Pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system and method based on digital twin

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11423200-B2
Application number	US-202117530995-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2021
Priority date	Nov 23, 2020
Publication date	Aug 23, 2022
Grant date	Aug 23, 2022

Abstract

A pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system is provided, and includes a physical body, a digital twin, a digital twin body of the physical body and a digital space. The digital space drives the digital twin to realize data mirroring, mapping reconstruction, information interactive feedback and simulation of a pump machine unit optimized regulation system in virtual space and a pump machine unit optimized regulation system in physical space. The disclosure constructs the virtual twin body of the physical body of the pump system based on the digital twin to realize the data mirror and information interaction between the physical body and the virtual twin body, and physical object twin, operation process twin and control performance twin of the physical entity and digital twin body. Running state monitoring, optimized regulation, simulation and health prediction of the pump machine unit can be realized.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system based on digital twin comprising: a physical body, a virtual twin body, a digital twin and a digital space;
wherein the physical body comprises a pump machine unit, a pump machine unit data collection center and a pump machine unit control center; the digital space is structured by mutual coupling and evolution of an information gateway module, a data repository module, a knowledge-base module, an optimization algorithm module, a machine learning module, an evaluation module and a decision module, and thereby to drive the digital twin to realize data mirroring, information interactive feedback, optimization adjustment, equipment health diagnosis and analogue simulation of a pump machine unit optimized regulation system in virtual space and another pump machine unit optimized regulation system in physical space; and the digital twin comprises a physical object twin, an operation process twin and a control performance twin; and
wherein the digital twin and the analogue simulation are realized according to a digital twin model, the digital twin model is a four-layer architecture comprising:
a perception monitoring layer, configured to monitor equipment working state, working condition state parameters, and equipment operation parameters of the pump machine unit in an operation process, and thereby to provide a monitoring information flow for the physical object twin of the digital twin;
a network transmission layer, disposed above the perception monitoring layer, and configured for unified networking, protocol conversion and network transmission of the pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system, and providing communication interfaces for the perception monitoring layer and a data blending layer, and providing a control information flow for the operation process twin of the digital twin;
the data blending layer, disposed above the network transmission layer, and configured to perform aggregation and fusion, optimization calculation, machine learning, data twin, analysis and mining, and storage management of data of the pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system, and provide a data information flow for the control performance twin of the digital twin; and

an interactive control layer, disposed at a top of the digital twin model, and configured to access the data of the pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system, perform real-time monitoring, reliable operation and interactive control of the pump machine unite optimized operation regulation system, and provide a decision control flow for the digital twin;
wherein an optimized operation mechanism of the pump machine unit optimized regulation system in virtual space realized by the digital twin comprises the following steps:
demand conditions input, comprising: inputting demand conditions into the system through the information gateway module by a user;
optimization schemes calculation, comprising: transmitting the demand conditions to the optimization algorithm module and the machine learning module for performing scheme calculation based on the demand conditions to obtain multiple optimization schemes;
scheme evaluation, comprising: performing scheme evaluation to the optimization schemes entered into the evaluation module to select several better schemes;
simulation calculation, comprising: performing simulation calculation to the several better schemes entered into a digital twin body and outputting simulation results;
performance evaluation, comprising: performing performance evaluation to the simulation results by the evaluation module;
scheme decision, comprising:
doing a decision to an optimal scheme entered into the decision module after the performance evaluation to judge whether it meets requirements,
outputting the optimal scheme to the pump machine unit control center when it meets the requirements, or adjusting parameters when it does not meet the requirements and re-calculating a new scheme until it meets the requirements of the decision module;

pump machine unit control, comprising: adjusting relevant variables according to a final scheme by the pump machine unit control center to meet the demand conditions under a certain reliability and thereby make the system be most energy efficient, thus achieving optimized regulation.

2. The pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system based on digital twin according to claim 1 , wherein the pump machine unit, the pump machine unit data collection center and the pump machine unit control center as a whole to constitute a corresponding physical entity of the pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system based on digital twin; the pump machine unit comprises water pumps, a flow meter, an electric valve, a check valve, a bypass pipeline, a pressure gauge and a connecting pipeline; the pump machine unit data collection center is configured to perform a collection of data of flow in each the pipeline, a collection of data of start-stop state of each the pump, a collection of data of water pressure in each the pipeline, a collection of data of opening degree of the electric valve, a collection of data of speed of each the pump, a collection of data of power of each the pump and a collection of other required data; and the pump machine unit control center is configured to perform a control of speed of each the pump, a control of opening degree of the electric valve and a control of start-stop of each the pump.

3. The pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system based on digital twin according to claim 1 , wherein the information gateway module is configured to provide a human-computer interaction platform,
the data repository module is configured to store operating data monitored by the pump machine unit and data and scheme information required in the digital space,
the knowledge-base module is configured to provide a knowledge model,
the optimization algorithm module is configured to optimize demand conditions and provide a regulation scheme,
the machine learning module is configured to learn historical decision schemes, train and optimize a simulation model, learn and correct a model of optimization algorithm, and learn monitored data,
the evaluation module is configured to perform optimization scheme selection and evaluate simulation results, and
the decision module is configured to make decisions on evaluated schemes.

4. The pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system based on digital twin according to claim 1 , wherein a pump machine unit optimized regulation is achieved according to a computing scheme based on machine learning and optimization algorithm, provides the optimization schemes to regulation of the demand conditions through the optimization algorithm and the machine learning, evaluates the optimization schemes and perform simulation calculation to the optimization schemes after the evaluation entered into the digital twin body, makes decision to the simulation results and then delivers the final scheme to the pump machine unit control center; and the pump machine unit control center adjusts the relevant variables according to the final scheme to meet the demand conditions under the certain reliability and thereby make the system be most energy efficient, thus achieving the optimized regulation.

5. The pump machine unit optimized operation regulation system based on digital twin according to claim 1 , an establishment of the data model of the digital twin comprises an establishment of the physical object twin, an establishment of the operation process twin, an establishment of the control performance twin and an establishment of a simulation model, specifically comprises the following steps:
step 1: establishment of three-dimensional (3D)

Assignees

• Univ Jiangsu

Inventors

• Pei Ji
• Gong Xiaobo
• Wang Wenjie
• Yuan Jianping
• Yuan Shouqi
• Zhang Jinfeng
• Li Yanjun

Classifications

• G06N5/02

  Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation · CPC title

• G06F2111/10

  Numerical modelling · CPC title

• G06F30/20 Primary

  Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) · CPC title

• G06F2119/02

  Reliability analysis or reliability optimisation; Failure analysis, e.g. worst case scenario performance, failure mode and effects analysis [FMEA] · CPC title

• G06T17/00

  Three-dimensional [3D] modelling for computer graphics · CPC title