AERO4100
10 units
4000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course develops a detailed understanding of the range of systems typical on complex modern aircraft, including sensors and actuators, flight control, navigation, flight management, engine management, power, communication, display, data bus and other avionics technologies. It takes a systems engineering perspective and addresses the complex interplay, and the design and integration issues between the many subsystems of an aircraft. The course will cover important aspects of reliability, robustness, redundancy, validation and verification in the systems engineering process. The syllabus will contain substantial case studies to reaffirm these lessons with examples from incidents and accidents in aeronautical history. Students will gain experience from group activities involving systems engineering practice.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Describe typical aircraft systems and their functions.
2. Analyse and appraise system performance and interoperability.
3. Exercise systems engineering principles and procedures in complex system specification, design and evaluation processes.
4. Critically assess complex aerospace systems using a 'systems of systems' approach.
5. Participate effectively in systems engineering practices in groups.
6. Communicate engineering information effectively both orally and in writing.
Content
- History of aeronautical systems.
- Introduction to aerospace systems. Power systems, wiring and cabling, sensors and actuators, hydraulic systems, communications systems, bus systems, display systems, avionics systems, flight control systems, navigation systems, life support systems, simulation systems, hardware-in-the-loop testing systems etc.
- System design requirements, rules and regulations.
- System integration, operations and inter-operability. Systems engineering principles and procedures.
- System reliability, faults, fault tolerance, redundancy.
- System testing, validation and verification.
- Case studies – lessons in systems engineering from incidents and accidents.
- Group activities in system specification and design, and systems engineering.
Assumed knowledge
AERO2000 Aircraft Performance and Operations; AERO3000 Flight Dynamics; AERO3400 Aerospace Propulsion Systems; MCHA3400 Embedded Systems Engineering
Assessment items
Report: Aerospace System Assessment
Report: Systems Integration Laboratory
Quiz: Case Studies
Presentation: Aerospace System Integration Analysis
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 1 week(s) starting in week 9
- 3hr laboratory session on one day. To be held in week 9 or 10 of semester
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
- 2 lectures on separate days.
Lecture-2
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
- 2 lectures on separate days.
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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