Background
Saab Aeronautics’ tactical environment simulator (Tacsi) is an Entity Component System where tactical entities, such as aircrafts and ground vehicles, consists of components and models from a wide range of domains such as sensors, dynamics and behavior models. Tacsi’s proprietary API means it isn’t possible to co-simulate open standards of models without custom integrations.
Description of the thesis
The work is in collaboration with an ongoing research project at Saab Aeronautics, connected to the NFFP-ERATO project is aiming at enabling integrating models from different stakeholders, internal and external, in a tool-agnostic manner based around the open standards System Structure and Parameterization (SSP), Distributed Co-Simulation Protocol (DCP), and Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI). This work aims to evaluate how industry established model standards, such as DCP, can be utilized in existing system simulators within the Gripen project.
This work is two-fold, starting with an initial investigation of differences and similarities between internal and external standards. The second part would be to use this investigation to implement a proof-of-concept support for an open-source co-simulation protocol and evaluating the use of an open-source model within a Tacsi entity. Relevant open-source models are primarily physical models such as aircraft dynamics or components or models that affect physical model that are simulated in other tools.
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