To design a mobile robot, the various stages of development and testing, project costs, and multidisciplinary knowledge discourage students and researchers from starting on such tasks. The digital twin concept, currently addressed in the industry, is related to cyber-physical systems, connecting virtual systems with physical systems. At first, in a mobile robotics project, they can be in the virtual modeling phase, which allows collaborators to test the behavior of the locomotion of the mobile robot, and evaluation many types of sensors, even before the assembly of the real design. In this context, we propose a novel concept of a digital twin mobile robot for use as a tool in mobile robotics projects and encourage undergraduate and postgraduate students to explore a mobile robot's behavior at different learning levels.
C. E. Magrin, G. Del Conte and E. Todt, "Creating a Digital Twin as an Open Source Learning Tool for Mobile Robotics," 2021 Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS), 2021 Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR), and 2021 Workshop on Robotics in Education (WRE), Natal, Brazil, 2021, pp. 13-18, doi: 10.1109/LARS/SBR/WRE54079.2021.9605457.