Getting Started with Aerospace Blockset

Aerospace Blockset™ provides Simulink^® blocks for modeling, simulating, and analyzing aerospace vehicles. You can incorporate vehicle dynamics, validated models of the flight environment, and pilot behavior, and then connect your model to the FlightGear Flight Simulator to visualize simulation results.

With Aerospace Blockset you can use aerodynamic coefficients or Data Compendium (Datcom) derivatives to model fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and multirotor vehicles. Prebuilt component libraries let you design GNC algorithms and model actuator dynamics and the propulsion subsystem. Built-in aerospace math operations and coordinate system and spatial transformations let you describe the behavior of three-degrees-of-freedom (3DOF) and six-degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) bodies.

The blockset includes validated environment models for atmosphere, gravity, wind, geoid height, and magnetic field to represent flight conditions and increase simulation fidelity. Flight control analysis tools let you analyze the dynamic response and flying qualities of aerospace vehicles. To complete your analysis, you can visualize the vehicle in flight directly from Simulink with standard cockpit instruments and using the prebuilt FlightGear Flight Simulator interface.

Tutorials

• Explore the NASA HL-20 Model
  

  Learn how to run an aerospace model in the Simulink interface, examine the results, and modify the model settings and parameters.

• Create Aerospace Models
  

  Build models with your Aerospace Blockset software.

• Open Aerospace Examples
  

  Access product examples.

• Ideal Airspeed Correction
  

  Calculate indicated and true airspeed.

• 1903 Wright Flyer
  

  Model the airframe, environment, and pilot of the first aircraft, the Wright Flyer.

• NASA HL-20 Lifting Body Airframe
  

  Model the airframe of a NASA HL-20 lifting body, a low-cost complement to the Space Shuttle orbiter.

• Projects Template for Flight Simulation Applications
  

  Use projects to help organize large flight simulation modeling projects and makes it easier to share projects with others.

About Aerospace Modeling

• Code Generation Support
  

  Generate code for real-time execution in rapid prototyping and for hardware-in-the-loop systems using Simulink Coder™ software.

• Support for Aerospace Toolbox Quaternion Functions
  

  Use quaternion functions in the MATLAB Function block.

• Display Measurements with Cockpit Instruments
  

  View signal data using any flight instrument blocks.