Collaborative Mechatronic Design and Systems Engineering: an Educational Experiment with KARREN

Mhenni, Faïda; Choley, Jean-Yves; Caron, Françoise; Munck, Antoine

doi:10.1109/syseng.2018.8544405

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“…In order to demonstrate our approach, an Elector-Mechanical Actuator (EMA) of an aileron for a small aircraft is considered in this paper. The EMA is a mechatronic system used to actuate the aileron of the aircraft and replace the usual rod, lever and cables mechanisms [44,45].…”

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Conflict Resolution in Mechatronic Collaborative Design Using Category Theory

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Due to the multitude of disciplines involved in mechatronic design, heterogeneous languages and expert models are used to describe the system from different domain-specific views. Despite their heterogeneity, these models are highly interrelated. As a consequence, conflicts among expert models are likely to occur. In order to ensure that these models are not contradictory, the necessity to detect and manage conflicts among the models arises. Detecting these inconsistencies at an early stage significantly reduces the amount of engineering activities re-execution. Therefore, to deal with this issue, a formal framework relying upon mathematical concepts is required. The mathematical theory, namely category theory (CT), is considered as an efficient tool to provide a formal and unifying framework supporting conflict detection and management. This paper proposes a comprehensive methodology that allows conflict detection and resolution in the context of mechatronic collaborative design. CT is used in order to explicitly capture the inconsistencies occurred between the disparate expert models. By means of this theory, the conflicts can be detected and handled in an easy and formal way. Our proposed approach is applied to a collaborative scenario concerning the electro-mechanical actuator (EMA) of the aileron.

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“…The case study considered in this paper refers to an Electro-Mechanical Actuator (EMA) of an aileron for a small aircraft (Jian et al, 2018; Mhenni et al, 2018). The EMA is a mechatronic system that actuates the aileron of the aircraft and replaces the usual rod, lever and cables mechanisms.…”

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“…The idea is to consider parameters as categories. The response time, the static error, the global mass, the maximal power, the cost and the (Mhenni et al, 2018).…”

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Knowledge capitalization in mechatronic collaborative design

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Concurrent Engineering

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In mechatronic collaborative design, there is a synergic integration of several expert domains, where heterogeneous knowledge needs to be shared. To address this challenge, ontology-based approaches are proposed as a solution to overtake this heterogeneity. However, dynamic exchange between design teams is overlooked. Consequently, parametric-based approaches are developed to use constraints and parameters consistently during collaborative design. The most valuable knowledge that needs to be capitalized, which we call crucial knowledge, is identified with informal solutions. Thus, a formal identification and extraction is required. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to formalize the interconnection between stakeholders and facilitate the extraction and capitalization of crucial knowledge during the collaboration, based on the mathematical theory ‘Category Theory’ (CT). Firstly, we present an overview of most used methods for crucial knowledge identification in the context of collaborative design as well as a brief review of CT basic concepts. Secondly, we propose a methodology to formally extract crucial knowledge based on some fundamental concepts of category theory. Finally, a case study is considered to validate the proposed methodology.

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“…Mechatronic systems result from the synergic integration of electrical, mechanical, information technology and computer system [1]. This multiplicity of domains renders adopting collaborative processes necessary in order to ensure efficient communication between the different expert models (EMs) relative to each domain [2].…”

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Conflict Management for Mechatronic Systems Design

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Gaha

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2021 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE)

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Due to the multidisciplinary and complex nature of mechatronic systems, collaborative design becomes necessary in order to reduce the design cycle time and cost. This collaboration involves the use of numerous languages and expert models in order to represent distinct views on the same system. Consequently, conflicts among these models are likely to happen and need to be detected and resolved carefully. In order to capture and handle these conflicts in an easy and simple way, a unifying formalism based on mathematical concepts is required. Thus, we suggest the use of Category Theory (CT), motivated by its mathematical and formal foundation to handle conflicts in a formal way. This work presents a new framework able to check and manage conflicts in collaborative design. This framework has two key features. First, to detect the conflicts between the expert models in a formal way based on category theory concepts. And second, to manage these conflicts in order to ensure the coherence of the system under design. Our approach is illustrated through its application to an Electronic Throttle Body (ETB) from the automotive industry since it involves the collaboration among several expert domains.

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Collaborative Mechatronic Design and Systems Engineering: an Educational Experiment with KARREN

Cited by 7 publications

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Conflict Resolution in Mechatronic Collaborative Design Using Category Theory

Conflict Resolution in Mechatronic Collaborative Design Using Category Theory

Knowledge capitalization in mechatronic collaborative design

Conflict Management for Mechatronic Systems Design

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