US 11,675,936 B2
Unifying multiple simulation models
Ian McGregor, Shepperton (GB); Adam Davidson, Reading (GB); and David Dawkins, Reading (GB)
Assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US)
Filed by Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/34,688.
Prior Publication US 2022/0100917 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. G06G 7/48 (2006.01); G06F 30/12 (2020.01); G06T 13/20 (2011.01); G06F 111/02 (2020.01); G06F 111/20 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/12 (2020.01) [G06T 13/20 (2013.01); G06F 2111/02 (2020.01); G06F 2111/20 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for rendering industrial simulations, comprising:
a memory that stores executable components; and
a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising:
a user interface component configured to receive, via interaction with a graphical representation of a digital model of an industrial automation system, node designation data that identifies portions of the digital model that are to be executed on respective different processing node devices;
a model deployment component configured to generate multiple model portions corresponding to the portions of the digital model based on the node designation data and to deploy the multiple model portions to the respective different processing node devices; and
a node interface component configured to communicatively connect to the processing node devices, wherein
the processing node devices respectively execute the multiple model portions to yield a distributed simulation of the industrial automation system,
the node interface component is further configured to collect graphical data and simulation data from the processing node devices and to aggregate the graphical data and simulation data to yield unified presentation data, and
the user interface component is further configured to render, on a client device, a unified presentation of the industrial automation system based on the unified presentation data.