THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES FOR DIGITAL SIMULATION OF FLUID POWER SYSTEMS

Abstract

This paper describes a computer software package developed to assist the designer of fluid power systems. A variety of component models are selected from the icon library and system circuit can be sketched on the graphic monitor. The input data for component can be provided from the theoretical and experimental analysis, and from manufacture's catalog. For each component the modularized modeling and programming techniques are presented, and for each system the node table is automatically generated to check the continuity and compatibility conditions. A vector icon editor is developed under Motif and imbedded to facilitate the addition of new components. Being the X-window system based on Unix, this software has merits in portability, extensibility, and multi-user environment. The simulation results are confirmed to be consistent with those of other software and experiments.