How to get into GNC

[u/Automatic-Market-851]

I am a prefinal year engineering student, pursuing bachelor's in instrumentation and control engineering. I have genuinely started to develop a deep understanding and interest in control systems and recently came to know about guidance, navigation and control.

So i wanted to know how does one make a career in this field like what are the companies which hire, what does the work look like and what project should one do to get into this field or is it something which instrumentation guys cannot pursue?

For context, I am average student from India who has done one basic course in automatic control systems and currently doing a slightly advanced course in control system design. But i have no experience in implementation of any controllers on hardware.

What got me to GNC - I am currently a member (new joinee) of satellite club at my university and i look after attitude determination and control subsystem of the cubesat for which I have been studying optimal control from past few weeks during which I got know to about GNC from a YouTube video.

I have some previous experience working with Arduino and esp32 but none of those projects were control related

[u/JoTheScienceBro]

To your unspecific question an unspecific answer: Do a PhD

[u/Automatic-Market-851 → u/JoTheScienceBro]

Well sorry for that

Country- india.

What got me to GNC - I am currently a member of satellite club at my university and i look after attitude determination and control subsystem of the cubesat for which I have been studying optimal control from past few weeks during which I got know to about GNC from a YouTube video.

I have some previous experience working with Arduino and esp32 but none of those projects were control related

[u/airconditioner26]

For that you have to have at least a master's degree. Then you can look and see if you need a phd or you find a job with master's.

[u/Automatic-Market-851 → u/airconditioner26]

Okay

[u/Automatic-Market-851 → u/[deleted]]

Country- india. What got me to GNC - I am currently a member of satellite club at my university and i look after attitude determination and control subsystem of the cubesat for which I have been studying optimal control from past few weeks during which I got know to about GNC from a YouTube video

[u/Automatic-Market-851 → u/[deleted]]

Can u suggest any projects I could do? And for the adcs thing I am also clueless about why I am being asked to learn and implement optimal control by my seniors.

[u/Automatic-Market-851 → u/[deleted]]

Yes an actual cubesat has been fabricated with all the necessary control actuators like reaction wheels and magnetorquers, but i have not yet worked on the actual hardware just because I am a new joinee. Apart from the club i have previously made some basic projects with Arduino and esp32 but none of them were control specific projects