Engineering Metaverse – Conceptual Digital Twin as Enabler
Andreas Gerndt
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
The future of systems engineering will provide many tools and resources to help engineers become more creative and productive. One of the core concepts is “visual engineering”. At the DLR Institute of Software Technology, we focus primarily on aerospace and research new software solutions for more intuitive and interactive model-based systems engineering (MBSE). The overall goal is to implement an “engineering metaverse” in which users can collaborate with each other regardless of where they are and where the data is located. To support all phases of spacecraft, we rely on conceptual approaches of the digital twin as a core concept. In addition to infrastructural aspects, the presentation will also show already realized applications in augmented reality based on digital twins.
Speaker bio: Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerndt is the head of the department “Visual Computing and Engineering” at German Aerospace Center (DLR). He received his degree in computer science from Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany in 1993. Thereafter, he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) and for several companies with focus on Software Engineering and Computer Graphics. In 1999, he continued his studies in Virtual Reality and Scientific Visualization at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he received his doctoral degree in computer science. After two years of interdisciplinary research activities as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA, he returned to Germany in 2008 to work for DLR in the domain of aerospace software research. Since 2019, he is also Professor in High-Performance Visualization at University of Bremen, Germany. His main research topics are interactive visualization of very large scientific datasets, eXtended Reality, High-Performance Computing, as well as Model-Based System Engineering and Model-Driven Software Development for space systems.