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/ Indicative Syllabus Linearised Flow – Full Velocity Potential Equation; Linearised Subsonic Flow; Compressibility Corrections; Linearised Supersonic Flow. Transonic Flows –Velocity Potential Equations for Sub-transonic and Super- transonic Flows; Prandtl-Glauert Rule; Critical Mach number; Drag Divergence; Supercritical Airfoil; Swept Wings; Area Rule. One-Dimensional – Normal Shock Relations; One-Dimensional Flow with Heat Addition; One-Dimensional Flow with Friction; Quasi-One-Dimensional Flows –Area-Velocity Relation; Convergent/Divergent Nozzles and Diffusers. Oblique Shock and Expansion Waves – Oblique Shock Relations; Shock Polar; Pressure-Deflection Diagrams; Shock Interactions; Conical Flow; Prandtl-Meyer Expansion Waves; Supersonic Airfoils. Unsteady Supersonic Flows – Shock Tube Equations; Detonation -- 1 of 3 --
/ Indicative Syllabus Satellite mission – project management; system engineering; safety review process; safety requirements; environmental testing. Satellite subsystems – power control system; communication systems; command and data-handling system; structure system; mechanism system, thermal control system; attitude control system. Satellite mechanics – orbital science and mechanics; attitude mechanics; attitude control. CubeSat project – GMAT and MATLAB programming. -- 1 of 3 -- 2
/ Indicative Syllabus 1. Introduction to thermodynamics, compressible flows, and quasi- one-dimensional flows. 2. Classification of the different types of air-breathing propulsion systems –turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft, ramjet, scramjet. 3. Classification of the different types of spacecraft propulsion – solid rocket motors, liquid rocket engines, electric propulsion 4. Components and functions of solid rocket motors and liquid rocket engines 5. Combustion fundamentals– laminar and turbulent flames, diffusion and premixed flames, supersonic combustion. -- 1 of 3 --
/ Indicative Syllabus System Component, Electronic Device, and Radio Link Common system components of UAS: airframe, servo, propulsion system (motor, electronic speed controller (ESC), propeller), Li-po battery, radio transmitter and receiver, telemetry, ground control station (GCS), and the autopilot. Dynamic Modelling of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Coordinate systems, kinematic model, dynamic model, propulsion system model, controller allocation model of UAS and model linearisation method. Flight Control Framework Cascade control structure, position control, attitude control, and control allocation for the low-level control of UAS. Path and Trajectory Planning Global path planning for UAS including search-based methods and sample-based methods. Local smooth trajectory generation methods. Autopilot System Integration and Flight Simulation Open-source flight controller; Flight simulation platform; Programming and hardware interface; Implementation of control and planning algorithms, Introduction to autonomous aerial robotic system. Mini UAS Flight Test Integrate the hardware and software; flight test in an indoor laboratory. -- 1 of 3 --
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Inertial Navigation System – reference frames; principles of inertial navigation; gyroscope and accelerometer; attitude estimation and Euler angles. Satellite Navigation System – principles of satellite navigation; basic principle of the GNSS single point positioning, measurements modeling. Introduction to the GNSS real-time kinematic positioning for unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) navigation. Integrated Navigation System – Kalman filter and estimation theory; integration of inertial and satellite navigation; redundancy and consistency check. Vision navigation in UAS – Visual sensor model, the basic principle of visual matching, feature tracking, and visual positioning and navigation. State Estimation for UAS – Concepts of state estimation, the basic principle of the state estimation based on Kalman filtering, factor graph optimization. The example -- 1 of 3 -- of the state estimation in UAV positioning and navigation Case Studies - Design and discussion of navigation and guidance systems for various air vehicles. Technological trends in future UAS navigation and guidance systems. Teaching/Learnin g Methodology Lectures are used to deliver the fundamental concepts, theory, mathematical background and technical knowledge related to unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) Guidance and Navigation (outcomes a, b, c and d). Tutorials are used to provide a deeper understanding of the theoretical material, and to put theoretical material into use via practical examples and demonstrations (outcomes b and c). Homework assignments, in the form of quiz and problems and case studies, and mini group research project, are used to allow students to reflect on and deepen their knowledge on a selected topic (outcomes a, b, c and d). A reading week will be assigned in week 7. Student will be provided with tutorial and materials for reading during the week 7 without in classroom lecture.
