Present library at modelica.cz #126

tbeu · 2016-10-20T07:17:27Z

I believe it is worth to present the recent features and release at modelica.cz - the upcoming Modelica Conference in Praha. The last paper was from 2009 and since then we have put a lot of new features and fixes (for Modelica and tool compatibility) into M_DD that are worth a new article. Additionally, we figured out the trouble-makers (in the library, I mean).

@bernhard-thiele Would this be fine for you? Would you find the some time to contribute before the submission deadline Dec 30, 2016?

@vwaurich Would you help to contribute (either on article or feature support for #116 or improved OM compatibility)?

Thanks for your feedback!

vwaurich · 2016-10-20T09:32:39Z

Sounds good. If I have some spare time, I will check the bluetooth stuff.

bernhard-thiele · 2016-10-20T17:53:08Z

It's a very good idea, indeed.

A good reason to invest some additional effort into it and possibly also to develop a little demonstration that beefs up the story. We just ordered some Arduino and Raspberry Pi boards in order to play with them in the context of code generation. Maybe this can be connected. There now has been progress, particularly thanks to @vwaurich, to improve OpenModelica support for MDD. Hence, MDD will work on two platforms and with three tools. That would make a good message worth spreading in a Modelica paper.

tbeu · 2016-10-21T06:28:33Z

@bernhard-thiele @vwaurich Thanks for your positive feedback. Here's my first proposal. Please comment on it or edit it.

Add the TeX sources in Resources/doc/Modelica2017 for shared access.

Working titel: Towards a standard-conform, platform-generic and feature-rich Modelica device drivers library

Structure

Introduction @bernhard-thiele
- 1.1 Background / History
- 1.2 Similar projects
  - UDPLib
  - TCP/IP in AixLib (Add Communication Package for Co-Simulation Interfaces RWTH-EBC/AixLib#149)
  - modelicaSocketExample
  - ModelPlug
Enhanced Modelica standard compliance @bernhard-thiele @tbeu
Enhanced tool support @vwaurich @bernhard-thiele @tbeu
New features
- 4.1 Big endian (Support of big endian #66) @bernhard-thiele
- 4.2 Serial port on Win (7717f0c) @tbeu
- 4.3 TCP/IP client (TCP/IP support wanted? #78) @bernhard-thiele @tbeu
- 4.4 LCM / UDP Broadcast (LCM support wanted? #115) @tbeu
- 4.5 Bluetooth (USB/Bluetooth support wanted? #116) @vwaurich
- 4.6 MQTT (MQTT client #130) @tbeu @vwaurich
- 4.6 More ideas to come @vwaurich @bernhard-thiele @tbeu
Open issues and pitfalls @bernhard-thiele @tbeu
- 5.1 Serialpackager (Modelica compatibility of SerialPackager (and alternative packagers) #112)
- 5.2 Automatic buffer size (New release for MSL 3.2.2 #107 (comment))
- 5.3 External objects in equation (mo:#1669, Structurally singular system #122)
- 5.4 Construction of external objects in record (Modelica compatibility: Construction of external objects is not allowed in records #93)
- 5.5 Linking to platform-dependent system libraries (mo:#2104)
- 5.6 Missing fixed attribute for String (mo:#1797)
- 5.7 Support of several include directories (mo:#2103)
Application examples @vwaurich @bernhard-thiele
- 6.1 Arduino
- 6.2 Raspberry Pi
- 6.3 HID Joystick
Outlook @vwaurich @bernhard-thiele @tbeu
Acknowledgements

bernhard-thiele · 2016-10-23T20:36:18Z

The proposed structure should be a good start. Additional features that should be worth mentioning in (4.):

Keyboard, UDP, Joystick, Space Mouse and shared memory was mentioned in the old paper, but it was Windows only. Having it cross-platform is new (and for some of these blocks also the Windows implementation changed considerably).
Softing CAN bus (Windows),
SocketCAN (Linux)
Comedi interface (Linux, http://www.comedi.org/)
Serial port on Linux and Windows

Of course, some of these are not cross-platform, but I think this could be discussed in "Open issues and pitfalls". Also, real-time execution/simulation might fit somewhere within the structure.

tbeu · 2016-10-23T20:37:43Z

Should I push the template structure to a modelica2017 branch?

bernhard-thiele · 2016-10-24T09:57:21Z

Yes, probably good to have it in its own branch

tbeu · 2016-10-24T19:57:21Z

@bernhard-thiele @vwaurich The proposed paper is automatically built with every git push to branch modelica2017 and available from drone.io.

@casella The official ModelicaConference2017-pdfLaTeX-template.zip from https://modelica.org fails to build with ! Package keyval Error: hidelinks undefined. on legacy Ubuntu 12.04. See bd59b6a for a fix that worked for me.

tbeu · 2016-10-25T06:26:10Z

@bernhard-thiele Can we speak of a v1.5.0 release (with backward-compatible new features) that will be available just before MoCo 2017?

bernhard-thiele · 2016-10-25T07:59:29Z

@tbeu Yes, we should manage this.

bernhard-thiele · 2016-10-25T08:30:14Z

@casella @tbeu I updated the latex template. Seems like the hidelinks option was added 2011, so it should be available on most installations. Anyway, I changed it now for better compatibility with legacy installations.

tbeu · 2016-10-25T10:33:55Z

Seems like the hidelinks option was added 2011

Yes, that is what I also found. Ubuntu 12.04 uses TeXLive 2009.

bernhard-thiele · 2016-10-26T17:33:33Z

I asked @sjoelund whether he was interested in helping with the paper and the application examples and was very happy that he was positive about it.

