ENAE757

Demonstrate the practical application of Smart Materials and Spatially Distributed Transducers to the design and control of advanced structures. The course will be focused toward the active control of continuum structures using advance Spatially Distributed Parameter System control techniques and concepts. Effective system parameterizations will be used to reduce distributed parameter system models to classical canonical state space form for the purpose of robust adaptive structure design. Application case studies, including morphing structures will be employed as necessary to enhance the students intuition and understanding of Distributed Parameter Systems.