Matlab and Simulink Flight Simulator Attitude Indicators!

[justraja13]

Hey everyone

I'm working on a flight simulator at the moment within Matlab. I've hooked it up to a joystick and i have great control of yaw, roll, pitch, VTOL, thrust reversers and more! One nice little feature I have made in an m-file is an altitude and speed indicator. These indicators are basically two plots of an outer circle and inner circle and then a dial inside pointing to a value.

The idea is as the aircraft flies, the dial changes indicating speed.

However, I can't quite figure out how to implement this in real time within simulink. I can't use X-Y plots as I require more than one plot on the figure. The needle needs to move simultaneously (or at least with as little delay as possible) with the simulation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

[kontiki99]

Not really sure I have the whole picture. Are going to try and view captured data in your sim, (flight data recorder files, or trajectory data) or are you displaying simulated aircraft performance? Either way you probably need to account for 4 dimensions, X, Y, Z and time.

Once you have determined the airspeed your modeled aircraft is traveling, and relative wind, you will be able to claculate ground speed.






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[GregLocock]

No, he's talking about how to output data in real time onto a specific graphical format. Sorry, I haven't the faintest idea, it doesn't sound hard, maybe write some matlab?

Cheers

Greg Locock


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[IRstuff]

Perhaps you should look at what's available on the Mathworks site

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