Conference article

Uwe Pohlmann
Software Engineering Group, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

Stefan Dziwok
Software Engineering Group, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

Julian Suck
Software Engineering Group, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

Boris Wolf
Software Engineering Group, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

Chia Choon Loh
Control Engineering and Mechatronics Group, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

Matthias Tichy
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers/University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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Published in: Proceedings of the 9th International MODELICA Conference; September 3-5; 2012; Munich; Germany

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 76:38, p. 365-374

Published: 2012-11-19

ISBN: 978-91-7519-826-2

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

In this paper; we present an extension to the StateGraph2 library that enables modeling asynchronous and synchronous communication and rich real-time constraints. We illustrate our extension of the StateGraph2 library by modeling and simulating two miniature robots driving in a platoon.

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