Alachew Mengist
PELAB – Programming Environment Lab, Dept. Computer Science, Linköping University, Sweden
Adeel Asghar
PELAB – Programming Environment Lab, Dept. Computer Science, Linköping University, Sweden
Adrian Pop
PELAB – Programming Environment Lab, Dept. Computer Science, Linköping University, Sweden
Peter Fritzson
PELAB – Programming Environment Lab, Dept. Computer Science, Linköping University, Sweden
Willi Braun
Dept. Mathematics and Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Alexander Siemers
SKF, Göteborg, Sweden
Dag Fritzson
SKF, Göteborg, Sweden
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp15118181Published in: Proceedings of the 11th International Modelica Conference, Versailles, France, September 21-23, 2015
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 118:19, p. 181-188
Published: 2015-09-18
ISBN: 978-91-7685-955-1
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
A common situation in industry is that a system model (here a composite model) is composed of several sub-models which may have been developed using different tools. FMI is one important technology for exporting/importing models between tools and/or connecting them via co-simulation. TLM based modeling and co-simulation is another important technique for modeling, connecting, and simulation of especially mechanical systems, which is simple, numerically stable, and efficient. A number of tool-specific simulation models, such as Modelica models, SimuLink models, Adams models, BEAST models, etc., have successfully been connected and simulated using TLM based co-simulation. However, previously there was no general open source tool for creation, graphic editing, and simulation of composite models connected via FMI or TLM based co-simulation. In this paper we present a graphical composite model editor based on OpenModelica which is integrated with the OpenModelica and the SKF TLM co-simulation frameworks to support both FMI and TLM based composite model editing and simulation. The editor supports creating, viewing and editing a composite model both in textual and graphical representation. The system supports simulation of composite models consisting of sub-models created using different tools.
Graphic Editing; Composite-Modeling; Modelica; FMI; TLM; XML; Simulation; Co-Simulation
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