Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear to simulink

[Ampere K. <amp...@sy...>]

On July 3, 2008 03:45:03 pm Salvador Roberto Vazquez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Salvador Vazquez. We are working on an
> autopilot here at UCSC and I am working on the ground
> station and since our autopilot is not working i want to
> use flightgear for data. But the problem is I want to use
> flightgear's own autopilot but be able to pick lon,lat,
> and alt on matlab and transfer it to flightgear's
> autopilot in real time. i have been working with simulink
> but the inputs for the flightgear's 6d of animation takes
> in a vector with 6 inputs lat long alt heading pitch and i
> cant remember the last one. But anyway i was wondering if
> you could possibly give me advice on how to set up
> something in simulink so i can pick lat long and alt to
> have the autopilot of flightgear take it there in real
> time. I would truly appreciate any help with this problem.
> I should also mention that I am an intern and do not know
> much on simulink, although i have been reading up it is
> still a very advanced program that i can not learn in such
> a short time. Please help and thank you.

I haven't done this so I'm not sure if it will work.  But if you have the 
Aerospace Toolbox installed, you should be able to find 'Pack net_fdm Packet 
for FlightGear' and 'Send net_fdm Packet to FlightGear' under Aerospace 
Blockset > Animation > Flight Simulator Interfaces.  Add the two blocks and 
connect the output of the 'Pack' block to the input of 'Send' block.  Double 
click on the 'Pack' block and check 'Show velocity/acceleration inputs', then 
try sending in the appropiate signals.

Note that Simulink only has support up to version 0.9.10.



Ampere