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ORGANISATION
HighTech Consultants is a faculty entrepreneur firm of STEP, I.I.T, Kharagpur. Its main objectives are technology transfer to industries through creation of modeling, simulation and control software and providing modeling and simulation solutions.
PRODUCTS
HighTech Consultants have produced some of the best bond graph modeling, simulation and control systems software. They are available for use in academic, industrial R&D and defense institutes. Besides, HighTech also develops custom software for various industries and defense sectors.
SYMBOLS Sonata™
SYMBOLS acronym stands for SYstem Modeling by BOndgraph Language and Simulation. It is a modeling, simulation and control systems software for a variety of scientific and engineering applications. Created over 25 years of research in system modeling, SYMBOLS is capable of handling large systems with interplay of multi energy domains and control paradigms. Being a powerful research tool, it can help avoid unaffordable, sophisticated fabrications. Yet, we can know precisely the response characteristics of the simulated system (inclusive of any defects and faults introduced at will!). Laboratories, dissertation works at masters and doctoral level in academia can benefit immensely from this software. And lastly, large size Field Problems of Industry can be modeled and simulated in such a fashion that one has to work with SYMBOLS to believe its capabilities.
SYMBOLS Sonata ™ is the next generation modeling tool running in Microsoft Windows environment. User can easily model a system either in Bond graph form or by using its powerful object oriented encapsulation, called capsules.
Some of the worldwide users of SYMBOLS
TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company - Jamshedpur, Bihar, India
The Naval Postgraduate School Monterey - CA, USA
Tata Bearings - Kharagpur, West Bengal , India
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics(CAIR) - Bangalore, Karnataka , India
Research & Development Establishment (Engineers), Defence Research Development Organisation - Pune, India
Mahindra & Mahindra,Tractor Division, Mumbai , India
Bharat Earth Movers Limited - Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka , India
University of Jadavpur, Calcutta , India
Yosu University, Korea
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering - Karnataka , India
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology - Longowal , Punjab , India
Gogte Institute of Technology - Belgaum, Karnataka , India
Manipal Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India
University of Waterloo, Canada
Thoma Consulting - Zug, Switzerland
Metallurgical & Engineering Consultants (India) Limited - Ranchi, Bihar , India
Indian School of Mines - Dhanbad, Bihar, India
Benaras Hindu University - Uttar Pradesh, India
Ecole Centrale de Lille - Lille, France
Gas Turbine Research Establishment - Bangalore, India
Sheffield University - U.K.
Malnad College of Engineering - Hassan, India
Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) (ISRO) - Sri Harikota, India
Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Center (VSSC) Trivandrum, India
National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) Berhampur, Orissa, India.
University of Texas at Austin (UTAUSTIN) Austin, Texas, USA.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin, Colombia.
Universitaire de Saint Jerome Normandie, Marseille, France.
Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambresis Valenciennes, France.
Indian Institute of Technology Roorki, India
National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India
Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Azad Institute of Technology Lucknow
Interactive Computer Products Pte Ltd, Singapore
Mather and Platt Pumps Ltd., Pune, India
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Kinetix Solutions, Bangalore, India
Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India
University of Strathclyde, U.K.
Govt. College of Engineering, Aurangabad, India
Competitive Advantages
SYMBOLS Sonata is basically modeling and simulation software for very general class of systems residing in multi-energy domain. As a powerful research tool, it avoids unaffordable sophisticated fabrications by knowing precisely the response characteristics of simulated systems.
It automatically develops mathematical models and incorporates system non-linearity and behaviors systematically.
It supports activation, which is the facility to select the measurement and information transfer mode at modeling, stages itself.
During simulation there is a facility for on-line parameter variation through sliders.
It has got advanced post-simulation plotting facilities and facility for multiple-runs with interpolated or discrete parameter values.
It can handle problems of large industries and fields problems with practically no limitation on the number of state variables.
SYMBOLS Sonata allows modeler to create and incorporate sub-system modules called capsules in model of plant or bigger systems. These capsules can be used as a black box in any model. So capsules are self-explanatory, complete within itself and abstract to the level of final modelers implementation.
Moreover the physics of a complex multi-energy system is clearly visible with all the subtle aspects giving direct approach to create system models.
The control system modules of SYMBOLS Sonata is a powerful mathematical tool for modeling linear / linearized systems in analog, digital or state space domain and many more.
Last but not the least, this software is capable to run in other operating systems through WINE (A translation layer - program loader capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop. Please visit http://www.winehq.org for more know-how and download).
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