This is a perfect fit since he is leading our ARM code generation experiments for the Raspberry Pi and is also responsible for the recently added OpenModelica real-time synchronization feature. I will work with him at the application examples and other things. Together with the help of @vwaurich this now becomes an excellent opportunity that all necessary parts of OpenModelica can be targeted to get better support for MDD, something which is on my wish list since quite some time :-).

tbeu · 2016-10-26T18:19:33Z

@bernhard-thiele Can you please update the above article structure with respect to the authors. Thanks.

tbeu · 2016-11-09T14:24:43Z

Just saw https://github.com/vesselEfficiency/vesselEfficiency-0.1 which utilizes the UDP send feature (to LabVIEW) of M_DD.

tbeu · 2016-11-11T07:23:27Z

Edited 5.5 and 5.7 in the above structure proposal to point to the newly created MLS issues mo:#2103 and mo:#2104.

bernhard-thiele · 2016-11-11T18:04:38Z

I contacted @tbellmann and talked with him about the paper effort. I'm now happy that he will join this article effort, particularly by contributing a project application example from DLR and also by writing about the historic background in the introduction.

I updated the latex sources.

I changed to the up-to-date Modelica Conf. Template
I added all authors including their affiliation (please check it)
I started with a tentative structure similar, but also a bit different to the one above. This is of course not fixed and I expect that it will be adapted during the writing process
I also added who is tentatively responsible for which sections. Also this is of course not fixed.

I will put some more work into the draft and related tickets at the weekend.

tbeu · 2016-11-11T19:12:52Z

When checking the pdf from drone.io, I noticed that

There is some problem with ö in your commit.
@vwaurich's PR add captions and something about arduino #157 has now merge conflicts.

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bernhard-thiele · 2017-01-20T22:35:28Z

I essentially took all of PR #197 except the commit for the "Raw Data Buffer" section, see commit message of 7a5b417. One could polish the section, but time was running out.

bernhard-thiele · 2017-01-20T22:39:38Z

I also commented out two figures in the embedded section, see 05309e0. The figures are a bit hard to read (things are very tiny and sparse) and I wanted to save some space so that we don't have just a few lines that start a new page (this reduces the paper to 11 pages).

The figures are not essential to understand the text, though it could be nice to have them if they
are improved so that they depict things more readable and compact.
However, also here time was running out...

bernhard-thiele · 2017-01-20T23:05:16Z

I now resubmitted the paper. Thanks for all the hard work and keep fingers crossed!

tbeu · 2017-01-21T20:54:23Z

I just noticed a badly broke ")" in section 3.4, page 8. Can you pls add the missing mbox.

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bernhard-thiele · 2017-01-22T16:31:05Z

Resubmitted paper with the fixes shown above

- use of improved conference latex template - improved figure placement, particularly, some figures are now closer to the place at which they are referenced. Related to #126

bernhard-thiele · 2017-03-15T16:53:31Z

After some improvements (see above) I've now submitted the final version for the conference proceedings. It's still possible to resubmit until Apr. 1 if you find an issue.

tbeu · 2017-03-16T08:48:21Z

@bernhard-thiele Please check #200 for some very minor and mainly cosmetic changes.

bernhard-thiele · 2017-03-21T10:22:44Z

Sorry for reacting that late. Strangely, it seems I didn't get an email notification for this. But I got one once you mentioned me in issue 200. Thanks for the changes, I took them and resubmitted the paper.

tbeu · 2017-03-21T10:28:10Z

Thanks for merging and writing the article.

Should this issue be closed by squash-merging the modelica2017 branch to master now?

bernhard-thiele · 2017-03-21T15:39:54Z

Yes, I could simply add the "doc" folder to the master and make a new commit. There are 237 commits to squash and I just got a strange error when I tried to do the git squash locally. Any preference?

tbeu · 2017-03-21T19:46:55Z

@bernhard-thiele I noticed that the official paper looks different than my generated paper created by up-to-date MikTeX installation, see e.g., section 2.2, third line of second paragraph.

Example: indent before blocks

Version:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (MiKTeX 2.9.6210 64-bit) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2017.3.21)

tbeu · 2017-03-21T19:53:35Z

@bernhard-thiele I attach the MikTeX generated paper for your convenience such you can do a side-by-side comparison. See e.g. section 5 which starts on page 10 in the official paper but on page 11 in the MikTeX generated paper.

Modelica2017.zip

bernhard-thiele · 2017-03-23T10:03:27Z

@tbeu Strange, though it is almost the same there are small differences at some places. Anyway, your version looks a bit nicer. I will resubmit your version.

thorade · 2017-03-23T10:07:30Z

If you are aiming for typographical perfection you should also try the microtype package:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/586/8569
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/microtype

tbeu · 2017-03-23T11:12:46Z

@bernhard-thiele #202 fixes some minor language issues. Sorry for the late point in time. I can provide new MiKTeX-PDF once you merged it.

bernhard-thiele · 2017-03-23T21:32:46Z

@tbeu okay, thanks for the fixes. If you generate the MiKTeX-PDF, I will resubmit the paper

tbeu · 2017-03-24T07:24:08Z

Thanks. Here it is.

Modelica2017.zip

bernhard-thiele · 2017-03-24T12:13:02Z

Thanks, I just updated it on easychair.

tbeu · 2017-05-12T06:13:16Z

http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp17132713 will be the DOI, but not yet there. Just in case you wwant to add to the the Readme or release notes.

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