Qualtech Systems Inc. Modeling Converter Team 1702 Jay Meyer EE - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Qualtech Systems Inc. Modeling Converter Team 1702 Jay Meyer EE Andrew Morse EE/CSE Brandon Singleton CSE William Salguero EE 1

Overview Introduction ▶ Qualtech Systems Inc. (QSI) ▶ Project Outline ▶ XML/XSL ▶ Test Models ▶ Proof of Concept ▶ End Goals ▶ 2

Qualtech Systems Inc. (QSI) ▶ Advanced proprietary modeling software (TEAMS-Designer) ▶ Models individual components as well as complex interactions ▶ Similar but inherently different from Matlab’s Simulink modeling ▶ Their customers use Simulink, they need to convert between the two software suites 3

Project Outline XML XML ✔ New Simulink Converter/ Verifier TEAMS Transformer Model Model XSLT Transforming Document 4

e Xtensib le Markup Language (XML) ▶ What is XML? ▶ Similar to HTML ▶ Industry standard markup language for formatting and common use ▶ Supported by both Simulink and TEAMS-Designer ▶ How do Simulink and TEAMS-Designer utilize XML? ▶ Both have the ability to import and export modeling information in XML format ▶ So what’s the problem? The two XMLs have a different structure, thus they are not mutually intelligible ▶ 5

XML Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transform (XSLT) ▶ XSL ▶ XSL Transform (XSLT) ▶ XML Path Language (XPath) ▶ XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) ▶ XSLT (Converter Module) ▶ The document that allows for XML transformations (conversions) ▶ Conversion programs take an XSL and XML as inputs and output a new XML in the target style ▶ The answer to our problem 6

XML Verifier ▶ Compares 2 XML files and determine similarities and differences ▶ Either Simulink and TEAMS-Designer ▶ TEAMS-Designer and post-transform XML ▶ Will highlight differences in files ▶ Header information that does not translate from one style to the other ▶ Any issues in conversion (ie. modules not converted) ▶ Verifies module was successfully converted ▶ Informs user of any modules not translated 7

Refrigerator in TEAMS Designer 8

Refrigerator in Simulink 9

Testing Models ▶ Created a series of test models we will use to develop conversion process ▶ Each Simulink model has a near-exact copy in TEAMS Designer ▶ 7 basic Models, each progressively more complex than the last ▶ Small, minute differences in each model ▶ Goal was to start small and increase complexity and functionality with each model 10

Testing Models - Test 7 TEAMS Designer 11

Testing Models - Test 7 Simulink 12

Proof of Concept 13

Proof of Concept ● Model Name ● Simulink version ● Model hierarchy ● Sub-level Blocks 14

Proof of Concept 15

October XSL Output Differences 16

Current XSL Output Differences 17

End Goals Add support for more Simulink libraries ▶ One executable file ▶ Converts to TEAMS Designer XML file ▶ Repackages in *.tmsx file that can be reopened by TEAMS Designer ▶ Informs user of untranslatable module types ▶ 18