The "DAVID" project aims to research and make available distributed digital twins (VDZ) in the mechatronic field.

This can significantly shorten the development and commissioning of complex automation systems. Essential basics will be developed in the context of digital twins, which are based on approaches of multi-agent systems. Both the autonomous and the cooperative capabilities of the digital twin will be considered.

This enables a stronger coupling of product, processes and resources (PPR), also using existing automation components, to an emergent system. By networking the information and interfaces of digital twins of individual components, agents or assemblies, a summative digital twin is created that provides the capabilities of the individual systems as well as capabilities that overlap all individual systems.

Through the summative digital twin, synergies between the individual systems can be discovered and used to achieve greater flexibility.

The DAVID research and development project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under funding code 01IS18075B.