Automated mission facilitation systems and methods using digital replicas of industrial assets

A computer-readable medium storing executable code which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

• (a) receive, by a mission planning engine, of a mission facilitation system one or more separate asset datasets from a digital replica of an industrial asset, each of the one or more asset datasets pertaining to the industrial asset;
• (b) receive, by the mission planning engine, a task dataset from a mission management platform defining a list of tasks to be performed on the industrial asset;
• (c) generate, by the mission planning engine, and based on the one or more separate asset datasets, for each task contained in the task dataset, a mission plan comprising one or more logically ordered actions to be performed by one or more agents of the industrial asset to complete the task;
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• (d) provide, by the mission facilitation system, the mission plan to one of the one or more agents of the industrial asset.

A computer-implemented method for facilitating one or more missions using a digital replica of an industrial asset, the method comprising:

• (a) receiving, by a mission planning engine of a mission facilitation system, one or more separate asset datasets from the digital replica, each of the one or more asset datasets pertaining to the industrial asset;
• (b) receiving, by the mission planning engine, a task dataset defining a list of tasks to be performed on the industrial asset;
• (c) generating, by the mission planning engine, and based on the one or more separate asset datasets, for each task contained in the task dataset, a mission plan assigning a selected task to one or more agents of the industrial asset;
• (d) performing, by a mission optimization engine of the mission facilitation system, a risk assessment for each of the mission plans to generate one or more corresponding optimized mission plans whereby at least some of the one or more agents are reassigned from a first task to a different task of the list of tasks;
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• (e) providing, by the mission facilitation system, the one or more optimized mission plans to the one or more agents assigned to the one or more optimized mission plans.