Aerospace Blockset
Model, simulate, and analyze aerospace vehicle dynamics
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Aerospace Blockset provides tools for modeling and simulation of aircraft, rotorcraft, and spacecraft. The blockset includes vehicle dynamics and components, environment models, and aerospace math and coordinate frames. These capabilities support high-fidelity system-level simulation and mission-level analysis across design and integration workflows.
Aerospace Blockset supports workflows for guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), mission planning, trajectory design, and system analysis. You can perform closed-loop simulation for system design, trade studies, and validation, with visualization capabilities for analyzing results. The blockset supports system performance evaluation from concept through operation for aerospace vehicles.
Atmospheric Flight
For atmospheric flight platforms, including rotorcraft, use blocks to model dynamics, perform simulations, and understand system behavior under various flight and environment conditions.
Spacecraft Simulation
Model, simulate, and analyze the motion and dynamics of spacecraft missions and satellite constellations. Use solar system ephemeris data to calculate the position and velocity of celestial objects over time.
Maritime Systems
Model and simulate maritime vehicles and ocean environments for marine applications and multidomain system-of-systems scenarios.
Environment Models
Use validated environment models to represent standard atmospheric, gravity, and magnetic field profiles as well as standard wind conditions such as turbulence, gust, shear, and horizontal wind.
Equations of Motion and Aerospace Math
Standardize units across your model, transform spatial representations and coordinate systems, and perform common aerospace math operations. Model equations of motion using built-in blocks.
Guidance, Navigation, and Control
Develop and analyze guidance, navigation, and control systems by modeling onboard algorithms, sensors, and vehicle dynamics in a closed-loop simulation environment.
Multivehicle Simulation
Generate reference trajectories for vehicle motion, model the behavior of aerospace actors, and simulate environments for mission engineering and system-level analyses of multivehicle scenarios.
Visualization
Visualize and understand vehicle dynamics by using cockpit flight instruments, connecting your simulation to a photorealistic 3D environment with Unreal Engine®, or connecting to the FlightGear flight simulator.
Aerospace Reference Applications
Explore ready-to-simulate aircraft, rotorcraft, spacecraft, and maritime vehicle examples and templates to accelerate implementation of your own applications.
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Aerospace Blockset FAQs
Aerospace Blockset provides blocks for modeling, simulating, and analyzing high-fidelity aircraft, rotorcraft, and spacecraft platforms. It includes vehicle dynamics, validated flight environment models, coordinate transformations, unit conversions, and blocks for pilot behavior, actuator dynamics, and propulsion. You can use the Simulink reference examples and templates to get started.
You can model aircraft, rotorcraft, and spacecraft platforms, including fixed-wing vehicles, helicopters, quadcopters, spacecraft, and satellite constellations.
Aerospace Blockset supports flight and mission analysis; conceptual studies; detailed mission design; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) algorithm development; software integration testing; and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for both manned and autonomous flight, radar, and communications applications.
Yes, you can visualize vehicle dynamics using cockpit flight instruments, by connecting to the third-party FlightGear flight simulator, or by connecting your simulation to a photorealistic 3D environment with Unreal Engine.
Aerospace Blockset includes validated environment models representing standard atmospheric, gravity, and magnetic field profiles as well as standard wind conditions, including turbulence.
Yes, the blockset provides blocks to model vehicle components such as linear and nonlinear actuators, rotors, human pilot behavior, and engine systems.
Aerospace Blockset includes built-in aerospace math operations as well as coordinate system and spatial transformations that let you represent atmospheric vehicle and spacecraft motion and orientation.
Yes, you can model, simulate, and analyze the motion and dynamics of spacecraft and satellite constellations, and use solar system ephemeris data to calculate the position and velocity of celestial objects over time.
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