Paper "On the Opportunities of Scalable Modeling Technologies: An Experience Report on Wind Turbines Control Applications Development" presented at ECMFA 2017, part of STAF, @ Marburg.

1. On the Opportunities of
Scalable Modeling Technologies:
An Experience Report on
Wind Turbines Control
Applications Development
Abel Gómez, Xabier Mendialdua,
Gábor Bergmann, Jordi Cabot,
Csaba Debreceni, Antonio Garmendia,
Dimitrios S. Kolovos, Juan de Lara
and Salvador Trujillo
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2. • Private not-for-profit applied
research centre
• Created in 1974 within Mondragon
Group
• 16.000 M€ (Spanish 7th largest
industrial group)
• Workforce around 85.000
(cooperative)
• Facts (2016)
• IK4-IKERLAN revenue 20 M€
• Funding is mostly private (65%) and
public (35%)
• Staff : 260 professionals + 43 staff in
training
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3. Wind Turbines
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4. Wind Turbine Control Systems
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5. Wind Turbine Control Systems
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6. Model-based
Engineering for
WTCS Development
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7. Model-based Engineering for WTCS
Development
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8. Model-based
Engineering
for WTCS
Development
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9. Future
• Increase in the number of
developers using MBE
techniques (from 10+ to 20+)
• Wind turbine control
customization (30 different
variants)
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10. Limitations
• Lack of features to work
collaboratively
• Complex, tedious and error
prone merge & sync tasks
• Inability to work with partial
models
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11. Challenges
1. Enable collaborative modeling
2. Ability to edit partial models or
model fragments
3. Display and edit models
graphically
4. Enable modeling in
lightweight mobile devices
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12. Towards a Scalable
MBE Development
Process
• MONDO Collaboration
Framework
• Offline Collaboration
• Online Collaboration
• DSL-tao
• EMF-Splitter
• Hawk
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14. Offline
Collaborative
WTCS
Modeling
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15. Online
Concurrent
WTCS
Modeling
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16. Offline
Graphical
Collaborative
WTCS
Modeling
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17. Evaluation
Scenario 1 —
Wind Turbine Control Design
Scenario 2 —
Wind Turbine Comissioning
Scenario 3 —
Maintenance activities in the
Wind Farm Using Mobile
Devices
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18. Quantitative
Measures
QN1 - Increase in time for loading a model on a Tablet instead of on a PC
QN2 - Number of concurrent users working with a model
QN3 - Time for change propagation and notification among concurrent users
QN4 - Maximum number of elements that can be displayed in a diagram
QN5 - Time for loading a diagram having 25 element to de displayed
QN6 - Time for commiting model changes
QN7 - Performance impact caused by the MONDO Collaboration Framework
QN8 - Time reduction for building graphical domain specific modeling editors
Good
Sufficient
Excellent
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19. QL1 - Is there a methodology which specifies how a large DSL should be
constructed
QL2 - Is there a tool support for the methodology, which guides the user on the
construction of a large DSL?
QL3 - Does this tool provide a way to create a basic but fully functional
collaborative domain specific modeling tool?
QL4 - Is MONDO technology mature enough to be used in industrial solutions?
QL5 - Does MONDO technology allow concurrent editing of a model?
QL6 - Does MONDO technology allow partial loading of models?
QL7 - Does MONDO technology allow progressive loading of a model?
QL8 - Does MONDO technology allow working with several modeling
languages in a single tool?
QL9 - Can a model be edited using a tablet?
Fully fulfilled
Partially fulfilled
Qualitative
Measures
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20. Discussion
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21. Continuous
compliance
Method-
ological
guidance
Web
technology
Mobile-
dedicated
modeling
environments
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22. On the Opportunities of
Scalable Modeling Technologies:
An Experience Report on
Wind Turbines Control
Applications Development
Abel Gómez, Xabier Mendialdua,
Gábor Bergmann, Jordi Cabot,
Csaba Debreceni, Antonio Garmendia,
Dimitrios S. Kolovos, Juan de Lara
and Salvador Trujillo
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