Simulation Methodology for Mechatronic Applications using Multilanguage Techniques

This paper presents a simulation methodology proposal, applying a multilanguage technique to simulate a mechatronic system. Firstly, a way to interact between two programming languages is presented, by taking advantage of each language to facilitate the development of a complex simulation tool. Later, the mechanical structure is obtained in VRML format. Next, special software is used to compute the mathematical model for kinematics and dynamic behavior. The results are showed by graphical simulation with Graphic Libraries support. Finally, the methodology is applied to flexible manipulator with one degree of freedom as study case, and the graphical simulation is presented.