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News by Dirk Zimmer

A digital twin of the overall aircraft Environmental Control System is being developed as part of TheMa4HERA, a large European Research Initiative. It shall support verification and validation by virtually demonstrating the behavior of the complete system in various conditions. To this end, also a prototypical control scheme needs to be developed so that a dynamic simulation through complete flight missions is enabled. The prototypical control scheme is tuned using a simplified version of the Digital Twin which focuses on robustness and fast computation time, while making it robust enough to be stable when used with the high-fidelity Digital Twin. An already stable and working controller for simulating the detailed Digital Twin, provides a significant gain of time, allowing for immediate preliminary results on both steady-state and transient system behaviors. This paper describes the base model of the Digital Twin and the methodology used to design the prototypical control architecture.

Self-restriction to a certain modeling style can enable the modeling of large-scale systems and the robust modeling of complex system architectures. This paper discusses how such a self-restriction can be achieved within the Modelica language and provides a corresponding example.

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