Reliable, Continuous, and Safe Updates of Digital Twin Services

The intern Mr. Andersen will travel from Aarhus University, Denmark to Polytechnique Montréal, Canada, to research the engineering of Digital Twins (DTs). DTs are virtual representations of physical systems, like the concrete mixing machine which is the focus of this project. Mr. Andersen will work with Prof. Bentley Oakes on the research problem of ensuring that DTs and their services can be reliably deployed and continually updated in operation. The aim is to develop techniques such that DTs are trustworthy, up-to-date throughout their lifecycle, tested during development, and deployed afterwards without downtime. The project will create a technical architecture which creates mathematical models of the DT and system behaviour, and integrates these models with other formalized knowledge of DT and the service creation process. The approach will be validated on an industrial case study of a concrete mixing machine, developed at a Danish company. This research is part of Mr. Andersen’s PhD dissertation. Thus, he brings his expertise of DT engineering to the lab of Prof. Oakes to transfer this knowledge with the members of the lab. Likewise, Mr. Andersen will be trained in the research process of Prof. Oakes, bringing these new perspectives and experiences back to Aarhus University.

Faculty Supervisor:

Bentley Oakes

Student:

Partner:

Aarhus University

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Technology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

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