FlexiFlightVis

FlexiFlightVis is a program for a technical visualization of flexible airplanes. It is intended to run the simulation of the flexible airplane in Matlab/Simulink. However, since Matlab/Simulink has limited capabilities for 3D visualization, FlexiFlightVis can be used for visualization. Therefore, the state of the airplane must be transferred from Matlab/Simulink to FlexiFlightVis via UDP for real-time visualization. Because of the UDP interface, FlexiFlightVis can run on a different computer than the Matlab/Simulink simulation. FlexiFlightVis assumes a certain organization of the aircraft state (struct). Take a look at the example to see how it works.

Installation

• Linux:
  Download and run the AppImage in the Releases.

• Windows:
  Currently not supported (but you can try to build from source).

Example

FlexiFlightVis is used in the following research project:
https://github.com/iff-gsc/SE2A_Aviation_2023

Build from source (Linux)

• Install Qt5:

  sudo apt-get install qt5-default
  

• Install dependencies:

  sudo apt-get install -y libglfw3-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
  

• Clone FlexiFlightVis:

  git clone https://github.com/iff-gsc/flexiflightvis.git
  

• Compile the program from Qt Creator or from terminal:

  mkdir build
  cd build
  qmake ../FlexiFlightVis/FlexiFlightVis.pro -spec linux-g++ CONFIG+=debug CONFIG+=qml_debug
  make