General Purpose Lua Interpreter for Modelica

Kurzfassung

Simulation becomes more and more important in the de-velopment of complex systems. Modeled systems oftenare comprised of mechanical, electrical as well as soft-ware systems. It is often not possible to evaluate the per-formance of a system without considering some higherlevel logic anymore. Scripting languages, such as Lua,are usually well suited to implement these logic elements.This paper shows the integration of the Lua interpreter intoModelica, and gives examples how the library can be usedto help with the simulation of industrial robots or in thedevelopment of a planetary exploration rover in the MMXMission.