Awesome Digital Twins

This is a curated repository of awesome Digital Twin resources.

Research and industry leverage digital twins to monitor and/or control (cyber-physical) systems in various domains, including automotive, avionics, biology, construction, manufacturing, medicine, and many more. They promise a tremendous potential to reduce cost and time and improve our understanding of the represented systems. The various digital twins serve different purposes, including analysis, control, and behavior prediction, and they are used at different times relative to the represented system, e.g., before it exists to explore its design space or during its runtime to optimize its behavior.

Contents

• Definitions
• Software Solutions
• Videos
• Books
• Lectures
• Initiatives
• Research Events
• Interesting Papers
• Other Awesome Lists

Definitions

• "A digital twin is a virtual representation of real-world entities and processes, synchronized at a specified frequency and fidelity." (Digital Twin Consortium)

• "A digital twin is a digital representation of an active unique product (real device, object, machine, service, or intangible asset) or unique product-service system (a system consisting of a product and a related service) that acquires its selected characteristics, properties, conditions, and behaviours by means of models, information, and data within a single or even across multiple life cycle phases." (Acatech)

• "Digital representation sufficient to meet the requirements of a set of use cases." (Industrial Digital Twin Association)

Software Solutions

• Digital Twin Consortium Software Repository
• Eclipse Ditto - Open source framework for building build digital twins of devices connected to the internet.

Videos

Books

Lectures

• CanopyLAB - Future Technologies Series: Demystifying Digital Twin
• Coursera - Digital Twins and the Automotive Industry
• Coursera - Mastering Digital Twins
• Digital Twin: A Comprehensive Overview
• Digital Twin Technology
• Digital Twins: Enhancing Model-based Design with AR, VR and MR
• Mark Rochon Distinguished Lecture Series: Constructing a Human Digital Twin

Initiatives

• DigiTwins Initiative - Digital twins in healthcare.

• Digital Twin Consortium
• Eclipse Digital Twin - Collaborative, open source initiative at the Eclipse Foundation fostering the development of reference implementations for the activities driven by the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA).
• Industrial Digital Twin Association

Research Events

• Dagstuhl-Seminar 22362: Model-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins
• Engineering of Digital Twins Community
• Workshop on Digital Twin Architecture (TwinArch)
• Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins (ModDiT'22)

Interesting Papers

2022

2021

• Qi, Q., Tao, F., Hu, T., Anwer, N., Liu, A., Wei, Y., and others & Nee, A. Y. C. (2021). Enabling technologies and tools for digital twin. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 58, 3-21: the paper describes 5 kinds of constituents of a digital twin, which are (1) physical entities, (2) data, (3) models, (4) services, (5) connections between these. DOI

2018

• Kritzinger, W., Karner, M., Traar, G., Henjes, J., & Sihn, W. (2018). Digital Twin in manufacturing: A categorical literature review and classification. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(11), 1016-1022: the paper defines a digital twin as a digital object that receives data from and sends data to its physical twin. DOI

Other Awesome Lists

• Awesome Internet of things and sensor data