Object-Oriented Modeling of Complex Mechatronic Components for the Manufacturing Industry

The advantages of object-oriented modeling, as modularity and reusability of components, are very important not only for software development but also for modeling manufacturing systems. Recently, a unified object-oriented approach for modeling both the logical and the physical part of a manufacturing machine has been proposed. In this paper, we show the effectiveness of this new modeling framework on an industrial application. The case study consists of the package forming unit of a filling machine for liquid food packaging, developed by Tetra Pak Carton Ambient S.p.A.

[1]  Arjan van der Schaft,et al.  Hamiltonian formulation of bond graphs , 2003 .

[2]  Marcello Bonfè,et al.  On the Use of UML for Modeling Mechatronic Systems , 2007, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

[3]  Marcello Bonfè,et al.  Object-oriented modeling of multi-domain systems , 2005, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2005..

[4]  Bran Selic,et al.  Using UML for Modeling Complex Real-Time Systems , 1998, LCTES.

[5]  Marcello Bonfe,et al.  TOWARDS OBJECT-ORIENTED MODELING OF COMPLEX MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS FOR THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY , 2006 .

[6]  Bran Selic.  Protocols and ports: reusable inter-object behavior patterns , 1999, Proceedings 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC'99) (Cat. No.99-61702).

[7]  Dean Karnopp,et al.  Understanding multibody dynamics using bond graph representations , 1997 .