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Communications System: the working principles of VHF radio, Datalink communication, Satellite communication, and etc. Navigation System: the working principles of NDB, VOR, DME, ILS, Satellite navigation, and etc. Surveillance System: the working principles of PSR, SSR, TCAS, ADS-B, and etc. Air Data Computer: the working principles of Pitot, Barometer and Machmeter, Air data instrument, and etc. Inertial Navigation System: Magnetometer, Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Gimbal and strapdown INS, Dead-reckoning. -- 1 of 3 --
/ Indicative Syllabus Introduction and Radio Theory: EM radiation (radio waves); dipole aerial; polarization; radio frequency spectrum; frequency, amplitude, pulse and phase modulation; SSB in HF communications; pulse modulation; classification of emissions; refraction, reflection, diffraction and attenuation; dipole, parabolic, phase array and slotted antennae; VHF; VHF/UHF; signal propagation; atmospheric/ionospheric ducting; Doppler effect; NDB and ADF: ground DF; VDF let-down procedure; NDB frequencies; NDBs locators and beacons; ground installations; BFO; NON A1A and NON A2A; ADF; cardioid polar diagram; RBI/RMI; errors of NDB/ADF; ICAO required fixing accuracy of NDBs; QDM and QDR interception VOR and VOR Tracking: VOR frequencies; principle of operation; aircraft navigation reception equipment; aircraft installation; VOR indicator/OBI; ICAO required accuracy of VOR; error of VOR; self-monitoring function; radial cross cuts; Landing Aids: DME, interrogation response, required accuracy, transmission classification P0N, beacon saturation. ILS Localiser, Glide-path, ILS displays on the OBI, HSI and EFIS PFD, limits of ILS CATI, II and III, MLS, principle of operation, ICAO required accuracy Radar: Radar theory, operating frequencies, pulse radar, radar mile, factors controlling bearing and range resolution, ground based radars, Airborne Weather Radar (AWR), CWR (radio altimeter), Mention Doppler Radar (MTR) Transponders: SSR transponders, operation principle, digital data in pulse transmission, Mode A and C, ADS-B -- 1 of 3 -- Area Navigation Systems (RNAV), FMS & EFIS: ICAO Annex 11; B-RNAV and P-RNAV; operation of basic RNAV; limitations of B-RNAV; RNP; FMC/FMS operation; internal database content and structure; FMS set-up procedure; EFIS system; recognise and interpret glass cockpit displays; failure warnings; SEI Global Navigation Satellite Systems -FANS & RNAV Approaches: ICAO required accuracy for GPS; GPS in ADS-B
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Aviation Law, Flight Rules and Procedure - Aviation law, Flight Rules and Procedure covering: The Air Navigation Order, The Hong Kong Aeronautical Information Publication, Hong Kong Civil Aviation (Investigation of Accidents) Regulations, AOPA Ground Training Manual. Navigation - Meteorology, Aviation Weather Theory and Aviation Weather Services, Air Traffic Control and Airspace, Aeronautical Charts, Navigation Charts and Publications, Communication, Radar Navigation Systems. Aircraft - Airplane Instruments and Basics of Onboard Guidance and Navigation Systems from a pilot’s perspective. Airplane Performance, Aircraft Weight and Balance. Aeromedical Factors and Aeronautical Decision Making - Basic Aviation Physiology and Health Maintenance, Human Limitations, Stress and Stress Management, Ergonomics of the Flight Deck, the Decision-Making Process and Situational Awareness. -- 1 of 3 --
/ Indicative Syllabus Basic Concepts: Basic Aviation Physiology: Basics of flight physiology, Vision, Hearing, Equilibrium, Integration of sensory inputs. Health Maintenance: Body rhythm and sleep, Problem areas for pilots, Incapacitation in flight; Research methods: Statistical analysis, Experiment design, Expert interview, Simulation. Cognitive Ergonomics - Human information processing, Attention and vigilance, Perception, Memory, Response selection, Human error and reliability, Mental models and situation awareness, Theory and model of human reliability, Error management, Safety awareness, Coordination (multi-crew concepts), Cooperation, Communication, Cockpit management: Personality, attitude and behavior, Display, Fatigue and stress management, Advanced cockpit automation. Physical Ergonomics: Anthropometry, Posture, Design strategies, Workstation design. -- 1 of 3 --
/ Indicative Syllabus Wind - Definition and measurement of wind, Primary cause of wind, General global circulation, Local winds, Mountain waves (standing waves, lee waves), Turbulence, Jet streams. Thermodynamics – Humidity, Change of state of aggregation, Adiabatic processes. Clouds and Fog - Cloud formation and description, Fog, mist, haze. Precipitation - Development of precipitation, Types of precipitation. Air Masses and Fronts - Air masses and Fronts. Pressure Systems - The principal pressure areas, Anticyclone, Non-frontal depressions, Tropical revolving storms. Climatology - Climatic zones, Tropical climatology, Typical weather situations in the mid-latitudes, Local winds and associated weather. Flight Hazards – Icing, Turbulence, Wind shear, Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Inversions, Stratospheric conditions, Hazards in mountainous areas, Visibility- reducing phenomena. Meteorological Information - Observation, Weather charts, Information for flight planning, Meteorological services. -- 1 of 3 --
