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Continuous-Time Digital Twin with Analogue Memristive Neural Ordinary Differential Equation Solver

12 Jun 2024arXiv:2406.08343archive 2025-07-28

Hegan Chen, Jichang Yang, Jia Chen, Songqi Wang, Shaocong Wang, Dingchen Wang, Xinyu Tian, Yifei Yu, Xi Chen, Yinan Lin, Yangu He, Xiaoshan Wu, Xinyuan Zhang, Ning Lin, Meng Xu, Yi Li, Xumeng Zhang, Zhongrui Wang, Han Wang, Dashan Shang, Qi Liu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Ming Liu

Digital twins, the cornerstone of Industry 4.0, replicate real-world entities through computer models, revolutionising fields such as manufacturing management and industrial automation. Recent advances in machine learning provide data-driven methods for developing digital twins using discrete-time data and finite-depth models on digital computers. However, this approach fails to capture the underlying continuous dynamics and struggles with modelling complex system behaviour. Additionally, the architecture of digital computers, with separate storage and processing units, necessitates frequent data transfers and Analogue-Digital (A/D) conversion, thereby significantly increasing both time and energy costs. Here, we introduce a memristive neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver for digital twins, which is capable of capturing continuous-time dynamics and facilitates the modelling of complex systems using an infinite-depth model. By integrating storage and computation within analogue memristor arrays, we circumvent the von Neumann bottleneck, thus enhancing both speed and energy efficiency. We experimentally validate our approach by developing a digital twin of the HP memristor, which accurately extrapolates its nonlinear dynamics, achieving a 4.2-fold projected speedup and a 41.4-fold projected decrease in energy consumption compared to state-of-the-art digital hardware, while maintaining an acceptable error margin. Additionally, we demonstrate scalability through experimentally grounded simulations of Lorenz96 dynamics, exhibiting projected performance improvements of 12.6-fold in speed and 189.7-fold in energy efficiency relative to traditional digital approaches. By harnessing the capabilities of fully analogue computing, our breakthrough accelerates the development of digital twins, offering an efficient and rapid solution to meet the demands of Industry 4.0.

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