Integrated Design Method for Systems of Systems: Application to the Autonomous Management of an Industry 4.0 Supply chain

Nowadays, large-scale systems, robots and cobots, are more and more involved in different life environments. These autonomous and heterogeneous cyber-physical systems usually operate separately but can collaborate to perform one or more common missions. System of systems (SoS) engineering is growing rapidly especially in the field of Industry 4.0. In this paper, we propose a method for designing SoS allowing a better cooperation between components. To show the relevance of the proposed approach, an application around Industry 4.0 has been developed and tested. The application based on a robust MQTT communication architecture has allowed the designed SoS to be resilient while solving various types of interoperability issues. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed solution.