Development of a Simple and Novel Digital Twin Framework for Industrial Robots in Intelligent robotics manufacturing

TL;DR

This paper introduces a simple, novel Digital Twin framework for industrial robots that enables real-time visualization, control, and path planning in manufacturing, using accessible web-based tools and high-efficiency communication.

Contribution

The paper presents a replicable Digital Twin framework integrating Robot Web Service, Unity 3D simulation, and MATLAB algorithms for real-time industrial robot management.

Findings

Communication refresh rate of 17 ms demonstrates high efficiency.

Web-based platform and GUI enhance accessibility and user-friendliness.

Framework successfully enables real-time visualization and control of industrial robots.

Abstract

This paper has proposed an easily replicable and novel approach for developing a Digital Twin (DT) system for industrial robots in intelligent manufacturing applications. Our framework enables effective communication via Robot Web Service (RWS), while a real-time simulation is implemented in Unity 3D and Web-based Platform without any other 3rd party tools. The framework can do real-time visualization and control of the entire work process, as well as implement real-time path planning based on algorithms executed in MATLAB. Results verify the high communication efficiency with a refresh rate of only $17 ms$. Furthermore, our developed web-based platform and Graphical User Interface (GUI) enable easy accessibility and user-friendliness in real-time control.