Guided Weapons Power Electronics and Communication System

Course structure

What you will learn

On successful completion of this module a student should be able to:

• Synthesise electronic circuit models for guided weapons and analyse their performance,
• Assess the importance of electrical power supplies (EPS) in a GW and justify the role of intelligence and performance enhancement for a GW EPS,
• Analyse how signal processing methods can improve the signal quality, performance and security of sensor information and communication methods in a Guided Weapon System,
• Evaluate the performance of C2 systems within the context of GW.

Core content

• Electronics basic principles, fundamentals of electronic circuits and functionality, pulse width, frequency and amplitude modulation methods, DC, AC and 3-phase AC principles, brushed and brushless motors for actuation.
• Importance of Electrical Power Supplies (EPS) in a GW, role of intelligent and performance enhancement of EPS for a Guided Weapon system, power generation and distribution for a Guided Weapon, EPS design in association to switching characteristics.
• Probability, random variables, probability distributions, covariance, correlation. Noise sources, noise bandwidth, noise figure, noise temperature. Cascaded networks. Mathematical representation of noise, correlation and convolution, Matched filters, the z-transform. Advantages/ disadvantages of DSP, sampling and quantisation, digital filters, DFT and FFT, the effect of filters on sensor and communications information, DSP applications in communications and radar.
• Communication methods for short, medium and long-range missile systems. Transmitter and receiver communication system models, multipath effects
• Command and control for different missile systems and environments.
• Guided Weapon EPS Design: A MATLAB based tutorial exploring the critical EPS design factors for an air-launched guided weapon system. To consider the EPS performance enhancement and key realisation constraints within the context of GW systems.

Upgrade to a professional qualification

When taken as a Short Course for Credit, 10 credit points can be put towards the Guided Weapon Systems MSc.

Find out more about short course credit points.

Who should attend

This course is suitable for officers seeking to fill appointments concerned with military guided weapons systems in the MOD and trials and training establishments. In particular the course is designed for employees within the MOD, the Armed Forces, and the international defence industry to enable them to work more effectively in the fields of designing and specifying realistic/system requirements for the control of guided weapon systems.

Students must have successfully completed the Guided Weapons Propulsion and Aerodynamics Theory in order to take this as a Short Course for Credit. There are no prerequisites if taken as a Standalone Short Course.

Speakers

Concessions

A limited number of MOD sponsored places are available.

Location and travel

Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS) is a Cranfield School based at the Ministry of Defence establishment on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire borders.

Shrivenham itself lies in the picturesque Vale of the White Horse, close to the M4 motorway which links London and South Wales. It is 7 miles from Swindon, the nearest town, which lies off the M4 at the hub of Britain’s motorway network.

Bath, Cheltenham, Bristol and Oxford are all within an hour’s drive and London less than two hours away by car.

All visitors must be pre-booked in at reception by the person they are visiting on the campus.

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