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Ontology-Represented Design Space Processing
Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering. Linköping University, Department of Management and Engineering, Fluid and Mechatronic Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8030-8974
Linköping University, Department of Management and Engineering, Fluid and Mechatronic Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.
Linköping University, Department of Management and Engineering, Fluid and Mechatronic Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2315-0680
Saab Aeronautics, Linköping, Sweden.
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2021 (English)In: AIAA AVIATION 2021 Forum, August 2-6, 2021, VIRTUAL EVENT, USA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2021Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper presents a method for generating a design space intended for aircraft design with the use of ontologies. Aircraft design, seen from a System-of-Systems (SoS) perspective, gives an idea of the complicated relationships and complexities that need to be managed and understood to develop suitable systems for an ever-changing future. Holistic SoS analyzes are used to investigate customer and stakeholder needs that then can be broken down into capabilities and subsequently functions to be performed by involved Constituent Systems (CS), sub-systems and system elements. Ontologies with description logic reasoning capabilities are then used to represent the outcome of the breakdown. An ontology development and integration process can afterwards be used to merge different ontologies together and by that map the derived functions to means that can implement them. This results in an available SoS design space that can be further processed using a description logic reasoner. The outcome of the proposed method is a reduced available design space of functions to be performed and their respective design alternatives. Search and Rescue (SAR) operations based on the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) are used as a case study to test the proposed method and to illustrate how it can be utilized. At the end, a design space of alternatives for a new type of search aircraft is generated with ontology and description logic reasoning.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
USA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2021.
National Category
Aerospace Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-191925DOI: 10.2514/6.2021-2426OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-191925DiVA, id: diva2:1738888
Conference
AIAA Aviation
Projects
System-of-Systems Trade Space Exploration (S2TEP)
Funder
Vinnova, NFFP7/ 2017-04838Available from: 2023-02-23 Created: 2023-02-23 Last updated: 2023-05-11
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1. A System of Systems View in Early Product Development: An Ontology-Based Approach
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A System of Systems View in Early Product Development: An Ontology-Based Approach
2023 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The concept of system-of-systems is becoming increasingly common and relevant in many engineering applications. Today’s highly interconnected world entails that more and more systems have dependencies on other systems. This increasing number of interdependencies results in new levels of complexity that must be managed in the early development of new products. Different viewpoints must also be handled to understand the many layers of a system-of-systems and its surrounding context. An ever-changing future results in uncertainty about the operational environment but also other aspects, such as available technologies, which complicates the matter even further. Traditional approaches for early product development can be used to some extent, but the complexity, scale and sheer number of interconnections in system-of-systems require a holistic perspective to obtain an early understanding of the problem, design spaces, and multiple aspects involved. 

This dissertation aims to present a method that has been developed to address the demand for a more holistic system-of-systems view in early product development. Overall, the method consists of four parts that together show how design spaces for system-of-systems can be generated and later processed to find suitable solutions. Search and rescue operations have been used as examples of system-of-systems throughout this work and in the development of the presented method. The first two parts of the method are based on architecture frameworks and ontologies with description logic reasoning capabilities. An architecture framework is here used to break down system-of-system needs into functions to be fulfilled by constituent systems. Ontologies are thereafter used to represent the outcome and the resulting system-of-system design spaces with involved entities and their relationships. Description logic reasoning can subsequently be used to process the available design spaces and suggest suitable system-of-system solutions. The last two parts of the method build upon a concept exploration and estimation approach, together with visual analytics. The approach illustrates how individual system concepts can be estimated from an ontology-represented design space, and how visual analytics can be used to explore different system-of-system viewpoints at an early stage. Based on the outcomes of the presented method, this dissertation contributes a holistic take on early product development from a system-of-systems perspective. 

Abstract [sv]

Konceptet system-av-system blir allt vanligare och relevant i många tekniska tillämpningsområden. Dagens högt sammanlänkade värld innebär att fler och fler system har beroenden med andra system. Detta ökande antal av ömsesidiga beroenden resulterar i nya nivåer av komplexitet som måste hanteras i den tidiga utvecklingen av nya produkter. Olika synsätt måste också hanteras för att förstå de många skikt som ett system-av-system består av och dess omgivande omständigheter. En ständigt föränderlig framtid resulterar i osäkerhet om den operativa miljön men även andra aspekter, såsom tillgängliga teknologier, vilket komplicerar saken ytterligare. Traditionella metoder för tidig produktutveckling kan användas i viss utsträckning, men komplexiteten, skalan och det stora antalet sammankopplingar i system-av-system kräver ett mer holistiskt synsätt för att skapa en tidig förståelse av problemet, designrymden och andra inblandade aspekter.

Denna avhandling syftar till att presentera en metod som har utvecklats för att möta efterfrågan på en mer holistisk system-av-system-vy i tidig produktutveckling. Sammantaget består metoden av fyra delar som tillsammans visar hur designrymder för system-av-system kan genereras och senare bearbetas för att hitta lämpliga lösningar. Sök- och räddningsinsatser har använts som exempel på system-av-system genom hela detta arbete och i utvecklingen av den presenterade metoden. De två första delarna av metoden är baserade på arkitekturramverk och ontologier med beskrivningslogiska resonemangsförmågor. Ett arkitekturramverk används här för att bryta ned system-av-system-behov i funktioner som ska uppfyllas av involverade system. Ontologier används därefter för att representera resultatet och de resulterande system-av-system-designrymderna med involverade entiteter och deras relationer. Beskrivningslogiska resonemang kan sedan användas för att bearbeta de tillgängliga designrymderna och föreslå lämpliga system-av-system-lösningar. De två sista delarna av metoden bygger på en konceptutforsknings och uppskattningsmetod tillsammans med visuell analysteknik. Tillvägagångssättet illustrerar hur individuella systemkoncept kan estimeras från en ontologirepresenterad designrymd, och hur visuell analysteknik kan användas för att utforska olika system-av-system-perspektiv i ett tidigt skede. Baserat på resultaten av den presenterade metoden bidrar denna avhandling med en helhetssyn på tidig produktutveckling utifrån en system-av-system-vy.  

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023. p. 94
Series
Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations, ISSN 0345-7524 ; 2317
Keywords
System-of-Systems, Systems Engineering, Ontology, Description Logic Reasoning, Design Space Exploration, Aircraft Design, Search and Rescue, Early Product Development
National Category
Aerospace Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193644 (URN)10.3384/9789180751667 (DOI)9789180751650 (ISBN)9789180751667 (ISBN)
Public defence
2023-06-02, C3, C-building, Campus Valla, Linköping, 10:15 (English)
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Funding: The research has been performed as part of the System-of-Systems Trade Space Exploration (S2TEP) project which is part of the National Aeronautics Research Programme (NFFP7) funded by the Swedish Agency for Innovation (VINNOVA) and the Swedish Armed Forces. The project has also been done in collaboration with Saab Aeronautics.

Available from: 2023-05-11 Created: 2023-05-11 Last updated: 2023-05-22Bibliographically approved

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