VTB Conference Overview

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VTB Conference Overview
VTB Users and Developers Conference September
20-21, 2005 Marriott Hotel Columbia, SC

• Roger DougalVTB Project Director
• Dept of Electrical Engineering

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Organizational Things

• Wireless network access is available in this room
  - register at front desk if not staying at this
  hotel
• Lunch will be served in the Atrium area
• Dinner this evening - many restaurants in the
  Congaree Vista area (south to Gervais St., then
  east across Assembly St.)
• Conclude tomorrow at 440
• User workshop on Thursday 830 - 330 (to
  accommodate early flights, but stay longer if you
  wish) is at the Swearingen Engineering building
  on USC campus

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Dining
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Thurs Workshop Parking
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Conference Purpose

• Describe the current state of the software and
  directions for future development
• Show illustrative applications that may spur
  further interests and developments
• Share information between users and developers
  talk back during discussion periods
• Incite collaborative developments

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VTB Goals

• Develop the worlds most capable, flexible,
  applicable, simulator for interdisciplinary
  dynamic systems
• Provide a scalable, interactive, immersive,
  real-time, adaptable simulation environment that
  is supported on many platforms
• Support both top-down and bottom-up design
  approaches, accounting for parameter uncertainty
  and partial data, allowing complex
  multi-resolutional models, using many model
  development tools
• Support incremental virtual prototyping via
  hardware in the simulation loop
• Provide simulation services to other applications
  such as control or design optimization

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Significant DevelopmentsTo be Presented

• VTBpro
• Distributed and multi-step simulation
• Variable resolution entities
• VTB as a COM service
• Further maturation of polynomial chaos approach
  in VTB environment
• We will not discuss basic capabilities of the
  software that have been presented previously. See
  the user training workshop on Thurs for that, or
  ask me or others about the vast array of projects
  that have been previously completed.

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VTB community
ESRDC Consortium Partner Partner via
Subcontract Joint proposals Joint
projects Informal (unfunded) teaming Funding
sources
SimSmart
Korean Electric Research Institute
Univ of Cambridge
Univ of Glasgow
MIT
Milan Polytechnic
Hamilton Sundstrand
Brown
CSU Chico
NSWC/Carderock
ONR
Proteus
Army
US Naval Academy
Taganrog Univ(Russia)
NavAir
Mississippi State
Univ Texas
Newport News - Northrop Grumman
Barron Assoc
MER Corp
Interactive Data Visualization
Univ Arkansas
Clemson Univ
Giotto Technologies
Florida State
Univ Puerto Rico/M
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
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Last year Placements of PhD Graduates

• SAIC
• Ansoft (2)
• Hamilton Sundstrand
• GE Global Research
• Eaton Corp
• Univ of New Orleans
• ABB
• Siemens (pending)

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Some Projects Underway

• Methods for synchronizing geographically
  distributed simulations, including with hardware
  in the loop
• Ship smart system design interaction of VTB
  with Flagship Designer, LEAPS design database,
  etc
• Incorporation of uncertainty into the design and
  simulation process
• Enhanced tools for model development and/or
  importing (USC, Univ Ark, Taganrog)
• Development of DSP version of VTB to support
  simulation-based control and automatic methods
  for generating control code from the simulation
  model
• Simulation and mission planning tool for portable
  power sources for Marines
• Methods for system model initialization near a
  specified operating point related to mission
  analysis and variable resolution model entities
• Interface between ATP and VTB (UPRM)
• Simulation of unmanned undersea vehicles
  including distributed simulation with disparate
  time steps
• Simulation of high speed permanent magnet turbo
  generators
• Studies of voltage reference shift in ungrounded
  or weakly grounded power systems
• Models of notional DD(x) power and thermal
  systems at various levels of resolution
• Balance of plant configuration and system
  integration for hybrid fuel cell power sources
• Power converter for power management in kW-level
  hybrid fuel cell power source