TY - CONF T1 - APRICOT: Aerospace PRototypIng COntrol Toolbox. A Modeling and Simulation Environment for Aircraft Control Design T2 - International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems MESAS 2016 Y1 - 2016 A1 - A. Ferrarelli A1 - D. Caporale A1 - A Settimi A1 - L. Pallottino KW - Embedded Control KW - Robotics AB -

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.

JF - International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems MESAS 2016 PB - Springer CY - Rome, Italy, June 15-16, 2016 VL - 9991 of the book series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) UR - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-47605-6_11 ER -