Projects
At LSU, researchers are using digital twins across many domains. Below is a collection of highlighted research involving multiple areas across campus.
NASA Michoud Assembly Facility
A large-scale digital twin that uses digital threads to connect facility geometry, components, sensors, and real-time location data into an integrated representation of NASA’s 2-million-square-foot Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
EMSight
A digital twin model that uses immersive visualization, digital threads, and real-time data integration to connect electron microscopy facility geometry, instrumentation, operating procedures, and training workflows into an interactive virtual representation of advanced microscopy laboratories. The EMSight project leverages this digital twin environment to support workforce development, remote training, and hands-on learning for electron microscopy users through augmented and virtual reality technologies.
Digital Humans
A digital human twin model that integrates biomechanical, physiological, behavioral, and performance data into a dynamic virtual representation of an individual. LSU’s health and sports digital twin research uses these models to simulate human movement, monitor health and wellness, predict injury risk, evaluate interventions, and optimize athletic performance, enabling data-driven decision-making for healthcare providers, researchers, coaches, and athletes.
Chemical Manufacturing
A high-fidelity digital twin of a process unit within an active chemical manufacturing facility created in partnership with Syngenta, a science-based agriculture company with a key production site in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, and Future Use of Energy in Louisiana (FUEL).