Type of Awards: SBIR Phase I and Phase II with Enhancements: (1) Inclusion of Easy 5 and Optimal Model Partitioning and Allocation and (2) Power and Cooling Turbo-Generator
Contract Numbers: F33615-98-C-2849, and F33615-99-C-2911
Agency: U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
Status: Completed
Periods: 5/3/98 to 11/3/98 and3/12/99 to 1/19/05
Principal Investigators: Brian Kuhn / E. A. Walters
Phase III: Aerospace Power Scholarly Research Program; F33615-99-D-2974
Abstract: Techniques developed in Phase I allow, for the first time, the interconnection of any number of ACSL simulations implemented in conventional or dedicated computer networks. It appears that the same techniques may be used to parallel not only ACSL simulations but any combination of ACSL, Saber, and/or Matlab/Simulink models. The development of this distributed computing concept in Phase II will provide a marked increase in computation speed and a means of simulating large power-electronic based systems. Moreover, this will allow vendors to interconnection component simulations into a “public domain” system without sharing proprietary information. For example, vendors could simulate their component in any of the above mentioned languages and interconnect their simulation to a system model that would include, for example, sources, distribution network, loads, and associated controls that collectively comprise the core of the selected power system architecture. Virtual prototyping has suffered from the rightful desire of vendors to maintain their competitive edge. The concept proposed herein eliminates this proprietary problem and, for the first time, provides a workable prototyping environment. The Phase II goal is to develop an efficient distributed computer simulation of a F22-like power system and to demonstrate this new prototyping environment through an Industry Brief.