Design Model Data Exchange Between Concurrent Engineering Facilities by Means of Model Transformation

Kurzfassung

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing the software Virtual Satellite for use in their Concurrent Engineering Facility. Throughout the design process of a spacecraft the software supports engineers to store and manage the data and results of their engineering sessions. The European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) is promoting a new technical memorandum for model based data exchange across the facilities. In order to enable data exchange from Virtual Satellite's own model representation to the ECSS specification, a transformation based on a triple-graph grammar has been applied. This approach allows engineers to import and export design information from the ECSS model. In addition, the grammar allows for synchronization of two instantiated models.