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Digital twin (DT) offers significant opportunities for enhancing facility management (FM) in campus environments. However, existing research often focuses narrowly on isolated domains, such as point-cloud geometry or energy analytics,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Thyda Siv

Digital twins promise to enhance robotic manipulation by maintaining a consistent link between real-world perception and simulation. However, most existing systems struggle with the lack of a unified model, complex dynamic interactions, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yichen Cai , Paul Jansonnie , Cristiana de Farias , Oleg Arenz , Jan Peters

The expansion of urban centers necessitates enhanced efficiency and sustainability in their transportation infrastructure and mobility systems. The big data obtainable from various transportation modes potentially offers critical insights…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-17 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Adil Rasheed , Frank Lindseth

Digital Twins (DT) have become crucial to achieve sustainable and effective smart urban solutions. However, current DT modelling techniques cannot support the dynamicity of these smart city environments. This is caused by the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Lal Verda Cakir , Kubra Duran , Craig Thomson , Matthew Broadbent , Berk Canberk

Post-disaster situational awareness relies heavily on understanding both the extent and the volume of floodwaters. While 2D semantic segmentation provides accurate flood masking, it lacks the vertical dimension required to assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nhut Le , Ehsan Karimi , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Urban flood disaster is one of the most serious natural disasters. Numerous flood simulation models have been proposed and relatively matured. However, two major challenges persist: excessive simplification of the city system and high…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-20 Yongfu Tian , Shan Ding , Guofeng Su , Jianguo Chen

High-frequency deployments in dense cities are difficult to plan because coverage, interference, and service reliability depend sensitively on local morphology. This paper develops a geometric Digital Twin (DT) of the Sunway City and uses…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Abdikarim Mohamed Ibrahim , Rosdiadee Nordin

Subsea exploration, inspection, and intervention operations heavily rely on remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). However, the inherent complexity of the underwater environment presents significant challenges to the operators of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Favour O. Adetunji , Niamh Ellis , Maria Koskinopoulou , Ignacio Carlucho , Yvan R. Petillot

Urban flooding triggered by intense rainfall is becoming increasingly frequent and widespread. While flood prediction and monitoring in high spatio-temporal resolution are desired, practical constraints in time, budget, and technology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zihang Ding , Amit Kumar , Imran Md. Azizul Islam , Mila Avellar Montezuma , Ruihang Zhang , Kun Zhang

In this technical report we compare different deep learning models for prediction of water depth rasters at high spatial resolution. Efficient, accurate, and fast methods for water depth prediction are nowadays important as urban floods are…

In this article, we propose a 3D mobile crowdsensing (3D-MCS) framework aimed at sustainable urban digital twins (UDTs). The framework comprises four key mechanisms: (1) the 3D-MCS mechanism, consisting of active and passive models; (2) the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Taku Yamazaki , Kaito Watanabe , Tatsuya Kase , Kenta Hasegawa , Koki Saida , Takumi Miyoshi

Precise and timely simulation of a structure's dynamic behavior is crucial for evaluating its performance and assessing its health status. Traditional numerical methods are often limited by high computational costs and low efficiency, while…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jun Zhang , Tong Zhang , Ying Wang

While digital twins (DT) hold promise for providing real-time insights into complex energy assets, much of the current literature either does not offer a clear framework for information exchange between the model and the asset, lacks key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Logan A. Burnett , Umme Mahbuba Nabila , Majdi I. Radaideh

In this work, we propose a collaborative city digital twin based on FL, a novel paradigm that allowing multiple city DT to share the local strategy and status in a timely manner. In particular, an FL central server manages the local updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Junjie Pang , Jianbo Li , Zhenzhen Xie , Yan Huang , Zhipeng Cai

In intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), incorporating pedestrians and vehicles in-the-loop is crucial for developing realistic and safe traffic management solutions. However, there is falls short of simulating complex real-world ITS…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xiaolong Li , Jianhao Wei , Haidong Wang , Li Dong , Ruoyang Chen , Changyan Yi , Jun Cai , Dusit Niyato , Xuemin , Shen

Digital Twins (DTs), optimize operations and monitor performance in Smart Critical Systems (SCS) domains like smart grids and manufacturing. DT-based cybersecurity solutions are in their infancy, lacking a unified strategy to overcome…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ahmad Mohsin , Helge Janicke , Surya Nepal , David Holmes

In the era of 5G and beyond, the increasing complexity of wireless networks necessitates innovative frameworks for efficient management and deployment. Digital twins (DTs), embodying real-time monitoring, predictive configurations, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zifan Zhang , Minghong Fang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Xi Lin , Yuchen Liu

Soil and groundwater contamination is a pervasive problem at thousands of locations across the world. Contaminated sites often require decades to remediate or to monitor natural attenuation. Climate change exacerbates the long-term site…

In an era of escalating climate change, urban flooding has emerged as a critical challenge for sustainable cities, threatening lives, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Traditional flood detection methods are constrained by their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shahid Shafi Dar , Bharat Kaurav , Arnav Jain , Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Nagendra Kumar

Computational complexity has been the bottleneck of applying physically-based simulations on large urban areas with high spatial resolution for efficient and systematic flooding analyses and risk assessments. To address this issue of long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Zifeng Guo , Joao P. Leitao , Nuno E. Simoes , Vahid Moosavi