Maritime Co-simulation Framework: Challenges and Results

In the field of co-simulation, the construction of a bridge between different simulators and the solution of problems, like synchronization and data translation, are some of the main challenges. This paper presents a generic architecture to support environments for geographically distributed co-simulation, called distributed co-simulation backbone, which is based on HLA (High-level architecture) and FMI (Functional Mock-up Interface). This architecture is very flexible and does not enforce code modifications off the simulators integrated into the environment.