Section: New Results

Miscellaneous results

Symbolic tools for modeling and simulation

Participant : Yves Papegay.

This activity is the main part of a long-term ongoing collaboration with Airbus whose goal is to directly translate the conceptual work of aeronautics engineers into digital simulators to accelerate aircraft design.

An extensive modeling and simulation platform has been designed which includes a dedicated modeling language for the description of aircraft dynamics models in term of formulae and algorithms, and a symbolic compiler producing as target an efficient numerical simulation code ready to be plugged into a flight simulator, as well as a formatted documentation compliant with industrial requirements of corporate memory.

Technology demonstrated by our prototype has been transferred to our industrial partner in 2012 when final version of our modeling and simulation environment has been delivered to Airbus in November 2012. Developer level know-how has been transferred in 2013 to a software company in charge of industrialization and maintenance of the modeling and simulation environment.

In 2014, we have worked again on several enhancements and extension of functionalities, namely to enhance the performances and the numerical quality of the generated C simulation code, and ease the integration of our environment into the Airbus toolbox.