Digital Twins for Marine Operations: A Brief Review on Their Implementation
This is an incremental review that synthesizes existing knowledge to guide future research in maritime digital twin applications.
The paper reviews the implementation of digital twins for marine operations, addressing the lack of clarity in the literature by summarizing how different authors have applied them for predictive maintenance, real-time monitoring, and optimization.
While the concept of a digital twin to support maritime operations is gaining attention for predictive maintenance, real-time monitoring, control, and overall process optimization, clarity on its implementation is missing in the literature. Therefore, in this review we show how different authors implemented their digital twins, discuss our findings, and finally give insights on future research directions.