MathWorks Release 2018b Aerospace Blockset and Aerospace Toolbox

MathWorks has introduced flight analysis and visualisation capabilities for aerospace design with MATLAB and Simulink.

In Release 2018b, Aerospace Blockset adds flight control analysis tools to help analyse flying qualities of aerospace vehicles. Aerospace Toolbox adds the ability to customise user interfaces featuring cockpit flight instruments to visualise and analyse the motion and behaviour of aerospace vehicles. Engineers can develop continuous workflows from the early stages of vehicle design and development to flight prototyping, reducing time between design and testing.

Engineers working with in-house or third-party tools for flight visualisation and analysis can work directly within the Simulink environment for flight simulation, visualisation and analysis. By using Model-Based Design and Simulink early in the design workflow, teams can more easily maintain models and code. They can also share models across teams and with contractors to make sure that all requirements are met.

Aerospace Blockset helps engineers quickly model, simulate and analyse aerospace vehicle dynamics. R2018b includes flight control analysis tools to perform analysis on the dynamic response of aerospace vehicles. The tools include templates to get started and functions to compute and analyse flying qualities of airframes modelled in Simulink.

Aerospace Toolbox provides tools and functions to help analyse and visualise aerospace vehicle motion using reference standards and models. R2018b includes the addition of flight instruments that display measurements using standard cockpit instruments.