Architecture and construction principles for Computational Fluid Dynamics software for engineering in industry

For flow simulation around (parts of) aerospace vehicles, aerospace industry needs CFD software. For users in industry, not only the functionality of the software is relevant. Timely availability and cost of the first version and later versions are other relevant factors. These factors are represented in the software characteristics timeliness,...

A survey of the NARSIM C/S middleware

This document describes the Client/Server system architecture of NARSIM - the NLR Air Traffic control Research Simulator- focussing on the socalled middleware: the infrastructure that enables all the seperate parts of the simulator to interact with each other. To show the full scope of the architecture, first a somewhat abstract architecture...

Multi-sensor data fusion in a distributed environment; architectural solutions

The human operator observing the real world is confronted with a huge amount of data from multiple sensors observing that world. Multi-sensor data fusion (MSDF) is one of the emerging fields in advanced information processing, concerned with fusing sensor data from these multiple sensors. Automated MSDF can help the operator by processing sensor...

Dynamics motion simulation of the Hermes robot arm subjected to constraints

During operations with a manipulator arm situations will occur when the manipulator end-effector is, or comes, in contact with its environment. The dynamics equations, which describe the motion of the manipulator, can be represented by an ordinary differential equation for the free motion and an additional algebraic (in)equality for the motion...