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Princeton Satellite
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The Aircraft Control Toolbox Learning Edition is designed to help students get the most out of their aircraft dynamics and control courses.
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The toolbox comes complete with a 200 page textbook covering aircraft dynamics and control. The book covers essential math, coordinate transformations, dynamics, control and many other topics at the advanced undergraduate and graduate student level. The toolbox has sophisticated design tools and simulations that help the student to do realistic design work immediately, yet provides full source code so that nothing is a "black box."
Applications
- Aircraft control theory courses.
- Aircraft dynamics courses.
- Aircraft design courses.
- Design laboratories.
- Student projects.
- Visualization.
Key Features
- Aircraft dynamics modeling, including flexibility, actuator, sensor and engine dynamics.
- Actuator and sensor models.
- Integrated nonlinear simulation with built-in linearization and trimming-add as many degrees of freedom as necessary to simulate your actuators, sensors and engines.
- Dynamic models can be plugged into the core simulation for easy expansion.
- Models for subsonic and supersonic aircraft with all data contained in a convenient database format.
- Aircraft control system design and analysis tools, including classical, eigenstructure assignment, output feedback and many other design methodologies.
- Atmospheric modeling.
- Aircraft computer aided design tools-assemble aircraft from components such as sensors, actuators and aerodynamic surfaces.
- Import aircraft geometry from AutoCAD DXF and Wavefront OBJ files.
- Export aircraft models in MultiVehicleSim CAD and Wavefront OBJ format.
- Full source code for every function-nothing is hidden.
- Supports UNIX, Windows, MacOS 9 and MacOS X.
- Works with MATLAB 5.2 and above.
- Comprehensive textbook on aircraft control and dynamics.
- Free technical support.
Examples
Study the Response of Elevator Deflection in an F-16
In this example, the nonlinear F-16 simulation is used to show how the deflection of a control surface effects the aircraft. This kind of study is important prior to the design of any control system and is often hard to do even with tools at big aircraft companies. With the toolbox it is straightforward to build a script that exercises all of the actuators. The 3D tools provide visual feedback during the simulation and the many 2D plots provide the details of what happened during the simulation.In this case an elevator doublet is input and the response in angle of attack is shown. The student can also use the HUD to "fly" the aircraft and study responses to control inputs. After studying the dynamics, students can then implement controllers to modify the response. The HUD allows students to easily test control augmentation systems and other controllers that involve pilot interaction
The graphical tools allow the student to visualize the aerodynamic coefficients for aircraft. This helps the student develop intuition about these important parameters. Almost all of the functions have built-in graphical demos that are accessed just by typing the name of the function.
All of the control tools are available from the ControlGUI. This graphical tool allows the students to build multi-loop control systems, or apply any other methods easily. The core tools are available for the students to use outside of the GUI. As with all of the functions, source code is available for all of the design methods so that students can understand how the methods are implemented.
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