Hybrid Data-Physics Based Digital Twin Modeling Framework for the Power System of Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Venue for Beijing Winter Olympics

Zhang, Hongyu; Xi, Yugeng; Shu, Wang; Wang, Kunfang; Liu, Qingshi; Wei, Lingxiao; Liang, Huishi; Zhou, Ziyi

doi:10.1109/icpre52634.2021.9635234

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“…The literature on digital twins in the energy sector has mainly focused on electricity grids in general, e.g., (Andryushkevich et al 2019;Steindl et al 2020;Zhang et al 2021). So far, little literature on digital twins has focused on renewable energy resources, although there are some discussions regarding digital twins for solar farms (Zohdi 2021) and wind farms (Ospina-Bohórquez et al 2022), the focuses are not on the development of digital twins, but on monitoring (Moghadam and Nejad 2022) or maintenance (Moghadam et al 2021).…”

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Potentials of game engines for wind power digital twin development: an investigation of the Unreal Engine

Sørensen

Jôrgensen

2022

Energy Inform

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Digital twin technologies have become popular in wind energy for monitoring and what-if scenario investigation. However, developing a digital representation of the wind is challenging, especially due to the digital twin platform constraints. Game engines might be possible to solve this issue, especially since game engines have been used for product design, testing, prototyping, and also digital twins. Therefore, this study investigates the potential of developing a digital twin of wind power in the Unreal game engine. A case study of two types of wind turbines (Vestas V164-8 and Enercon E-126 7.580) and one location (Esbjerg, Denmark) is chosen for this study. The digital twin includes the environment with historical wind data and the visual representation of the wind turbine with a wind power production model and the estimated production in the given wind conditions of the area. The results show that game engines are viable for building entire digital twins where a realistic graphical user interface is required. Unreal Engine 5 provides the tools for modelling the landscape, surrounding water, and lighting. In addition, the Unreal Engine ecosystem provides vast amounts of content, such as 3D assets and game logic plugins, easing the digital twin development. The results prove that digital twins built in Unreal Engine 5 have great potential development of digital twins and user interfaces for communicating with a digital twin. The developed digital twin allows for further extension to benefit future digital twins utilizing wind turbines.

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