Real-Time Simulation Technologies: Principles, Methodologies, and Applications

Introduction

Desktop personal computer–based simulation has become the primary method for analyzing and studying the behavior of dynamic systems. Such simulation includes executing on a digital computer mathematical models for engineered systems that comprise physics and interact with humans. To address the temporal aspect of the system dynamics, events are to be simulated in a time frame in which they would naturally occur, which is known as real-time simulation. Real-time simulation thus captures how the behavior of a system unfolds as time passes, all with high fidelity in correspondence to natural time scales.

CONTENT

The utility of real-time simulation is evidenced by its popularity in many engineering domains, for example, in the design ...