Get Started with Aerospace Blockset

Model, simulate, and analyze aerospace vehicle dynamics

Aerospace Blockset™ provides Simulink^® reference examples and blocks for modeling, simulating, and analyzing high-fidelity aircraft, rotocraft, and spacecraft platforms. The blockset includes vehicle dynamics, validated models of the flight environment, and blocks for pilot behavior, actuator dynamics, and propulsion. Built-in aerospace math operations and coordinate system and spatial transformations let you represent atmospheric vehicle and spacecraft motion and orientation. To examine simulation results, you can connect visualization blocks, including photorealistic views, to your model.

Aerospace Blockset provides standard model architectures for building reusable vehicle platform models. These models can support 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 applications in autonomous flight, radar, and communications.

Tutorials

Explore the NASA HL-20 Model

Learn how to run an aerospace model in the Simulink interface, examine the results, and modify the model settings and parameters.
Constellation Modeling with the Orbit Propagator Block

Propagate the orbits of a constellation of satellites and compute and visualize access intervals between the individual satellites and several ground stations.
Create Aerospace Models

Build models with your Aerospace Blockset software.
Ideal Airspeed Correction

Calculate indicated and true airspeed.
1903 Wright Flyer

Model the airframe, environment, and pilot of the first aircraft, the Wright Flyer.
NASA HL-20 Lifting Body Airframe

Model the airframe of a NASA HL-20 lifting body, a low-cost complement to the Space Shuttle orbiter.
Projects Template for Flight Simulation Applications

Use projects to help organize large flight simulation modeling projects and make it easier to share projects with others.

About Aerospace Modeling

Code Generation Support

Generate code for real-time execution in rapid prototyping and for hardware-in-the-loop systems using Simulink Coder™ software.
Support for Aerospace Toolbox Quaternion Functions

Use quaternion functions in the MATLAB Function block.
Visualization Tools

View flight paths with MATLAB^® graphics-based 3DoF and 6DoF animation blocks, scenarios using Unreal Engine^®, or flight simulator animation; input data to models; display measurements through standard cockpit instruments.
Display Measurements with Cockpit Instruments

View signal data using any flight instrument blocks.

Videos

Getting Started with Aerospace Blockset
Use Aerospace Blockset to model aircraft and spacecraft in dynamic environments, implement flight controllers, and visualize flight dynamics in orbit trajectories.

Simulating Aircraft in Unreal Engine based 3D Environment
Use aircraft scenario blocks to simulate aircraft models in a 3D environment powered by Unreal Engine.