Using flight tests to assess flight-control architectures, evaluate digital control law implementations, and develop advanced flight displays is both costly and time-consuming. Engineers at Gulfstream Aerospace tackled these problems by using MathWorks tools to develop a pilot-in-the-loop aircraft simulation laboratory. The lab includes a cockpit emulator with pilot interfaces, flight-control displays, and window views. The controls and displays are linked to a real-time simulation based on high-fidelity Simulink models of aerodynamic and engine forces and moments, equations of motion, aircraft sensors, control surface actuation, and flight control laws.
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'Using Simulink and Aerospace Blockset we developed a modular and reconfigurable simulation environment,' says Nomaan Saeed, Flight Sciences Engineer for Gulfstream. 'MathWorks tools enable us to evaluate control laws rapidly, modify our control systems, and immediately see the effects of those changes on handling qualities during simulation.'