Simulating Rocket Airbrakes in MATLAB
This tutorial demonstrates how to simulate rocket airbrakes using MATLAB, providing insights into their behavior and effectiveness in controlling rocket descent.
Lafayette Systems
40.8K views • Sep 26, 2025
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Being able to simulate your rocket projects helps improve safety, reliability and saves you from punching holes in the ground with your expensive rockets. Let's use MATLAB/SIMULINK to simulate 3 different airbrakes control systems before we fly this rocket next month!
Mathworks did not sponsor this video, though I cannot recommend their products enough
I do not provide the code or CAD for any of my projects
0:00 Intro
2:10 Why Simulate
3:26 Check Out Brilliant.org
4:45 Setting up SIMULINK
5:40 Physics Simulation
22:00 Control Systems
23:50 Velocity Delta
29:04 PD Controller
35:10 Predictive Guidance
42:20 Review
44:15 Outro
Being able to simulate your rocket projects helps improve safety, reliability and saves you from punching holes in the ground with your expensive rockets. Let's use MATLAB/SIMULINK to simulate 3 different airbrakes control systems before we fly this rocket next month!
Mathworks did not sponsor this video, though I cannot recommend their products enough
I do not provide the code or CAD for any of my projects
0:00 Intro
2:10 Why Simulate
3:26 Check Out Brilliant.org
4:45 Setting up SIMULINK
5:40 Physics Simulation
22:00 Control Systems
23:50 Velocity Delta
29:04 PD Controller
35:10 Predictive Guidance
42:20 Review
44:15 Outro
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40.8K
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Published
Sep 26, 2025
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