Bachelor and Master Theses

In recent years, the Digital Twin (DT) concept has gained significant importance in various industries, revolutionizing how we monitor and manage physical assets through their digital counterparts. A DT is a virtual representation that digitally replicates a physical component, system, or process, allowing for remote monitoring and control.

As organizations across different sectors continue to explore the benefits of Digital Twins, they encounter a critical challenge: ensuring seamless interoperability between the numerous components involved in the DT and interoperability across different DTs. This challenge has driven the need for a standardized approach to asset management, and the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) has emerged as a promising solution.

The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) represents a standardized framework for describing and managing assets in a digital environment. AAS defines a structured representation of asset information, enabling interoperability between different components, systems, and domains. While the theoretical framework of AAS is well-established in the literature, its practical implementation within Digital Twin environments remains an area of active research and development. 

This proposal aims to investigate the role of AAS in implementing DTs. The expected research methods are literature reviews, surveys, and case studies.

To address these objectives, this research proposal presents the following research questions (RQs):

RQ1: To what extent can Asset Administration Shell (AAS) contribute to the implementation of a Digital Twin?

RQ2: What are the challenges and solutions when implementing DTs with AAS?

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