Toward a systematic reporting framework for Digital Twins:: a cooperative robotics case study

Santiago Gil Arboleda; Bentley James Oakes; Cláudio Gomes; Mirgita Frasheri; Peter Gorm Larsen

doi:10.1177/00375497241261406

Toward a systematic reporting framework for Digital Twins: a cooperative robotics case study

Santiago Gil Arboleda, Bentley James Oakes^*, Cláudio Gomes, Mirgita Frasheri, Peter Gorm Larsen

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Software Engineering & Computing systems
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Software Engineering & Computing systems - Edison

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Digital Twins (DTs) can be constructed for many different applications, leading to substantial differences between different case studies. To be able to learn from the challenges and lessons learned by other DT practitioners, it is important that experience reports be consistent to facilitate comparisons. In this paper, we merge three reference description frameworks for DTs, one generated from a systematic mapping study, one generated from an analysis of experience reports, and one from a systematic literature review, to come up with a unified characterization of DT applications. This analysis has identified six non-overlapping and three cross-cutting characteristics in the reference frameworks. This paper showcases the unified characterization with 21 characteristics to report on a DT case study called the Flex-cell, a manufacturing cell with two robotic arms used for cooperative assembly. The generalizability of this unified characterization is validated using a multi-case approach with another case study in robotics and another in the food industry. We call on the DT community to integrate these systematic reporting principles in their future DT experience reports such that other practitioners can learn from each other more effectively.

Original language	English
Journal	Simulation
Number of pages	27
ISSN	0037-5497
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497241261406
Publication status	E-pub / Early view - 2024

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Digital Twin
co-simulation
experience report
mobile robotics
modeling and simulation
robotic system
taxonomy

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