ENTA13023 - Advanced Aircraft Control Systems

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit you will learn advanced concepts of control systems engineering and their applications in avionics. You will be introduced to conceptual design of analog and digital control systems. You will investigate and validate different sensor types and their applicability in aircraft control systems. You will learn how to analyse aircraft control systems and represent them using standard control systems building blocks. You will also learn and practice to simulate aircraft control systems using industry standard software to validate the control concepts implemented.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisites: Essential Mathematics for Control Systems AND Automatic Flight Control and Communication Systems

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 20%
2. Written Assessment 20%
3. Practical and Written Assessment 20%
4. Take Home Exam 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Explain the building blocks of aircraft control systems
  2. Analyse the function of sensors in an aircraft control system
  3. Examine analog and digital controller designs of dynamic controller systems
  4. Model and analyse the behaviour of dynamic systems and controllers using appropriate mathematical, graphical and computer-aided tools
  5. Model and analyse different aircraft control systems using simulation software
  6. Work collaboratively and autonomously and communicate professionally in presenting your solutions.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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6 - Information Technology Competence • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
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4 - Take Home Exam • • • •