The following topics reflect the main issues, which were addressed during the workshop. The list of topics was not considered exhaustive. Authors were encouraged to submit papers on topics they consider relevant, even if they are not explicitly mentioned below.
The submitted papers should have, as far as possible, addressed concrete study cases and projects applicable to the space domain.
Simulation Based Development
- Simulation as support to System Engineering
- Integrated development process
- Mission and system analysis and definition
- Model based specification
- Simulation as support to concurrent and collaborative engineering
- Data exchange for simulation
- Simulation to support design verification
- The “Virtual Spacecraft” concept
- Verification and validation on System, Software and element level (avionics simulation)
- Teleoperation
- End-to-end simulation systems, performance simulations
- Operations preparation, mission planning and simulation based training
- Rover and robotics Operations
Simulation Standardisation
- System Modelling and Simulation in System Engineering
- Software Model Portability (SMP) – Status and experiences
- Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), High Level Architecture (HLA)
- Simulation data visualisation, especially using 3D graphical displays
- Simulator verification and validation methods
- Data exchange with other spacecraft domains, e.g. design data, spacecraft database
Simulation Tools and Methods
- Simulation infrastructure
- Tools and Environments
- Low-end simulator platforms
- Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation
- Humans-In-The-Loop
- Validation and verification of simulators
- Agent Based Simulators
- Reuse of simulation products: model repositories (architectures and examples)
- Real-Time simulation: scheduling and data communication
- Distributed processing: advanced scheduling, parallel running models, synchronisation, GRID
- Simulation data exchange
- Man-In-The-Loop Simulation
- Visualisation of simulation data
- Human Computer Interfaces (HCI)
- 3D graphics, low-end 3D graphics technologies
- Real time 3D immersive interactive visualisation, "Virtual Reality"
