Integrating Robotic Movements into a Business Modelling Environment

Abstract

Mobility – the movement of people and goods – is a major expenditure in today’s economy. That is not only the case monetarily spoken but true for pollution, more specifically, greenhouse gas emissions as well. Derived from that, the idea of a mobility planner emerged as the practitioner in mobility planning, that intends to efficiently address peoples transportation needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This thesis intends to support the practitioner in a fictive scenario with a proof of conceptBPMN4MoPla, which extends the standard BPMN for the purpose of supporting business decision making in mobility planning. Specifically, requirements for robotic car movements were derived and used for the modelling language extension. The language extension is implemented through the meta-modelling development toolkit ADOxx. In result, a prototypical modelling tool is deployed allowing the design of Cyber PhysicalSystems-aware process models. For the execution, transformation steps are displayed to enable a feedback loop with a cyber-physical system provided....