How to simulate a fixed-wing UAV and obtain its longitudinal and lateral linear systems (LTI)
An implementation which simulates the non-linear flight dynamics of a fixed-wing unmanned areal glider with Simulink and visualizes the UAV's behavior using FlightGear.
Includes tools to calculate aerodynamic coefficients using the Tornado vortex lattice method implementation and provides a script to extract longitudinal and lateral linear systems for the trimmed gliding state.
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Jonas Ruesch (2025). How to simulate a fixed-wing UAV and obtain its longitudinal and lateral linear systems (LTI) (https://github.com/jrgenerative/fixed-wing-sim), GitHub. Retrieved .
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- Aerospace and Defense > Aerospace Blockset > Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) >
- Engineering > Aerospace Engineering > Flight Dynamics >
- Engineering > Aerospace Engineering > UAV >
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