I agree with Jon. JSBSim (and possibly others) seems to be a notable
flightdynamics model even in research. It will be better not to restrict
posibilities in the area of modelling planes with their flightcontrol systems
including the autopilots behavour.
Greetings
Mathias
> Roy wrote:
>
> > > > What's inside the black box? That's what I want to configure.
>
> Innis replied:
>
> > Why???.Thats why they are called a black box.
> > And unless you work for Bendix/King or one of the other black box
> > manufactures you will never know.After all what is in the black box
> > is there bread and butter.
>
> First, For some aircraft the autopilot block diagrams can be found. For
> those it would be nice to be able to model the autopilot mechanization as
> closely as possible.
>
> Second, for some other aircraft the mechanization of the autopilot might be
> proprietary (or even classified), but the designers might want to use
> FlightGear to test the implementation (even though the general public would
> never see the result).
>
> Third - and this happens for JSBSim periodically - a student or researcher
> might want to use "building blocks" to design a special purpose autopilot or
> flight control system (or a portion of one) for a thesis or other paper in
> an academic setting.
>
> Most people probably won't care to what level of detail the autopilot
> functionality is mechanized in FlightGear. However, once a general purpose
> heading A/P is crafted, or a wing leveler, etc., then those items as
> specified in a configuration file could be reused. They could also be easily
> tweaked.
>
> Jon
>
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