GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL LECTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN FLIGHT GUIDANCANCE AND CONTROL

摘要

Guidance and control of aerospace vehicles is an interesting and multidiscipline subject. The scope of the interest involves branches like aerodynamics, meteorology, flight mechanics, control theory, flight control, flutter control, engine control, air traffic control, sensor dynamics, computer science, man machine interface as well as technologies as aircraft design, sensor and computer design, micro mechanics and electronics. This complete description of the subject 'Flight Guidance and Control' cannot be mastered by a single person alone. As an introduction I will give an overview of the historical development. This again is incomplete and in some details related to my personal point of view. My target is to discuss the different subjects and disciplines in a context. We can access research activities in some disciplines for more than 200 years and also the state of the art level of investigation and knowledge in aeronautics is extremely high, there are many gaps that has to be completed with additional research. I will focus my interest on some specific scientific problems (flight in turbulent air), aviation safety problems (windshear, design of safety critical flight control systems), technological problems (use of satellite navigation for safe airplane operation including some political aspects), and last but not least on economical problems (improved airport capacity, efficient air traffic control).