A Digital Twin Platform Based on MapleSim for Quadrotors

This paper focuses on the construction of a digital twin platform for quadrotors which can realize real-time synchronization between digital space and physical space. In order to facilitate the synchronization module of the test environment, an ArduCopter model is selected as the physical entity, and corresponding simulation environment is built based on it. A component-level twin model of quadrotor is designed under MapleSim environment. Also, a synchronization platform is designed to facilitate data collection and synchronized control between the physical entity and the digital twin. It is shown through simulation test that the physical entity and the digital twin model are highly consistent, and the expected performance has been achieved.