MAK Toolbox

MAK HLA/DIS Toolbox for MATLAB and Simulink

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The MÄK HLA/DIS Toolbox brings the power of the High Level Architecture (HLA) and Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) to MATLAB® and Simulink. HLA and DIS are the industry standard communications protocols that allow you to connect simulations over a network. MÄK Technologies is widely recognized as the leading vendor of distributed simulation software. The HLA/DIS Toolbox takes advantage of this expertise by building on the best-selling VR-Link® networking toolkit.

The HLA/DIS Toolbox allows you to import live or recorded HLA/DIS data into MATLAB for analysis, to integrate MATLAB models into an HLA/DIS environment, and to link your Simulink models with other HLA/DIS applications.

VR-Link provides a high-level protocol-independent API to HLA and DIS so you can make your applications natively compliant without writing a lot of code. The HLA/DIS Toolbox for MATLAB and Simulink provides an m-code interface to the key VR-Link classes and functions to access the power of VR-Link directly from MATLAB. For simulation concepts that are not covered by the VR-Link API, the HLA/DIS Toolbox provides a generic m-code interface for sending and receiving arbitrary HLA updates and interactions.

Also included with the HLA/DIS Toolbox is an HLA/DIS Blockset for Simulink. This Blockset allows non-programmers to attach an HLA or DIS interface to Simulink models without writing any code. Through this interface, you can connect the outputs of your Simulink models (location, velocity, etc.) to new Simulink blocks that will publish your objects on the network. On the receiving side, new Simulink blocks will generate outputs based on updates received from the network and you can use these as inputs to other Simulink blocks.