A SysML-based integration framework for the engineering of mechatronic systems

Abstract

Abstract-The engineering discipline mechatronics is one of the main innovation leader in industry nowadays. With the need for an optimal synergetic integration of the involved disciplines, the engineering process of mechatronic systems is faced with an increasing complexity and the interdisciplinary nature of these systems. New methods and techniques have to be developed to deal with these challenges. This document presents an approach of a SysML-based integration framework that shall deal with the complexity and bring the different disciplines together for a better cooperation and collaboration. Therefore, SysML shall be used for the overall interdisciplinary system design and simultaniously act as a link between the heterogenous model data of the discipline specific tools.

Analyzing and Modeling Interdisciplinary Product Development

“…In recent years, several authors have emphasized the need for an appropriate tool support of system-level modeling activities during system design (Bellalouna 2009;Hehenberger, Egyed, et al 2009;Chami, Seemüller, et al 2010;Follmer, Hehenberger, et al 2010;Qamar, Wikander, et al 2011;Stetter, Seemüller, et al 2011). The proposed ideas for the realization of system-level modeling span across a variety of approaches:…”

Swarm-based evaluation of nonparametric SysML mechatronics system design

“…SysML with its diagrams deals with this problem, while offering a general-purpose approach, and has been already adopted successfully during the last few years for modeling mechatronics systems as in [7], [8], [9].…”

Possibilities and challenges of an integrated development using a combined SysML-model and corresponding domain specific models

“…An integrated SysML-based framework for mechatronic systems is presented by Chami et al (2010). During the development of a mechatronic system the result of the collaborative design phase of the V-model is an integrated SysML system model.…”

“…Depending on the used methodology, the changes in the SysML-model have to be edited manually, are changed automatically if a reverse transformation of the simulation model to the SysML model is conducted (as for example through the triple graph grammar approach described by Cao et al (2011)), or are synchronized directly (e.g. through software agents as described by Chami et al (2010)).…”