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Digital twin and virtual reality: a co-simulation environment for design and assessment of industrial workstations

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: In the context of the Industry 4.0 and of the digital factory, digital twin and virtual reality represent key technologies to design, simulate and optimize cyber-physical production system and interact with it remotely or in a collaborative way. Moreover, these technologies open up new possibilities which can be involved in the co-design and ergonomics studies of workstations, based on Industry 4.0 components like cobots. In order to satisfy these needs and to create dynamic and immersive virtual environment, it is therefore necessary to combine the capacities of the digital twin to perform simulation of the production system with the capacities of the immersive virtual environment in term of interactions. This paper proposes a co-simulation and communication architecture between digital twin and virtual reality software, then it presents a use case on a human-robot collaborative workplace design and assessment.

Source: Production & Manufacturing Research

DOI: 10.1080/21693277.2019.1660283

Authors: Vincent Havard, Benoit Jeanne, Marc Lacomblez, David Baudry

Institution: Centre d'Etudes Superieures Industrielles

Language: English

Topic: Digital Transformation in Industry

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,165