Teaching co-simulation basics through practice

Thomas Paris (1, 2, 3, 4) , Jean-Baptiste Wiart (1, 5, 2, 3, 4) , Denis Netter (5) , Vincent Chevrier (2, 1, 3, 4)

1 LORIA - Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications
2 UL - Université de Lorraine
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4 SIMBIOT - SIMulating and Building IOT
5 GREEN - Groupe de Recherche en Energie Electrique de Nancy

Cyber-physical system representation is one of the current challenges in Modeling and Simulation. In fact, multi-domain modeling requires new approaches to rigorously deal with it. Co-simulation, one of the approaches, lets modelers use several M&S tools in collaboration. The challenge is to find a way to enable co-simulation use for non-IT experts while being aware of assumptions and limitations involved. This paper deals with co-simulation basic principles teaching through practice. we propose an iterative and modular co-simulation process supported by a DSL-based environment for the MECSYCO co-simulation platform. Through a thermal use case, we are able to introduce co-simulation in a 4 hours tutorial destined to our students. Efficient energy management is one of this century challenges. The current trend to deal with it is to build cyber-physical system (CPS) [Kleissl and Agarwal, 2010]. CPS are physical systems monitored and supervised by one or several computers through a communication networks [Ra-jkumar et al., 2010]. Smart-grids are examples of CPS where the energy network is coupled with a communication network to enable remote monitoring and control. The Modeling and Simulation (M&S) of such systems is one of the current challenges in M&S due to the inter-disciplinary issues they raise. It requests the development of new methods which deal with multi-domain by integrating each expert point of view in the same rigorous and efficient M&S activity. Co-simulation [Gomes et al., 2018] is a way to achieve it.

Mots clés: Co-simulation; M&S Process; Teaching

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation

Thomas Paris, Jean-Baptiste Wiart, Denis Netter, Vincent Chevrier. Teaching co-simulation basics through practice. 2019 SUMMER SIMULATION CONFERENCE, Jul 2019, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-02268350⟩