Sri Vijaya Puram, Oct 16: A technical talk was organised by Dr B.R Ambedkar Institute of Technology for the final year and pre-final year students of the institute at conference hall on the “Light Combat Aircraft-Tejas, its flight control design ,design, development and testing on 15/10/2024. The session was conducted by Dr. Vijay V Patel, Technology Director (CLAW), Outstanding Scientist at Aeronautical Development Agency, Ministry of Defence, DRDO, Bangalore.
Dr Patel has more than 29 years of experience in working as a Member of National Control Law (CLAW) team for LCA flight control design and also contributed towards development of technology for autonomous take-off and landing for Ghatak, feasibility studies from flight mechanics parameter perspective for AMCA, Ghatak, LCA MK2, Navy Mk2 programs. He has shared LCA CLAW Design Development experience with other national projects (LCH (HAL-RWRDC, RLV (ISRO), Chandraayan-3 (ISRO) various UAV projects of ADE, missile guidance with RCI and DRDL teams, integration of missile with Aircraft etc and played major role in the technical reviews related to control systems.
He explained about the flight control law development cycle including parameter identification to update aero- database in order to expand flight envelope. Also the fundamentals of control law design for an unstable fighter aircraft was discussed and the mathematical challenges in order to achieve certain performance goals. He demonstrated various laws of physics practically and emphasised the students for keeping scientific temperament and critical thinking. The program was very informative and more than 150 students participated in this session which also featured a Q & A segment which allowed students to ask questions which included about career opportunities in DRDO etc.
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