A Hybrid Simulation/Physical Environment for Benchmarking Real-time Distributed Control Systems

Authors:	Brennan Robert, University of Calgary, Canada Soundararajan Karthik, University of Calgary, Canada
Topic:	5.1 Manufacturing Plant Control
Session:	Advanced Manufacturing Plant Control
Keywords:	simulation, real-time control, intelligent control

Abstract

In this paper we propose a hybrid physical/simulation environment for benchmarking real-time distributed control systems. This environment uses Arena® Real Time for simulation and the Java-based TINI platform for real-time control. Experimental results show that the characteristics of the physical device can be accounted for through the use of this hybrid environment.