Bosch Research at the 16th International Modelica and FMI Conference

Bosch has been a member of the Modelica Association since 2020. The association releases open standards in the areas of modeling and simulation which are heavily used at Bosch. These include:

• Modelica: equation-based modeling language
• FMI: Functional Mock-up Interface, the de facto industry standard for tool-independent model exchange
• eFMI: Functional Mock-up Interface for embedded systems (eFMI)
• SSP: System Structure and Parameterization
• Layered Standards that extend FMI for new usage domains, e.g., fmi-ls-bus

These cross-sector standards form the foundation for virtualized, simulation-based product development in distributed teams, making collaboration across different systems and company boundaries possible.

Bosch Research plays a key role in shaping these standards by incorporating the requirements of the Bosch Business Units and ensuring the standards can be successfully applied to their use cases. A significant part of this work has been supported by publicly funded projects, such as MODELISAR, EMPHYSIS, SETLEVEL and the currently on going ITEA4 OpenSCALING project.

In his Bosch Research Blog post, “The FMI Layered Standard for Network Communication,” expert Christian Bertsch offers an inside look at the latest extension of the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) for the collaborative simulation of networked systems.

The 16th International Modelica and FMI Conference 2025 will feature the latest results from Bosch Research on research and standardization, presented across a range of tutorials, scientific talks, and industrial user presentations:

Tutorials:

• FMI beginners’ tutorial (Christian Bertsch et al.)
• Introduction to System Structure and Parameterization (SSP) (Antoine Vandamme et. al)

Scientific talks:

• FMI Layered Standard for Network Communication: Applications in Networked ECU Development (Christian Bertsch et al.)
• Input Smoothing for Faster Co-Simulation using FMI (Oliver Lenord et al.)

Industrial user presentations:

• Traceability and Support of Modeling & Simulation using SSP-Traceability Layered Standard (Hans-Martin Heinkel, Antoine Vandamme, et al.)
• Integration of systems engineering and simulation based on standards: The needs, challenges and solutions from an industrial perspective (Hans-Martin Heinkel et al.)
• Towards a Credible System Simulation Architecture applicable to Heat Pump Systems using Modelica, FMI and SSP (Oliver Lenord et al.)

The FMI Advisory Committee meeting after the Conference is hosted by FMI Project Leader Christian Bertsch.