Air Navigation Systems Elements of Critical Software Advanced Flight Mechanics

This course aims at preparing the students to work in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (also known as drones and/or UAVs). As part of this preparation, lectures will be given covering the legislative/economic/business framework, as well as lectures focused on the technical knowledge necessary to understand, design, and operate this type of vehicles. The technical topics include advanced concepts in dynamics, estimation, control, guidance, and navigation. The course also has an important practical component, both in computer simulation as well as flight tests, with drones (quadcopters). This combination of theory and practice allows the student to gain a complete understanding of UAV systems.

Block I: Technology that applies to autonomous vehicles Types of vehicles and design particularities Distingueshed aspects of the air navigation, certification, and legislation of UAVs Socio-economical Aspects and air traffic management of UAVs. Applications and industry Communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) sensors for UAVs Block II: Autonomous guidance, navigation, and control Arquitecture, methodologies, and decision-making in UAVs. IMU: accelerometers and gyroscopes State estimation. Extended Kalman filter Nonlinear dynamics and control strategies for UAVs. Block III: Quad-rotor lab. Introducction to Matlab/Simulink simulator. Introduction to the onboard software (Arducopter). Concepts, principles, and methods of computational systems in real time . Controllers calibration and Flight Testing. Data analysis and comparison.

TRAINING ACTIVITIES AF1 (Theoretical classes) and AF2 (Practical classes), AF3 (Practices in computer classroom) and AF4 (Laboratory practices), AF5 (Individual student work) as well as group work TEACHING METHODOLOGIES MD1 (Presentations in the teacher's class with support of computer and audiovisual media). MD2 (Critical reading of texts recommended by the teacher of the subject). MD3 (Resolution of practical cases raised by the teacher individually or in groups) MD5 (Preparation of papers and reports individually or in groups)