An architecture for coupled digital twins with semantic lifting
This program is tentative and subject to change.
To enable the reuse of Digital Twins, in the form of simulation units or other forms of behavioral models, of single physical components, one must be able to connect and couple them. Current platform and architectures consider mostly monolithic digital twins and offer little support for coupling and checking the consistency of the coupling. The coupling must be internally consistent—satisfy constraints related to their co-simulation—and externally consistent—mirror the structure of the composed physical system. In this paper, we propose an extension to a behavior-extended Digital Twin architecture for individual Digital Twins to include co-simulation scenarios for coupled systems lifted from configuration files, which can be implemented along with a Digital-Twin-as-a-Service platform to make assets reusable in time. To monitor and query these connections, we introduce a semantic lifting service, which interprets the coupled Digital Twins as Knowledge Graphs and enables the use of queries to express internal and external consistency constraints. Two representative case studies for systems with coupled behavior are used for the demonstration of this approach and show that it indeed enables reusability of components and services between different Digital Twins.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
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11:00 - 12:30 | Session 1: Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical SystemsJournal-First / Research Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) at Main Room 1 | ||
11:00 18mTalk | A Method for Model-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins in ManufacturingPT Research Papers Malte Heithoff RWTH-Aachen University, Judith Michael University of Regensburg, Bernhard Rumpe RWTH Aachen University, Jérôme Pfeiffer University of Stuttgart, Germany, Andreas Wortmann University of Stuttgart, Jingxi Zhang University of Stuttgart Pre-print | ||
11:18 18mTalk | A Container-based Approach For Proactive Asset Administration Shell Digital Twins New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Carsten Ellwein nstitute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart,, Jingxi Zhang University of Stuttgart, Andreas Wortmann University of Stuttgart, Antony Ayman Alfy Meckhael Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology (MET), German University in Cairo | ||
11:36 18mTalk | Digital twin and the asset administration shell - An Analysis of the Three Types of AASs and their Feasibility for Digital Twin Engineering Journal-First Jingxi Zhang University of Stuttgart, Carsten Ellwein nstitute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart,, Malte Heithoff RWTH-Aachen University, Judith Michael University of Regensburg, Andreas Wortmann University of Stuttgart DOI | ||
11:54 18mTalk | An architecture for coupled digital twins with semantic lifting Journal-First DOI | ||
12:12 18mTalk | Continuous Evolution of Digital Twins using the DarTwin Notation Journal-First Joost Mertens University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Stefan Klikovits Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Francis Bordeleau École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Joachim Denil University of Antwerp, Belgium, Øystein Haugen Østfold University College DOI |