If required, you can run a GNSS simulation instead of using a supported GNSS receiver, and a total station simulation, using a total station simulation or a total station keypad instead of using a total station.
Orchid features the latest in graphical user interfaces using an enhanced, modern look and feel, and providing an unparalleled level of customizability. Each Orchid application comes loaded with new features that help our users utilize our tools as efficiently as possible. User manuals, help menus and tool tips are all accessible directly from within the tools. All Orchid tools also come with InstallShields, making each Orchid application easy to install and to upgrade to newer versions.
Orchid Instructor Station is an advanced and innovative simulation software package. Its modular design allows it to be integrated into any existing simulator environment or perfectly coupled with our simulations. Orchid Instructor Station comes with a full Windows-based desktop and tablet clients.
Designed with customizability and user ergonomics in mind, all standard windowing features are supported. High-resolution graphic pages, based on Orchid Graphic Editor graphics, create an intuitive and user-friendly interface which can be easily panned, zoomed and cropped for maximum versatility. Dynamic virtual panels and system schematics reflect plant states in real-time, using symbols, readouts, and colors to represent the current simulation status.
The scenario manager is an important discriminator of Orchid Instructor Station. Utilizing a graphical flow-chart approach, scenario automation can easily be accomplished by performing actions and capturing them into the scenario in edit mode. This feature, which also incorporates error checking, allows scenarios to be created effortlessly by the instructors by dragging and dropping actions, malfunctions and other steps without any compilation or linking. The scenario manager includes an easy-to-use student assessment system.
Well-integrated with the other Orchid applications, Orchid Instructor Station hosts all the Orchid Modeling Environment schematics dynamically, allowing the user to search and nd any device or object that is part of the model. For example, the instructor could seek an individual fuse and disable it. In this way, the user can access all the model schematics to dynamically monitor and control the modeled plant systems and subsystems in the same way as the virtual panels, making Orchid Instructor Station an ideal classroom tool.
Orchid Core Builder is L3Harris' graphic tool permitting easy creation and validation of cycle-specific fuel data, used by our Advanced Reactor Kinetics Model. Orchid Core Builder provides 2D and 3D graphics to fully validate and document the input fuel data and the output model, together with user-defined test reports. Orchid Core Builder incorporates the Nodal Expansion Method (NEM) to produce advanced reactor kinetics models. The core neutronics model is based on the fundamental equations of time-dependent neutron diffusion theory. Diffusion equations are solved at each time step using reactor design code techniques. The models developed with Orchid Core Builder are true two-group, three-dimensional, multi-nodal, fully dynamic models computing in real-time the flux for each node at each time step.
More than a high-fidelity core neutronics model, Orchid Core Builder provides real-time feedback on simulated neutronic parameters through its unified user-friendly graphical interface. Users can select specific fuel assemblies and obtain axial distributions of the following parameters:
Users also can view and rotate a dynamic three-dimensional image of those same parameters at different axial levels. This way, the user to visualize on a 3D flux map, in real-time, the core dynamics such as the effect of dropping a rod.
Orchid Control System is L3Harris' application for the emulation of operator stations for plant process computers (PPC) and Digital/Distributed Control Systems (DCS). Orchid Control System is a real-time data acquisition and control system comprised of geographically distributed nodes. It is used for the monitoring and automation of electrical substations and power generation equipment. Orchid Control System's well-integrated architecture provides a complete solution to customers, including operator user interfaces and control sequence development tools through the same interface.
By replicating the existing look-and-feel of the actual display system, Orchid Control System provides a realistic testing and training environment. With its proven track record of emulated systems, Orchid Control System offers an economical and flexible alternative to stimulated DCS solutions and supports all standard simulator functions, such as run/freeze, restore, backtrack, replay, and others, making it the ideal tool for the emulation of DCSs. Moreover, Orchid Control System is based on a scalable architecture, allowing users to freely add or remove stations as needed.
Orchid Control System is often accompanied by a system-specific translator that processes the actual plant DCS or PPC control and graphic files to generate emulated solutions. This approach is ideal for testing modifications in the test system and exporting the results to the simulator.
Orchid Graphic Editor is L3Harris' development tool for the creation, modification, and testing of sophisticated real-time graphical displays. Using a true world coordinate system and an advanced tiling and layering scheme, Orchid Graphic Editor is capable of creating dynamic virtual panel displays and active schematics used to provide a useful and interactive instructor and/or student simulator interface.
Orchid Graphic Editor produces vector-graphics displays that can be magnified without loss of resolution. The graphical displays support full pan and zoom navigation using mouse or keyboard, making Orchid Graphic Editor a powerful application for simulation purposes.
Through a simple graphical user interface, Orchid Graphic Editor provides access to complete libraries of objects for panel displays and learner-oriented plant system schematics. Each library object is embedded with dynamic functionality accurately reproducing the real device behaviors. Library objects are even equipped with shadows and real-time trend lines, ensuring a truly realistic reproduction of panel displays.
Virtual panels can be easily created by dragging and dropping these objects onto a canvas. Orchid Graphic Editor is also unique in featuring a single-world approach to panel graphics, where all panels are laid side by side in a single graphic instead of being separated into segregated panel portions. This allows users to pan across several panels or to zoom into a section across adjoining panels.
Designed specifically for application in training simulators, the virtual panel displays can show additional information, visible only to the simulation instructor (instructor mode) to provide better feedback and control, while the same information is suppressed from the student or operators (operator mode) to prevent negative training from occurring.
Simulator users have already invested in their high fidelity simulators with L3Harris virtual panels which run on the instructor station and which are also available in student mode. Take it a step further with Orchid Touch Interface. Offload the demands on your full scope simulator by reusing the exact simulation software and virtual panels without a significant investment. With new and improved large touch screen technology, we now bring classroom training to another level with Orchid Touch Interface.
Orchid Touch Interface takes our control and auxiliary room panel displays to a new level of realism. High fidelity panel graphics are displayed on large touch screen monitors with 1080p (full HD) resolution. The monitors are mounted on frames and can be arranged in many different configurations to mimic different control rooms. Orchid Touch Interface can be used on one bay of large touch screens capable of displaying all panels of the control room or several monitor bays configured differently to replicate different control room layouts.
The top monitor of three-monitor bay articulates allowing passage through a standard 32" x 84" doorframe. Each bay is mounted on swivel casters for easy maneuvering from one room to another. Levelling pads are also provided in each bay to fix them in place once they are rolled into their final destination.
To keep training as realistic as possible, the popular panning and zooming of the soft panels in the instructor station are disabled for Orchid Touch Interface, providing individual students and teams the opportunity to know the actual location and orientation of panel devices that are vital to operating your plant. Navigation can be performed from one panel to another without the risk of having an unrealistic layout of panel devices.
In an environment where all panels are not visible at the same time, off-view annunciators can be missed, creating a gap in training. With Orchid Touch Interface, any time an off-screen alarm actuates (annunciators located on panels in an area that the learner is not presently looking at), an indicator appears to warn the student. With a simple touch of that same indicator, an overview of the control room is displayed, indicating which panel is in alarm. From that same interface, the student can then navigate to it quickly.
Orchid Simulator Executive performs the real-time scheduling of the simulation. The simulation modules (or programs) are scheduled for execution by a simulation dispatcher. Dispatchers are organized by synchronous and asynchronous types, whereby the synchronous tasks are assigned a higher real-time priority than the asynchronous tasks, which are not time critical.
Orchid Simulator Executive supports multiprocessor multi-core computers, allowing simulations to run in a balanced fashion across all available CPUs. The executive ensures that the task for each processor is synchronized with the master task to ensure real-time execution.
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