Standardized Classification and Interfaces of Complex Behaviour Models in Virtual Commissioning

Today's increasing use of Virtual Commissioning during the development process of automated manufacturing plants paired with the increasing request towards better control quality leads to the need of improved virtual plants with more effortless set ups. The common techniques of simulating the plant within Virtual Commissioning do no longer fulfil these needs, new approaches have to be developed. This paper examines ways to standardize Functional Mock-Up Unit based behaviour models of mechatronic components of such automated manufacturing plants. It is argued how such components can be classified to reach a distinction between different types to be able to develop standardized interfaces for every type. Therefore a standardized framework of how these interfaces can look like is proposed. Based on this framework as well as the classification of the components two examples, a pneumatic valve cylinder combination and an industrial robot are exemplarily implemented. Besides the standard interfaces to the control program and the visualisation of the simulation a special effort to implement energetically considerations were made. Therefore the presented work shows a way of how to standardize the interfaces of behaviour models of different classes of mechatronic components while increasing the quality of these behaviour models for more complex and accurate behaviour simulation of production plants for Virtual Commissioning as well as related applications.