Design of the Environmental Control System of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle through the MBSE

Current transformation of the aircraft industry promotes a transition from the document-based to the model based approach. In this paper, the design of the Environmental Control System (ECS) of a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is developed. This case is exploited to drive the MBSE implementation towards an effective reuse; to interoperate the functional modelling based on the IBM tools with the numerical simulation provided by the AMESIM® toolbox; and to define a suitable process of heterogeneous simulation, while performing the trade-off activity, through a traced allocation of requirements.