Paper Info
Title
Open public design methodology and design process
Abstract
This paper proposes a design methodology and design process for mechatronic systems incorporating the public community. As a proof of concept, we are building up robot system consisting of the following components: software code files, hardware design files and controller hardware. Every component will be available for review on an open repository and review tool which is GIT/Gerrit. Designers release components into the repository in form of commits. Commits can be downloaded by every community member, examined and reviewed in detail by the public community. At certain time spots we pick a number of commits with positive review results, and review the commits on an overall system perspective. If this review passes, we create a real system from the commits. The steps are: software code compilation, hardware components creation with a 3D printer, controller hardware ordering. Then we build the new robot upon these components. If we can build successfully the robot system (which is expected due to the overall review) and if we are passing all testcases, a new release is created from the picked commits. Every community member can download the latest release for their own usage. The business case for this design methodology and design process, is that we offer to the customer a service to conduct tests from a set of reviewed commits. We provide the resources and the knowledge to this service. We inform the customer about the review and test results and the customer can precede improving the system based on the feedback we provide.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/MIPRO.2016.7522130
2016 39th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO)
Keywords
Field
DocType
open public design methodology,design process,mechatronic systems,public community,robot system,software code files,hardware design files,software code compilation,hardware components,3D printer,controller hardware ordering,GIT/Gerrit
Business case,Software engineering,Unified Modeling Language,Computer science,Computer network,Design methods,Software,Proof of concept,Robot,Design process,Mechatronics,Operating system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-2543-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Derek Rembold100.34
Silvije Jovalekic274.97