TwinTurbine-DCDC

This is a group Academic Project for DCDC course at Stockholm University, designed to experience a digital twin project in immersive technology.

1. Introduction

Welcome to TwinTurbine, which is a digital twin project that lets you experience working with a wind turbine in a mixed reality environment.

1.1. Digital Twin (DT) description

DT is a model representing a virtual mirror for every physical object for monitoring, analyzing, optimizing, predicting, or extra. The physical and virtual parts interact with each other and remain synchronous.

1.2. Five-dimension DT modeling components:

The five-dimension DT model consists of five essential components. In this project, these components are outlined as follows:

1. Physical Entity: Wind turbine, servo motor, and required Sensors.
2. Virtual Entity: Virtual wind turbine as a simulator, a designed dashboard d to control the wind turbine, and interactions to facilitate services.
3. Services: Remote monitoring, controlling, and improving the turbine's performance.
4. Data: The real-time data collected from sensors, simulations data from virtual entities, data from the services, and data about the environment.
5. Connection

1.2. The rationale behind this project:

The proposed solution is valuable for remote monitoring, controlling, and improving the turbine's performance.

2. Design Process

The design process includes ideation of concepts and interactions, testing of technologies, creation of Unity scene, user testing, iteration, and demonstration.

2.1. Brainstorming:

After some brainstorming, we came up with some ideas for different stages:

• In the first step, we discussed the physical and virtual entities, their connection, and the services and functions we wanted to implement.

Digital Twin Components

• Then, we shared our ideas on how to rotate the servo motor from Arduino and which physical turbine is better to provide.

Primary Prototype for physical turbine & virtual model

Primary Prototype

Servo motor and wind turbine

• Finally, we focused on the way we want to make the connection between ESP32 and Unity

Connecting Unity to Arduino

2.2. User Persona:

The Project's target users are engineers and technicians working with wind energy systems and Educational Institutions where the simulator can be used for training. Moreover, the main target group is enterprises interested in immersive technology.

2.3. User Journey:

In the experience, a Physical Wind turbine would be emulated using a servo motor. Real-time data , including RPM of the wind turbine (represented by the servo motor) and the current generated by the turbine, are collected from the physical entity and transferred to the virtual environment for monitoring and visualization.

2.4. Digital Twin:

2.5. Wireframes and Prototypes:

To understand how to rotate the physical wind turbine, the team members tried various strategies and tools to see which was more appropriate for our project.

Servo motor and Arduino

Testing physical entities

System description

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Link: https://extralitylab.dsv.su.se/

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Platform	Device	Requirements	Commands
Windows	Meta Quest	Unity 2022.3 or higher, Arduino	git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git cd project-xr open MainScene.unity Build and Run
Android	Phone	Android 19 or higher, ARCore 1.18 or higher	git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git cd solar-system-xr open SolarSystemXR.unity switch platform to Android build and run

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• Library B - a C# wrapper for speech recognition and synthesis

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• To use voice commands, say "OK" followed by one of the following phrases:
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  • "Close window Y" - to close window Y

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Draft Poster

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"Team Logo" with black background

"Team Logo" with white background

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