Abstract:

In order to shorten the research and design period and reduce cost of UAV flight control system (FCS)
incurred by physical prototyping so as to enhance efficiency of UAV FCS, a virtual prototype platform (VPP) of
UAV FCS is studied. Guided by the idea of model-driven and using an iterative and incremental approach, we
propose a scheme for designing UAV flight control system on the VPP. The VPP is established using Rhapsody,
Simulink and VC++, on which some type of UAV FCS is designed and tested. It is shown that VPP can be used
to design the virtual prototype in the UAV flight control system quickly and efficiently, better than that of physical
prototyping in some way.

Key words: virtual prototype, flight control, model-driven