Editor's Pick: Manage rapid prototyping in model-based engineering

Applied Dynamics has released an update to its ADEPT industrial IoT software platform, a data framework that links real-time Linux servers as a distributed resource. Key among its uses is one-click rapid prototyping (RP) deployment. 

The company says ADEPT simplifies the RP process by allowing teams to quickly test developmental control models with real-world systems or simulations, without the need to create application-specific embedded hardware. 

Applied Dynamics says ADEPT’s use of time- and frequency-based computation allows an entire framework of digital assets to run in lockstep as a single system. For rapid prototyping, this means the bridge between virtual development activities and real-world testing is synchronized throughout the platform and all connected assets. 

Cockpit panels using ADEPT IIoT software platform. Image courtesy of Applied Dynamics.

Key attributes of ADEPT that impact rapid development include: 

• Mix-and-match models from a variety of toolchains 
• Optimal I/O from top commercial sources 
• Drag-and-drop connections for models and I/O
• Off-the-shelf server-class computation 
• Same codebase for real-time and synchronized virtual models 
• Feature-rich operator interfaces 
• Robust data acquisition and playback 
• Performance statistics, health monitoring 
• Python scripting, open APIs 
• Integrated revision control

Cockpit panels using ADEPT IIoT software platform. Image courtesy of Applied Dynamics.

The company adds that ADEPT is also being used to develop modern data-centric Integration, Verification, and Validation (IVV) workflows, especially as a component of larger Model Based Systems Engineering deployments. 

An overview of the ADEPT framework is available here. 

ADEPT is available directly from Applied Dynamics.  

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.