A co-simulation platform for actuator networks

Integrated Cyber-Physical Simulation of Intelligent Water Distribution Networks

“…The work presented in this book chapter meets all these criteria. The study most closely related to the work presented in this book chapter is Al-Hammouri et al (2007), where a method is proposed for integration of the ns-2 network simulator with the Modelica framework, a modeling language for large-scale physical systems. The paper highlights the challenge of two-way synchronization of the simulators.…”

Technologies and Methodologies Enabling Reliable Real-Time Wireless Automation

“…The device table, routing, and communication schedule are specified by the user, so no network manager functionality is implemented. The most relevant tool for WiNCS simulation besides PiccSIM, appears to be Modelica/ns-2 (Al- Hammouri et al, 2007). It is a very similar platform developed at the Case Western Reserve University (USA).…”

Co-simulation of wireless networked control systems over mobile ad hoc network using SIMULINK and OPNET

“…[24], [25], [26], [27] etc. combined two simulation packages to achieve a more efficient cosimulation approach.…”

“…OPNET and MATLAB have been integrated to evaluate the performance of smart antennas using the MX interface provided by MATLAB, which allows C programs to call functions developed in MATLAB [24]. A cosimulation platform that combines the NS2 network simulator with the Modelica framework has been presented in [25] where NS2 models the communication network and Modelica simulates the system, sensor, actuator etc. SIMULINK and OPNET co-simulation for WNCS over MANET has been considered in [26], [27].…”

“…When SIMULINK finishes execution, OPNET continues to run the simulation in this fashion. The same synchronisation mechanism has been used for co-simulation of NS2 and Modelica in [25]. Table I summarises different combinations of task invocation schemes.…”