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01 May 2012
May 2012 ForwardSim Newsletter
Accelerating distributed simulation implementation
using MATLAB & Simulink
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Welcome to this first issue of our HLA products newsletter providing up-to-date information about the use of HLA with MATLAB and Simulink. ForwardSim HLA Toolbox & HLA Blockset are providing additional capabilities to MATLAB and Simulink for the implementation and execution of distributed simulation;
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HLA Toolbox 3.0 - now available
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The HLA Toolbox is the MATLAB® interface to the High Level Architecture (HLA) standard for distributed simulation. It provides both ways communications between MATLAB and the Runtime Infrastructure (RTI). The HLA Toolbox improves organization efficiency to participate in multinational simulations or to implement distributed simulations locally. The HLA Toolbox is compliant with HLA 1.3, IEEE 1516 and IEEE 1516-2010 (HLA Evolved) and supports commercial and open sources RTI's (pRTI, MAK RTI, RTI-NG PRO®, PORTICO, CERTI, DMSO ...). The graphical user interface (GUI) is used to generate the required m-files to build a federate template that can be entirely customized to meet your project requirements. It also provides a great way to visualize the Federation Object Model (FOM) allowing easy specification of the published and subscribed Objects and Interactions. The HLA Toolbox enables the use of MATLAB® at the federate development level. It takes care of the simulation implementation giving the end user more time to work on its model. The use of MATLAB and the HLA Toolbox significantly reduce the implementation time of HLA compliant models compared to Java and C++. |
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| HLA Toolbox introduction | FOM Add-on overview |
Version 3.0 is now available with important speed improvement, completion of the FOM Add-on (described below) and support for Linux.
Get it now download
HLA Blockset 2.1
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The HLA Blockset™ is a Simulink® block library specifically designed for the integration of High Level Architecture (HLA) services into Simulink®. The HLA Blockset provides both ways communications between Simulink and the RTI. Simulink models can be connected to a distributed simulation using any of the HLA standards HLA 1.3, IEEE 1516 or IEEE 1516-2010 (HLA Evolved) and supports commercial and open sources RTI's (pRTI, MAK RTI, RTI-NG PRO®, PORTICO, CERTI, DMSO ...). The same graphical user interface as the HLA Toolbox is used to configure the "Initialize" block establishing the connection with the RTI.
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| HLA Blockset introduction | 2 Simulink federates |
Now supporting Linux! Get it now download
FOM Add-on
Providing efficient capability to work with complex FOM like the RPR FOM, ForwardSim FOM Add-on eliminates the time required to understand the FOM structure. The FOM Add-on graphical user interface displays FOM Object and Interaction hierarchy to facilitate complex data structure manipulation. All Objects and Interactions of the FOM are mapped into an object-oriented style class hierarchy that can be customized by the end user.
High level functions and classes have been created to facilitate data encoding and decoding using automatic code generation. The FOM Add-on enables the end user to speed up even more its HLA federate implementation.
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| FOM Add-on overview |
SISO Smackdown 2012
As a sponsor of the SISO Smackdown for the second year along with NASA, Pitch and MAK, ForwardSim provided software licenses to the different university teams allowing them to quickly get up to speed with HLA using the HLA Toolbox GUI, code generation and integrated HLA standard documentation.
ForwardSim in collaboration with UAH improved the 3D viewer built with MATLAB and Simulink 3D Animation last year in order to add satellite communication opportunity visualization. All physical entities displayed were generated from the different teams sending location data to the 3D viewer on the network. SISO Smackdown
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| Lunar shuttle landing |
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15 May 2011
The 2011 SISO Simulation Smackdown held in Boston last April has been a successful event promoting Modeling and Simulation using the distributed standard HLA.
Students from several university across the US and Europe provided the necessary components to create a rather complete lunar mission scenario. NASA provided the environment and transfer vehicle federates used by the participants to coordinate their federate with others.
Providing software licenses to participants, ForwardSim also created a 3D viewer built with MATLAB allowing to see live in 3D the interaction between the different federates.
See the final results on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/danverret#p/a/u/1/FnNYogkEa7A
The SISO Simulation event will be back in 2012 and ForwardSim will continue to promote Modeling and Simulation education by providing support and software to the participants.
25 Oct 2010
The SISO Simulation Smackdown is an effort to promote the concepts of modeling and simulation as a discipline at the university undergraduate and graduate levels and to raise the awareness of modeling and simulation down into the K-12 grades.
This will be accomplished through a participatory program that will involve students and faculty in "building" an HLA based distributed simulation of a space system.
ForwardSim proudly supports this initiative driven by NASA and will provide software license for the HLA Toolbox and HLA Blockset to participating Universities.
More to come ...
05 Oct 2009
ForwardSim will be part of the MATLAB Virtual Conference on October 14th. Visit our virtual booth and engage live conversation with our representative
MATLAB virtual conference link
19 Jun 2009
19 Jun 2009
From the 24th to the 26th of June 09, Realviz, ForwardSim distributor in Japan, will exhibit the HLA Toolbox and the HLA Blockset for MATLAB and Simulink.
Realviz will demonstrate the use of the HLA Blockset with Pitch products like Pitch Actors and GE Adaptor as part of an HLA federation.
19 Jun 2009
A complete demonstration of the HLA Toolbox and the HLA Blockset has been presented using several HLA federation featuring third party products like MAK VR-Forces, Pitch Actors and Pitch GE Adaptor.
MATLAB federates built with the HLA Toolbox and the HLA Blockset have been used to demonstrate the efficiency of these products to create HLA federate.
02 Sep 2008
Come and see the HLA Toolbox for Matlab and the HLA Blockset for Simulink in action. Run our demos and build an HLA federate in minutes using the well known MATLAB / Simulink environment and the HLA Toolbox.
04 Jun 2008
ForwardSim HLA Toolbox will be part of the Pitch Technologies AB boot at ITEC 2008 in Sweden. Part of the Powerful Development Tools products, the HLA Toolbox will be seen along with Pitch Visual OMT and Pitch Developer Studio.
21 Mar 2008
Come and see the HLA Toolbox in action. Run our demos and build an HLA federate in minutes using the well known MATLAB environment and the HLA Toolbox.
23 Jan 2008
After a successful collaboration with ForwardSim over the past three years, FPInnovation - Forintek as renewed its maintenance and development agreement for the log breakdown simulator Optitek for the next four year.
23 Jan 2008
HWA Create an important player in the modeling and simulation tools distribution in China is now distributing ForwardSim's HLA Toolbox for MATLAB. You can get in touch with HWA Create at www.hwacreate.com.cn
23 Jan 2008
Korea Soft Space an important player in the modeling and simulation tools distribution in Korea has started to distribute ForwardSim's HLA Toolbox for MATLAB. You can get in touch with Korea Sopft Space at www.kssi.co.kr
24 Oct 2007
TESS-COM a very important player in the modeling and simulation tools distribution in Italy and Romania has started to distribute ForwardSim's HLA Toolbox for MATLAB. You can get in touch with TESS-COM at www.tess-com.it
13 Jun 2007
Realviz a very important player in the modeling and simulation tools distribution in Japan has started to distribute ForwardSim's HLA Toolbox for MATLAB and the HLA Blockset for Simulink. You can get in touch with Realviz at www.realviz.co.jp