Dynamic Function Validation and Simulation in Fluid Digital Twins
Marco Picone, Luca Bedogni, Marcello Pietri, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli · 2024
The combination of Fluid Computing with the Internet of Things has enabled dynamic orchestration of tasks and functionalities, enhancing performance and responsiveness. Integrating Digital Twins has bridged the cyber-physical gap and the recent introduction of the concept of Fluid Digital Twins (FDTs) opened to the dynamic reconfiguration of functions and simplified augmentation of physical assets’ capabilities. However, introducing new functions or updating existing ones to improve performance or fix bugs poses significant challenges in validating, testing, and deploying these changes in a production environment without disrupting operations. This paper proposes and experimental evaluate an FDT approach for dynamic function management by spawning twin replicas for testing and automatically synchronizing data between production and validation instances.