US 12,632,617 B1 · Managing digital twins

Abstract

A digital twin service of a provider network allows a user to build a digital twin to simulate behavior and changes of a physical system at a client's site. The digital twin service may receive, from the user, a definition for each model to be used to simulate each component of the physical system. For example, the user may indicate various properties of the model, behaviors of the model, and relationships between the model and one or more other models (e.g., chaining via inputs/outputs). The digital twin service may then build and deploy the models to a runtime environment. The runtime environment executes the models and receives telemetry data from the physical system. The user may modify the simulation (e.g., provide new telemetry data or modify/add new models). The simulation generates one or more results based on the modification and sends the results to a destination.

A system, comprising:

one or more processors and one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories have stored thereon instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a digital twin service for a plurality of clients of a provider network, wherein the digital twin service is configured to, for a client of the plurality of clients:
receive, from a management device of the client, user input that comprises a definition of a model of a component of a physical system of a remote site of the client, wherein the definition indicates at least:
one or more time-invariant properties of the component of the physical system;
one or more time-variant properties of the component;
a behavior simulation to be applied for the model;
and
at least one relationship between the model and one or more other models of other components of the physical system;
and
deploy the model and the one or more other models to a runtime environment;
and
one or more other processors and one or more other memories, wherein the one or more other memories have stored thereon instructions, which when executed by the one or more other processors, cause the one or more other processors to implement the runtime environment, wherein the runtime environment is configured to:
initiate a simulation of the physical system as a digital twin instance based at least on execution of the model as an executing model of the simulation and execution of the one or more other models as one or more other executing models of the simulation;
receive telemetry data from the remote site of the client, wherein the telemetry data is based on data collected from the physical system of the remote site of the client at different times, and wherein the telemetry data from the remote site of the client comprises a series of values for at least one of the time-variant properties of the component of the physical system;
based on the behavior simulation for the model, process at least a portion of the telemetry data received from the remote site of the client by the executing model of the simulation to generate an output;
based on the at least one relationship between the model and another model of the one or more other models of other components of the physical system that was previously indicated by the user input, send the output of the executing model of the simulation, that simulates the component of the physical system using the telemetry data received from the remote site, to another executing model of the simulation that simulates one of the other components of the physical system;
based on another behavior simulation for the other model, process the output of the executing model by the other executing model to generate another output;
during the execution of the model of the component of the physical system, modify the simulation based on at least one change indicated by additional input from a user, wherein the additional input comprises user-provided telemetry data for a particular time-variant property of the component of the physical system, to be processed by the same executing model that previously processed telemetry data for the particular time-variant property of the component of the physical system received from the remote site of the client;
generate at least one result based on the modification to the simulation;
and
provide the at least one result to a destination.

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