Aircraft Euler Kinematics (Attitude) Simulation in Python – Flight Simulation Tutorial - Section 1.3
The goal of this lesson is to understand how to model aircraft attitude from angular rates. Toward this, we review Euler angles, Euler angular rates and how they differ from body resolved angular rates, the Euler kinematic equations, and coding the Euler kinematics in Python coupled to 6-DOF dynamics. This lesson establishes a working bare-bones simulation with aircraft governing equations. To test the simulation, we model dropping a sphere under gravity with different initial attitudes. This lesson is the third in a series on the ground up development of a full aircraft flight simulation.
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Errata:
1. At 12:40 , in line 14 of the code, mass of sphere is set to 5 kg. But, just below is the "amod" dictionary in line 17, where it is set to 1 kg. This issue was fixed in later versions of the code.
References:
Stevens and Lewis, Aircraft Control and Simulation, 3rd Edition.
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