Aero.Body

Create body object for use with animation object

Syntax

h = Aero.Body


Description

h = Aero.Body constructs a body for an animation object. The animation object is returned in h. To use the Aero.Body object, you typically:

1. Create the animation body.

2. Configure or customize the body object.

3. Load the body.

4. Generate patches for the body (requires an axes from a figure).

5. Set time series data source.

6. Move or update the body.

By default, an Aero.Body object natively uses aircraft x-y-z coordinates for the body geometry and the time series data. It expects the rotation order z-y-x (psi, theta, phi).

Convert time series data from other coordinate systems on the fly by registering a different CoordTransformFcn function.

Constructor Summary

Constructor	Description
Body	Construct body object for use with animation object.

Method Summary

Method	Description
findstartstoptimes	Return start and stop times of time series data.
generatePatches	Generate patches for body with loaded face, vertex, and color data.
load	Get geometry data from source.
move	Change Aero.Body position and orientation.
update	Changes body position and orientation versus time data.

Property Summary

Property	Description	Values
CoordTransformFcn	Specify a function that controls the coordinate transformation.	Character vector | string
Name	Specify name of body.
Position	Specify position of body.	MATLAB array
Rotation	Specify rotation of body.	MATLAB array
Geometry	Specify geometry of body.	handle
PatchGenerationFcn	Specify patch generation function.	MATLAB array
PatchHandles	Specify patch handles.	MATLAB array
ViewingTransform	Specify viewing transform.	MATLAB array
TimeseriesSource	Specify time series source.	MATLAB array
TimeseriesSourceType	Specify the type of time series data stored in 'TimeseriesSource'. Five values are available. They are listed in TimeseriesSourceType Properties. The default value is 'Array6DoF'.	Character vector | string
TimeseriesReadFcn	Specify time series read function.	MATLAB array

The time series data, stored in the property 'TimeseriesSource', is interpreted according to the 'TimeseriesSourceType' property, which can be one of:

TimeseriesSourceType Properties

Property	Description
'Timeseries'	MATLAB time series data with six values per time: x y z phi theta psi The values are resampled.
'StructureWithTime'	Simulink struct with time (for example, Simulink root outport logging 'Structure with time'): signals(1).values: x y z signals(2).values: phi theta psi Signals are linearly interpolated vs. time using interp1.
'Array6DoF'	A double-precision array in n rows and 7 columns for 6-DoF data: time x y z phi theta psi. If a double-precision array of 8 or more columns is in 'TimeseriesSource', the first 7 columns are used as 6-DoF data.
'Array3DoF'	A double-precision array in n rows and 4 columns for 3-DoF data: time x z theta. If a double-precision array of 5 or more columns is in 'TimeseriesSource', the first 4 columns are used as 3-DoF data.
'Custom'	Position and angle data is retrieved from 'TimeseriesSource' by the currently registered 'TimeseriesReadFcn'.