Cambridge Rocketry Simulator – A Stochastic Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Rocket Flight Simulator

Willem J. Eerland; Simon Box; András Sóbester

doi:10.5334/jors.137

Cambridge Rocketry Simulator – A Stochastic Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Rocket Flight Simulator

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 5 (2017): Issue 1

By: Willem J. Eerland , Simon Box and András Sóbester

Open Access

|Feb 2017

Abstract

The Cambridge Rocketry Simulator can be used to simulate the flight of unguided rockets for both design and operational applications. The software consists of three parts: The first part is a GUI that enables the user to design a rocket. The second part is a verified and peer-reviewed physics model that simulates the rocket flight. This includes a Monte Carlo wrapper to model the uncertainty in the rocket’s dynamics and the atmospheric conditions. The third part generates visualizations of the resulting trajectories, including nominal performance and uncertainty analysis, e.g. a splash-down region with confidence bounds. The project is available on SourceForge, and is written in Java (GUI), C++ (simulation core), and Python (visualization). While all parts can be executed from the GUI, the three components share information via XML, accommodating modifications, and re-use of individual components.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.137 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647

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Language: English

Submitted on: Jun 16, 2016

Accepted on: Jan 26, 2017

Published on: Feb 21, 2017

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Java,

Python,

rocket,

© 2017 Willem J. Eerland, Simon Box, András Sóbester, published by Ubiquity Press
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