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Nonlinear State Estimation with an Extended FMI 2.0 Co-Simulation Interface

Jonathan Brembeck
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control, Germany

Andreas Pfeiffer
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control, Germany

Michael Fleps-Dezasse
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control, Germany

Martin Otter
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control, Germany

Karl Wernersson
Dassault Systèmes AB, Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden

Hilding Elmqvist
Dassault Systèmes AB, Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden

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Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Modelica Conference; March 10-12; 2014; Lund; Sweden

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 96:5, p. 53-62

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Published: 2014-03-10

ISBN: 978-91-7519-380-9

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

In this paper we propose a method how to automatically utilize continuous-time Modelica models directly in nonlinear state estimators. The approach is based on an extended FMI 2.0 Co-Simulation Interface that interacts with the state estimation algorithm implemented in a Modelica library. Besides a short introduction to Kalman Filter based state estimation; we give details on a generic interface to interact with FMUs in Modelica; an implementation of nonlinear state estimation based on this interface; and the Dymola prototype used for the evaluation. Finally we show first results in a tire load estimation application for our robotic electric research platform ROMO.

Keywords

FMI 2.0 Co-Simulation; FMU; Inline Integration; Kalman Filter; State Estimation; Moving Horizon Estimation; Tire Load Estimation

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