Scientific research institute of electronic educational resources (Tyumen State Oil and Gas university) actively masters technology of designing of the distributed training systems, that use so-called «the distributed modelling», «the distributed simulation» or «the distributed imitation». There are some standards of the distributed modelling: HLA, DIS from which the most worked is HLA (High Level Architecture). The HLA-technology gives to developers the advanced means of creation of difficult imitating models for modular principles: from separate components with certain functionality and the interface. In September, 2000 version 1.3 HLA is accepted as standard IEEE 1516. More detailed information about HLA can be received on following references:
1. Wikipedia (eng) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1516
2. HLA Courses (eng) http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~hla/courses.html
3. Zamyatina E.B. The modern theory of imitating modelling: the Special course.
(http://window.edu.ru/window/library?p_rid=41717
http://window.edu.ru/window_catalog/pdf2txt?p_id=18875&p_page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-Time_Infrastructure )
The cross platform implementations of HLA are used in the distributed training systems development. Those are Portico and Certi. The used programming language is the main difference between them – one uses JAVA and another uses C++.
Official site of the Portico project: http://www.porticoproject.org/
Portico is a fully supported, open source, cross-platform HLA RTI implementation.
Designed with modularity and flexibility in mind, Portico is intended to provide a production grade RTI implementation and an environment that can support continued research and development.
Portico is licensed under the terms of the Common Developer and Distribution License (CDDL) and is actively developed and maintained by its team of core contributors.
CERTI is an open source HLA RTI developped by ONERA
Bindings to Matlab, fortran and python are available on official site of CERTI. As practice has shown, the command of CERTI developers is able to give a hand with any technical issue.
ONERA/DTIM distributed simulation page:
http://www.onera.fr/dtim-en/hla-distributed-simulation/index.php
ONERA page: http://www.onera.fr
Tyumen State Oil and Gas university uses software of National Instruments corporation among the other. It licensed on level “campus”, the highest possible. National Instruments LabVIEW – the graphical programming software package, that allows to create functional and scaleable programs in measurements, testing and control areas.
Since LabVIEW didn’t have built-in tools of HLA integration, it had to be developed. Using LabVIEW in distributed simulation systems development allows using hardware measurements and output.
This page has links to LabVIEW project, that shows the way to integrate NI software and HLA RTI.
- DLL linking project for LabVIEW
- DEMO project for LabVIEW
- Description of compiling and executing of the program