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Terrestrial Navigation Aids: the basic principles of NDB, VOR, DME, ILS, and etc. Inertial Navigation: the basic principles of inertial navigation; inertial sensors of accelerometer, gyro; inertial navigation algorithms. Satellite Navigation: the principles of satellite navigation; receiver signal processing; stand-alone positioning and differential positioning. Radar: the principles of primary radar, secondary radar, weather radar, surveillance radar, and etc. Advanced Avionics System: applications in civil aviation, e.g., space- based augmentation system; ground-based augmentation system; receiver autonomous integrity monitoring. Multi-sensor Integration: least squares estimation and Kalman filter; performance of precision versus integrity under different scenarios. -- 1 of 3 --
/ Indicative Syllabus Overview of NextGen ATM System: An introduction to ATM systems and operations. Introduce definition, goal, and benefits of NextGen initiative on different aspects including airport, air traffic control and traffic flow management. Before and after NextGen: Provide a comparison of improved system before and after NextGen on communications, navigation, surveillance, air traffic control, etc. Air traffic control and management: Technical improvement in NextGen on Air traffic management, congestion control and capacity management, aviation system; Air traffic control and air traffic control aids; Seamless air traffic management and air navigation service; Extreme weather operations; Runway scheduling and capacity analysis: Runway capacity analysis; Airport airside and landside structure and layout; First-come first-served heuristics; Runway design and configuration. Operationalized NextGen: how to implement NextGen at the right places to raise the usage of deployed capabilities to achieve maximum -- 1 of 3 -- benefits. Trajectory Based Operations (TBO), air and ground information exchange etc. Uncertainty quantification and risk
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Operations research, Convex optimisation and optimisation methods in aviation engineering problems; Fundamental theorem of linear programming; Relations to convexity; Simplex method; Duality. Resource planning and engineering management: Transportation and network flow problems; Minimum cost flow; Maximal flow; Branch-and- bound algorithms; Heuristics; Critical path method and resource planning in aviation project management. Aviation Engineering applications: Airline scheduling planning and optimisation; Gate assignment planning and optimisation; Runway scheduling planning and optimisation; Air logistics transportation problem and optimisation; Flight route optimization. -- 1 of 3 --
/ Indicative Syllabus Fundamental of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Basic concepts and trends of AI; AI algorithm design; deep learning; large language models. Data Analytics: Data processing; data mining; data visualization; principle component analysis; data-driven optimization. Supervised learning: Least squares and nearest neighbours; statistical decision theory; Linear methods for regression; Linear discriminant analysis; Classifications; Logistic regression; Support-vector machine. Unsupervised learning: Clustering; Association dimensionality reduction; K-means clustering; KNN. Model inference and averaging: Bootstrap and maximum likelihood methods; Bayesian method. Reinforcement learning: Basic concepts of reinforcement learning; Markov Decision Processes (MDP); Q-learning. Applications in Aviation: Air traffic demand forecasting; Flight delay prediction; Operations management and dynamic pricing; managerial implications and actionable insights with aviation case studies analysis. -- 1 of 3 --
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Operations management, fleet and crew management and flight route management: Airline fleet management, crew management, aircraft routing and sustainability; Airline network design and route planning; Aircraft life cycle and associated legislation; Human resource management: crew pairing and rostering management. Operational and technical Support: Technical support functions in maintenance, repair and overhaul; development, implementation and optimisation of maintenance programmes; inventory support models and their implementation; Sustainable aviation: Carbon budgets for aviation; Environmental technology and the future of flight; Aircraft fuel consumption calculation and reduction; Environmental impact of aviation emission; Sustainable -- 1 of 3 -- aviation system.
