Assignment
Our assignment was to systematically and logically model a system consisting of four subsystems. The four subsystems has been created by the four groub members in earlier assignments. Now all of the OWL Ontologies of the models have to be combined into one working system, where all components must be analysed and the interfaces of the models must be revealed. This step is called component based modeling and is a very important first step to understand and optimize an engineering product.
Furthermore only when you know all the components a system is made of, you can fully understand the way they work together. To understand the relations between a given number of important parameters of an engineered product and to create a model that depends on those identified components is called parametric modeling. This is the second part of the assignment and the final result of our project.
For the OWL Ontology we used the software Protégé.
For the parametric model we used the softwares Blender and Sverchok.
The (sub-) models
The final model in Protégé and Blender/Sverchok will be made out of the following subsystems:
Bike Sharing Station
Hospital
Riding Hall
School
Content
Each of those subsystems are beeing introduced in the section
Before creating a parametric model one has to think about all the individual components that have to be integrated into the model. As we already thought about the models individually we had to focus on possible interfaces of the given models. In order to connect all components of the submodels we created an ontology. In the process of modeling the ontology we have been able to elaborate all interfaces.
The results of the ontology are beeing introduced in the section
The results of the parametric model is being placed in the section
‘Total Model: Parametric Model’.
Story
It is common for children and young adults attending schools to have the opportunity to graduate with different educational degrees. These degrees allow someone to start an apprenticeship or to join a university. While attending high school one is able to specialize in sport on a competitive level. These high schools are based on the concept of integrating a various number of sports, like Volleyball, Football and Water Sports, into the daily routine. Nevertheless some high schools have a special focus on Riding. Because one is working with living animals daily one has to make sure that the background of the whole facility is well thought through. A timetable for the usage of the riding grounds, like halls and arenas, has to be implemented. To ensure a quality care for horses the high school is often connected or transformed into a residential school where pupils can stay, live and graduate. To offer easy access to the riding facilities the residential school has to be really close to the stables.
During these days the soothing impact on riding is well known. If one uses this effect to improve and alleviate psychosocial problems and disorders plus on treatments of physical disorders one is commonly talking about Therapeutic Riding. The horse is also increasingly used to support motoric and pedagogical development of persons with disorders preemptively. So the aspect of giving young riders the possibility to apply their knowledge to learn from and help people with disorders from a nearby hospital is unique. There are strict conditions under where and how you can apply this kind of therapy according to the “Deutsche Kuratorium für Therapeutisches Reiten e.V.“, who developed guidelines for Therapeutic Riding. Being a trainer for those disabled people is related to a special degree which you get after studying. So connecting this option into a residential school with a focus on Riding is leading to better conditions for both parties, pupils attending the school who want different educational options and the hospitals patients you urgently need therapy.
To help especially the young residents getting from one place to another a Bike Sharing Systems is applied. With having multiple stations at each place, at the school and at the hospital, they are flexible in moving. So that the pupils are able to meet and talk to the patients at the hospital is a big advantage and because most of them are too young to drive they can still be mobile.