Digital Twin Federation Manager for Cross-Domain Service Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital twin methods face challenges in identifying and utilizing digital twin functions and services across multiple domains, leading to the need to develop new services from scratch, resulting in inconvenience and cost loss.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for exchanging information between digital twin components to facilitate digital twin federation, enabling the registration of feature information, search for federation targets, establishment of connections, and information exchange across multiple domains.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital twins are used in each domain independently, then domain-specific functionality is maintained, but cross-domain service creation becomes difficult and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal digital twin federation platform that enables digital twins from different domains (manufacturing, city, home, energy, medical) to interoperate through common protocols and interfaces. This allows a single digital twin to potentially serve multiple domains through federation, eliminating the need to develop separate digital twins for each domain and enabling cross-domain services without increasing development complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a digital twin federation manager as an intermediary component that coordinates communication and data exchange between digital twins from different domains. This mediator handles the complexity of cross-domain interactions, providing standardized interfaces and protocols that simplify service creation while maintaining domain-specific functionality
2Adaptability or versatility
If new digital twin services are developed from scratch for each domain, then domain-specific requirements are met, but development time and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes a pre-configured digital twin federation infrastructure with standardized protocols, interfaces, and communication mechanisms before domain-specific services are needed. This preliminary setup includes predefined federation relationships and data exchange formats that can be quickly activated for new domain services, eliminating the need to develop these foundational elements from scratch for each new service
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables digital twins to be replicated and federated across domains through standardized templates and models. Instead of developing unique digital twin implementations for each domain, the system allows copying and adapting proven digital twin models while maintaining their core functionality, significantly reducing development time while preserving domain-specific requirements through configuration rather than code
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to an information exchange method and device for digital twin federation. A method for transmitting and receiving information for digital twin federation by digital twin according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: transmitting a message related to the digital twin federation to a component of the digital twin federal; and receiving a response to the message. Herein, the component of the digital twin federation may correspond to one or more of another digital twin, a registry, or a communication adapter. The message may include a header area and a data area, and the data area may include object information related to at least one of the digital twin or the component of the digital twin federation and action information indicating an operation related to the digital twin federation.