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Engineering Cyber‐Physical Swarms with Collaborative Modelling
Author(s) -
Pierce Ken,
Gamble Carl,
Fitzgerald John,
Zervakis Georgios
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2018.00533.x
Subject(s) - rotation formalisms in three dimensions , component (thermodynamics) , cyber physical system , systems engineering , computer science , process (computing) , engineering design process , software engineering , data science , engineering , operating system , mechanical engineering , physics , geometry , mathematics , thermodynamics
A major challenge in the engineering of cyber‐physical systems (CPSs), such as swarms of autonomous UAVs, is the need for engineers from multiple disciplines to collaborate as early as possible in the design phase. Model‐based design is a well‐established systems engineering technique, but separate disciplines often have separate formalisms, tools and even vocabularies. An emerging approach is to combine individual models from these domains into holistic system models called collaborative models (or co‐models), which can be analysed through, for example, co‐simulation. This paper reports on the application of the INTO‐CPS tool chain, which supports such a collaborative modelling approach, to the design of a swarm of UAVs. Three engineers were involved in the modelling process, and were able to produce component models in familiar tools which were then integrated and analysed as a holistic system model using INTO‐CPS.