A SysML profile for mechatronics integrating bond graphs

In this paper we present a SysML [1] profile for mechatronic-systems design. It is an extension to the activity diagram of UML 2.0 so that it maps to the Bond Graph formalism which is a useful tool when dealing with mechatronic systems. This extension is a package that contains a set of stereotypes and tagged values which are the extension mechanisms that SysML inherits from UML2.0 [3]. We establish mapping between bond graph elements and these extensions. We illustrate this SysML profile by an example.