J123011 An Application of a Conceptual Design Support System focusing on Dynamic Deployment of Hypothesis and Verification for Mechatronics Systems

Abstract

Tlie development ef mechatrol ゴc sys 血 ：ms requ 辻es integra 直 on of owledge of various do皿 ains ， such as mechanical en … 血 ee血 g， electrical eng 血eering， and so伽 are eng 血eer 血 g， and iterations of h 〕 脚 山 esis 跏 d ve 面 cation across 血 e do 血 s ． Amodelrdriven development appfoach is needed to support its process ． This paper proposes a conceptual design support system f()r mechatronic systerns focusing on the process of deployment of hypothesis and verification ． SysML is adopted as a mOdelng language for representi 皿 g mechatronic system without depending specific domains ， A framework of DR 正 丁 is used to capture designer ' s operations on modeling tools of SysML and manage its process ． We define design conceptS and design operations which are extracted 丘om the pattems embedded 血 modeling pro ss with SysML ， e ． g ． ， adding new nodes ， se面 ng rela 口ons between nodes ， and setdng attributes of nodes or relations ， in order to jncorporate the modehng tools to the 血amework ． 皿 rjs paper demonstrates a prototype implementation on a block de伽 tion diagram and an 血 temal block diagram ， and its application to bail − grabbing robot with LEGO Mindstorms．