Opal-RT Launches RT-LAB Orchestra
Real-time framework allows cosimulation of heterogenous software.
| Published April 30, 2008
Opal-RT Technologies Inc. (Montreal, Quebec), a provider of distributed real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing systems, introduced RT-LAB Orchestra, a real-time (RT) framework for cosimulation of heterogenous software in a single simulation environment and enables testing of control models and environment models on the same simulator.
Real-time simulation of complex systems often requires heterogeneous models to be integrated into a single co-simulation environment. These models are often written in different programming languages, or generated by various simulation tools. By facilitating integration and interoperability between disparate co-simulation components, RT-LAB Orchestra enables the engineer to conduct real-time co-simulation of virtual vehicles earlier in the design process.
RT-LAB Orchestra is an application-level data communication layer that sits on top of the RT-LAB framework at the heart of Opal-RT's eDRIVEsim Real-Time Simulator. RT-LAB, Opal-RT's flagship technology, is the real-time technology that has revolutionized the way model-based design is performed. RT-LAB's flexibility and scalability allow it to be used in virtually any simulation or control system application, and to add computing-power where and when it is needed.
RT-LAB Orchestra includes a library of Matlab/Simulink blocks that are inserted into Simulink models that implement co-simulation components. A C-code API is then used by co-simulation components to exchange data within the RT-LAB framework, while configuration requirements are handled through an XML description file. In addition, a wide variety of model types can be supported including C, Simulink, AMEsim, Dymola, Statemate, and Altia.
For further details, contact Opal-RT Technologies Inc.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.