Real-time co-simulation for the virtual commissioning of production systems

During virtual commissioning, the real control technology is put into operation in advance using a model-based digital twin of the production system. The growing demands on the significance of digital twins result in the need for higher model depths and model scopes of the behavior models used. However, new approaches to enhance the usable computing power in a real-time simulation are required. This paper presents a real-time co-simulation platform for virtual commissioning. The platform includes the integration of powerful technology-specific simulation solutions based on integration interfaces and a real-time co-simulation architecture based on partitioning, parallelization, synchronization and data exchange mechanisms.