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The emergence of cognitive digital twin: vision, challenges and opportunities

Zheng, Xiaochen
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Lu, Jinzhi
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Kiritsis, Dimitris  
2022
International Journal Of Production Research

As a key enabling technology of Industry 4.0, Digital Twin (DT) has been widely applied to various industrial domains covering different lifecycle phases of products and systems. To fully realize the Industry 4.0 vision, it is necessary to integrate multiple relevant DTs of a system according to a specific mission. This requires integrating all available data, information and knowledge related to the system across its entire lifecycle. It is a challenging task due to the high complexity of modern industrial systems. Semantic technologies such as ontology and knowledge graphs provide potential solutions by empowering DTs with augmented cognitive capabilities. The Cognitive Digital Twin (CDT) concept has been recently proposed which reveals a promising evolution of the current DT concept towards a more intelligent, comprehensive, and full lifecycle representation of complex systems. This paper reviews existing studies relevant to the CDT concept, and further explores its definitions and key features. To facilitate CDT development, a reference architecture is proposed based on the RAMI4.0 and some other existing architectures. Moreover, some key enabling technologies and several application scenarios of CDT are introduced. The challenges and opportunities are discussed in the end to boost future studies.

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research article
DOI
10.1080/00207543.2021.2014591
Web of Science ID

WOS:000733998500001

Author(s)
Zheng, Xiaochen
Lu, Jinzhi
Kiritsis, Dimitris  
Date Issued

2022

Publisher

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Published in
International Journal Of Production Research
Volume

60

Issue

24

Start page

7610

End page

7632

Subjects

Engineering, Industrial

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Engineering, Manufacturing

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Operations Research & Management Science

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Engineering

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digital twin

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cognitive digital twin

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semantic modelling

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knowledge graph

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lifecycle management

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systems engineering

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ontology

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model-based systems engineering

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management

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internet

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design

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plm

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REVIEWED

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LICP  
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January 1, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/184116
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