The Potential of Game Development Platforms for Digital Twins and Virtual Labs

Abdallah, Ali E.; Primas, Matthias; Turcin, Ioan; Traussnigg, Udo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57997-5_14

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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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“…The most prominent domains include manufacturing, buildings, aviation, logistics, mechanical engineering, healthcare, and energy systems . In energy systems, DT for renewable energy systems has been applied within agrophotovoltaics (Zohdi 2021b) and energy analytics platforms (Abdallah et al 2020;. For instance, (Zohdi 2021b) presents a DT framework and method that aims to provide a computational framework to design and deploy complex agrophotovoltaic systems rapidly.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The method allows for tracking and optimising solar power flow in solar farm facilities and is based on a genomic-based machine-learning algorithm that configures the system with various parameters to arrive at an optimal system. Abdallah et al (Abdallah et al 2020) assessed the potential of game development platforms for energy systems-including renewable energy-by implementing a DT of an energy analytics lab. The results showed that Unity 3D hold the potential for visualizing the lab through Virtual Reality (VR) and enables bidirectional communication for monitoring and controlling purposes.…”

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The Potential of Game Development Platforms for Digital Twins and Virtual Labs

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Verification and Validation for a Digital Twin for Augmenting Current SORA Practices with Air-to-Air Collision Hazards Prediction from Small Uncooperative Flying Objects

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