VirtualLabBuilder

Information


 

VirtualLabBuilder - A Modelica library for virtual-lab implementation

Release 1.0 (2007)



Author
Dr. Carla Martin-Villalba
Dept. Informática y Automática, UNED
Juan del Rosal 16, 28040, Madrid, Spain
email: carla@dia.uned.es

VirtualLabBuilder Modelica library facilitates the implementation of virtual-labs using only Modelica. It includes Modelica models implementing graphic interactive elements, such as containers, animated geometric shapes, basic elements and interactive controls. These models allow the virtual-lab developer:

The interactive graphic interface is automatically generated during the model initialization process. The components of the library contain the code required to perform the bidirectional communication between the view and the model. In addition, VirtualLabBuilder library supports including documentation in the virtual-lab. This documentation is composed of HTML pages.

VirtualLabBuilder Architecture



VirtualLabBuilder library is composed of the packages shown in Figure 1a. Some of them are intended to be used by the virtual-lab developers (i.e., VirtualLabBuilder users). These are: