Elevating Design: The Confluence of Aerodynamics and Aircraft Control

This focused webinar on the intersection of Aerodynamics and Control in Aircraft Design covers:

• Laying the groundwork with an overview of fundamental aerodynamic principles and their critical role in flight control.
• For most flight control designs, the airframe, or plant model, needs to be modelled, simulated, and analyzed. We will see how to quickly model the airframe, reusing blocks or model structure to reduce validation time and leave more time available for control design. 
• Later we will design and tune angular rates controller as inner loop while roll, pitch, and yaw of the vehicle as outer loop control.
• Finally, we will see the various ways to visualize the aircraft dynamics and explore the results for analysis.  

About the Presenter

Brijith Balakrishnan is a Systems Engineer at Moog India Technology Centre, Bangalore, with experience in modeling and simulation, aircraft system integration, verification and validation. He has worked on various projects related to aircraft systems, including the Primary Control System, High Lift System, and Electric Propulsion System. Before joining Moog India, Brijith completed his master’s dissertation at the U.R Rao Satellite Center, which is one of the research centers of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization), where his research focused on modeling and simulation of a planetary aerial rover. He holds a master’s degree in mechatronics engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka and a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Calicut.

Mukesh Prasad is a Principal Application Engineer in MathWorks India and enables engineers & scientists to adopt Model-based Design workflows. He closely works with customers in Aerospace & Defence industry to help them use MATLAB® and Simulink® products for control system design, multi-domain physical modeling, production code generation, test automation and software verification & validation. Mukesh has over 17 years of experience in jet engine control and flight control systems. Prior to joining MathWorks, Mukesh worked as Systems Specialist with Moog India, where he gained hands-on experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Test Equipment Design for aircraft applications. He started his career as Scientist at Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), one of the labs of DRDO, and worked on aircraft engine control design, testing, and certification using model-based design workflows. Mukesh holds a master’s degree in mechatronics engineering from NIT Surathkal while bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from NIT Kurukshetra.