Model Based Systems Engineering is a foundation for CNXMotion to collaboratively develop motion control solutions for autonomous vehicle applications. There is a strong need for each member of our engineering team to be aligned with a common understanding of the intended system architecture. In this presentation, CNXMotion will give an overview of our organization’s experiences with using MBSE. We will introduce our motivations for using MBSE, first as a communication means for our extended organization, and for co-development within other engineering team. We will explain how our system architecture tool has provided both a modeling platform and methodology that can be flexibly adapted to best fit our research and development context. Our systems architects can closely collaborate with our engineers responsible for downstream design captures including vehicle and system behavioral simulations, software algorithms, human-machine interfaces, and hardware electrical mechanizations. The presentation will include an illustrative example of a Capella model that has lead the design team to a successful demonstration of our motion control design concepts, sharing the realized benefits of using MBSE as a collaboration means between internal and external engineering teams.
