OSSXRKG

Specialised technicians for an offshore environment are increasingly difficult to find on the labour market. This project looks for solutions to keep the experts on land and leave the work on site to more generally trained technicians.
Status
In progress
Duration
Sep 2024 - Aug 2025
Type
DBC project

Systems and installations are becoming increasingly complex. In order to optimise operational efficiency, so-called digital twins are increasingly used. These are tools that enable you to perform various simulations in complex environments.

Although a digital twin environment offers many advantages, only a few are currently being realised. This is partly because building such an environment for complex systems is still a very intensive and expensive task. The partners in this project are trying to do something about that.

Objective

The goal of this project is a proof-of-concept of an operational digital twin for a complex, custom-designed system, demonstrating that the digital twin can be set up with greatly reduced manpower and lead time.

To achieve this, a smart interface is being developed between a Knowledge Graph (KG) of the system and a 3D authoring tool (XR environment). The use case is the digital backbone of an offshore wind project.

Concrete goals:

  • Generalisation and structuring of technical processes in the design and implementation phase of an offshore energy project, and conversion into a library in an XR environment; 
  • Semantic model of processes and process steps in the life cycle of a typical engineer-to-order project, and an associated Knowledge Graph based on this model; 
  • Architecture and strategy for converting a semantic model into XR templates; 
  • Proof-of-concept of an API between KG and XR environment with a natural language interface; 
  • Functional knowledge graph platform that can connect to the XR environment; 
  • Validation of the strategy using a case study.

The solution must be economically feasible and improve the internal efficiency of technical processes.

Partners: e-BO EnterprisesSE-link; and SupportSquare

With the support of: VLAIO 

Contact: Stefaan Mensaert 

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