The target of this constructive research work is to analyze the implementation of the CFB-model integration to Simulink and APROS. The new integrated inter-platform environment extends the simulation model capabilities by allowing the functionalities of both platforms to be used. The inter-platform solution also allows wider opportunities to monitor and analyze the control and data-flow components in the broader operational environment.
The main difficulties encountered during the integration project were associated with re-designing the CFB-model simulation to operate as stand-alone applications and at defining the interface between the two platforms. Based on the principles of MDA, the interface is embedded as part of the new solution. The new solution follows the abstract service
archi-tectures, namely SOA and HLA. Therefore, this research also worked to model the process of implementing the service platform solution.
The new solution offered integration through the model state space. As the result, the system input, state, and output were shared. Based on the quantitative analysis, the new simulation performed better than the benchmark, but the added capabilities contribute to the overall complexity of the solution. The increase in complexity is likely to cause error situations that are relatively harder to troubleshoot. However, the model integration is a mandatory phase within the simulation life cycle for further use as it opens up different possibilities previ-ously unavailable. The new opportunities include the capability to integrate the simulation to hardware and as part of larger applications.
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