In recent years, aerial platforms have evolved from passive flying sensors into versatile, contact-aware robotic systems, leading to rapid advances in platform design. Standard coplanar and collinear quadrotors have been complemented by modern tilted and tilting multi-rotor platforms with enhanced maneuverability. To properly analyze, control, and validate the performance of these emerging platforms, an accurate modeling step is required; however, this can be time-consuming, user-dependent and error-prone. To address this issue, we propose a MATLAB/Simulink toolbox for modeling and simulating the dynamics of a broad class of multi-rotor platforms through both an analytical and physics-based approaches. The toolbox, named RotorSuite, is provided with comprehensive documentation and example use cases, representing a valuable tool for didactic, research, and industrial development purposes.
翻译:近年来,空中平台已从被动的飞行传感器演变为多功能、具备接触感知能力的机器人系统,推动了平台设计的快速发展。标准的共面共轴四旋翼平台已得到现代倾斜与倾转多旋翼平台的补充,后者具备更强的机动性。为准确分析、控制并验证这些新兴平台的性能,需要精确的建模步骤;然而,这一过程往往耗时、依赖用户经验且易出错。为解决此问题,我们提出一个MATLAB/Simulink工具箱,通过解析与基于物理的方法对广泛类别的多旋翼平台进行动力学建模与仿真。该工具箱命名为RotorSuite,配有完整的文档说明与示例用例,是教学、科研及工业开发领域的重要工具。