Industrial Metaverse Digital Twin for Remote Asset Collaboration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current industrial systems face challenges in remote analysis and collaboration due to limitations in 3D models and the need for physical or remote access, which restricts asynchronous access and immersive collaboration capabilities.
Innovation Solution
The development of an industrial metaverse system that includes virtual environments, allowing users to interact with immersive, partially immersive, or non-immersive representations of industrial environments, enabling collaboration and remote analysis through virtual displays, software, and hardware components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If 3D models are used to represent industrial environments, then visualization capability is improved, but immersive collaboration and remote analysis capabilities remain insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D/3D model visualization to a multi-dimensional virtual environment that incorporates spatial immersion, temporal navigation (time travel), and multi-user collaboration dimensions. This creates a metaverse space where users can interact with historical, present, and future states of industrial assets simultaneously, resolving the limitation of conventional 3D models.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual environment acts as an intermediary between physical industrial assets and users. It provides a digital twin representation that enables remote access, collaboration, and analysis without requiring physical presence, while maintaining faithful representation of the physical asset states and behaviors.
2Measurement precision
If physical or remote access is required for system analysis, then analysis accuracy is improved, but accessibility and collaboration are restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates accurate digital copies (digital twins) of physical industrial assets within the virtual environment. These copies replicate the physical asset's geometry, behavior, and operational states, enabling remote analysis with the same accuracy as physical access while eliminating the need for travelers to be physically present at distant locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical requirement of physical travel and on-site access with a virtual system that uses digital representations and remote connectivity. Users interact with virtual assets through the metaverse interface, substituting physical presence with digital presence while maintaining analysis capabilities.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple systems and software products are accessed asynchronously, then data access flexibility is improved, but collaboration efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple disparate systems, software products, and data sources into a unified virtual environment. The metaverse integrates operational data, maintenance records, design specifications, and real-time sensor data from various sources into a single cohesive space, enabling simultaneous access and collaboration without the inefficiencies of switching between multiple asynchronous systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual environment serves as a universal platform that can access and display data from multiple different systems and software products simultaneously. It provides a single interface for viewing historical data, real-time monitoring, future predictions, and collaborative discussions, eliminating the need to switch between multiple specialized applications.
4Ease of manufacture
If traditional collaboration environments using VoIP and screen sharing are used, then implementation simplicity is improved, but immersion and collaboration scope are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent elevates collaboration from 2D screen sharing to immersive 3D/4D virtual space. Users are represented as avatars within the virtual environment, enabling spatial presence, gesture-based interaction, and multi-perspective viewing that screen sharing cannot provide, while maintaining relative ease of access through standard computing devices.
Data Source
AI summary
In some embodiments, the system includes a virtual reality environment that includes a digital twin of at least a portion of a physical industrial environment. In some embodiments, the system is configured to change the virtual reality environment based on changes in the physical industrial environment. In some embodiments, the changes are received by the system through sensors such as temperature and/or pressure sensors, as non-limiting examples. In some embodiments, the changes in the physical environment are detected through the analysis of images. In some embodiments, the system is configured to use artificial intelligence to detect the changes. In some embodiments, the system is configured to predict the effect of changes in the virtual and/or physical environment on other system components through variable changes in virtual models. In some embodiments, the system is configured to display the effects in the virtual environment before they are implemented in the physical environment.