CPS Design Using Model Driven Architecture Approach: Aircraft Fuel Management System Case Study

Modem aircrafts contain several monitoring and management systems able to collaborate during flight. The fuel management system represents an important part, responsible for fulfilling various tasks like feeding fuel to the engines, oil coolant and center of gravity maintenance. Due to the complex interaction between physical environment and computational facilities this system can be classified as Cyber Physical System (CPS). Starting from this case study, we introduce a novel CPS design methodology based on Model Driven Architecture. The proposed approach aims to offer an intuitive solution not only for design, but also for verification and deployment. Due to the large variety of hardware solutions, in this paper we mainly focus on the Platform Independent Model design.