TiemOrbit Format

The TiemOrbit reader can parse various entities to get data from the ADF file. These entities include: attributes, blocks, subblocks, tables, units and comments.

Attributes

Attributes form the smallest data member of the driver file. Attributes can be real, integer, strings or Booleans (True/False).

[BLOCK_NAME]

ATTRIBUTE_1 = 'TRUE'

ATTRIBUTE_2 = 1.0

ATTRIBUTE_3 = 'GEAR_CONTROL'

ATTRIBUTE_4 = 8

Attribute names are:

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Strings

•	Case insensitive, for example: TAG and tag are equivalent.

•	In the above example, the attributes are: TAG, SATURATION, LOOK_AHEAD_TIME, DEMAND_FILE, INTEGRATION_STEP_SIZE are the attribute names.

Attribute value:

•	Real, integer, string, bool

•	Strings should be written in ‘single quotes’ or “double quotes”

•	0 , 0.00, N, NO, FALSE, F are all depicted as false

•	1, 1.00, T, TRUE, Y, YES are all depicted as true

•	Case sensitive

Format

ATTRIBUTE_NAME = ATTRIBUTE_VALUE

Block

Blocks form the most versatile data structure of the reader utility. It acts as container for all other data members except a block.

•	Block can contain any number of sub-blocks.

•	Block cannot contain a block.

•	Block can contain multiple tables but only by storing them in different sub blocks.

teimorbit_format_block_example_mv

Format:

[BLOCK_NAME]

ATTRIBUTE(s)

SUBBLOCK(s)

TABLE

Block ends with the end of file or start of new Block.

Sub-block

Sub-blocks are structurally similar to blocks with an only difference that they cannot contain sub blocks or blocks.

•	A sub block cannot contain more than one table.

Format:

(SUBBLOCK_NAME)

ATTRIBUTE(s)

TABLE(s)

Table

Data structure which consists of fields (rows and columns).

•	Table can contain any type of attributes.

•	In no label is provided, the default is to label them as indices starting from 0.

Format:

{LABEL1 LABEL2 LABEL3}

ATTRIBUTE00 ATTRIBUTE01 ATTRIBUTE02

ATTRIBUTE10 ATTRIBUTE11 ATTRIBUTE12

ATTRIBUTE20 ATTRIBUTE21 ATTRIBUTE22

Units

‘Units’ is a special block that conveys the reader units of the property file.

•	Every property sheet should necessarily have a units block.

•	User defined units in tables.

Comment

Anything written in line after ‘$’ is ignored by the reader utility.

[VEHICLE_INITIAL_CONDITIONS]

$These are wrt marker attached to the driver analysis - Vehicle IC reference marker

$Default Global Frame

VX0 = -3.0

VY0 = 0.0

VZ0 = 0.0