Digital-Twin-Enabled Smart Control Engineering

Mr. Jairo Viola is an electronic engineer with a master’s degree in electronics from Pontifical Bolivarian University, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. on Mechanical Engineering and works at the Mechatronics, Embedded Systems, and Automation Lab (MESA Lab) at University of California, Merced. For five years, he worked as a professor in the faculties of Electronic Engineering and Computer Sciences at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Bucaramanga, Colombia Teaching Programming, Computer Architecture, and Operating Systems courses. His research topics are Process Control, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twin, Machine Learning and Big Data, Edge Computing and Failure Detection for Industrial Processes, and Applied Fractional Order Calculus. He is a member of IEEE and ASME.   Dr. YangQuan Chen is a full professor at the School of Engineering, University of California, Merced. He was a faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Utah State University, Logan, Utah, from 2000 to 2012 where he was a tenured associate professor and the director for the Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems (CSOIS) from 2004-2012. Dr. Chen published many books, papers, and patents. He served as the general co-chair for ICUAS 2014 and 2017, 2019 (International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems), and was on the editorial board for journals like IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, ISA Trans., IFAC journals of Control Engineering Practice, ASME Journal of Dynamics Systems, Measurement and Control. Right now he serves as an associate editor for IFAC Mechatronics, Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, Nonlinear Dynamics, as well as again ASME Journal of Dynamics Systems, Measurement and Control. He is now serving as the topical editor-in-chief (Field Robotics) for International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems (IJARS) and Intelligent Service Robotics. His Publon H-index is 65 with more than 18k citations, Google Scholar citation is 41.3k with H-index 90, H10-index 528. Prof. Chen was selected in the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List by Clarivate. Professor Chen's vision on "Cognitive Process Control" since 2010 and his long-term collaboration with Lam Research (s2012) lead to today's developments of several digital twin laboratory platforms at MESA Lab included in this monograph, UC Merced. 

Digital Twin Background.- A Digital Twin Development Framework.- Digital Twin Enabling Capabilities.- Smart Control Engineering Enabled by Digital Twin.- Summary and Future Research Opportunities.