Summary

This project contains the estimator and controller for the canards that flew on the 2025 rocket, Aurora, and further development towards the 2026 Waterloo Rocketry flight. Additionally, it contains a 6DOF rocket plant model designed to enable closed loop simulation, including sensor dynamics. There are a number of setup and support scripts for the main model (such as evaluating the Barrowman equations from input geometry).

Ideally, setting the rocket to simulate should be as easy as changing the first line in configure_plant_model.m to run the appropriate script. It probably isn't, so at that point you should ask someone for help.

How to use

Running the Sim

0. run Simulinkcanards.prj (if the folders and subfolders are not yet added to your path)

Option A

1. run configure_plant_model
2. open the CC_Flight_Simulation.slx in the plant-model folder
3. when everything has loaded and simulink is open, click the big green start button in center of the top header
4. plot access: scope blocks in subsystems /visualization_estimator, or /plant_combined/visualization_sim

Option B

1. run sim_call (in monte-carlo/) to simulate a single sim and plot

Option C

1. configure a batch run by editing sim_call_sweep (in monte-carlo/)
2. run sim_call_sweep to simulate a batch of sims
3. (edit and) run plot_sweep to plot results

Setup

1. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/waterloo-rocketry/simulink-canards.git
2. Make sure you have MATLAB 2025b installed (The specific version matters cause Simulink ;-;)
3. Install (do this with Matlab install when you can select multiple at once, if possible):
   • Aerospace Blockset
   • Aerospace Toolbox
   • Control System Toolbox
   • DSP System Toolbox
   • Instrument Control Toolbox
   • MATLAB Support for MinGW-w64 C/C++/Fortran Compiler
   • Signal Processing Toolbox
   • Simulink
4. In Matlab run mex -setup C and mex -setup C++

Documentation

Most up to date internal documentation is here.
A backup is on the documentation branch.