Virtual Pilots and Flight Dynamics Models for Air Traffic Control Simulations

FixedWingLib CGF and RotorLib CGF products provide special high-performance flight dynamics models for helicopters and airplanes. It also provides virtual pilots that can autonomously fly  airplanes and helicopters. These products provide all features that are necessary to simulate the air traffic at an airport.

If the simulation application requires pilot-in-the-loop simulators, then airplane and helicopter flight dynamics models of FixedWingLib FDM and RotorLib FDM products provide the required fidelity level.

Human-in-the-loop simulations

RotorLib FDM and FixedWingLib FDM provide ready-to-use flight dynamics models for helicopter and fixed wing aircraft. Both products support human-in-the-loop simulations and allow pilots or others to fly the aircraft with regular joysticks or in simulator cockpits.

All phases of flight can be simulated: take off, landing (incl. multi stage landing approaches), cruise, climb and taxiing. Flight models can also simulate emergency situations, shear wind landings and take off/landing cancellations. This is possible due to the high fidelity mathematical models we include in our flight models.

Additional information is available in the product pages RotorLib FDM and FixedWingLib FDM

Virtual Pilots

RotorLib CGF and FixedWingLib CGF allow developers to put aircrafts and helicopters which are controlled by virtual pilots into simulations. The virtual pilots allow point-and-click interfaces or giving high level command using keyboard keys. With this method it is not required to fly the aircraft all the time but rather the aircraft can be commanded to fly a certain maneuver until a next command is given by the user.

  • Helicopter maneuvers include hover, fly to position, land, waypoint flight among others.
  • Airplane maneuvers include level flight, climb, ascend, loiter around a point, waypoint flight among others.

The maneuvers are available as C++ classes which offer great extensibility:

  • All maneuvers are parametric. For example it is possible to specify approach path parameters of a landing.
  • Both products also allow chaining the maneuvers to create simulation scenarios.
  • Additionally it is possible to use the low level controllers to create completely new maneuvers.

Additional information is available in the product pages RotorLib CGF and FixedWingLib CGF

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Simulation Features

  • Large number of aircraft models can be simulated with RTDynamics flight models. These include cargo aircraft, private jets, passenger aircraft and helicopters.
  • Virtually unlimited number of helicopters and airplanes can be simulated. On a modern PC, it is possible to simulate 80 aircrafts in real-time.
  • All models are available as C++ libraries for Windows and Linux.