Aviation Electronics (or Avionics) and avionics systems, i.e. the subsystems of an aerospace platform depending on electronic components, play a fundamental role in modern civilian and military aircrafts, representing 30% (or, in some military aircrafts, up to 75%) of the overall vehicle cost. Color displays, GPS/GNSS systems, equipment for radio communications, flight control systems, radionavigation and flight management systems are only some examples of onboard avionics systems. Their study requires obviously an interdisciplinary approach.
The course aims to build up the necessary knowledge base on avionics civilian and military systems, presenting the main design issues and the basic functionalities of such systems (CNS, Communications, Navigation, Surveillance), describing the principal characteristics, the hardware architectures, the data exchange techniques, and the engineering mathematical principles underlying each avionics system. Therefore, some basic concepts of radio communication systems, signal theory, electromagnetism and antennas are dealt with.
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