Thrust Vectoring or Thrust Vector control is the ability of an aircraft or a rocket's propulsion system to manipulate the direction of its thrust to control the rocket or aircrafts attitude or angular velocity. Adjusting the gimbal angle, controls the direction and attitude of the of the rocket as shown in the image below
Gimbaled_thrust_diagram.gif:Brian0918 at en.wikipediaderivative work: Titimaster / Public domain
Code in this repository is discussed in this BPS.Space YouTube video shown below.
To use the files,
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Clone the repository as seen here
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Open
simpleTVCRocketModel.slx -
Click the appropriate hyperlink to choose between a simple Aerospace Blockset or Simscape implementation
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Move the Gimbal angle slider to see the effect of different gimbal angles on the trajectory of the rocket.