NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) · 1995 · 28 citations · 1 references
EngineeringAnsi CAerospace SimulationAerospace SystemSimulationOrbit DeterminationSystems EngineeringModeling And SimulationKinematicsSimulation LanguageRigid-body AircraftGeodesyGeometric ModelingVersion 1.4Aircraft NavigationComputer EngineeringAerospace EngineeringAerospace TechnologyAerodynamicsSea LevelFlight Control Systems
LaRCsim is a set of ANSI C routines that implement a full set of equations of motion for a rigid-body aircraft in atmospheric and low-earth orbital flight, suitable for pilot-in-the-loop simulations on a workstation-class computer. All six rigid-body degrees of freedom are modeled. The modules provided include calculations of the typical aircraft rigid body simulation variables, earth geodesy, gravity and atmosphere models, and support several data recording options. Features/limitations of the current version include English units of measure, a 1962 atmosphere model in cubic spline function lookup form, ranging from sea level to 75,000 feet, rotating oblate spheroidal earth model, with aircraft C.G. coordinates in both geocentric and geodetic axes. Angular integrations are done using quaternion angular state variables. Vehicle X-Z symmetry is assumed.
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