SysML 4 Digital Twins – Utilization of System Models for the Design and Operation of Digital Twins

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Fabian Wilking, Christopher Sauer, Benjamin Schleich, Sandro Wartzack
Series: DESIGN
Institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Section: Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Design
Page(s): 1815-1824
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.184
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

The implementation of Digital Twins has become a common task for many industrial companies to ensure a sufficient digitization of their products and maintain competitiveness. This results in the question of how to compensate additional effort caused by designing Digital Twins. With this paper, an approach for this compensation is presented by creating Digital Twin behaviour through utilizing SysML diagrams and directly derivate usable code from them for a further implementation. This offers a part solution of lowering the threshold for using MBSE and increasing its benefits.

Keywords: model-based systems engineering (MBSE), cyber-physical systems, systems engineering (SE), digital design, complex systems