Multi-Sensory HMI for Human-Centric Industrial Digital Twins: A 6G Vision of Future Industry
This work targets the future of industry by emphasizing human involvement, but it is incremental as it builds on existing digital twin concepts with a focus on 6G integration.
The paper addresses the need for human-centric industrial digital twins in the 6G era, proposing that multi-sensory human-machine interfaces are crucial to integrate digital information, physical assets, and humans into a unified cyber-physical-human world.
The next revolution of industry will turn the industries as well as the entire society into a human-centric shape. The human presence in industrial environment and the human participation in industrial processes will be magnified more than ever before. To cope with the emerging challenges raised by this revolution, 6G ambitions to bridge the three domains of digital information, physical assets and humans into one merged cyber-physical-human world. This proposes not only an unprecedented demand for digital twin solutions, but also new technical requirements. Especially, aiming at a human-centric industrial DT system, novel multi-sensory human-machine interfaces will play a key role in this paradigm shift.