Digital Twin in Industry 4.0: Technologies, Applications and Challenges

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Flávia Pires (Author) Other; Ana Cachada (Author) Other; José Barbosa (Author) Other; António Paulo Moreira (Author) FEUP; Paulo Leitão (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)

Pages: 721-726

17th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2019

22 July 2019 through 25 July 2019

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00R-QTX

DOI: 10.1109/indin41052.2019.8972134

Abstract (EN): The digital transformation that is on-going worldwide, and triggered by the Industry 4.0 initiative, has brought to the surface new concepts and emergent technologies. One of these new concepts is the Digital Twin, which recently started gaining momentum, and is related to creating a virtual copy of the physical system, providing a connection between the real and virtual systems to collect and analyze and simulate data in the virtual model to improve the performance of the real system. The benefits of using the digital twin approach is attracting significant attention and interest from research and industry communities in the last few years, and its importance will increase in the upcoming years. Having this in mind, this paper surveys and discusses the digital twin concept in the context of the 4th industrial revolution, particularly focusing the concept and functionalities, the associated technologies, the industrial applications and the research challenges. The applicability of the digital concept is illustrated by the virtualisation of an UR3 collaborative robot which used the V-REP simulation environment and the Modbus communication protocol.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6