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Currently, the simulator will work for a generic fixed-wing aircraft.

Roadmap

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Flowchart

Prior to starting on modelling the simulator in Simulink, the process of how the simulator operates was abstracted and made into a flowchart to show the different parts of the simulator and how they work.

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Firstly, input commands are given to the simulator. This includes throttle and control surfaces that describe the aircraft. This information gets sent to the controller, which controls the throttle and control surfaces in order to move the aircraft to a certain position/waypoint.

The output from the controller (actuator output) will be used to simulate the effect of the actuator outputs (how the lift and other variables is affected after the control surfaces are controlled). This would include calculating the forces and moments generated by the control surfaces and throttle, which gets used to find more information by calculating other variables (orientation, altitude, etc) through the physics model.

After the physic model calculations, it gets outputted into the simulated IMU sensor which feeds back into the controller block, which closes the loop of the processes taken by the simulator to simulate the aircraft.

Required Simulink Version and Toolboxes

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