Principal Investigator at ASE: Prof. Seppo Kuikka
Duration of the project: 1.1.2009 - 30.4.2011
Project description:
The vision of the project is to study how an open, independent simulation software platform can be applied to industrial design and development processes, to develop and implement demonstration components based on semantic software platform implementation. Two different application domains are covered; process plant design and machine system development.
The objective is to study and demonstrate in practice the use of semantic data management in these domain areas. Also application of standards, especially ISO 15926 on plant model data exchange is studied and understanding this standard and its application to Finnish industry is disseminated. In this project the concept of a product life cycle simulator is also studied, and the design of the fundamental components on a semantic software platform is carried out.
The main contributions of the Automation Software research group are related two topics: 1) Design automation for automation design, 2) Modeling of design-based life cycle operations.
In the first topic simulation of control application models is studied in order to enable evaluation of design decisions during the control application development phase. In this task model transformations are defined to create corresponding simulation models of UML Automation Profile models. These models can then be used in combination with a model of the physical process to simulate the resulting system early in the development.
Another task the first topic is to study application of Semantic Web technologies to control application development. The aim is to compare the modeling concepts and the model-driven development of UML Automation Profile based development with domain ontologies and semantically enriched descriptions (e.g. OWL). In this task transformation from UML profile based models to ontologies is studied in order to enable classification using ontologies and application of further reasoning in both design and later use of models at run-time.
The second topic of the Automation Software research group is related to life cycle operations, their modeling using business process modeling techniques, and related service software application development. This task focuses especially on operation and maintenance processes and services. The utilization of information produced during design in operations is studied and standard modeling techniques (e.g. BPMN) are used to enhance development of service-oriented software applications in order to support collaboration in flexible service networks.
Funding:
TEKES, VTT, HUT, LUT, TUT, ABB Marine, Alstom (Switzerland), Fortum Nuclear Services, Nokia, PSK Standardisointi, THTH ry, Wärtsilä
Partners:
VTT Techical Research Centre of Finland
Helsinki University of Technology
Lappeenranta University of Technolpogy
Linköping University
Personnel:
David Hästbacka
Timo Vepsäläinen
Petri Kannisto
Thesis works:
Petri Kannisto: “Service-Oriented Business Process Modelling in Operations and Maintenance”, Master of Science Thesis, 2011
Publications:
Hästbacka, D., Kannisto, P., Kuikka, S. ”Business Process Modeling and SOA in Industrial O&M Application Development”, in 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Beijing, China, June 8-11, 2011.
Vepsäläinen, T., Hästbacka, D., Kuikka S. ”Simulointiavusteinen mallipohjainen automaatiosovelluskehitys”, Automaatio XIX seminar, Helsinki, Finland, 15.-16.3.2011.
Kannisto, P., Hästbacka, D., Kuikka, S. ”Laitteiden ympäristövaikutusten arviointi palvelukeskeisillä liiketoimintaprosesseilla”, Automaatio XIX seminar, Helsinki, Finland, 15.-16.3.2011.
Vepsäläinen, T., Hästbacka, D., Kuikka S. "Simulation Assisted Model-Based Control Development - Unifying UML AP and Modelica ML", in 11th International Middle Eastern Simulation Multiconference, Alexandria, Egypt, December 1-3, 2010.