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:
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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. 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 research, simulation tools and the Spatial Operator Algebra (SOA).