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APRICOT: Aerospace PRototypIng COntrol Toolbox. A Modeling and Simulation Environment for Aircraft Control Design

Authors : Andrea Ferrarelli, Danilo Caporale, Alessandro Settimi, Lucia Pallottino

Published in: Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

A novel MATLAB/Simulink based modeling and simulation environment for the design and rapid prototyping of state-of-the-art aircraft control systems is proposed. The toolbox, named APRICOT, is able to simulate the longitudinal and laterodirectional dynamics of an aircraft separately, as well as the complete 6 degrees of freedom dynamics. All details of the dynamics can be easily customized in the toolbox, some examples are shown in the paper. Moreover, different aircraft models can be easily integrated. The main goal of APRICOT is to provide a simulation environment to test and validate different control laws with different aircraft models. Hence, the proposed toolbox has applicability both for educational purposes and control rapid prototyping. With respect to similar software packages, APRICOT is customizable in all its aspects, and has been released as open source software. An interface with Flightgear Simulator allows for online visualization of the flight. Examples of control design with simulation experiments are reported and commented.

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Metadata
Title
APRICOT: Aerospace PRototypIng COntrol Toolbox. A Modeling and Simulation Environment for Aircraft Control Design
Authors
Andrea Ferrarelli
Danilo Caporale
Alessandro Settimi
Lucia Pallottino
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-47604-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-47605-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47605-6_11

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