Modelling and platform application of the behaviour of a cyber physical production system

ABSTRACT

Cyber physical production systems (CPPSs) exemplify the application of cyber physical systems in the manufacturing industry and are the basis for realising Industry 4.0. However, the adaptivity, reconfigurability, and interoperability of CPPSs result in high complexity and uncertainty in their design and implementation. To rectify this problem, this paper proposes a behavioural model-driven modelling method for lifecycle support of CPPSs. To this end, the general framework and operating mechanism of the proposed model are first specified and a meta-modelling language is developed based on object-oriented timed coloured knowledge Petri net. Subsequently, the hierarchical modelling and platform application of the CPPS behaviour is realised, and a laboratory-scale case study that demonstrates the efficacy of the proposed approach is presented.

KEYWORDS:

• cyber physical production system
• behaviour modelling
• extended Petri net
• platform-based design

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [51775033].