Background

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics, June 2001
University of Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Trainee “Research and Development Engineer”, Dec 2001-July 2002,

Aplab Ltd, Bombay, India.

Research Projects

API TECHNIQUES USING ACTIVEX FOR CO-SIMULAION PURPOSES.

VTB developers previously have come up with techniques to build the interface between VTB solver and other solvers. Distribution of DLLs is a method commonly adopted to meet this requirement. This approach is certainly effective and provides the desired results but it also calls for redundant labor in compiling the code to generate the DLLs. The users are required to go over the procedure of generating the DLLs and then copying them into the destination folder each time. This procedure is prevents the users from changing the code on the fly and increases development time. The aim of this project is to present an alternate approach to developing the API using ActiveX and in doing so discuss its advantages over the previous one. Another intention behind the new approach is to develop a method to formalize the way in which VTB interacts with foreign environments. This project focuses mainly at the interfaces between VTB & Matlab and VTB & LabVIEW.

“A prototype of a Monitoring System Based on a Multi-Agent Platform” has been developed that makes use of the VTB-LabVIEW interface. Other case studies demonstrating the use of the VTB-Matlab interface are being presented in the paper “API Techniques using ActiveX for Co-Simulation Purposes” that is currently under development.

Conclusions:

With ActiveX the external code can be modified on the fly which reduces the simulation and development time. The VTB has now become a more powerful and a user friendly environment.

Figure 1: The Structure of the Multi-Agent Platform using the VTB-LabVIEW interface.

Figure 2: The VTB schematic using the VTB-LabVIEW interface. It is the SU agent in the figure1.