Hardware-in-the-loop Testing

[Daria Andrievskaia]

Hi BSK people!

In the papers mentioned on the main page of Basilisk site, I saw that there is a possibility of using BSK for hardware-in-the-loop testing. This is exactly that my team wants to achieve. But as I am new to both BSK and such testing, I have troubles with it. Is there any tutorials/examples/algorithms for this? Would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Daria

[Hanspeter Schaub]

To do hardware in the loop testing you need to develop your hardware specific BSK module to talk with the hardware and share information.  This is not a general capability that is built-in out of the box as hardware in the loop is hardware specific :-)

[Tom B.]

We use Custom Python Modules in BSK to interact with our HIL setup:

http://hanspeterschaub.info/basilisk/Learn/makingModules/pyModules.html

In the python modules we implement the communication between the simulation messages and the hardware using UDP while running the simulation in realtime