Helios - 6DOF Rocket Trajectory Simulator
Ashwin
Project Timeline
Mar 2023 - Mar-2023
OVERVIEW
First-place winning hackathon project (Awarded ₹1,00,000 / ~$1,100). Developed a high-precision, 6-degree-of-freedom flight dynamics simulator in Python designed to accurately predict sounding rocket trajectories, apogees, and performance under variable atmospheric conditions.
HighlightS
- Secured First Place out of [insert number if known] teams, winning ₹1,00,000 for developing a highly accurate, deployable flight simulation tool.
- Achieved high-fidelity trajectory prediction, validating the model against a physical sounding rocket launch at Spaceport America with an apogee accuracy of within 34 feet.
- Modeled complex flight dynamics, processing over 30 distinct inputs including dynamic mass properties, time-varying motor thrust, changing aerodynamic coefficients, wind velocities, and turbulence.
SKILLS
PythonFlight DynamicsAerodynamicsMathematical Modeling6-DOF Simulation
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