US Navy’s top research office invests in digital twins
Andrew Eversden
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy’s top research office is partnering with industry on a project designed to allow Navy operators to take full advantage of a ship’s electrical system to meet mission-critical needs.
Under a new $9.2 million contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research in late July to a partnership between Navatek and the University of South Carolina, the collaboration will research power and energy systems, as well as develop digital twins of Navy ships. Those digital twins will give the Navy insight into all the smaller systems aboard the ship and how they will react if an action is taken.
“When you put many hundreds or thousands of ... wires and communication systems, etc., they all interfere with each other,†said Hossein Haj-Hariri, dean of USC’s College of Engineering and Computing. “So in order to understand basically what happens if you turn a knob here — do you get the desired result or do you blow something up — they develop these digital twins. Essentially, it’s a digital version of the ship with all those little systems that have their own input-output relationship built into it.
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