Fault-Tolerant Function Development for Mechatronic Systems

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Ralf Stetter (1), Udo Pulm (2)
Series: DESIGN
Institution: 1: University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany; 2: University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Germany
Section: Systems Engineering and Design
Page(s): 1975-1984
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.200
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

The main focus of this paper is the exploration of fault accommodation possibilities in the context of function development. Faults occur in complex technical systems and may lead, if no accommodation entities or processes are present, to catastrophic failure. Several entities and processes exist and are applied, but mainly on the concrete levels. Faults very often concern more than one physical domain and accommodation possibilities are present in many physical or even non-physical domains. This paper explores this specific challenge and proposes an initial collection of countermeasures.

Keywords: mechatronics, functional modelling, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), fault-tolerant design, function development