Towards a Goal-Oriented Approach for Engineering Digital Twins of Robotic Systems

Jeshwitha Jesus Raja, Meenakshi Manjunath, Marian Daun

2024

Abstract

In many smart manufacturing scenarios of Industry 4.0, robots play a vital role. Robotic systems allow for au-tomatization and semi-automatization of individual work tasks using standard hardware. Thus, production and assembly processes can be flexibly redefined during operation. In addition, human workers can be supported for complex and specific work tasks where full automation by industrial production systems is not possible or not cost-efficient. To monitor current process execution, to predict process outcome, and to ensure safe behavior of the robots at runtime, digital twins are seen as a vital part of future smart manufacturing. How-ever, current industrial approaches typically define the digital twin on the go, i.e. when the factory has been build and equipped with robotic systems. Thus, the absence of systematic planning of the digital twin leads to unused potential for more complex analysis, monitoring, and prediction tasks of digital twins commonly suggested in research. This is partly due to the absence of structured software and systems engineering approaches for the development of robotic systems. In this paper, we explore the use of goal modeling to systematically define the robotic system, its monitoring system, and the digital twin. Application to case examples shows that this lightweight approach aligns with industry preferences to focus on technical challenges rather than invest too much effort in a thorough yet cost intensive engineering approach, while at the same time allowing for the proper definition of robots and their digital twins.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jesus Raja J., Manjunath M. and Daun M. (2024). Towards a Goal-Oriented Approach for Engineering Digital Twins of Robotic Systems. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-696-5, SciTePress, pages 466-473. DOI: 10.5220/0012681500003687

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase24,
author={Jeshwitha Jesus Raja and Meenakshi Manjunath and Marian Daun},
title={Towards a Goal-Oriented Approach for Engineering Digital Twins of Robotic Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE},
year={2024},
pages={466-473},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012681500003687},
isbn={978-989-758-696-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE
TI - Towards a Goal-Oriented Approach for Engineering Digital Twins of Robotic Systems
SN - 978-989-758-696-5
AU - Jesus Raja J.
AU - Manjunath M.
AU - Daun M.
PY - 2024
SP - 466
EP - 473
DO - 10.5220/0012681500003687
PB - SciTePress