Integrated Controls Design and Simulation

This paper describes the development of a workstation which integrates the design, analysis, and simulation methods used for flight control system synthesis. Aerodynamic, propulsion, and structural models can be directly interfaced for analysis and synthesis work, and the results transferred to a flight simulator and to the dynamic structural model. The modular workstation is implemented with an executive which handles most input/output operations internally so that data management by the user is minimized. The modular approach allows new techniques to be easily implemented as executives or as additional modules.