Digital Twin, Planning and Control with Erlang

Showing you the current state of a smart industrial transport system project we are building using. For this, we are currently developing a new “Industrial GRiSP” hardware which will be shown for the first time in public. Based on the same hardware architecture as GRiSP2 I’ll show how we use custom-built PMODs and GRiSP2 boards to prototype while the new hardware was designed.

The final goal is to make a modular conveyor system with distributed built-in intelligence to prove what we call “Plug & Produce” operation.

There will be a demo of a Digital Twin with animated visualisation of the manufacturing conveyor transport system in Erlang. If the timing allows it, it will be connected live to a real conveyor system in a producing factory. The digital twin is connected to the sensors and actuators via an Erlang-based open-source OPC-UA protocol stack we have been developing.

Outlook: Using the complete state of the real world through this digital twin as starting point for a distributed planning algorithm in Erlang allows distributed online (while the world is moving) optimal planning of the material flow on the conveyor.

OBJECTIVES

Introduce digital twins, the manufacturing use case with an outlook to distributed planning algorithms.

AUDIENCE

Should be something in there for everyone.