Digital Twins

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Digital Twins offer a real-time and decisive look at what's happening with physical assets. This enables us to track the past, current, and future performance throughout the asset's lifecycle.

Increasing innovation in Digital Twin modelling has led to incredible opportunities in fields as diverse as manufacturing, healthcare, smart cities, and automobile engineering. Such technology allows industries and organisations to monitor and evaluate their products, consequently bridging the gap between design and implementation, and enabling the safety of control in an isolated virtual environment.

The purpose of this Collection is to highlight progress made in Digital Twin technology and its various applications.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • System Architecture of Digital Twins
  • Digital Twin, eXtended Reality, and Metaverse 
  • Digital Twin and Blockchain 
  • Human Digital Twin 
  • Digital Twin Security  
  • Digital Twin Standards 
  • Application of Digital Twin.

Collection advisors: Gianfranco Modoni

 
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    An overview of civic engagement tools for rural communities

    Authors:  Jorge Martinez-Gil,  Mario Pichler,  Noemi Lechat,  Gianluca Lentini,  Nina Cvar,  Jure Trilar,  Antonio Bucchiarone,  Annapaola Marconi
    Funders:  No information provided
    Peer reviewers:  Lynn Schofield Clark, Magdalena Zwolińska-Ligaj, Stavros Sindakis, Thelma Chansa Chanda
    Published:  January 31, 2025
  • Research Article
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    Digital twins for managing bridge climate change adaptation

    Authors:  Sakdirat Kaewunruen,  Hao Fu,  Adefolarin Adebiyi,  Pasakorn Sengsri
    Funders:  Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
    Peer reviewers:  Salvatore Antonio Biancardo, Sih Ying Kong
    Published:  September 26, 2024
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    Co-creation Processes and Urban Digital Twins in Sustainable and Smart Urban District Development - Case Kera District in Espoo, Finland

    Authors:  Jani Tartia,  Mervi Hämäläinen
    Funders:  Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges
    Peer reviewers:  Federica Gaglione, Mila KOEVA, Rushikesh Padsala
    Published:  June 28, 2024
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    The OPEVA Manifest: OPtimisation of Electrical Vehicle Autonomy, a Research and Innovation project

    Authors:  Alper Kanak,  Salih Ergün,  Ibrahim Arif,  S. Halit Ergün,  Cengiz Bektaş,  Ali Serdar Atalay,  Oguzhan Herkiloğlu,  Dominique Defossez,  Ahmet Yazıcı,  Luis Lino Ferreira,  Martin Strelec,  Karel Kubicek,  Martin Cech,  Luka Davoli,  Laura Belli,  Gianluigi Ferrari,  Dilara Bayar,  Ali Kafalı,  Yunus Karamavuş,  Asaf Mustafa Sofu,  Ahu Ece Hartavi Karcı,  Patrick Constant
    Funders:  Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe
    Peer reviewers:  Dr Rajkumar Singh Rathore
    Published:  June 19, 2024
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    Digital twin modeling: A comparison of current approaches

    Authors:  Lutz Sommer
    Funders:  Horizon 2020, Science with and for Society, Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe
    Peer reviewers:  Daniella Tola, Marco Picone, Muhammad Usman Shoukat, Yu Zheng
    Published:  March 20, 2024
  • Open Letter
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    Ontologies in digital twin: Methodology, lessons learned and practical approach

    Authors:  Agnieszka Mikołajczyk,  Raúl García-Castro,  Rahul Tomar,  Rehan Khan,  Wojciech Teclaw,  Bruno Fies,  Jonas Schlenger
    Funders:  Horizon 2020, Industrial Leadership
    Peer reviewers:  Claudio Mirarchi, Edlira Vakaj, Mohamad Kassem, Xiao Li
    Published:  June 22, 2023
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    The Heritage Digital Twin: a bicycle made for two. The integration of digital methodologies into cultural heritage research

    Authors:  Franco Niccolucci,  Béatrice Markhoff,  Maria Theodoridou,  Achille Felicetti,  Sorin Hermon
    Funders:  Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges
    Peer reviewers:  Livio DE LUCA, Silvana Bruno
    Published:  April 28, 2023
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    Usage of personas in the construction industry

    Authors:  Fausto Javier Sainz Salces,  Marja Liinasuo,  David Martin-Moncunill
    Funders:  Horizon 2020, Industrial Leadership
    Peer reviewers:  Ashraful Islam, Devi Karolita, Farshid Anvari, Lene NIELSEN, Panca O. Hadi Putra, Sylvain Fleury
    Published:  April 10, 2025
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    An extension of Thing Descriptions from the Web of Things for Digital Twins

    Authors:  Salvador González-Gerpe,  Andrea Cimmino,  Socorro Bernardos,  Raúl García-Castro,  María Poveda-Villalón,  Kyriakos Katsigarakis,  Georgios N. Lilis,  Dimitrios Rovas
    Funders:  Horizon 2020, Industrial Leadership
    Peer reviewers:  Alessandro Ricci, Marco Picone, Riku Ala-Laurinaho
    Published:  December 21, 2022
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    Digital twins for land-based aquaculture: A case study for rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss)

    Authors:  Adriano C. Lima,  Edouard Royer,  Matteo Bolzonella,  Roberto Pastres
    Funders:  Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges, Industrial Leadership
    Peer reviewers:  David Jones, Murat Yigit
    Published:  November 28, 2023
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    Digital twins for managing railway maintenance and resilience

    Authors:  Sakdirat Kaewunruen,  Jessada Sresakoolchai,  Yi-hsuan Lin
    Funders:  Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
    Peer reviewers:  Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Yunlong Guo
    Published:  November 1, 2021