Title
A Cognitive Digital Twins Framework for Human-Robot Collaboration
Abstract
This paper proposes a cognitive digital twin framework for smart manufacturing, and especially for human-robot-collaboration cases. The proposed framework comprises three layers (field, edge, and cloud layers) based on the 5G communication network. In the field layer, the physical twin's data from the physical machine and human operators are transmitted through the edge layer and then to the cloud layer to virtualize the digital twin. The cloud layer generates inference model generation by deep learning training and updates the inference model in the edge layer to make the field's machine smart. Especially, human operators' models are built based on the multimodal fusion in the cloud layer for cognitive function. Also, edge-cloud collaborative computing is presented to implement the proposed framework. Finally, the study is validated with a human-robot-collaboration case involving 5G edge computing. (C) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.procs.2022.01.387
3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRY 4.0 AND SMART MANUFACTURING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Digital twin, human-robot collaboration, human cyber-physical system, 5G communication network, edge-cloud collaboration
Conference
200
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1877-0509
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanjun Shi100.34
Weiming Shen200.34
Lihui Wang300.34
Francesco Longo400.68
Letizia Nicoletti501.01
Antonio Padovano600.68