Interactive Digital Twins Framework for Asset Management Through Internet

Kong, Leo; Harper, Sam; Mitchell, Daniel; Blanche, Jamie; Lim, Theodore; Flynn, David

doi:10.1109/gcaiot51063.2020.9345890

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“…Visualization can be referred to as DTP in the creation phase, while monitoring can be referred to DTI in the operating and maintenance phase. Monitoring and visualization can be realized with instrumentation such as dashboards (Lee et al 2021;Felemban et al 2021;Granelli et al 2021;Lin and Low 2020), custom user interfaces (Xu et al 2021;Viola and Chen 2020;Leinonen et al 2019) or game engines (Lee et al 2021;Abdallah et al 2020;Sharotry et al 2020;Negrin et al 2021;Pereira and Ellman 2020;Eyre et al 2018;Kong et al 2020;Zhifeng et al 2021;Leskovsky et al 2020;Li et al 2021a;Fan et al 2021), and requires that the thing being monitored provides a data stream, e.g., from sensors. The data stream may be real-time, near real-time or historical.…”

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Can we benefit from game engines to develop digital twins for planning the deployment of photovoltaics?

2022

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Digital Twins (DTs) have attracted great attention in the energy sector. Game engines have been suggested to model DTs of their physical counterparts because they provide realistic graphics, lighting-, fluid- and physics engines that simulate the real world. However, the application of game engines to develop DTs for photovoltaics (PVs) has not yet been discussed in the literature. Therefore, this paper assesses the built-in game engine features' ability to support the DT development of PVs with Unreal Engine 5. This paper mainly focuses on visual representation because the surrounding environment significantly impacts PV deployment, and the existing software tools do not allow the study of the environmental factors at the early planning phase of a project’s lifecycle. Furthermore, this paper investigates the position of the sun, shadows and reflections from nearby objects that influence the PVs' power output, and if the built-in light engine can be used for planning the deployment of PVs. The result shows that in-game objects in the environment can be used to affect the simulated PV output estimate over a year. It also indicates that applying Unreal Engine 5 to model PV systems that rely on mirroring real-world behaviour is promising if accurate data is used in the modelling. Real data and mathematical PV models are necessary since Unreal Engine 5’s Lumen subsystem cannot provide realistic solar radiance on PVs for a given location on earth.

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Can we benefit from game engines to develop digital twins for planning the deployment of photovoltaics?

2022

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“…Unity and Unreal Engine are similar in many ways, however, the significant difference is that the Unreal Engine has a higher-quality physical environment imitation and focuses more on the environment and world-building. Not only industries but also academia has also applied game engines for the digital twin development in numerous applications, e.g., (Abdallah et al 2022;Eyre et al 2018;Kong et al 2020;Lee et al 2021;Leskovsk. 2020;Negrin et al 2021;Pereira and Ellman 2020;Rolle et al 2021;Shahsavari et al 2021;Sharotry et al 2020;Talkhestani et al 2019).…”

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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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“…Also, it helps end-users to use the system quickly. Kong et al (2020) presented a digital twin with a DT framework with a Husky A200 and UR5 robotic manipulator in real-time for the manipulator's position and joint angle changes.…”

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Uncrewed Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Nature-Inspired Designed Robot DIGIT and SPOT: A Review

Muktadir

Hamoush

et al. 2022

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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Researchers around the world are developing autonomous robot systems to assist humans with tedious, hazardous, complex, and timeconsuming tasks. Today, autonomous robots are used for a variety of applications, ranging from delivering food to operating on patients. A robotic system can be operated with or without human assistance, depending on whether it is manned or unmanned. Additionally, the robot may be classified as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), or Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), depending on its operational conditions. An autonomous robot may be equipped with manipulators and advanced sensors, such as a LiDAR camera, which can collect 3D spatial data. The present study reviews recent research and development of unmanned ground vehicles, including two nature-inspired designed robots called SPOT and DIGIT and presents its technical data. In addition, this study introduces the challenges and applications of these robots. A novel type of comparison was made in this study between some UGVs, human and animalinspired designed robots, where researchers were able to get an idea of different robot basic specifications that could be used to select these robots for future research. As a result of this study, two more studies will be conducted in the future.

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Interactive Digital Twins Framework for Asset Management Through Internet

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Can we benefit from game engines to develop digital twins for planning the deployment of photovoltaics?

Can we benefit from game engines to develop digital twins for planning the deployment of photovoltaics?

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

Uncrewed Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Nature-Inspired Designed Robot DIGIT and SPOT: A Review

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