Building Digital Twins of Cyber Physical Systems With Metaverse for Industry 5.0 and Beyond

Abstract

The digital twin has recently emerged as a virtual representation, that enables a real-time digital counterpart of a process or a physical object. Further, as the investments in Industry 5.0 are growing rapidly, their primary focus is to enhance the interactions between cyber-physical systems (CPS) and humans, for which outstanding contribution is expected through the metaverse. It enables humans to immerse into a high-dimensional 3-D virtual world, tackles the interactions among the CPS, and explore their status, which is found to be promising through the digital clones of CPS. This work presents the service-oriented digital twin architecture in conjunction with metaverse-enabled platforms with recommendations for ambitious interactions with the CPS for Industry 5.0 scenarios and beyond. They account for revolutionary changes in modern industries, supported through the Internet of Everything (IoE), VR/AR gadgets, and extended reality (XR) as prominent technology enablers.