ENAC Seminar Series by Dr E. Agapaki
Event details
| Date | 29.03.2021 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 14:45 |
| Speaker | Dr Eva Agapaki |
| Location |
Zoom
Online
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
14:00 – 14:45 – Dr Eva Agapaki
Innovation Lead at PTC Boston Corporate Headquarters,Boston, USA
Geometric Digital Twins and the Future of Infrastructure
Maintenance and retrofitting of existing infrastructure are of immense value to our society and economy. Design or construction plans often do not accurately reflect the “as-is” conditions of a facility, given that facilities undergo multiple changes during their lifecycle. Even though an accurate mapping of the as-is conditions is of great value, this process is currently expensive and time-consuming and as a result, the construction industry remains under-digitized. In this talk, I will explain how geometric Digital Twins (gDT) are central to solving this challenge and I will focus on their automated generation by a combination of deep learning methods and engineering knowledge. This framework achieves high accuracy visual recognition of infrastructure objects and drastically reduces the gDT generation time. I will then elaborate on how this line of work is the stepping stone for the next generation of infrastructure, allowing tasks such as automated design of safety-compliant industrial and urban infrastructure, automated damage assessment and numerical simulations using the as-is conditions.
Short bio:
Eva Agapaki is Innovation Lead at PTC Boston, where she leads innovation projects on computer vision and deep learning applications in the manufacturing industry. She recently obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where her research pioneered the automated generation of geometric Digital Twins of existing industrial facilities from Lidar data at a commercially viable level. She conducted part of her PhD research at MIT and was awarded the U.S. National Academy of Engineering grant for addressing one of the 14 Grand Challenges in Engineering of our century. She also holds an MSc in Geotechnical Earthquake engineering from UCLA and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras. Eva has founded a startup (CLOI digital factory) in Boston and won several pitch competitions. She has extensive collaborations with industry on digital twinning projects some of which include AVEVA, Trimble and Microsoft.
Innovation Lead at PTC Boston Corporate Headquarters,Boston, USA
Geometric Digital Twins and the Future of Infrastructure
Maintenance and retrofitting of existing infrastructure are of immense value to our society and economy. Design or construction plans often do not accurately reflect the “as-is” conditions of a facility, given that facilities undergo multiple changes during their lifecycle. Even though an accurate mapping of the as-is conditions is of great value, this process is currently expensive and time-consuming and as a result, the construction industry remains under-digitized. In this talk, I will explain how geometric Digital Twins (gDT) are central to solving this challenge and I will focus on their automated generation by a combination of deep learning methods and engineering knowledge. This framework achieves high accuracy visual recognition of infrastructure objects and drastically reduces the gDT generation time. I will then elaborate on how this line of work is the stepping stone for the next generation of infrastructure, allowing tasks such as automated design of safety-compliant industrial and urban infrastructure, automated damage assessment and numerical simulations using the as-is conditions.
Short bio:
Eva Agapaki is Innovation Lead at PTC Boston, where she leads innovation projects on computer vision and deep learning applications in the manufacturing industry. She recently obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where her research pioneered the automated generation of geometric Digital Twins of existing industrial facilities from Lidar data at a commercially viable level. She conducted part of her PhD research at MIT and was awarded the U.S. National Academy of Engineering grant for addressing one of the 14 Grand Challenges in Engineering of our century. She also holds an MSc in Geotechnical Earthquake engineering from UCLA and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras. Eva has founded a startup (CLOI digital factory) in Boston and won several pitch competitions. She has extensive collaborations with industry on digital twinning projects some of which include AVEVA, Trimble and Microsoft.
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Christine Crosetti