Vico is an Entity-Component-System (ECS) based co-simulation framework
Vico is a generic co-simulation framework running on the JVM that takes advantage of the ECS software architecture popularized by game engines. A simulation object is known as an entity, which is basically a collection of components. A component is just state, with no behavior. Behaviour is added to the simulation through so called systems that acts on entities within a certain family. The type of components held by a given entity decides which family it belongs to. Entities, components and systems may be added and removed from the engine at any time, thus family relationships, what an entity represents and which entities a system acts on is highly dynamic.
Support for FMI 1.0 & 2.0 for co-simulation and SSP 1.0 is provided by the fmi module.
More specifically this module adds a SlaveSystem that represents a collection of fmus to be simulated together. The SlaveSystem requires an instance of a class implementing the interface MasterAlgorithm, which represents an FMI master algorithm. A ready to use FixedStepMaster is provided by the module.
Distributed execution of FMUs is possible by means of FMU-proxy.
Support for plotting is provided by the chart module.
Generic 3D visualization components are provided by the render-components module. An implementation of a rendering system, relying on JMonkeyEngine, is provided by the jme-renderer module.
Generic physics components are provided by the physics-components module. An implementation of a physics engine, relying on Bullet, is provided by the bullet-physics module.
Usage: vico [-h] [COMMAND]
-h, --help display a help message
Commands:
eval Interpret kotlin script using kts.
simulate-fmu Simulate a single FMU.
simulate-ssp Simulate a co-simulation system described using SSP.To see the input arguments for the sub-commands, run the respective command providing no arguments.
kts can be used to run arbitrary Kotlin code with maven dependencies, which means
that you may use Vico as a dependency in your script. kts is bundled with the vico CLI for convenience (vico eval).
Simple execute ./gradlew build in a shell. The CLI will be located under cli/build/install.
As Vico is written in Kotlin, IntelliJ IDEA is the recommended IDE for development.
Currently, JDK8 is required.
Want to simplify creation of SSP archives? Check out sspgen
Want to develop FMUs in Java? Check out FMI4j
Want to develop FMUs in Python? Check out PythonFMU
Want to distrubute your FMUs? Check out FMU-proxy