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Digital Twins at UC Merced MESA Lab

Digital Twins (DT) @ UC Merced MESA Lab

(http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/digital-twin)

News:

2024:

  • 11/12/2024. Week-12a-Digital Twins-Controllability, observability, stabilizability, identifiability, uncertainty quantifiability (Youtube recorded lecture.) (75 min. PPT) (quiz12a.docx)
  • Nov. Justus Nwoke defended his Ph.D. thesis proposal successfully. Title: Smart Power Electronics Control for Plasma Processing Enabled by Digital Twins with Parallel Intelligence.
  • Oct. IEEE DTPI 2024 best student paper award new. (3 papers presented at DTPI2024) [DTPI21 papers, DTPI22 paper, DTPI23 papers - best paper award]
  • Sept. IEEE/ASME MESA 2024 (our 6 papers) Justus and Derek family Genova Italy.
  • summer-Oct. NSF MFAI proposal development.
  • April-June 2024 NSF MATH-DT proposal development.
  • 4/21/24: DT Handbook is online now. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003425724 - frontmatter PDF
  • March: ME190 Digital Twins (4 credits with labs course-flyer ). Will be offered for the first time in Fall 2024. See https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/teaching for updated info. Search course schedule (select 2024 Fall, and then ME 190 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering "Digital Twins" (4cr) )
    • (3/18/2024: New course ME152(ME190) Digital Twin information: Course Flyer PDF)
  • ME152 "Digital Twins" formal course is under Curriculog processing.
  • March 20, 2004. Di An's thesis defense: "XAIOT ENABLED SMART SENSING OF SOIL CARBON CONTENT FOR SMART APPLICATION OF BIOCHAR" (news items)
  • Handbook on Digital Twins - on market in May 2024. Chapter-34 is from MESA Lab.
  • Late 2024. IEEE DTPI conference (digital twins and parallel intelligence)
  • Aug. 2024. IEEE IAI2024 (Industrial Artificial Intelligence). IAI2023. IAI@ieeeXplore.  IAI Journal
  • 2024 New DT book proposal: CRC Press "Smart Environmental Sensing of Methane with Digital Twins - Methane Emission Quantification with sUAS" by Derek Hollenbeck and YangQuan Chen. (Aug.. 2024) under peer review.

     

2023:

  • Dec. 2023. Justus Nwoke attended semiconductor digital twin workshop 4-5 Dec. 2023. (news item)
  • Nov. 2023. IEEE DTPI 2023 (Orlando) - Best paper award. https://2023.ieee-dtpi.org/ Best Paper: FPGA-Based Digital Twin Implementation for Power Converter System Monitoring. (other papers, news item)
  • Oct. 2023. Dr. Guc's thesis title is "Smart Predictive Maintenance Enabled by Digital Twins and Physics Informed Smart Big Data". (news item)
  • Sept. 2023. Prof. Chen was invited to serve editorial board of IEEE Trans. on Industrial CPS. (news item)
  • Aug. 2023. "Digital Twins in 8 hours - a short course".
  • May 2023. Congratualtions to Di An and Shiang Cao for winning F3 (DOC BBB) GSR grants each with 2 semester's GSRs valued at more than $100,000. Shiang's title: "A Digital Twin of A Smart Saltwater Greenhouse" (news item)
  • May 2023. TWSIAM/NTUST invited talk "ChatGPT, Emergence, Creativity and Fractional Calculus".
  • April 2023. Congratulations to Derek Hollenbeck for his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense. Title "Digital Twin Enabled Collective Sensing and Steering for Source Determination Problems" (news item)

     

2022:

2021

  • 2021 https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/AIET-for-MESA

    • Digital Twin Based Interactive Mechatronics Lab Development for Remote Lab Offering and Evaluation. Jairo Viola, Furkan Guc, YangQuan Chen, Mauricio Calderon. Proc. ASME. IDETC-CIE2021, Volume 7: 17th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), V007T07A032, August 17–19, 2021. Paper No: DETC2021-66747. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2021-66747

    • Digital Twin Behavior Matching of Gas Plumes Using a Fixed Sensor Mesh and Dynamic Mode Decomposition. Derek Hollenbeck, YangQuan Chen. Proc. ASME. IDETC-CIE2021, Volume 7: 17th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), V007T07A005, August 17–19, 2021/ Paper No: DETC2021-70708. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2021-70708

    • Digital Twin Technology for Modeling, Simulation and Control of a Mechatronic System. Mauricio Rafael Calderon Carrion, Jairo Viola, YangQuan Chen, Antonio Visioli. Proc. ASME. IDETC-CIE2021, Volume 7: 17th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), V007T07A002, August 17–19, 2021. Paper No: DETC2021-68558. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2021-68558

