Emulica: an emulation-based benchmarking framework for production control experiments1

Evaluating a proposed control architecture nearly always requires experiments and applications. This paper propose an emulation-based benchmarking framework to design and run such experiments. The proposition is based on an architecture integrating the control system with the virtual controlled system (emulation model), and on generic constructs to build this emulation model. The main feature of this architecture is presented in this paper : the constructs used to build emulation model and their generic interface with the control system. Then, Emulica, an open-source implementation of the benchmarking environment is presented.