TY - GEN
T1 - Support Operation and Maintenance of Power Wheelchairs with Digital Twins
T2 - 14th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2023
AU - Lagartinho-Oliveira, Carolina
AU - Moutinho, Filipe
AU - Gomes, Luís
N1 - Funding Information:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT//2020.08462.BD/PT#
Acknowledgments. This work had the support of the Portuguese Agency FCT (“Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia”), in the framework of project UID/EEA/00066/2020, and under the PhD scholarship 2020.08462.BD.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Digital twins are becoming popular in a wide range of industries for the monitoring, control, and optimization of physical objects, processes, and systems. Its growing demand is related to its potential to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase safety in different applications. As a result, a variety of approaches, modeling processes, technologies, and tools have been used to develop and deploy digital twins. The choice of which to use often depends on the specific application area, case study, available resources, and expertise. This paper explores the idea of using the digital twin concept applied to power wheelchair systems, to supervise and improve their operation and maintenance. In particular, it focuses on data flow and connectivity within the digital twin, proposing an IoT and cloud-based data exchange to enable efficient cyber-physical connection and easy data management. For this work, a small-scale prototype of a power wheelchair was built with some sensors and actuators interfaced with a microcontroller, and the data exchange with a ROS-based virtual entity was performed via cloud under the MQTT protocol.
AB - Digital twins are becoming popular in a wide range of industries for the monitoring, control, and optimization of physical objects, processes, and systems. Its growing demand is related to its potential to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase safety in different applications. As a result, a variety of approaches, modeling processes, technologies, and tools have been used to develop and deploy digital twins. The choice of which to use often depends on the specific application area, case study, available resources, and expertise. This paper explores the idea of using the digital twin concept applied to power wheelchair systems, to supervise and improve their operation and maintenance. In particular, it focuses on data flow and connectivity within the digital twin, proposing an IoT and cloud-based data exchange to enable efficient cyber-physical connection and easy data management. For this work, a small-scale prototype of a power wheelchair was built with some sensors and actuators interfaced with a microcontroller, and the data exchange with a ROS-based virtual entity was performed via cloud under the MQTT protocol.
KW - Data Acquisition
KW - Data Management
KW - HiveMQ Cloud
KW - InfluxDB
KW - MQTT
KW - NXT
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85164928398&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-36007-7_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-36007-7_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85164928398
SN - 978-3-031-36006-0
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 191
EP - 202
BT - Technological Innovation for Connected Cyber Physical Spaces
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, Luís M.
A2 - Ferrada, Filipa
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
Y2 - 5 July 2023 through 7 July 2023
ER -