NCSWT: An Integrated Modeling and Simulation Tool for Networked Control Systems

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Authors: Emeka Eyisi, Jia Bai, Derek Riley, Jiannian Weng, Yan Wei, Yuan Xue, Xenofon Koutsoukos and Janos Szipanovits

 

Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2012

 

Abstract:

This paper presents the Networked Control Systems Windtunnel
(NCSWT), an integrated modeling and simulation tool for the
evaluation of networked control systems (NCS). NCSWT inte-
grates Matlab/Simulink and ns-2 using the High Level Architecture
(HLA). Our implementation of the NCSWT based on HLA guaran-
tees accurate time synchronization and data communication in het-
erogenous simulations. NCSWT uses the Model Integrated Com-
puting (MIC) techniques to define HLA-based model constructs
such as federates representing the simulators and interactions be-
tween the simulators. NCSWT also uses MIC techniques to define
models representing the control system and network dynamics for
the rapid synthesis of simulations.

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