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Exploiting Digital Twins in MBSE to Enhance System Modeling and Life Cycle Coverage

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MBSE has made significant strides in the last decade. Today, its focus is on extending system life cycle coverage and improving system model accuracy by leveraging methods such as formal modeling, machine learning, and analytics in conjunction with exploiting digital engineering technology. The growing convergence between digital engineering and MBSE and the advent of digital twins has made it possible to enhance system modeling and increase life cycle coverage. Digital twins are computational models of systems that have bidirectional communication with the real-world systems and evolve in synchronization with them. This chapter presents how digital twin technology can be leveraged in MBSE and offers an example of digital twin creation for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can dynamically replan its path in response to disruptions such as inflight damage or changes in environmental conditions. This chapter also presents results of early experimentation with a digital twin and describes how operational analysis and modeling can be enhanced by leveraging the digital twin construct.

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    A. M. Madni & S. Purohit

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    Azad M. Madni

  2. Lockheed Martin (United States), Bethesda, MD, USA

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Madni, A.M., Purohit, S., Madni, C.C. (2022). Exploiting Digital Twins in MBSE to Enhance System Modeling and Life Cycle Coverage. In: Madni, A.M., Augustine, N., Sievers, M. (eds) Handbook of Model-Based Systems Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27486-3_33-1

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