Role of SysML in Integrating an Interdisciplinary Team

Most engineering projects require a team of various disciplines to work together. Although with different disciples there can be issues in communication between disciplines due to jargon and a lack of understanding each role’s capabilities. [1] This is especially true during the early stages of the project. Systems engineers have used SysML as a model-based systems engineering tool to compose and articulate tasks as well as display the collaboration of each discipline towards a goal unifying communication and setting a clearly defined purpose. This paper shows how SysML and UML is used in organizing and articulating the tasks of an interdisciplinary research team, consisting of: robotics, communication, and system engineers toward the goal of fire detection.