Bond graph models for human behavior

Advances in technology have led to rapid increase in the number and the complexity of engineered systems. Consequently, the need for effective tools and techniques for designing, implementing and analyzing such systems has increased. Bond Graphs were proposed as domain independent approach for modeling dynamic systems in 1960. This approach is a unifying methodology to represent and analyze systems in which there is energy exchange and, hence, one can represent, validate, analyze and generate models for the behavior of electrical, mechanical, chemical, fluid or hydraulic system. In this short paper we describe how to create bond graphs for a system with a focus on modeling Human Behavior. We describe how a model can be used to study the energy transfers in the system and how to obtain a mathematical model for the dynamic behavior of the system from the bond graph model.