Communication Systems Design
Sameer Parihar • June 18, 2020
Creating a Solution to Connect Two Remote Islands
For my Analog and Digital Communications class, we were tasked to design a proposal as our final project/exam on our own. We were given a little less than a week to come up with a proposal that met the needs of our imaginary clients of two remote Islands. Using the material learned in the class and various resources available online, it was possible to create a high-level overview of such a system.
The system needed to connect two islands that were 80 miles apart and needed to act as a response to an RFP (Request for Proposal). The following .pdf shows the system I created.
For one of my controls class, we were supposed to find a 3rd Order SISO (single input, single output) system to model and control. I decided to pursue a project focused on Aerospace and found a model of a helicopter flying at near hover velocity. The system would be modelled in MATLAB using the Control Systems Toolbox. The input to the system is the rotor pitch angle and the output of the system will be velocity. A system being third-order indicates that it has three distinct state variables. The state variables of the system are q, theta, and velocity (v). Theta is the aircraft body pitch angle, q is the rate of change of theta, and v is for velocity.