Model-Driven Development of Embedded Systems

Distributed mechatronic systems integrate sensors, processing units, communication networks, and actuators. In order to achieve a rapid development process and an improved maintainability it is necessary to combine and replace such modular components in a flexible way. For seamless composability we developed communication middleware and a programming abstraction for distributed sensors and actuators. In this paper we describe a comprehensive development toolchain based on these abstractions. Sensors and actuators are specified by an extended electronic datasheet for smart embedded devices. Following this approach, the user defines the capabilities of a device on a high system level in a declarative way. From that description, the functionality is generated using domain-specific tools like Matlab/Simulink. Finally, we improved the back-end tools that provide the code for the target system. Thus this code is derived with minimal user-intervention.

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