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wailo

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Re:Flight Simulator - Coding Challenge 1 Year, 1 Month ago	Karma: 5
The attitude indicator was the most difficult one, wont be surprised if there was an error. I am glad that you choose to keep it simple, I will go through the code to educate myself about animating objects in MATLAB What to to ask you if MATLAB allows keyboard control input without stopping the execution of program? Thank you again Andrei, I really liked your work.

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jakubnaira

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Using Matlab To Collect Data From A Flt yoke sys 1 Year ago

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Dear All,

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Yakubu Ibrahim-Australia

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Andrei

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Re:Flight Simulator - Coding Challenge 1 Year ago

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wailo wrote:

What to to ask you if MATLAB allows keyboard control input without stopping the execution of program?

I have no idea, but I think it is possible if you look into the high-level functions like S-functions or C language functions, which are not my strongest area.

using Matlab to collect data from A PRO Flight YokeSystem(Saitek)

That's possible in Simulink but I never used this kind of input into Matlab/Simulink. Anyway if you look into the Simulink library you should find there in the Aerospace blockset/Animation/Joystick input, in the 3D Animation blockset/Joystick input, blocks that can input signals from hardware connected to the computer or in the Instruments control blockset you can find same kind of blocks for serial port, UDP, TCP, USB but you need to specify the communication parameters manually.

For my PhD project I used an Analog Input block in Simulink and a National-Instruments Data Aquisition 6229 card connected to the USB of my laptop, which was quite easy to select the parameters. I suppose any hardware you connect to the USB port, Simulink will recognize if Mathworks developed already the communication software, that means for Saitek devices in your case.

Here is some info that you may find useful:
www.mathkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/matlab/260...-joystick-and-pedals

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sncwhiz

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Re:Using Matlab To Collect Data From A Flt yoke sys 9 Months, 3 Weeks ago

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Also, outside of simulink you can define a joystick and read it within MATLAB. This can be done by the following:

%Define a joystick (Note the input parameter '1' is used to specify which joystick/device it is reading from if there are multiple:

joy = vrjoystick(1)

%Once defined, you can read from it:

[axes,buttons,povs] = read(joy);

Good luck. Let me know if you need anymore help. Also as a good starting point, for your project if you want to use an existing graphical flight simulator, both XPlane and Flight Gear are not to hard to implement via UDP transmission of your aircraft's orientation. It can also be done in Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I have not done it.

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wailo

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