Digital Twin Architecture Patterns for Real-Time Control Systems

Mainak Majumder; Bianca Wiesmayr; Alois Zoitl

doi:10.1109/ICPS65515.2025.11087873

Digital Twin Architecture Patterns for Real-Time Control Systems

Mainak Majumder^*
, Bianca Wiesmayr^*
, Alois Zoitl^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

LIT Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings › peer-review

Abstract

Digital Twins (DTs) have become an emerging topic of research in the manufacturing and production domain. DTs are integrated into existing manufacturing systems to monitor, control, and optimize production processes. This in turn influences the requirements for system integration and logical system architecture. A better understanding of the relationship between the existing Real-Time (RT) process control systems and DTs can boost the adoption of DTs in the manufacturing industry. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate possible interaction patterns of DTs with RT process control systems and define four use case categories for using DTs, i.e., observing, operating, controlling, and engineering a manufacturing system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3315-4299-3
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3315-4300-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS65515.2025.11087873
Publication status	Published - 30 Jul 2025
Event	2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) - Emden, Germany Duration: 12 May 2025 → 15 May 2025

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Conference	2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS)
Period	12.05.2025 → 15.05.2025

Fields of science

202003 Automation
102022 Software development
102025 Distributed systems
102 Computer Sciences

JKU Focus areas

Digital Transformation

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Majumder, M , Wiesmayr, B & Zoitl, A 2025, Digital Twin Architecture Patterns for Real-Time Control Systems. in 2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS). 1 edn, 11087873, IEEE, pp. 1-4, 2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), 12.05.2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS65515.2025.11087873

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Digital Twin Architecture Patterns for Real-Time Control Systems

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