Title
A Survey on Systems Engineering Methodologies for Large Multi-Energy Cyber-Physical Systems
Abstract
Today's large distributed energy cyber-physical systems such as power networks with multiple production units are becoming more and more complex due to the increasing share of renewables. They are characterized by long-lived lifecycles that can even be eternal such as electric grids where design and operational phases can overlap. These systems exhibit dynamic configurations and involve several interacting disciplines and manifold stakeholders that can, at any time, take part in the system or leave it. A pressing need has emerged for means to test a large number of scenarios all along the system design, operation and maintenance phases. Doing so requires the ability to model the system behavior and perform simulation on each of its facets using accurate tools for the purpose of automated testing, verification and validation. Existing industrial engineering design practices are becoming obsolete and do not have the means to follow the growing complexity of such multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder systems. For this matter, we have explored systems engineering (SE) practices among research communities and tool editors. Design methodologies found in literature are generally based on the functional breakdown of requirements and use general modeling languages for representing the system behavior. They are limited to finite state machines representation with a wide gap regarding the physical aspects that are neglected or at best developed in a separate corner. A survey on existing engineering methodologies is presented in this work. The main common missing aspects of these practices are identified and emphasized. A focus on formal approaches for system design and especially for automatic verification and validation processes is also introduced. Finally, an outlook of the main concepts that we chose to focus on in future works concerning the engineering of multi-energy systems is presented in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/SYSCON.2019.8836741
2019 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon)
Keywords
Field
DocType
system design,systems engineering methodologies,multienergy cyber-physical systems,distributed energy cyber-physical systems,multiple production units,operational phases,manifold stakeholders,maintenance phases,system behavior,industrial engineering design practices,multistakeholder systems,systems engineering practices,physical aspects,electric grids,general modeling languages
Structured systems analysis and design method,Verification and validation,Systems engineering,Computer science,Systems design,Modeling language,Finite-state machine,Cyber-physical system,Distributed generation
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1944-7620
978-1-5386-8397-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elmehdi Azzouzi100.68
Audrey Jardin200.34
Daniel Bouskela311.41
Faïda Mhenni400.34
Jean-Yves Choley54117.81