Roundtable discussion on development of environmental digital twins

On 31st March 2022, Prof. Huan Nguyen represented the London Digital Twin Research Centre (LDTRC) at the roundtable discussion organised by National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The event focused on sharing ideas and lessons on how developers and users can collaborate on digital twins for environment, as part of the ongoing project on information management framework funded by National Environmental Research Council ā€“ UK Research & Innovation (NERC-UKRI) and the Met Office.

The event included talks from NOC, National Digital Twin Programme (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), Joint Centre for Excellence in Environment Intelligence (Met Office), and Alan Turing Institute. Around 20 representatives from different departmental and research organisations were in attendance, e.g.,Ā the British Geological Survey (BGS), the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). During the event, Prof. Nguyen shared the lessons learnt on federated digital twins and data sharing currently implemented in various projects of smart factory, structures at LDTRC. Useful information was also shared and exchanged from other guests with a summary to be sent to the UK government to contribute and feed into the digital twin work programme.

Keynote Speech at Heritech 2022: Digital Twin for Heritage Management

Prof. Huan Nguyen and Dr Noha Saleeb today delivered keynote speeches on the digital twin technology and how it helps in heritage management and restoration at the annual Heritech 2022 conference organised by Van Lang University (Vietnam).

Digital Twin represents the interconnection and convergence between a physical system and its digital representation created as an entity of its own, making it the focus of the global digital transformation within a wide range of areas, such as: manufacturing, infrastructure, healthcare, transportation, as it has the potential to optimize the operational processes. The speeches focus on the concept and the current stage of the digital twin technology and its development for heritage management and restoration, where heritage situation in Egypt was presented as a case study, as part of our ongoing work at the London Digital Twin Research Centre.

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Keynote Talk at MDENET Symposium 2022

On 26th January 2022, Prof. Balbir Barn from LDTRC delivered a keynote talk on “Digital Twin: Current Practice and Future (Sociotechnical) Prospects” at the MDENET Symposium 2022. Digital Twin research and activity is prevalent such that Digital Twins are acquiring silver bullet status. In the United Kingdom in particular, Digital Twin features as a key strand in future-proofing UK infrastructure such as that described in the UK Innovation Strategy. Notably, Digital Twins (DT) have a family resemblance to computational modelling and computer simulation more generally. The talk outlined the importance of the role of DT, their key characteristics, the types of digital twin and their underpinning enabling technologies. Continue reading “Keynote Talk at MDENET Symposium 2022”

Kick off Project “Digital Twin for Healthcare Resilience”

The London Digital Twin Research Centre has today kicked-off another British Council project that aims to develop curriculum on “Digital Twin for Health System Resilienceā€ with partner Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) and other associated partners Health Office at Kulon Progo,Ā Mlati II & Samigaluh IIĀ Primary Healthcare and PT Sisfomedika, within the Going Global Partnerships Indonesia programme.

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Kick off Project “Urban Resilience in Agriculture”

The London Digital Twin Research Centre has today kicked-off the project ā€œUrban Resilience in Agriculture Through Highly Automated Vertical Farming in Vietnam and the UKā€ with partner Van Lang University and Khang Thinh Irrigation Tech (Vietnam), within the British Council’s Going Global Partnerships programme.

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Closing Event for UKIERI Project on Digital Twin for Industry 4.0

The longer version of the closing event can be found here

Project “Digital Twin Modelling for Automation, Maintenance and Monitoring in Industry 4.0 Smart Factory” is now completed with a final event, the Workshop on Digital Twin and Industrial Automation on the 12th January 2022. The hybrid workshop is being jointly organised by the two partners London Digital Twin Research Centre (Middlesex University London, UK) and Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Sci city (India). Key outcomes of the project include a developed digital twin of the Festo/Siemens smart factory, 4 dissemination workshops, 2 panel/special sessions and 2 keynote speeches at conferences, 16 research papers and 16 postdoc RAs and students being trained from the project, as well as new partnerships formed with industrial partners and organisations. For more details please join us at the event via this direct link

The workshop schedule (in Indian IST time, which is 5.5 hours ahead of the UK time) is here: UKIERI workshop schedule

Updated (12.01.2022): The workshop attracted a large audience of 140+ participants (65+ in person and 78 online). Some shots from the workshop:

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Structural Health Monitoring

Structural health monitoring and digital twin modelling are theĀ  timely research areas in structures that attract interests worldwide. The Newton Fund project teams from the London Digital Twin Research Centre and the University of Transport and Communications (Vietnam) continue to extend the impact beyond the project by organising the 2nd International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring and Engineering Structures (SHM&ES 2021) during 13th-14th December 2021.

Other New Grants for LDTRC

The London Digital Twin Research Centre has been successful in two further bids to the British Council’sĀ  Going Global Partnerships programme. The two projects focus on DT research and knowledge transfer that is strongly located in our University strategy themes and have at their core, the UN sustainability goals.

The new projects are:

Project 1Ā (Vietnam, 2022-2024): Ā ā€œUrban Resilience in Agriculture Through Highly Automated Vertical Farming in Vietnam and the UKā€

Challenges in agricultural product supply during COVID-19 pandemic brought the idea of adapting a highly automated vertical farm system to the urban context. This project is international research that is aimed at sustainability issues arising from food resilience needs. The project will install two greenhouses to support vertical farming and use DT/IoT smart solutions to control and monitor production. Alongside the technical work, there is a substantive piece of educational work on vertical farming with young people. The project is also an example of collaboration with the Business School. We are collaborating with Van Lang University from Vietnam.

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