AnDeCS: a concurrent control engineering project

AnDeCS (for analysis and design of controlled systems) is a project for developing a coherent computer-aided technology for concurrent control engineering, i.e., multidisciplinary dynamics design integration with emphasis on controlled systems. The technological requirements (concepts, methods, and software tools) for supporting end-user aims, a common view on method-experiments and model-experiments, multidisciplinary information sharing, and project teaming are considered. Of particular interest are the AnDeCS dynamics-model bus and the engineering-data bus. Also dealt with is the layered development approach, which interrelates in a structured way data processing, software engineering, object-oriented data abstraction, and numerics, with specific dynamics engineering methods, computational application modules, and high-level modular multiobjective design experimentation