U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Search Publications by: Guodong Shao (Fed)

Search Title, Abstract, Conference, Citation, Keyword or Author
Displaying 1 - 25 of 97

Towards a Digital Twin of a Robot Workcell: Standards and Methods

October 28, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh
Digital twins are poised to improve the way products are designed, manufactured, and managed throughout their life cycle. However, implementing digital twins for small and medium manufacturers (SMM) has been a challenge mainly due to lack of resources and

Digital Twins for Advanced Manufacturing: The Standardized Approach

October 26, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Deogratias Kibira, Simon P. Frechette
Recently, digital twins are becoming more prevalent in a wide range of industries such as manufacturing, construction, smart city, healthcare, business for various purposes including observing, predicting, optimizing, and controlling. However, because

Digital Twins for Robot Systems in Manufacturing

October 26, 2024
Author(s)
Ali Malik, Guodong Shao, Jane Tarakhovsky
The surging demand for industrial automation is propelling the use of robots, with emerging trends like autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robotic arms swiftly gaining widespread popularity. Simultaneously, a growing focus is on simplifying the

Manufacturing Digital Twin Standards

September 24, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao
As a foundation of digital transformation, digital twins are critical for achieving smart manufacturing. Recent technology advancements, such as smart sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI)

Building a Digital Twin of a CNC Machine Tool

April 12, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh, Matthew Triebe
Developing digital twins for manufacturing applications is challenging due to insufficient modeling frameworks and standardized procedures. As a result, the number of successful digital twin implementations has not caught up with the increasing literature

Integrating Dynamic Digital Twins: Enabling Real-Time Connectivity for IoT and Virtual Reality

April 12, 2024
Author(s)
Lejla Erdal, Ammar Gubartalla, Paulo Victor Lopes, Huizhong Cao, Guodong Shao, Per Lonnehed, Henri Putto, Abbe Ahmed, Sven Ekered, Bjorn Johansson
As Industry 4.0 technology is still evolving, research and implementation gaps due to issues such as costs, security, and lack of domain expertise for enabling Digital Twins and supportive technology need to be bridged. This paper proposes a practical

Data Requirements for a Digital Twin of a Robot Workcell

February 1, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao
The applications of digital twins continue to grow with the volume and variety of data collected. These data support the modeling of function, behavior, and structure of a physical element. However, successfully building a digital twin requires data

Maintenance and Operations of Manufacturing Digital Twins

December 13, 2023
Author(s)
Alp Akcay, Stephan Biller, Boon Ping Gan, Christoph Laroque, Guodong Shao
Digital twins have become an important element in smart manufacturing. As any other product, digital twins also have a lifecycle, starting from specifying the requirements of the digital twins until their decommissioning. As part of the Manufacturing and

Digital Twin Core Conceptual Models and Services

November 3, 2023
Author(s)
Shi-Wan Lin, Kym Watson, Guodong Shao, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Bassam Zarkout
To improve operational efficiency and enhance competitiveness in business, organizations are broadly undergoing digital transformation. As a foundation for digital transformation, digital twins enable system operators to dynamically represent, diagnose

Towards Ontologizing a Digital Twin Framework for Manufacturing

September 21, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Guodong Shao, Ana Nikolov, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
This paper presents a timely opportunity to ontologize a digital twin frame-work for manufacturing using recently published international standards and proposes a collaborative research effort to accomplish this task. The ISO/IEC 21838 series of standards

DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR DIGITAL TWINS IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

June 15, 2023
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Albert T. Jones, Guodong Shao
The number and types of sensors used to monitor additive manufacturing (AM) processes and parts in real time are growing. The emerging digital twins (DTs) associated with the data collected by those sensors and the functions that use that data as inputs

BUILDING A DIGITAL TWIN OF AN AUTOMATED ROBOT WORKCELL

May 26, 2023
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh
Building a digital twin of a manufacturing system can positively impact its performance with respect to productivity, energy consumption, product quality, and cost. However, leveraging available methods and tools to build a digital twin has been a

A Methodology for Digital Twins of Product Lifecycle Supported by Digital Thread

February 8, 2023
Author(s)
Laetitia Monnier, Guodong Shao, Sebti Foufou
The technological advancement has led to the transition of manufacturing industries to Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. Promising concepts such as Digital Twin and Digital Thread could help speed up the transition. One of the benefits of using digital

CREDIBILITY CONSIDERATION FOR DIGITAL TWINS IN MANUFACTURING

December 16, 2022
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Joe Hightower, William Schindel
Digital Twin has become an important technology for advanced manufacturing. However, to ensure that digital twins provide valuable decision support, the results generated by the digital twins must be trustworthy for real manufacturing systems. Model

BUILDING A DIGITAL TWIN FOR ROBOT WORKCELL PROGNOSTICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT

December 15, 2021
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Brian A. Weiss
The application of robot workcells increases the efficiency and cost effectiveness of manufacturing systems. However, during operation, robots naturally degrade leading to performance deterioration. Monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics (collectively

Using Simulation and Digital Twins to Innovate: Are We Getting Smarter?

December 15, 2021
Author(s)
Simon Taylor, Bjorn Johansson, Sumin Jeon, Loo Hay Lee, Peter Lendermann, Guodong Shao
Digital Twins have recently emerged as a major new area of innovation. Digital Twins are often found at the core of "smart" solutions that have also emerged as major areas of innovation. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) approaches create a model of a real

Use Case Scenarios for Digital Twin Implementation Based on ISO 23247

May 4, 2021
Author(s)
Guodong Shao
As a key part of digital transformation, digital twin is an important concept for achieving smart manufacturing. However, there remains a lot of confusion about the digital twin concept and how it can be implemented in real manufacturing systems