Co-Simulation of Continuous Systems: A Hands-on Approach

Co-simulation consists of the theory and techniques to enable global simulation of a coupled system via the composition of simulators for each of the components of the model. Despite the large number of applications and growing interest in the challenges, practitioners still experience difficulties in configuring their co-simulations. This tutorial introduces co-simulation of continuous systems, targeted at researchers that want to develop their own co-simulation units and master algorithms, using the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) Standard. This document is complemented by online materials (Gomes, Claudio 2019) that́ allow the reader to experiment with different co-simulation algorithms, applied to the examples introduced here.