RM-ODP: A framework for Mechatronics systems

Abstract

This paper deals with the opportunity for the Mechatronics community to adopt the ISO/RM-ODP model (International Organization for Standardization/ Reference Model -Open Distributed Processing), to express and formalise the design organisation and the engineering process of Mechatronics systems. Such a model provides a set of concepts allowing the description of specification, modelisation and observation tasks one needs to perform to define the negotiation and the communication between actors in such a community. In a first part, we stress the need for the instantiation of this framework so as to integrate the specifications to Mechatronics (such as UML, SysML). In a second part, we propose two instances of Engineering viewpoint; the first is dedicated to the protocol of negotiating QoS requirements When Mechatronics components in different clusters interact and the second to investigate the support for the specification of Quality of Service (QoS) in Event-B.