The Usefulness of Digital Twin in Manipulator Robot Control

Abstract

Digital twin (DT) plays a key role in smart industry by being one of the most useful technologies which has the ability to attach the physical space with the cyber space. On the other side of the coin, manipulator robots have also played an essential role in industrial processes, especially that robots are embedded with sensors and actuators that can lead to a smart control. In this study, generalities about digital twin are mentioned; moreover, the relationship between digital twin and the control of manipulator robots is explained step by step. A simulation study has been employed to the universal robot UR10 applying the sliding mode control. This project shows that the cyber space is beneficial for creating a simulated smart industry by observing real-time state of the process, testing different decisions in simulation before performing the required actions directly in the real system, and acting with different situations.