Guidance, Navigation and Control

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Examples of current and planned implementations and applications.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• System design and validation.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Fundamentals of the various guidance techniques and their properties.
• Position and attitude estimation.

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Overall system integration.

• System description and model building.
• Model validation.
• Sensing and actuating systems and their relative strengths and limitations.
• Fundamentals of classical guidance algorithms, e.g., proportional navigation and command to line of sight.
• Estimation of position and attitude.
• Introductions to autonomy.
• Guidance and navigation for autonomous systems.

Lectures and tutorials.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.