|
contents | software | |||||||
| The MathWorks Introduces Aerospace Toolbox  The MathWorks has introduced Aerospace Toolbox, which provides reference standards, environmental models, support for importing aerodynamic coefficients, and three-dimensional visualization capabilities in MATLAB. With a built-in interface to FlightGear flight simulator, Aerospace Toolbox lets engineers visualize flight data in a three-dimensional environment and reconstruct behavioral anomalies in flight-test results. By streamlining aerospace data analysis in MATLAB, Aerospace Toolbox accelerates the design and development of aerospace and defense systems.To ensure design consistency, Aerospace Toolbox comes with utilities for unit conversions, coordinate transformations, and quaternion math, along with standards-based environmental models for the atmosphere, gravity, and magnetic fields. Flight parameter utilities calculate such common parameters as equivalent airspeed, Mach number, and dynamic pressure. Engineers can now easily import aerodynamic coefficients from the widely used U.S. Air Force Digital Data Compendium (Datcom) into MATLAB to carry out preliminary control design and vehicle performance analysis. Previously, these coefficients had to be input manually. Using the coefficients with Aerospace Blockset, available separately, lets engineers calculate aerodynamic forces and moments for their Simulink flight simulations. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |