Digital Twin Implementation for Accelerating the Development of Flexible Transportation System Control Software

Flexible transportation systems are being increasingly used in manufacturing. These being multi-agent systems, their programming and layout might be challenging. To expedite the design procedures of complex systems digital twins are often implemented, enabling to safely simulate some special cases of equipment operation to be considered. Using a digital twin at a development stage enables designing hardware and software components without real experimental setup involvement so that multiple engineers can solve their special tasks simultaneously. The paper is a survey of flexible transportation systems considering the aspects of digital twin implementation in the software design acceleration context.