Seminar On Cyber-Physical Systems by Stefan Vöth at HSE University-Perm

The HSE University-Perm held a seminar titled ‘Object-Oriented Modeling in OpenModelica for Cyber-Physical System Applications’. Professor Stefan Vöth, Dr.-Ing., from Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola (Bochum, Germany) spoke at the III Perm Digital Forum and also delivered lectures and workshops on methods of creating digital models for different technical systems.

At the III Perm Digital Forum, Stefan Vöth delivered a lecture ‘The Potential of Modelica for Creating Digital Twins.’

Alexander I. Deryabin

Associate Professor, Academic supervisor of the Master’s programme ‘Information Analytics in Enterprise Management’

Perm Digital Forum is an important event for all IT professionals in the city. This year it was attended by more than 100 representatives of Perm’s IT companies and large industrial enterprises. The forum saw discussions of research and practical issues connected with increasing the efficiency of business through the creation of digital models of technological equipment and control systems. Before the seminar, our understanding of digital twins differed from the understanding of our German colleagues, that’s why the paper by Professor Vöth gave us an opportunity to clarify many questions. 

During the workshop, the attendees had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with computer modeling of dynamic systems and creating digital twins of the technological equipment currently used in the world. Stefan Vöth presented the basic principles of mathematical and simulation modeling for technical applications using Scilab and presented original methods of object-oriented modeling of the dynamic systems using OMEdit (OpenModelica package) in the Modelica language.

The event was attended by undergraduate students in Software Engineering, Master’s students in Information Analytics in Enterprise Management, lecturers of the HSE-Perm’s Department of IT in Business, members of the Board of Young Researchers and Professionals of the Perm region, and representatives of Perm universities and IT companies.

Olga L. Vikentyeva

Associate Professor, Academic Supervisor of Bachelor’s programme  in Software Engineering

At the seminar, the principles of software implementation of models using the Modelica language were given in detail, and implementation of classes, instances, and inheritance realization with multi-level physical models were all shown. This is very important for our students because programmers often face tasks where different computer models and simulators are required. Software implementation of models of physical objects and processes is very important for data analysts and specialists in Internet of Things applications. 

HSE-Perm’s group ‘Cyber-Physical Systems’ under the supervision of Aleksey Kychkin, Associate Professor of the Department of IT in Business, is currently preparing a scientific publication on the implementation of joint research in technologies for monitoring and control of the electromechanical equipment of a cyber-physical system with digital twins based on the Internet of Things platform InfluxData from TICK stack. The seminar was held as part of the HSE-Perm’s high priority research area ‘Cyber-Physical Systems’.