JPL's DARTS Lab provides several multi-mission space system simulation tools for the closed-loop development and testing of flight algorithms and software. This toolkit can be used in workstation environments as well as in real-time, hardware-in-the-loop simulations for the testing and verification of flight software and hardware.

Tools:

	A high performance computational engine for flexible multibody dynamics.
	A multi-mission simulation framework for real-time, hardware-in-the-loop spacecraft simulations.
	A Dshell based planetary rover simulator for surface exploration.
	A Dshell based simulator for entry, descent and landing (EDL) scenarios.
	A software toolkit for planetary terrain environment models.
	A DARTS based package for internal coordinates molecular dyanmics simulations.
	A 3D graphics tool for real-time, closed-loop simulation visualization.
	A software development toolkit for the concurrent development of reusable software.

Research:

	The Spatial Operator Algebra (SOA) is a computational multibody dynamics framework for the mathematical study and analysis of rigid and flexible multibody systems.
	Publications on the Darts Lab simulation tools and the Spatial Operator Algebra (SOA).

Related Sites:

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