Aerospace Toolbox 2.2 from the MathWorks provides reference standards, environment models, and aerodynamic coefficient importing for performing advanced aerospace analysis for developing and evaluating designs. Options for visualizing vehicle dynamics include a six-degrees-of-freedom MATLAB animation object and interfaces to the FlightGear flight simulator and Virtual Reality Toolbox. These options allow a designer to visualize flight data in a 3-D environment and to reconstruct behavioral anomalies in flight-test results. For optimum design efficiency, the Toolbox provides utilities for unit conversions, coordinate transformations, and quaternion math, as well as standards-based environmental models for magnetic field, wind, geoid height, gravity, and atmosphere. Aerodynamic coefficients from the U.S. Air Force Digital Data Compendium (Datcom) can be imported for carrying out preliminary control design and vehicle performance analysis.Learn more at the MathWorks’ website.
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