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Digital Twins for Distributed Intelligent Sensing and Control Systems

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Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future (SOHOMA 2021)

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Abstract

Digital twins present revolutionary potential in smart manufacturing and production. However, their current application in distributed control systems is minimal and largely unexplored. By applying digital twins to distributed control systems, distributed intelligent sensing and control systems may be achieved. These systems are fully automated and self-managing, making them a valuable asset.

In this paper, we provide a short literature review which establishes the definition, application, and implementation of digital twins in smart manufacturing and production. Based on this review, we propose their application in transforming distributed control systems into distributed intelligent and sensing control systems. We identify features of a digital twin which will be of greatest use in a distributed control system, and discuss our current research direction aimed at interfacing these control systems with digital twins.

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    Jonathan Lesage & Robert Brennan

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  1. Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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  2. LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, Polytechnic University Hauts de France, Valenciennes, France

    Damien Trentesaux

  3. Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    Paulo Leitão

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  5. Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology LISPEN, HESAM Université UBFC, Cluny, France

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Lesage, J., Brennan, R. (2022). Digital Twins for Distributed Intelligent Sensing and Control Systems. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Leitão, P., Cardin, O., Joblot, L. (eds) Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future. SOHOMA 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99108-1_9

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