The FMI 3.0 Standard Interface for Clocked and Scheduled Simulations

Abstract

This paper presents an overview and formalization of the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) 3.0. The formalization captures the new FMI 3.0 standard and is intended to be used as an introduction for conceptualizing the use of clocks in the FMI standard to support the simulation of event-based cyber-physical systems. The FMI 3.0 standard supports two kinds of clock-based simulations: Synchronous Clocked Simulation to ensure predictable systems scheduling with multiple simultaneous events and scheduled execution to facilitate real-time simulations comprising multiple black-box models by allowing fine-grained control over the computation time of submodels. The formalization is a basis for developing tools for orchestrating, verifying and validating the composition of multiple FMUs. The formalization is provided as an accessible VDM-SL specification.