Anakin (Aerospace eNgineering Assistant for Kinematics, Inertia and dyNamics) is a Matlab framework that defines a number of classes to facilitate modeling and solving Classical Mechanics problems in Aerospace Engineering and other disciplines.
Installation requires simply that you download Anakin and add the base directory to your Matlab path.
A recent version of Matlab is needed to run the code. The Symbolic Math Toolbox is required to use most of the functionality. Anakin has been developed in Matlab R2016b Academic version. However, R2018a or later is recommended as it includes the live script functionality (optional).
Anakin full documentation can be found in ??.
It is recommended that you first import the Anakin package with
import anakin.*If you do not, then you will need to access all classes with the anakin. prefix,
e.g. anakin.vector.
Currently Anakin defines the following classes:
vector: vectorsbasis: creation of vector basesframe: creation of reference frames
The description of the properties and methods of each class is included in the header comments of each code file.
Unit tests are found in the /test subdirectory. After adding the Anakin package
to your Matlab path, you can run all tests by executing runtests from this
subdirectory.
If you have any comments for improvement or are interested in contributing to the continued development of this or any of my other codes, you can contact me through Mario's website.
This program is the result of substantial effort. It is released as open source in the hope that it will be useful to other people. If you find it useful and/or use it in any of your works, I kindly ask you to acknowledge it by citing ??
Copyright (c) 2018 Mario Merino. The software is released as open source with the MIT License.