Emulica: an emulation-based benchmarking framework for production control experiments

Rémi Pannequin (1) , André Thomas (1)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy

Evaluating a proposed control architecture nearly always requires experiments and applications. This paper propose an emulation-based benchmarking framework to design and run such experiments. The proposition is based on an architecture integrating the control system with the virtual controlled system (emulation model), and on generic constructs to build this emulation model. The main feature of this architecture is presented in this paper~: the constructs used to build emulation model and their generic interface with the control system. Then, Emulica, an open-source implementation of the benchmarking environment is presented.

Mots clés: Emulation of complex manufacturing systems; Simulation-based performance evaluation; Software architecture

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique; Modélisation et simulation

Rémi Pannequin, André Thomas. Emulica: an emulation-based benchmarking framework for production control experiments. 10th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, IMS'10, Jul 2010, Lisbone, Portugal. pp.CDROM. ⟨hal-00518096⟩