Railway digital twins (DTs) are multi-physics dynamic models of rail vehicles that feature feedback from wayside or vehicle on-board sensors, enabling fine-tuning and calibration of the dynamic models to accurately simulate the physical system behaviour. The current DT implementation concept is typically asynchronous, given the intense computational power requirements of multibody dynamic simulations, thus limiting potential applications that could improve safety and efficiency of railway systems. This paper presents a real-time digital twin implementation concept for railway systems, including a faster-than-real-time multibody dynamics simulation of a railway bogie model and a 1:4 scale physical bogie rig provided with an axle box acceleration sensor. The real-time DT was able to recreate the dynamics of the bogie throughout the experiment. The developed real-time DT enables systematising the platform requirements of physics-based vehicle system dynamics models for DT architectures and opening the discussion on their possible practical application areas.


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    Title :

    Real-Time Digital Twin for Railway Systems


    Additional title:

    Lect.Notes Mechanical Engineering


    Contributors:
    Huang, Wei (editor) / Ahmadian, Mehdi (editor) / Bernal, Esteban (author) / Spiryagin, Maksym (author) / Santa, Juan (author) / Toro, Alejandro (author) / Wu, Qing (author) / Cole, Colin (author)

    Conference:

    The IAVSD International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks ; 2023 ; Ottawa, ON, Canada August 21, 2023 - August 25, 2023



    Publication date :

    2024-11-01


    Size :

    10 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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