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INERTIAL NAVIGATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR MOTION OBJECTS

Aircraft Measuring and Computing Systems

Head of the programme: Sergei M. Yakushin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor at Aircraft Measuring and Computing Systems Department

Academic degree: Master’s degree.

Area of study (qualification):
161100.68 Motion Control Systems and Navigation.

Priority development areas of PNRPU:
Aircraft Engine and Gas-Turbine Technologies.

Target of the programme:
training of specialists for development and research of motion control systems and navigation for motion objects.

Programme characteristics:
motion control systems and navigation for movable objects are one of the priority development areas in engineering and knowledge-intensive technologies. The development progress in these areas provides scientific and technological potential of the state. These areas combine most important advanced achievements of the mankind in applied mathematics, instrument engineering, intelligent computer systems of control and navigation for motion objects of different assignment. The following programme is focused on a scientific and research training of Masters in developing motion control systems and navigation of present and future in close cooperation with the major enterprise OAO Perm Scientific Industrial Instrument-Making Company. Most of the Department graduates are employed there. Apart from that, a number of specialists from this company take part in developing the curriculum in compliance with the Master’s programme.

Target group:
Bachelors in the following areas: 161100.62 Motion Control Systems and Navigation.

Major clients:
OAO Perm Scientific Industrial Instrument-Making Company, OAO Aviadvigatel, OAO Motovilikhinskye Zavody, OAO NPO Iskra.

Possible places of work for the programme graduates:
scientific and research engineering design departments of plants and institutes in development of instruments and systems of control and navigation for motion objects.

Cooperation with research and development institutes and enterprises within the programme:
the Master’s programme is made and supported by specialists from OAO Perm Scientific Industrial Instrument-Making Company.

List of main subjects:
- Design methods of attitude and navigation systems. - Design methods of navigation and control systems. - Data measurement systems. - Applied optics. - Controlling computer systems and complexes. - Motion control and navigation systems modelling methods. - Advanced methods of motion control. - Advanced inertial sensors for navigation and control systems. - Computer methods of measurable information processing in integrated motion control and navigation systems. - Research methods for integrated systems of automatic motion control and navigation.

Facilities:
using scientific, technological and production facilities of Perm Scientific Industrial Instrument-Making Company JSC, facilities of PNRPU Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronic Instruments Engineering, Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural branch.

Competitive advantages of graduates:
Master’s programme is focused on training graduates in scientific and research work and developing the following professional skills and knowledge: - collecting, processing, analyzing and classifying research and scientific data, methods and means of problem solving; - performing individual theoretical, laboratory, field studies and experiments to solve scientific and production problems using advanced facilities; - be able to provide research results in reports, abstracts, publications and public discussions; - be able to make practical recommendations for using scientific research results; - analyzing aircrafts and movable objects for different purposes as objects of orientation, stabilization, control; building mathematical models of traffic enabling forecasting development tendencies both as control objects and their tactics; - providing scientific and technical reports, reviews, publications of the performed studies; - developing plans, programmes, methods for testing instruments, systems and complexes in a relevant field, providing tasks for contractors; - using research methods for systems of objects automatic motion control and their engines; - developing models of control systems for aircraft engines, modelling and work analysis; - developing algorithm of work for integrated navigation systems; - using theories and methods of computer processing for measurable information in motion control systems and navigation; - knowing mathematical description methods, modelling and research of navigation systems using advanced inertial sensors.

Academic staff:
S.М. Yakushin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, D.I. Shevtsov, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor, Head of Integral Optics Department in OAO Perm Scientific Industrial Instrument-Making Company, S.G. Nikolaev, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher of OAO Perm Scientific Industrial Instrument-Making Company, А.P. Kоlevatov, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of Navigation Algorithms Department in OAO Perm Scientific Industrial Instrument-Making Company.