Sureshkumar Chandrasekar
Modelon Inc., Hartford, CT, USA
Jesse Gohl
Modelon Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp140961265Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Modelica Conference; March 10-12; 2014; Lund; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 96:134, p. 1265-1270
Published: 2014-03-10
ISBN: 978-91-7519-380-9
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Development of customized workflows and interfaces to deploy Modelica Functional Mockup Units (FMUs) with the various FMU tools has been gaining traction in the industry – both with tool vendors as well as end users.
The FMI Add-in for Excel (FMIE) is a commercial product from Modelon AB that enables the deployment of FMUs in Microsoft Excel. FMIE enables the user to programmatically control the add-in through Visual Basic code in Excel. This allows the implementation of custom workflows and interfaces for the user to interact and automate the tasks involved in loading; simulation and analysis of FMUs.
In this paper we present a workflow in FMIE for an automobile thermal management model FMU. The workflow utilizes Visual Basic scripts for automation and user-forms for user interaction.
FMU;Automated workflow;FMI Add-In for Excel; Visualization; Design of Experiments; Batch Simulations; Monte-Carlo Analysis
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