/ Indicative Syllabus Airworthiness – Airworthiness requirement, regulations and standards; Airworthiness directive (AD); Aircraft registration; Type certification; Production of products, parts and appliances; Certificates of airworthiness and permits to fly; Air operation regulation; Renewal of certificate of airworthiness (C of A) issue; Air operator’s certification; Certification arrangements with other authorities, human factors and safety management. Flight standards – Requirement and criteria for the approval of type rating training; Pilot licences and associated ratings; Low visibility operations; Air operator’s certificates requirements; Avoidance of fatigue in aircrews. Licensing and certification – Aeromedical matters; Air operator’s certificate; Pilot licensing; Aircraft maintenance licensing; Conversion of license among contracting states. Quality control and assurance – Joint maintenance management (JMM); Technical arrangement (TA); Maintenance management exposition (MME); airworthiness control procedures; Maintenance support arrangement and contracted-out maintenance. -- 1 of 3 -- Accident prevention and analysis – Safety management system (SMS); Accident analysis; Human factors. Air operator’s certificate (AOC) – CAD 360, AOC requirements document; Operation of aircraft, arrangement for maintenance support. Flight operations – The air operators certificate, organisation and facilities, operations manual, training and testing; Emergency and survival training, cabin safety, safety management. International and Hong Kong civil aviation – ICAO history, annexes, safety oversight concept, safety oversight system; HK legislation system, basic law of HKSAR, civil aviation ordinance, air navigation (Hong Kong) order; Safe operating environment.
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Introduction: Overview and Basic Concepts in emerging UAM, including vehicle-based aspects, public acceptance of UAM, examples of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV) application, prospects and drawbacks for introducing UAM, and potential solutions . Challenges and Impact Factors of UAM: The exploration of challenges includes questions on safety, noise, energy efficiency, environmental impact, certification and policy, as well as challenges in the area of traffic management and ground infrastructure requirements. Airspace structure: The definition, design, and categorization of low- altitude airspace for UAM. The operating environments include airspaces, types of operations, regulations, and procedures necessary to support an operation. Aircraft types and performance: The latest technological advancements in low-altitude aircrafts, including electric aircraft, drones and others. -- 1 of 4 -- 2 Aircraft categorization and performance. Introduce t he regulatory requirements of the airspace that all aircraft are required to comply with within which they are conducting operations. UAM terminal: terminal area design to support UAM departure and arrival operations, operations and management for UAM, including vertiport/ vertistop location, design and management. UAM operators are expected to utilize whichever vertiport configuration meets their operational needs. Airfield capacity and delay: Low-altitude airfield capacity evaluation and delay management. Introduce demand-capacity balancing technique when the requested resources cannot support the collective UAM Operational Intent demand. Demand management: Demand evaluation and management strategies for congestion mitigation in UAM. Technical methods such as machine learning for demand forecasting. UAM traffic management: Air traffic management, air traffic control strategies for UAM. Introduce new ATC tactical deconfliction techniques, including the formulation of new separation standards that would rely on enhanced aircraft performance and air traffic management system fidelity may be utilized.
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Introduction: The overall thought, principles, and applications of neuro- ergonomics and cognitive science in aviation. Human Cognition in Aviation: Cognitive workload, situational awareness, fatigue, decision-making, attention, and stress of air traffic controllers and pilots. Data Analysis: Data pre-processing, cleaning, interpreting, and visualizing, and pattern recognition of neuro-psycho-physiological data. Technological Advancements in Neuro-Ergonomics: Cognitive states modelling, monitoring, prediction, neuroimaging, neurofeedback, and brain-computer interfaces. Laboratory and Case Studies: Neuro-ergonomic technologies and simulators tutorial. Human cognitive workload monitoring and situation awareness detection. -- 1 of 3 --
/ Indicative Syllabus Introduction to Air Transport Economics: The role and importance of air transport in the global economy; key economic concepts such as opportunity cost, the value of money, supply and demand, imperfect markets, market systems (monopoly, oligopoly), and quantity control; the characteristics and structure of the air transport market; the economic models and tools for analysing the air transport market. Air Transport Cost and Production: The components and determinants of air transport costs; the economies of scale and scope in air transport production; the cost and production functions and their properties; the -- 1 of 3 -- 2 productivity and efficiency measures and indicators for air transport; resource allocation for cost reduction and service improvement. Air Transport Market Structure and Competition: The market structure and conduct of the air transport industry; the impacts of market power and competition on air transport performance and welfare; the antitrust and competition policies and regulations for the air transport industry. Air Transport Policy and Regulation: The objectives and instruments of air transport policy and regulation; the evolution and development of air transport policy and regulation; liberalisation in aviation market; the impacts and implications of air transport policy and regulation on air transport performance and welfare. Air Transport Pricing and Revenue Management: The pricing strategies and methods in the air transport industry; the revenue management and optimization models and practices; the price competition among airlines.
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暂无评分/ Indicative Syllabus Human factors basics: Physical ergonomics; Cognitive ergonomics; Organizational ergonomics. Research methods: Statistical analysis, posture analysis, workload