An Open Source Modelica Graphic Editor Integrated with Electronic Notebooks and Interactive Simulation

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A common situation in industry is that a system model is composed of several sub-models which may have been developed using different tools. The quality and effectiveness of large scale system modeling heavily depends on the underlying tools used for different phases of the development lifecycle. Available modeling and simulation tools support different operations on models, such as model creation, model simulation, FMU export, model checking, and code generation. Seamless tracing of the requirements and associating them with the models and the simulation results in the context of different modeling tools is becoming increasingly important. This can be used to support several activities such as impact analysis, component reuse, verification, and validation. However, due to the lack of interoperability between tools it is often difficult to use such tools in combination. Recently, the OSLC specification has emerged for integrating different lifecycle tools using linked data. In this paper we present new work on traceability support in OpenModelica where the traceability information is exchanged with other lifecycle tools through a standardized interface and format using OSLC. In particular, OpenModelica supports automatic recording and tracing of modeling activities such as creation, modification, and destruction of models, import model description XML, export of FMUs, and creation of simulation results.

Section: Prototype Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The OpenModelica Connection Editor OMEdit (Asghar et al, 2010) is a graphical Modelica model editing and simulation tool. It supports model creation, deletion, FMU export/import, textual and graphical model editing including connections drawing, simulation, plotting, and documentation presentation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traceability Support in OpenModelica Using Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)

Mengist

Pop

Asghar

et al. 2017

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“…OpenModelica provides the Advanced Interactive OpenModelica Compiler (OMC), a server that provides an API to query loaded Modelica code (Asghar et al, 2011).…”

Section: Omc and Corbamentioning

confidence: 99%

Mo|E A Communication Service Between Modelica Compilers and Text Editors

Justus

Schölzel

Dominik

et al. 2017

The Modelica language is becoming increasingly popular among scientists and engineers as platform for modelling physical or biological systems. Although Modelica is maintained as non-proprietary language by the Modelica Association, a considerable number of commercial implementations and development environments is complemented by a surprisingly small number of open source tools.In this paper, we present the communication service Mo|E that connects any text editor as front-end with a Modelica compiler as back-end. Based on the simple HTTP communication protocol, editor plugins for a software developer's favourite text editor can be developed easily, hence turning any editor into a lightweight Modelica development tool.We also present a first implementation of a plugin for the text editor Atom that exhibits features necessary for efficient software development, such as display of compile errors, code completion, go to declaration or view of context-sensitive documentation. In addition, Modelicaspecific checking of the number of equations in a model is supported.

“…As mentioned, the implementation of this graphical composite model editor is an extension of OMEdit (Asghar et al, 2010) which is implemented in C++ using the Qt graphical user interface library. The full graphical functionality of the composite modeling process can be expressed in the following steps:…”

Section: Composite Model Graphical Editormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We introduce a graphical composite model editor which is an extension and specialization of the OpenModelica connection editor OMEdit (Asghar et al, 2010). In the context of this work a composite model is composed of several sub-models including the interconnections between these sub-models.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Open-Source Graphical Composite Modeling Editor and Simulation Tool Based on FMI and TLM Co-Simulation

Mengist

Asghar

Pop

et al. 2015

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A common situation in industry is that a system model (here a composite model) is composed of several submodels 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 toolspecific 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.