A Concurrent Design Approach and Model Management Support to Prevent Inconsistencies in Multidisciplinary Modelling and Simulation

concurrent design flow, co-simulation Cyber-physical systems are multidisciplinary systems which involve different engineering disciplines in their design. Each engineering discipline tends to use its own domain-specific languages and tools to model dif-ferent aspects of a system concurrently. The concur-rent modelling process may introduce inconsistencies due to lack of common knowledge and communication among domain experts. Especially for co-modelling and co-simulation developments, a huge amount of models, versions of models and design alternatives may be pro-duced, which highly increases the design space and the chance of having inconsistent models. This paper in-troduces a model management support and concurrent design flow to prevent inconsistencies and maintain syn-chronization among models. Besides the consistency checking scheme, a co-evolution graph can be generated by the model management system to visualize the con-current development process and prevent inconsisten-cies. The model management system and concurrent design flow have been applied on a line following robot to show how to use this approach and its advantages