Digital twin for a robot assembly line: Architecture and implementation

Abstract

As an enabling technology and means to practice the concept of intelligent manufacturing, digital twin has attracted extensive attention from both industry and academia. In view of the lack of concrete implementation methods of digital twin robot assembly lines, and the complex implementation process, and long development cycle using existing methods, the implementation of digital twin robot assembly lines is a significant research problem. In view of this, this paper proposes an architecture as well as an implementation method of a digital twin system for a robot assembly line. Taking a robot assembly production line as an example, a digital twin architecture and modular development approach are proposed, and three key technologies for implementing the digital twin system, namely virtual model construction, real-time data acquisition and accurate virtual-real mapping, are elaborated. The architecture and implementation method can quickly and effectively facilitate building a digital twin system of the robot assembly line, and realizing real-time monitoring and intelligent analysis of all elements of the physical robot production line.