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Framework for a physics-based digital twin of a towed cable-body system

2025· article· en· W4409180183 on OpenAlexafffund
Cassidy Westin, Rishad A. Irani

Bibliographic record

VenueOcean Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicElectric Power Systems and Control
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCarleton University
KeywordsEngineeringMarine engineeringAerospace engineeringSystems engineeringPhysicsComputer science

Abstract

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• A digital twin for estimating the dynamic behaviour of cables is proposed. • Validation of a finite element cable model for oscillatory motions is presented. • Framework to predict cable dynamics from ship motion data is presented. • Ability to estimate kinematics and kinetics of cable in real-time is demonstrated. Marine towed cable-body systems undergo significant tension variations from the wave-induced ship motion, potentially causing damage or unsafe conditions due to the cable becoming slack. Accurate real-time estimation of the cable tension would enable the development of automated methods for preventing slack cable. Instead of measuring the tension using a force sensor, which may be costly and impractical in the marine environment, a Digital Twin is proposed which utilizes readily available sensor data and simulates the cable dynamics in parallel with the physical system, outputting virtual estimates of cable tension and displacement in real-time. This paper details a framework for a Digital Twin, utilizing a finite element model of a marine towed cable-body system. The finite element model is presented including definitions of the forces acting on the cable and towbody and the constraints for enforcing ship motion and cable motions. Using experimental data obtained from the literature, preliminary validation of the model was performed. The operation of the Digital Twin in real-time was demonstrated using synthetic ship motion data for a simple towing scenario, demonstrating the ability of the Digital Twin to estimate the cable tension and profile in real-time.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.013

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.191
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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