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Digital Twins

The digital twin research group focuses on what the limits are for establishing digital twins and how digital twins can be engineered in more efficient ways. Digital twins have originally emerged as a concept in the works of Grieves and Vickers, who focused on the management of product life-cycles.
  

The research group is included in a long list of externally funded innovation and research projects with funding from many different agencies. We also collaborate with all the other research groups in the Software Engineering and Computer Systems section as well as most of the other sections in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. We also have the Digital Transformation Lab in Skjern as well as the Robotics Digital Twin Lab in Aarhus.

The lead of the digital twin research group is Professor Peter Gorm Larsen and he is also in charge of two centers: DIGIT (the Aarhus University (AU) Centre for Digitalisation, Big Data and Data Analytics including 15 Departments at AU) and the AU Centre for Digital Twins.

Our research

We have mostly researched the engineering of digital twins for Cyber-Physical Systems. We have produced numerous research results which are used by many organisations all over the world. Most of these belong to the non-for-profit INTO-CPS Association and this includes the Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS) solution.

All of these can be used freely for research purposes, and also commercially if one is a member of the association. The book mentioned in the grey box is also used for teaching purposes at the MSc level in a 10 ECTS course.

   

Head of research group

Peter Gorm Larsen

Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Software Engineering & Computing systems

Faculty staff

Head of research group

Peter Gorm Larsen

Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Software Engineering & Computing systems