[jcgrillo]

This looks really cool! I've often dreamt of having tools which would enable things like co-evolving a drone controller with physical aspects of the drone itself -- like rotor shape, dimensions, components selected (motors, battery, etc). The normal CAE workflow isn't set up for that kind of fast iteration. Code driven modelling tools combined with code driven simulation environments could make that real.

[sphw]

We completely agree. We want to develop a series of prebuilt modules for various components (motors, IMUs, star trackers, etc). The goal would be to let people easily test out new configurations quickly by just changing the code. Ideally, this will be a community effort, where people can contribute open-source models of various components that have been created.

[jcgrillo]

> let people easily test out new configurations quickly by just changing the code

If it's all just code, and we can compute some (multi-)objective function from each simulation run, then we can turn a metaheuristic loose on it ;)