High Level Model Integration for Design of Mechatronic Systems

Abstract

Development of mechatronic products, and their system by using a central, high level, model of the system controllers, carries a series of difficulties related mainly to and its behavior. product complexity. This paper discusses such difficulties and A first case study is introduced in the paper to provide introduces a proposal of a framework of prototype tools that practical examples to a number of the discussed topics and aim to support controller design for mechatronic systems by tis to dnumbroft discussed csa prviin coto otaegnrto. Thi wokepaie to illustrate some related industrial approaches. The case providing control software generation. This work emphasizes stdcorpnstohewkprfmdbyheahrst the high level system description embedded in such framework study corresponds to the work performed by the authors at and the model integration aspects.Philips Applied Technologies to study the potential of automatic data transfer between modeling tools used in the

Swarm-based evaluation of nonparametric SysML mechatronics system design

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“…This fact makes SysML an ideal foundation for an improved integration on the levels proposed in section II: For process integration, SysML is the language of choise for an interdisciplinary system design. Additionally, it has been shown, that the usage of a domain indepenent model for data integration aspects seems to be convenient, as it can act as a glue for the domain specific model data [6].…”

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