How to simulate a fixed-wing UAV and obtain its longitudinal and lateral linear systems (LTI)

Example how to simulate an unmanned glider and extract flight dynamics for trimmed gliding.
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Updated 1 Mar 2017

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.

Cite As

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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