COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM TO ORCHESTRATE CONFIGURATIONS OF SIMULATIONS BASED ON DIGITAL TWIN MODELS OF MODULAR PLANTS

• Main Authors: Held, Harald, Botero Halblaub, Andrés, Götz, Jan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 15.02.2023
• Subjects: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING

In order to orchestrate configurations of simulations based on digital twin models (DTM1, DTM2, DTM3) of modular plants (Pm, PM1, PM2, PM3) such that the configurations of the modelbased simulations are generated and deployed automatically, it is proposed and based on a logical "System Structure and Parameterization "-functionality (SSP-T) including a "Functional Mock-up Interface "-functionality (FMI-T) combined with a "Functional Mock-up Unit "-functionality (FMU-T) to (i) generate (grt) for distributed operational-technology-applications (OTAd, ED1, ED2, ED3) of the modular plants simulated model components (MCs,i, MCs,2, MCs,3) including assignment rules (AR1, AR2, AR3) for automation data (AD1, AD2, AD3) captured due to automation of the plants and assigned to the distributed operational-technology-applications, and (ii) deploy (dpl) in the course of orchestrating the simulations configurations the simulated model components on the distributed operational-technology-applications by using the SSP-functionality with "Functional Mock-up Unit "functionalities (FMU-T1, FMU-T2, FMU-T3) as part of the FMIfunctionality for the distributed operational-technology-applications and implementing for the distributed operational-technology-applications and as part of the FMIfunctionality in a server-client-manner "Remote Procedure Call "-technology based Proxy-FMU-functionalities (PFMU-T1, PFMU-T2, PFMU-T3) with- "Proxy-FMU"-entities (PFMU-E1, PFMU-E2, PFMU-E3) embedded in the SSP-functionality and- corresponding "Remote-Controlled-FMU"-entities (RCFMU-E1, RCFMU-E2, RCFMU-E3) implemented on the distributed operational-technology-applications.