Simulator Engineering
This 2 ½ day (05/03-05/05) class is for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of how to maintain and modify their training simulator. Emphasis will be on the T-REX simulator environment, including the executive, instructor station, simulator databases, and tools and utilities. Participants will learn tips on simulator load configuration, instructor station configuration and maintenance, taking models in and out of the load, and maintaining simulator configuration control. This class is an in-person extension of the popular simulator engineer webinars conducted by CORYS during 2022 and 2023.
Classes will cover effective use of Microsoft Visual Studio for simulator troubleshooting and maintenance. By popular demand a class on how to perform cycle updates of the S3R reactor core models has been added.
Multiple instructors will ensure personalized instruction is available. Realistic, hands-on training exercises will be an integral part of each classroom lesson.
Computers with a simulator load and Developers Studio will be supplied to participants.
Lesson 1: T-REX features
- Identify T-REX Project Specific Directories
- Identify the general functionality of utilities in each T-REX directory
- Identify the Features Available from the Thunder Executive Task Window
Lesson 2: Software Setup for T-REX
- Practice installing and configuring a T-REX simulator
Lesson 3: Part 1 and 2 T-REX Database Setup and Management
- Identify the T-REX specific applications and utilities provided to maintain the Simulation Point Database and Constants Global binary data files
- Learn to use the database management applications DBConfig, PDM, MergeInit and InitGlob
Lesson 4
- Identify the T-REX applications and utilities provided for Simulator Scenario development and conduct of Simulator Training for Plant Operators
- Identify the T-REX applications provided to perform and automate tasks associated with simulator periodic testing and test data collection; and describe how they are set up
- Configuration utility
- Lightning database
- Lightning applications
Lesson 5
- Identify the T-REX features that can assist the Simulator Software and Hardware Engineers to locate and debug simulator faults
- Learn how to set and execute breakpoints using Microsoft Visual Studio
- Executive project
- Libraries
- Visual Studio Executive properties
- SSCAN
- Visual Studio debug windows
Lesson 6: Visual Studio Debugging
- Explore ways to use visual studio to correct program issues
- Class exercises finding sim runtime faults
Lesson 7: Core reload and tuning
- Step by step process for installing new cores
