Mechatronic integration modeling

The major challenge facing the Mechatronic community in the development of the next generation of smart systems lies in the integration complexity of an enormous number of requirements, physical structures and the software components inherent in these systems. Meeting this challenge has dictated the need for a fundamental change in the mechatronic design process in order to ensure affordability, reliability, maintainability, adaptability and a built-in growth potential for these large scale Mechatronic systems. The efforts discussed in this paper were aimed at developing a design process for large-scale systems which would make multidiscipline integration an integral part of the design process.