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Composable Simulation

SimKit

• Goals
  • Rapidly create simulators for mechatronic systems
  • electrical, mechanical and information components
• Approach
  • Automatically compose simulations of individual components into product level simulations
• Impact
  • Allow reuse of simulation models
  • Significantly reduce the time to build simulators
  • Increase fidelity of simulations

Novel Features

• Creation of Simulation Software by Combining Individual Simulation Processes
• Inclusion of Information Agents in Simulation Process
• Provision of Distributed Environment
• Automatic Model Refinement

System Overview

Component Models

• Object-Oriented Modeling Paradigm
  • reuse of models
• A Library of Electromechanical Components
  • will incorporate ADAMS or DADS
• Information Agents
  • control system algorithms
  • environment definition

Conceptual Design

Simulation Software Architecture

• Analyze Conceptual Graph and Create Simulation Processes
  • can run in a distributed manner
  • retrieve relevant geometric information through ACIS calls
• Build Simulator Architecture
  • synchronization mechanisms
  • communication protocols
• Execute Simulation

An Example Scenario

Simulation Output

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