopilot modes (e.g., heading hold, ILS couplers) and the crossover pilot model are all presented in the context of conventional loop shaping. Hence, the work could also be a useful reference for practicing professionals. Finally, the author would like to recognize the contributions of many members of the ACGSC that were significant to the development of this book.