Expected Impact:
The outcome should contribute to:
- Enhance operational superiority and lifecycle management.
- Enable breakthroughs such as integrated mission management and systems diagnosis, predictive maintenance facilitating mission planning and mission planning adaptation, simulation and training scenarios, reduced manning and/or autonomous operations.
- Ensure safer platforms, increased equipment reliability, endurance, and reduced maintenance costs.
- Facilitate the validation and incorporation of new technologies throughout the platform lifecycle.
- Enable early risk reduction and digital system maturation to minimise development time and costs.
- Enhance the effectiveness of coordination with Military Airworthiness Authorities.
- Allow the air forces of EU Member States and EDF Associated Countries to remotely configure customised platforms and assess operational effect.
- Revolutionise aerial system design and certification, enabling multi-functional and high-fidelity system design coupled to physical testing infrastructure, leading to improved system efficiency and reduced costs.
Digital Twins (DT) are defined as validated virtual models of physical entities and processes, with the capability to be (seamlessly) connected, in right time throughout their lifecycles, enabling simulation, performance optimisation, and informed decision-making.
A System of Systems (SoS) DT is a model that integrates multiple DTs of individual systems, subsystems, and components, providing a holistic, real-time view of the entire system behaviour, performance, and responses to various scenarios and conditions.
The development of advanced fully coupled DT
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