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.

Wed 8 Oct

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11:00 - 12:30
Session 1: Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical SystemsNew Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) / Journal-First / Research Papers at DCIH 102
Chair(s): Khouloud Gaaloul University of Michigan - Dearborn

Hybrid

11:00
18m
Talk
A Method for Model-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins in ManufacturingPT@In Person
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
18m
Talk
An architecture for coupled digital twins with semantic liftingIn Person
Journal-First
Santiago Gil Aarhus University, Eduard Kamburjan IT University of Copenhagen, Prasad Talasila Aarhus University, Peter Larsen
DOI
11:36
18m
Talk
Continuous Evolution of Digital Twins using the DarTwin NotationRemote
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
11:54
18m
Talk
A Container-based Approach For Proactive Asset Administration Shell Digital TwinsRemote
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
12:12
18m
Talk
Digital twin and the asset administration shell - An Analysis of the Three Types of AASs and their Feasibility for Digital Twin EngineeringRemote
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