Portable runtime environments for Python-based FMUs: Adding Docker support to UniFMU

Thomas Schranz; Christian Møldrup Legaard; Daniella Tola; Gerald Schweiger

doi:10.3384/ecp21181419

Portable runtime environments for Python-based FMUs: Adding Docker support to UniFMU

Thomas Schranz, Christian Møldrup Legaard, Daniella Tola, Gerald Schweiger

Institute of Software Technology (7160)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Abstract

Co-simulation is a means to combine and leverage the strengths of different modeling tools, environments and formalisms and has been applied successfully in various domains. The Functional Mock-Up Interface (FMI) is the most commonly used standard for co-simulation. In this paper we extend UniFMU, a tool that allows users to build Functional Mock-Up Units (FMUs) in virtually any programming language, to support execution within Docker. As a result the generated FMUs can be distributed in an environment containing all runtime dependencies. To describe the process of creating dockerized FMUs using UniFMU, we show how to model and co-simulate a robotic arm and a controller using two Python-based FMUs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 14th Modelica Conference 2021
Editors	Martin Sjölund, Lena Buffoni, Adrian Pop, Lennart Ochel
Place of Publication	Linköping
Pages	419--424
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp21181419
Publication status	Published - 27 Sept 2021
Event	14th International Modelica Conference - Virtuell, Sweden Duration: 20 Sept 2021 → 24 Dec 2021 https://2021.international.conference.modelica.org/

Conference

Conference	14th International Modelica Conference
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Virtuell
Period	20/09/21 → 24/12/21
Internet address	https://2021.international.conference.modelica.org/

Keywords

FMI
Co-Sim
Tool-Coupling
Docker

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10.3384/ecp21181419Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Portable runtime environments for Python-based FMUs: Adding Docker support to UniFMU. / Schranz, Thomas; Møldrup Legaard, Christian; Tola, Daniella et al.
Proceedings of 14th Modelica Conference 2021. ed. / Martin Sjölund; Lena Buffoni; Adrian Pop; Lennart Ochel. Linköping, 2021. p. 419--424.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Schranz, T, Møldrup Legaard, C, Tola, D & Schweiger, G 2021, Portable runtime environments for Python-based FMUs: Adding Docker support to UniFMU. in M Sjölund, L Buffoni, A Pop & L Ochel (eds), Proceedings of 14th Modelica Conference 2021. Linköping, pp. 419--424, 14th International Modelica Conference, Virtuell, Sweden, 20/09/21. https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp21181419

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