History of the department
of aerospace control systems begins in 1965, when the Department of Aviation Instruments and Automation (APA) was formed from part of the staff of the Department of Aircraft Electrical Equipment (EOLA) of the Electrical Engineering Faculty (ETF) of the Kyiv Civil Air Fleet Institute (KI TSPF).
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one of the oldest departments of the Faculty of Aeronautics, Electronics and Telecommunications and in the university.
It is a leading department in the field of training specialists in the latest technologies of design, production and operation of cybernetic systems for various purposes, application of modern information systems and technologies in aerospace control systems, scientific and technical examination of the quality of functioning of complex systems. In its work, the department takes into account promising industrial and technical trends in the most developed countries of the world, as an urgent need of industry, business, and scientific research in the formation of professional personnel capable of solving the issue of creating and operating highly intelligent technical, cybernetic, and organizational systems based on the latest achievements of world science and technologies.
First of all, this applies to such science-intensive industries as aviation, rocket and space technology, robotic complexes of modern enterprises, which are a priority in any developed country of the world, because they greatly influence its future. With today’s strict requirements for the quality of complex equipment, growing competition in its creation, there is a constant need for professionals who possess modern science-intensive technologies all over the world. At the same time, it is taken into account that the absolute majority of modern complex systems are developed as software-intensive systems based on information technologies.
one of the oldest departments of the Faculty of Aeronautics, Electronics and Telecommunications and in the university.
It is a leading department in the field of training specialists in the latest technologies of design, production and operation of cybernetic systems for various purposes, application of modern information systems and technologies in aerospace control systems, scientific and technical examination of the quality of functioning of complex systems. In its work, the department takes into account promising industrial and technical trends in the most developed countries of the world, as an urgent need of industry, business, and scientific research in the formation of professional personnel capable of solving the issue of creating and operating highly intelligent technical, cybernetic, and organizational systems based on the latest achievements of world science and technologies.
First of all, this applies to such science-intensive industries as aviation, rocket and space technology, robotic complexes of modern enterprises, which are a priority in any developed country of the world, because they greatly influence its future. With today’s strict requirements for the quality of complex equipment, growing competition in its creation, there is a constant need for professionals who possess modern science-intensive technologies all over the world. At the same time, it is taken into account that the absolute majority of modern complex systems are developed as software-intensive systems based on information technologies.
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After 2000, the department switched to new learning technologies, introducing computers and computer classes into the educational process. This made it possible to intensify and make learning more intense. The department opened branches at the Institute of Cybernetics and the Center for Navigation and Traffic Management. Scientists of the department, such as Blokhin L.M., Tunik A.A., Azarskova V.M., Mashkova O.A., Chikovani V.V. and others actively carry out scientific research. During this time, the dissertations of many graduate students were successfully defended.
The scientific research of the department includes the development of technologies for navigation and control complexes, which are implemented in numerous enterprises. The department actively works in the field of creating robust control systems, including work on synthesis algorithms for unmanned and manned aircraft.
In particular, technologies for designing a flying laboratory for research in air and water spaces in the Antarctic have been developed. The department also successfully introduces new specializations and areas of training specialists in the field of system engineering and automation.
The result of scientific research is the creation of experimental samples of a high-precision digital gyroscopic measuring device used in various fields, including aviation, space, marine and land engineering.
The concept of an orbital space plane and a ground complex for manned and unmanned use with delivery to low-orbit stations and return from orbit has been developed. The methodology for designing a stabilized platform for ground objects and algorithms for integrating the equations of rotational and translational movements simplify the guidance and stabilization processes. Developed algorithms for UAV navigation and flight control systems use methods of fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence.
Theoretical developments in the field of dynamics of macrosystems are used in solving practical problems. Graduates are oriented to the management of technical and technological systems, aircraft and organizational systems using the achievements of cybernetic science and intelligent technologies.
Among the educational disciplines are computer science, intelligent technologies, management theory, automated systems, artificial intelligence technologies, etc. The objects of activity are cybernetic complexes, automated control systems, databases, navigation systems and UAV flight control.
The face of the department: Management in different years
The department included five teachers and three teaching assistants.
In 1938, he entered the Leningrad State University, where he studied until 1941. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1942, he was in the Leningrad People’s Militia Army, where he was wounded and demobilized. From 1942 to 1945, he studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute.
After graduating from the institute, he worked as an engineer at an aircraft factory. In 1947, he entered postgraduate studies at the Leningrad Institute of Instrumentation. Since 1951, an assistant, after the defense of a candidate’s thesis – an associate professor of the Department of Theoretical Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering of LIAP. In October 1962, he was elected dean of the electrical engineering faculty and head of the aircraft electrical equipment department. During his work at the department V.V. Shershun had more than 45 publications, including 9 textbooks on the theory of gyroscopy, gyroscopic devices and aerobatics and navigation systems.
