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Aerospace Toolbox

Product Overview

The Aerospace Toolbox product extends the MATLAB^® technical computing environment by providing reference standards, environment models, and aerodynamic coefficient importing for performing advanced aerospace analysis to develop and evaluate your designs. The toolbox provides the following to enable you to visualize flight data in a three-dimensional environment and reconstruct behavioral anomalies in flight-test results:

Aero.Animation, Aero.Body, Aero.Camera, and Aero.Geometry objects and associated methods
An interface to the FlightGear flight simulator
An interface to the Virtual Reality Toolbox™ software

To ensure design consistency, the Aerospace Toolbox software provides utilities for unit conversions, coordinate transformations, and quaternion math, as well as standards-based environmental models for the atmosphere, gravity, and magnetic fields. You can import aerodynamic coefficients directly from the U.S. Air Force Digital Data Compendium (DATCOM) to carry out preliminary control design and vehicle performance analysis.

The toolbox provides you with the following main features:

Provides standards-based environmental models for atmosphere, gravity, and magnetic fields.
Converts units and transforms coordinate systems and spatial representations.
Implements predefined utilities for aerospace parameter calculations, time calculations, and quaternion math.
Imports aerodynamic coefficients directly from DATCOM.
Interfaces to the FlightGear flight simulator, enabling visualization of vehicle dynamics in a three-dimensional environment.

The Aerospace Toolbox functions can be used in applications such as aircraft technology, telemetry data reduction, flight control analysis, navigation analysis, visualization for flight simulation, and environmental modeling, and can help you perform the following tasks:

Analyze, initialize, and visualize a broad range of large aerospace system architectures, including aircraft, missiles, spacecraft (probes, satellites, manned and unmanned), and propulsion systems (engines and rockets), while reducing development time.
Support and define new requirements for aerospace systems.
Perform complex calculations and analyze data to optimize and implement your designs.
Test the performance of flight tests.

The Aerospace Toolbox software maintains and updates the algorithms, tables, and standard environmental models, eliminating the need to provide internal maintenance and verification of the models and reducing the cost of internal software maintenance.

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