Towards automation of control software: A review of challenges in mechatronic design

Cabrera, Alicia Triviño; Foeken, M.J.; Tekin, Özgür Aydın; Woestenenk, Krijn; Erden, Mustafa Suphi; Schutter, Bart De; Tooren, M.J.L. Van; Babuška, Robert; Houten, Frederikus J.A.M. van; Tomiyama, Tetsuo

doi:10.1016/j.mechatronics.2010.05.003

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“…3, which illustrates the top-level system architecture). The tool can connect to further development stages, such as performance analysis or control software generation (Alvares Cabarera et al, 2010). Other possibilities would be connecting functional descriptions with user-level upfront information such as workflow that would eventually guarantee and increase the usability of the product in connection with functions (van Beek & Tomiyama, 2011).…”

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Making function modeling practically usable

Tomiyama

Beek

Cabrera

et al. 2013

AIEDAM

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Function modeling is considered potentially useful in various fields of engineering, including engineering design. However, a close look at practices reveals that practitioners do not use formal function modeling so much, while the concept of "function" frequently appears in many practical methods without a vigorous definition. This paper tries to understand why formal function modeling is not practically utilized in industry by analyzing usage cases of function. By observing product development activities in industry, the paper identifies three problems that prevent formal function modeling from wider applications in practices, namely, practitioners' neglect of function modeling, the lack of practically useful function reasoning, and the complexity of the methods and tools of formal function modeling that make them impractical. Finally, the paper proposes strategies to tackle these problems and illustrates some research efforts in this regard.

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Section: Three Possible Directions To Make Function Modeling More Pramentioning

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Making function modeling practically usable

Tomiyama

Beek

Cabrera

et al. 2013

AIEDAM

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“…The development of mechatronic systems requires the collaboration of the mechanical, electronic, control, and software domains in a design team. The team can obtain the design and instrumentation by applying a mechatronic design strategy where mechanical, electronic, control, and computer engineering areas must collaborate to obtain a specific mechanism [34]. The typical approach is a sequential design, as shown in Figure 1.…”

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Design, Assembly and Control of a Differential/Omnidirectional Mobile Robot through Additive Manufacturing

Padilla-García,

Cruz-Morales,

González-Sierra

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Machines

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Although additive manufacturing is a relatively new technology, it has been widely accepted by industry and academia due to the wide variety of prototypes that can be built. Furthermore, using mobile robots to carry out different tasks allows greater flexibility than using manipulator robots. In that sense, and based on those above, this article focuses on the design and assembly of a multi-configurable mobile robot that is capable of changing from a differential to an omnidirectional configuration. For this purpose, a sequential mechatronic design/control methodology was implemented to obtain an affordable platform via additive manufacturing which is easily scalable and allows the user to change from one configuration to another. As a proof of concept, this change is made manually. Fabrication, construction, and assembly processes for both structures are presented. Then, a hierarchical control law is designed. In this sense and based on Lyapunov’s method, a low-level controller is developed to control the angular speed of the wheels to a desired angular speed, and a medium-level controller controls the robot’s attitude to follow a desired Cartesian trajectory. Finally, the control strategies are implemented in both prototype configurations, and through experimental results, the theoretical analysis and the construction of the mobile robot are validated.

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“…Yet, such a transformer does not completely exist and still evolving (Wang & Dagli, 2008). Hence, these approaches have some shortcomings regarding automatically driving a simulation model from the descriptive model (Alvarez Cabrera et al, 2010;Fleck et al, 2013;Matei & Bock, 2012;Mayerhofer et al, 2013;Mijatov et al, 2015;Moses, 2002).…”

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A Modelling Framework to Design Executable Logical Architecture of Engineering Systems

Abdoli¹,

Kara²

2017

MAS

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Modern production, logistic and assembly systems comprise of a considerable number of processes which operate by using diverse types of resources. Conceptual design of these systems has become more complicated because of the large scale and multi-disciplinary essence of their design knowledge. This paper proposes a modelling framework to support the conceptual design of such systems. The framework employs the principles of system engineering to fulfil the necessity of having a multi-disciplinary approach for the design of such systems. The framework realizes the essence of holistic design by modelling the structural and behavioral aspects of a system in one design artefact. Object Oriented (OO) method is employed to facilitate the complexity of holistic analysis and yielding proper logics for system architecting. This paper proposes incorporating the OO analyzing semantics into Finite State Machine formalism. Therefore, the logical architecture will be established in an FSM platform. In return, the resultant artefact can stand as an executable Meta-Architecture such that design alternatives are its instances. Moreover, the Meta-Architecture enables simulation of the alternatives which serve their early validation. Accordingly, this approach opens avenues regarding incorporation of the Meta-Architecture with computational and analyzing methods which can significantly support the decision making in the conceptual design stage.

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Towards automation of control software: A review of challenges in mechatronic design

Cited by 59 publications

References 41 publications

Making function modeling practically usable

Making function modeling practically usable

Design, Assembly and Control of a Differential/Omnidirectional Mobile Robot through Additive Manufacturing

A Modelling Framework to Design Executable Logical Architecture of Engineering Systems

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