temperatureMonitorActuator.h

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/*******************************************************************************
** Copyright (c) 2021 MAK Technologies, Inc.
** All rights reserved.
*******************************************************************************/

//
//class DtTemperatureMonitorActuator
//
//This is a component which simply keeps track of the entity's internal temperature. 
//Factors that affect temperature will be external temperature and if entity is moving.
//
#pragma once

#include "vrfobjcore/actuatorComponent.h"


//String which uniquely identifies this controller
const char DtTemperatureMonitorActuatorType[] = "temperature-monitor-actuator";

class DtTemperatureMonitorActuator : public DtActuatorComponent
{
public:
   //constructor
   DtTemperatureMonitorActuator(const DtString & name, DtLocalObject* owner,
      DtSimulationServices * simManager, DtComponentDescriptor* desc = NULL,
      DtReaderWriterRegistry * parentRegistry = 0);

   //destructor
   virtual ~DtTemperatureMonitorActuator();

   //copy constructor
   DtTemperatureMonitorActuator(const DtTemperatureMonitorActuator& orig);

   //assignment operator
   DtTemperatureMonitorActuator& operator=(const DtTemperatureMonitorActuator& orig);

   //Returns the string type for this component.
   virtual const char* type() const;

   //Overridden from the base class to call createPSR().
   virtual bool init();

   //Update control values
   //For this actuator, we apply some simple constraints to internal temperature and we print out the value every 10 seconds of 
   //simulation time.
   virtual void tick();

   virtual void calculateInternalTemperature();

   const double getTemperature() const;

   //This is called by the factory
   static DtSimComponent* creator(const DtString & name, DtLocalObject* owner,
      DtSimulationServices * simManager, DtComponentDescriptor* desc,
      DtReaderWriterRegistry * parentRegistry);


protected:
   double myNextPrintTime;
};

#pragma once