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 an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is developed. This case is exploited to drive the Model Based Systems Engineering (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.