AERSP 403AAutonomous Aerospace Vehicle Design - Preliminary

3 credits · Aerospace Engineering · Penn State

The Autonomous Aerospace Vehicle Capstone concentrates on automation and autonomy concepts for vehicles in flight, including complex avionics for manned aircraft; unmanned aircraft systems and launch vehicles; and complex autonomous spacecraft, such as planetary rovers. Student teams will not only learn and exercise the design process by generating a hardware architecture, design, and performance simulation, but they will also build, integrate, and test their design during a live demo event. AERSP403A is the first course in a two-semester sequence beginning with preliminary design and continuing with detailed design (AERSP403B) in the second semester.