Digital Twin of a plant factory - a holistic approach for smart research and production

We present an operational and evolutive Digital Twin (DT) designed to bring Functional Structural Plant Model (FSPM) in the bioengineering field and that relies on the six following tenets: imaginary, monitoring, predictive, prescriptive, autonomous and recollection DT (Verdouw et al., 2021). The implementation of this conceptual framework brings together several research domains in a coherent, holistic entity. The real-world entity is a research-oriented plant factory fitted with environmental and RGB-D sensors, while the virtual entity revolves around the CPlantBox FSPM. The core of the presentation addresses the parametrization of the FSPM and RGB-D data assimilation in the twinning process.