Automate Model Data into a Physics-Based Analytic Software

Ellis, Maya

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Automate Model Data into a Physics-Based Analytic Software

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Digital engineering (DE), an emerging aspect of systems engineering, has the potential to continue to increase efficiency and improve the quality and performance of both commercial and military systems. As technology and the practice of DE evolve, previously used modeling processes need to be adapted to enable effective DE-based design and development. Digitizing engineering artifacts means end to end integration of all domain-specific modeling tools with each other and with Systems Modeling Language (SysML). There is a lack of integration between SysML architecture models containing system design details and physics-based models of the deployed system in operational use to understand missions impacts of proposed design. If fully integrated these tools could show performance differences due to design changes quickly and iteratively. In this research, a mission scenario was simulated to understand how to implement an end-to-end integration between SysML using Cameo tool and a physics-based simulator, Systems ToolKit, to demonstrate how design changes to two types of system can be shown to produce different operational capabilities long before the systems are fully designed and physically constructed.

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