Bond-graph based substructuring of dynamical systems

A bond graph approach to hybrid simulation of dynamical systems using numerical–experimental real-time substructuring is presented. The bond graph concepts of a virtual junction and a virtual actuator, hitherto used in the context of physical-model based control, are used to perform the substructuring in an intuitively appealing way. The approach is illustrated by the reworking of a previously-published example.

The approach is verified experimentally using a bench-top multiple mass–spring system for the physical substructure and automatically generated real-time code is used to implement the numerical substructure. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.