  • 2021 Digital Twins used for ME142 Mechatronics class lab due to COVID-19: See the web http://169.236.9.29/yqchen/teaching/ME142/digital-twins/2021/index.html
  • 2021/4-6. Summer paid USDA research interns on agtech and digital twins.
  • 2021/4/15. ME142 Mechatronics Labs are heavily rely on Digital Twin based remote labs using The MathWorks Web Apps platform.
  • 2020/7: Model-based everything. Machine learning meets model-based control. IFAC WC2020 preconference workshops.
  • 2020/7. NSF CPS proposal submitted. Title: Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Digital Twin Cyber-Physical Swarm Sensing of Methane Flux Dynamics
  • 2020/7: Under development: “Digital twins, physics-informed machine learning and smart cyber-physical control engineering in sustainable urban farming”. CREATE/CITRIS
  • 2020/7: Professor Chen gave a talk on "PID'20 Workshop and What's left to do" (Flyer pdf) and for the first time in public explained SCE Smart Control Engineering via DT. (PPT and partially recorded talk in Youtube)
  • 2020/7: Professor Chen gave a talk on "Why big data and machine learning must meet fractional calculus?".  (Flyer pdf) (PPT, recorded talk in Youtube) "[IMP, Gap-metric, model-discrimination" for ML to learning from Model-based control]
  • 2020/6: MESA Lab Digital Twin Show and Tell Series (Monthly)
  • 2020/3. DT/SCE monograph proposal development (Springer) (summer 2020)
  • 2019. Our award winning paper "Embedded RIOTS - Model Predictive Control Towards Edge" (news and PDF)
  • 2019. Edge AI (www.theedgeai.com) functional.

Recent Publications:

2021:

2020:

  • Jairo Viola, YangQuan Chen. Digital Twin Enabled Smart Control Engineering as an Industrial AI: A New Framework and A Case Study. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03677 (July 2020) [IAI2020 submitted]
  • Jairo Viola, YangQuan Chen, Jing Wang. Information-Based Model Discrimination for Digital Twin Behavioral Matching. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03676 (July 2020) [IAI2020 submitted]
  • Jairo Viola, Carlos Rodriguez, YangQuan Chen. PHELP: Pixel Heating Experiment Learning Platform for Education and Research on IAI-based Smart Control Engineering. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03048 (July 2020) [IAI2020 submitted]
  • Jairo Viola, Piotr Oziablo, YangQuan Chen* (123351, 103812, 14519) A Study of the Influence of Stochastic Fractional-Order Delay Dynamics in a Networked Control System  2.3. Design Methods - Non-Linear Control Systems IFAC World Congress 2020, Berlin, Germany (PPT, Movie, PDF)
  • Jairo Viola, Piotr Oziablo, YangQuan Chen* (123351, 103812, 14519) A Portable and Affordable Networked Temperature Distribution Control Platform for Education and Research Demonstrator Papers IFAC World Congress 2020, Berlin, Germany (PPT, Movie, PDF)

2019:

  • Jairo Viola, Sina Dehghan, YangQuan Chen. “Embedded RIOTS - Model Predictive Control Towards Edge.” In Proceedings of the 2019 ASME IDETC, ASME/IEEE MESA, IDETC2019-97046 (award certificate) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2019-97046
  • Jairo Viola, Piotr Oziablo, YangQuan Chen. An Experimental Networked Control System with Fractional Order Delay Dynamics. October 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA46720.2019.8988779 Conference: 2019 7th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA) [PDF]
  • Jairo Viola, YangQuan Chen, Jing Wang. FaultFace: Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) based Ball-Bearing Failure Detection Method. June 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ICIAI.2019.8850805 Conference: 2019 1st International Conference on Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI), Shenyang, China [PDF]
  • Jairo Viola, Alberto Radici, Sina Dehghan, YangQuan Chen. Low-cost  real-time vision platform for spatial temperature control research education developments. In Proceedings of the 2019 ASME IDETC, ASME/IEEE MESA, IDETC2019-97664 [PDF]
  • Zhenlong Wu, Yuquan Chen, Jairo Viola, Ying Luo, Yangquan Chen, Donghai Li. Fractional Order [Proportional Integral Derivative] Controller Design with Specification Constraints: More Flat Phase Idea. The First FOSCC. Dec. 2019, Jinan, Shandong, China 

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Created March 2020. Last updated 7/27/2020. 3/6/22