Control Surfaces
- As with a flight control system, a guidance algorithm uses control surfaces to control the behaviour of an airframe.
- Rudder, ailerons, elevators, spoilers and canards for aircraft.
- Canards and fins for missiles.
- Each control surface has an angle, usually denoted by '.
- E.g. the canard angles are usually 'c, etc.
- The guidance law will generate a required acceleration, and a linearised airframe transfer function will be used to convert this acceleration into a value for the various control surface angles.
- We will deal with these controls in more detail in a later lecture.