📚 Syllabus & Course Curriculum
Data Science & Analytics
Module-by-module breakdown of AI in Hypersonic Flight Control (Adaptive RL for Stability & Safety), from foundations to a certified capstone project.
Outline
Understand the role of AI in safety-critical aerospace, focusing on hazard analysis, "human-on-the-loop" principles, and effective oversight mechanisms. • Explore high-level aerothermodynamics concepts, grasping why high speeds amplify uncertainty and present significant sensing challenges. • Learn about essential assurance artifacts including requirements traceability, safety cases, and model/system cards. • Build a policy-aware requirements matrix and hazard log for a benign high-speed test article, prioritizing oversight, abort criteria, and geofencing.
Outline
Analyze sensor integrity challenges at high dynamic pressure, including fault concepts, latency awareness, and strategies for graceful degradation. • Review observability concepts to safely estimate states without revealing sensitive implementation details. • Develop validation and test planning strategies, focusing on scenario coverage, defining operational limits, and ensuring transparency for operators and regulators. • Draft a comprehensive Verification & Validation (V&V) plan, outlining test envelopes, safety monitors, and operator intervention thresholds for conceptual high-speed vehicles.
Outline
Examine standards and certification considerations for AI components, covering documentation, audit processes, and incident reporting. • Implement envelope thinking without relying on direct controllers, by defining stay-out zones, rate limiters, and conservative default behaviors. • Design effective human-machine interfaces, focusing on timely alerting, explainability for operators, and robust abort workflows. • Assemble an assurance case outline (safety case) complete with roles, evidence collection strategies, and operator Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for safe testing and shutdowns.
Earn government-registered certification in AI in Hypersonic Flight Control (Adaptive RL for Stability & Safety)
e-Certificate and e-Marksheet issued on successful completion.
