Digital Twin Validation of Remote Commands on Industrial Floors
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Solution Overview
Problem
In hybrid work environments, particularly in industrial settings, there is a challenge in ensuring that remote commands do not conflict with physical workers operating machinery, necessitating validation and intelligent area designation to ensure safety and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A method that generates a digital twin of the physical ecosystem, simulates remote commands, and integrates physical and remote workers to determine whether to execute the command, providing recommendations if execution is not possible, thus mitigating conflicts and enhancing safety and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If remote workers operate machinery through a VR system without validation, then productivity and remote operation capability are improved, but safety and conflict risk between remote and physical workers increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation of remote commands by simulating them in the digital twin before actual execution. This advance checking ensures that remote commands will not conflict with physical workers or machinery states, allowing safe remote operation without compromising productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital twin serves as an intermediary between remote workers and the physical ecosystem. It receives remote commands, validates them through simulation, and only allows execution if safe, thus mediating between remote operation desires and physical safety requirements.
2Reliability
If remote commands are validated through simulation using digital twin, then safety and conflict mitigation are improved, but system complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a digital twin (a virtual copy) of the physical ecosystem to perform command validation simulations. This copying approach allows comprehensive safety checking without affecting the actual physical system, managing the complexity of validation while maintaining safety.
3Reliability
If intelligent area designation is implemented for physical and remote workers, then safety and conflict prevention are improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system designates specific areas within the industrial floor for physical workers and specific virtual workspaces for remote workers. This spatial and virtual segmentation creates clear boundaries that prevent conflicts while maintaining operational efficiency, addressing safety through localized role assignment.
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AI summary
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for evaluating remote commands is provided. The present invention may include receiving data for a physical ecosystem. The present invention may include generating a digital twin of the physical ecosystem based on the data received. The present invention may include identifying one or more correlated activities using the digital twin. The present invention may include receiving a remote command. The present invention may include determining whether to execute the remote command by simulating the remote command using the digital twin and the one or more correlated activities.