VTB Conference Overview

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VTB Conference Overview
VTB Users and Developers Conference September
15-16, 2004 Adams Mark Hotel Columbia, SC

• Roger DougalVTB Project Director
• Dept of Electrical Engineering

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Conference Mission
To gather together those many experts, from many
disciplines, who have created and used the VTB
software, in order to exchange information that
will advance our collective capabilities for
virtual prototyping of engineered systems.
VTB transcends any one research program.
Contributions to its technology and
implementation come from many directions and from
many projects. It ubiquitously appears in an ever
increasing spectrum of research and design
activities. Our focus will be on the software
itself and how it can be usefully applied, rather
than on any one of the myriad of projects that
use it or help to develop it. Each of you are
welcome to contribute knowledge and resources to
further advance its capabilities.
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The VTB community
Consortium Core Partner Partner via
Subcontract Joint proposals Joint
projects Informal (unfunded) teaming Funding
agencies
SimSmart
Univ of Cambridge
University of Milan
MIT
Milan Polytechnic
Brown
UC Chico
FH
ONR
Proteus
NRO
NavAir
Barron Assoc
Army
Taganrog St Univ(Russia)
International Rectifier
Mississippi State
Univ Texas
Star Technology
Powr Paragon
xRDI
Tether Applications
Interactive Data Visualization
Univ Arkansas
Univ Puerto Rico/M
Florida State
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
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VTB Goals

• Develop the worlds most capable, flexible,
  applicable, simulator for interdisciplinary
  dynamic systems
• Provide an interactive, immersive, realtime,
  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
  multiresolutional models, using many model
  development tools
• Support incremental virtual prototyping via
  hardware in the simulation loop

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What you will see

• New advances in simulation theory and new
  capabilities (simulation of uncertain systems,
  power hardware in the loop, controller in the
  loop, etc) yield new opportunities to improve the
  design process, to make it more efficient,
  faster, and cheaper
• Wide open environment encourages collaboration
  and sharing of expertise
• VTB provides a superior mechanism to test
  controls
• VTB provides a superior mechanism to evaluate and
  test electric plant design concepts (or dynamic
  systems in general)
• VTB provides a mechanism to test new hardware in
  a system context without having the entire system
  already built
• S3D will be the first embodiment of the software
  in a form that specifically supports the navy
  ship building industry

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Organizational Things

• Commercial wireless network access is available
  in this room - register at front desk
• 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 Fri 800 - 330 (to accommodate
  early flights, but stay longer if you wish) is at
  the Swearingen Engineering building on USC campus