Hi Mike,
my email is
scadaperspective at gmail.com
sounds interesting...
Im no speed deamon with coding too many years now in management roles but it is keeping me busy
I have been building up the test rig plugin idea
you can see what I have done to what was ship driver !
I am focussing on getting functional aspects to help with sorting out the tactics plugin.
I made a sim tool in java years ago Just finished updating it a bit recently
sadly it isn't open source able so your code has been a great way to get something up and running very quickly for me
GitHub /scadaperspective/Simulator_pi is the repo
the autopilot idea sounds good along with your rowing machine idea ....
have a few idea's on the controller simulator need to flesh them out a bit...
happy to help
/Ron