Pilot Joystick All

Provide joystick interface in All Outputs configuration on Windows platform

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Libraries:
Aerospace Blockset / Animation / Animation Support Utilities

Alternative Configurations of Pilot Joystick All Block:
Pilot Joystick

Description

The Pilot Joystick All block provides a pilot joystick interface for a Windows^® platform. Roll, pitch, yaw, and throttle are mapped to the joystick X, Y, R, and Z channels respectively.

The Pilot Joystick and Pilot Joystick All blocks are alternative configurations of the same block.

• Pilot Joystick — Outputs four axes.

• Pilot Joystick All — Outputs all channels.

To generate deployable code, select one of the configuration parameter Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® C++ nmake toolchains from Code Generation > Toolchain.

Examples

Fly the De Havilland Beaver

Model the De Havilland Beaver using Simulink^® and Aerospace Blockset™ software.

• Open Live Script

Limitations

• The Pilot Joystick All block is not supported in Simulink Online.

• If the joystick does not support an R (rudder or twist) channel, yaw output is set to zero. Outputs are of type double, except when Joystick ID is set to AllOutputs mode, which is a uint32 flagword of bits. On non Microsoft platforms, this block outputs zeros.

• Pitch value has the opposite sense as that delivered by the FlightGear joystick interface.

Ports

Output

analog — Analog output

range [-1, 1] | range [ 0, 1]

Analog output, returned according to:

Array Number	Channel	Output Range	Joystick	Description
1	X	[-1, 1]	[left, right]	Roll command
2	Y	[-1, 1]	[forward/down, back/up]	Pitch command
3	Z	[ 0, 1]	[min, max]	Throttle command
4	R	[-1, 1]	[left, right]	Yaw command
5	U	[ 0, 1]	[min, max]	U channel value
6	V	[ 0, 1]	[min, max]	V channel value

Data Types: double

buttons — Button

flagword with 32 button states

Button output, returned as a flagword containing up to 32 button states on the buttons channel. Bit 0 is button 1, Bit 1 is button 2, and so forth.

Data Types: uint32

POV — Point-of-view

hat

Point-of-view, returned as a hat value in degrees on the POV channel. Zero degrees is straight ahead, 90 degrees is to the left, and so forth.

Data Types: double

Parameters

Joystick ID — Joystick ID

Joystick1 (default) | Joystick2 | Joystick3 | Joystick4 | Joystick5 | Joystick6 | Joystick7 | Joystick8 | Joystick9 | Joystick10 | Joystick11 | Joystick12 | Joystick13 | Joystick14 | Joystick15 | Joystick16 | None

Specify the joystick ID as

• Joystick1

• Joystick2

• Joystick3

• Joystick4

• Joystick5

• Joystick6

• Joystick7

• Joystick8

• Joystick9

• Joystick10

• Joystick11

• Joystick12

• Joystick13

• Joystick14

• Joystick15

• Joystick16

• None

Programmatic Use

Block Parameter: JoystickID

Type: character vector

Values: Joystick1 | Joystick2 | Joystick3 | Joystick4 | Joystick5 | Joystick6 | Joystick7 | Joystick8 | Joystick9 | Joystick10 | Joystick11 | Joystick12 | Joystick13 | Joystick14 | Joystick15 | Joystick16 | None

Default: 'Joystick1'

Output configuration — Joystick output configuration

AllOutputs (default) | FourAxis

Joystick output configuration, specified as FourAxis or AllOutputs. For more information on the AllOutputs configuration, see Pilot Joystick All.

Programmatic Use

Block Parameter: OutputConfiguration

Type: character vector

Values: FourAxis | AllOutputs

Default: 'FourAxis'

Sample time — Sample time

1/30 (default) | -1 | scalar

Specify the sample time (-1 for inherited), specified as a scalar.

Programmatic Use

Block Parameter: SampleTime

Type: character vector

Values: scalar

Default: '1/30'

Alternative Configurations

Pilot Joystick — Provide joystick interface on Windows platform

The Pilot Joystick block outputs four axes.

Libraries:
Aerospace Blockset / Animation / Animation Support Utilities

Version History

Introduced in R2007a

R2023b: Pilot Joystick All Block Update

The Pilot Joystick All block now supports up to 16 joysticks.