Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AAS
Although standards and specifications for digital twins aim to create interoperability in Industry 4.0, each standard has its own goals, focuses and representations for digital twins. This paper examines an approach to increasing interoperability between established digital twin specifications by tr...
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| author | Carlos Schmidt Friedrich Volz Ljiljana Stojanovic Gerhard Sutschet |
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| description | Although standards and specifications for digital twins aim to create interoperability in Industry 4.0, each standard has its own goals, focuses and representations for digital twins. This paper examines an approach to increasing interoperability between established digital twin specifications by transformation. Accordingly, several specifications are presented and requirements for transformation are examined. Following the feasibility analysis, a mapping between the Digital Twin Definition Language (DTDL) and Asset Administration Shell (AAS) was created. To examine the feasibility of this approach, the transformation was implemented and tested for a physical asset. This paper demonstrates that a generic mapping between DTDL and AAS can be applied for transformation in use cases where DTDL models are provided while AAS is required. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b2e61b3507748f4b0f2ee8231ff211e2023-11-19T12:53:34ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-09-012318774210.3390/s23187742Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AASCarlos Schmidt0Friedrich Volz1Ljiljana Stojanovic2Gerhard Sutschet3Fraunhofer IOSB, 76131 Karlsruhe, GermanyFraunhofer IOSB, 76131 Karlsruhe, GermanyFraunhofer IOSB, 76131 Karlsruhe, GermanyFraunhofer IOSB, 76131 Karlsruhe, GermanyAlthough standards and specifications for digital twins aim to create interoperability in Industry 4.0, each standard has its own goals, focuses and representations for digital twins. This paper examines an approach to increasing interoperability between established digital twin specifications by transformation. Accordingly, several specifications are presented and requirements for transformation are examined. Following the feasibility analysis, a mapping between the Digital Twin Definition Language (DTDL) and Asset Administration Shell (AAS) was created. To examine the feasibility of this approach, the transformation was implemented and tested for a physical asset. This paper demonstrates that a generic mapping between DTDL and AAS can be applied for transformation in use cases where DTDL models are provided while AAS is required.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/18/7742Industry 4.0interoperabilitydigital twinasset administration shellsemantic transformationstandards |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Schmidt Friedrich Volz Ljiljana Stojanovic Gerhard Sutschet Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AAS Sensors Industry 4.0 interoperability digital twin asset administration shell semantic transformation standards |
| title | Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AAS |
| title_full | Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AAS |
| title_fullStr | Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AAS |
| title_full_unstemmed | Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AAS |
| title_short | Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AAS |
| title_sort | increasing interoperability between digital twin standards and specifications transformation of dtdl to aas |
| topic | Industry 4.0 interoperability digital twin asset administration shell semantic transformation standards |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/18/7742 |
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