This post is the first in a series of 8 video blogs, walking through the fundamentals of Model-Based Design. When taken as a whole, these videos provide the foundation stones for understanding and implementing Model-Based Design workflows. I will be using a simple Home A/C system for my example, however the principles apply to everything from Airplanes to Zeppelins.⁽¹⁾

1. Requirements
   1. Requirements Management
   2. Writing clear requirements
   3. What I’m expecting: writing requirements
2. System Architecture
   1. Modeling architecture: Fundamentals
   2. Model architecture decomposition for hardware and close loop testing
   3. Is your system architecture “Lego Legal”?
3. Initial (shell) models
   1. Modeling architecture with room to grow
   2. The Model-Based Design Workflow…
   3. Defining your initial Model-Based Design workflow
   4. Plants resting on a table
4. Defining and managing data
   1. Managing Data
   2. Understanding Data Usage in Model-Based Design Part I
      and
   3. Understanding Data Usage in Model-Based Design Part II
   4. The Simulink Data Dictionary
5. V&V
   1. The 8 commandments of V&V
   2. Levels of testing
   3. Modular testing environments
6. Refining the models
   1. Defining your initial Model-Based Design workflow
   2. Best Practices for Establishing a Model-Based Design Culture
7. Code generation
   1. https://www.mathworks.com/solutions/embedded-code-generation.html
8. The grab bag…
   1. A road map for Model-Based Design
   2. The next generation of Model-Based Design

Footnotes (and video comments)

1. There is a joke here about Lead/Lag controls for Zeppelins, but I am not buying a stairway to better humor.
2. I considered calling the “Fresh Air” requirement the “Next Personal Requirement.”
3. In this example, I am going to use a simple control and plant model; my objective is to show the Model-Based Design process.