Integrated Project Management Tool for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems

In the aerospace industry, engineers rely on fast, accurate results from simulation environments to design and develop ever more complex systems in shorter development times. An integrated approach for the development of complex aerospace systems is presented. This commercial off-the-shelf solution provides tooling to simplify the consolidation of collaborative efforts from diverse research, development, and test groups in the implementation of sophisticated simulation models. The software described in this paper is based in the MATLAB® and Simulink® products and intended to increase the efficiency of the workflow when several teams or individuals are involved. This is achieved through a unified graphical user interface in which the project manager and members of the development team can componentize the different aspects of the project model and assign tasks and files to specific teams or engineers. To better illustrate the scope of this technique, a case study for a complex aerospace model is provided based on the HL-20 personnel launch system.