Symbiotic autonomous systems with consciousness using digital twins

  1. Felipe Fernández
  2. Ángel Sánchez
  3. José F. Vélez
  4. Belén Moreno
Book:
From Bioinspired Systems and Biomedical Applications to Machine Learning: 8th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2019, Almería, Spain, June 3–7, 2019, Proceedings, Part II
  1. José Manuel Ferrández Vicente (dir. congr.)
  2. José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez (dir. congr.)
  3. Félix de la Paz López (dir. congr.)
  4. Javier Toledo Moreo (dir. congr.)
  5. Hojjat Adeli (coord.)

Publisher: Springer Suiza

ISBN: 978-3-030-19651-6

Year of publication: 2019

Pages: 23-32

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

The IEEE work-group for Symbiotic Autonomous Systemsdefined a Digital Twin as a digital representation or virtual model ofany characteristics of a real entity (system, process or service), including human beings. Described characteristics are a subset of the overall characteristics of the real entity. The choice of which characteristics are considered depends on the purpose of the digital twin. This paper introduces the concept of Associative Cognitive Digital Twin, as a real time goal-oriented augmented virtual description, which explicitly includes the associated external relationships of the considered entity for the considered purpose. The corresponding graph data model, of the involved world, supports artificial consciousness, and allows an efficient understanding of involved ecosystems and related higher-level cognitive activities.The defined cognitive architecture for Symbiotic Autonomous Systems is mainly based on the consciousness framework developed. As a specific application example, an architecture for critical safety systems is shown.