Aerospace Blockset™ 3.1

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Simulating Aerospace Vehicle Components
• Modeling and Visualizing Flight Dynamics
• Incorporating Environmental Conditions
• Fine-Tuning the Model

Introduction

Aerospace Blockset™ extends Simulink® with blocks for modeling and simulating aircraft, spacecraft, rocket, and propulsion systems, as well as unmanned airborne vehicles. It also includes blocks that implement mathematical representations from aerospace standards, common references, and first principles. Blocks for modeling equations of motion and for navigation, gain scheduling, visualization, unit conversion, and other key operations are also provided.

Standards-based reference blocks, including environmental models for gravity, atmosphere, and wind, enable you to verify and validate your vehicle system design. Graphical switching capabilities let you alternate between mathematical representations, enabling you to rapidly modify modeling conditions without changing the model. You can automatically generate code for production deployment and for real-time execution in rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop systems by using Aerospace Blockset software, the Real-Time Workshop® and xPC Target™ products (both available separately).

Key Features

• Simulates aerospace vehicle components, including propulsion systems, control systems, mass properties, and actuators
• Models flight dynamics, including three- and six-degrees-of-freedom equations of motion with fixed or variable mass
• Provides options for visualizing vehicle dynamics in a three-dimensional environment, including an interface to FlightGear flight simulator
• Includes standards-based environmental models for atmosphere, gravity, wind, geoid height, and magnetic field
• Implements predefined utilities for converting units, transforming coordinate systems and spatial representations, and performing common aerospace math operations

Using Simulink and Aerospace Blockset to model and simulate vehicle dynamics of a NASA HL-20 lifting body (below, left). The system is visualized with FlightGear flight simulator (left). Click on image to see enlarged view.