In 1941, he graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communication Engineers. In 1941–1943, he worked as a cameraman at the Novosibirsk Film Studio. From 1943 to 1963, he was the head of the laboratory of the Novosibirsk Institute of Measures and Measuring Instruments, and from 1963 to 1966, he was the head of the department of the Institute of Automation and Electrometry of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1966 to 1987, he headed the department of aviation instruments and automata of the Kyiv Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers. In 1953, he defended his dissertation on the topic “Methods and equipment for determining the parameters of materials and substances in the frequency range up to 750 MHz”, and in 1964 – “Measurement of capacitances at high frequencies.”
Scientific research is related to expanding the limits and increasing the accuracy of measuring the parameters of electric circuits in a wide frequency range. For the first time in world metrological practice, he created sets of inductive quality factor measures up to 200 MHz, which served as the basis for the State Standard of the USSR. Developed new capacitive sensors and measuring circuits of aviation fuel gauges used on Tu-154, Il-76, Yak-42, Il-86 aircraft. He created a capacitive sensor for researching fretting corrosion of metals, a device for accounting for particles of impurities in lubricants, a capacitive sensor for rocket gyro devices, and a device for controlling the thickness of boron threads.
Received the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences and was recognized as a senior researcher and professor. He was awarded the medal “In memory of the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv” (1981), the Certificate of Honor of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR (1984) and the awards “Inventor of the USSR”, “Excellent of the Higher School of the USSR”. He trained 2 doctors and 9 candidates of sciences, and his scientific works number more than 130.
The department also developed, new disciplines, premises and work positions for students and specialists were added. The work of training qualified specialists for the department increased, and the department was divided in 1978 into two: the department of automated on-board control systems and the department of metrology and measuring technology.
In 1959, he graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and until 1970 worked as a leading engineer of the research department of the Special Design Bureau of the Kyiv Automation Plant named after G.I. Petrovsky. In 1969, without breaking away from production, he successfully completed postgraduate studies at the instrument-making faculty of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and defended his candidate’s thesis on a special topic. Since May 1970, he has been working as a senior teacher, associate professor, professor, and head of a department at NAU.
He defended his doctoral thesis in 1985 on the topic “Dynamic design of optimal involuntary structures of motion stabilization complexes under stochastic operational impacts (on examples of aviation technology)”. The dissertation laid the foundations of the modern theory of optimal stochastic stabilization systems, proposed methods and algorithms for the structural identification of models of the dynamics of a multidimensional moving object and the effects of uncontrolled random factors on it in the regular modes of operation of the object. In 1987, he received the title of professor.
Between 1986-1991, in parallel with his work at NAU, he was the scientific leader of the cycle of research and development works at the Cosmonaut Training Center. There, he managed the optimal control modernization of a unique multidimensional aerospace flight simulator to simulate the movement of the Buran spacecraft in the surface layers of the atmosphere, as well as the structural identification of models of cosmonaut dynamics during flight control. For his fruitful work at the Cosmonaut Training Center, as well as for the development of technologies for the creation of optimal domestic control and navigation systems for moving objects in 1995, he was awarded the Prize named after Academician M.K. Yangel of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1998, he received the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology for the cycle of work at the Cosmonaut Training Center and the development of the latest science-intensive technologies. L.M. Blokhin created a scientific school in the field of science-intensive technologies for the development and implementation of optimal control systems for multidimensional dynamic objects of various purposes under stochastic disturbances.
In recent years, he has developed a new method and algorithms for the synthesis of robust optimal stabilization systems, updated the theory of optimal multidimensional filtering, and developed a new approach and technology for dynamic certification and examination of the quality of moving measuring and control complexes. In recent years, he also taught such academic disciplines as “Statistical dynamics of control systems”, “Technologies of system management of organizations”, “Aircraft control systems”, etc.
In 1968, he graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers. He worked at KIICA in various engineering positions, including the head of the department in the research department and the research modeling center under the leadership of scientist O.I. kitchen sink Took part in the development of landing modules for the Sirius lunar spacecraft. He graduated from postgraduate studies in 1975 and worked as an assistant rector of the institute until 1983.
He defended his PhD thesis in 1975. In the period from 1982 to 1991, he was a member of the Interuniversity Coordination Section of the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR on problems of navigation and traffic control. Received the title of senior researcher in 1985.
From 1992 to 1995, he studied for a doctorate and carried out research work on behalf of the Ministry of Industrial Policy and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. During this period, he received the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology for 1998 for his work on the creation of a course determination system and the latest technologies of autonomous navigation.
In 1998, he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic “Methodology of optimal modernization of control of aerospace flight simulators and simulators”. From 2000 to 2004, he headed the faculty of control systems, and from 2010 to 2014 – the Institute of Aerospace Control Systems.
He trained 7 candidates and doctors of technical sciences, spoke at international conferences and published more than 300 scientific works, including monographs and textbooks. Actively participated in public activities, is a member of various scientific councils and boards of organizations.
For his significant contribution to the development of the space industry, he was awarded a medal and two diplomas named after Yu.O. Gagarin and medals of Yu.V. Kondratyuk, M.K. Yangel, G.T. Beregovoi, O.M. Makarov.
