For many flight control engineers, the development process begins in MATLAB and Simulink.
You build a model. You develop control laws. You run simulations. You analyze the results. You refine the controller.
Eventually, however, the simulation has to be validated in flight.
And that’s where the process can become more complicated.
The controller that works in your Simulink model now has to operate on an actual flight control platform. Depending on the architecture you’re using, that can mean additional software integration, adaptation, and manual code porting before your controller is ready to fly.
From control law development to flight validation
AscendOS is a flight control platform built specifically for engineers who develop control laws.
The platform supports direct deployment from MATLAB/Simulink Autocode, allowing the controller to run as-generated rather than requiring a separate manual C++ porting process.
Instead of treating simulation and flight as two separate software environments, AscendOS is designed to connect them.
Develop in Simulink. Deploy to AscendOS. Fly. Analyze data. Improve the model. Fly again.
Closing the simulation-to-flight loop
Flight testing should be part of the engineering feedback loop, not the point where your development workflow suddenly changes.
AscendOS supports MATLAB-compatible flight-data output, allowing engineers to move flight test results back into their MATLAB workflow without conversion tooling or manual log alignment.
That creates a straightforward development cycle: Model – Controller – Flight – Data – Analysis – Model
The shorter and more direct that loop becomes, the faster engineers can iterate.
Why direct deployment matters
The value isn’t simply that AscendOS supports Simulink.
The bigger advantage is reducing the gap between the controller you’ve developed and the controller you’re actually flying.
Every additional software layer or manual translation creates another opportunity for engineering effort to be spent on integration rather than control law development.
AscendOS is designed to keep the focus on your flight control system.
Built for engineers who build control laws
AscendOS is particularly suited to teams developing proprietary or advanced flight control architectures, including flight control researchers, UAS autonomy teams, and defense R&D programs.
The platform combines direct Simulink deployment with 100 Hz hard-real-time execution, deterministic sensing-to-actuation latency, and MATLAB-compatible flight data.
The result is a flight control development platform designed to make the transition from simulation to aircraft more direct.
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