Use Case: Design, Characterization, Prototyping and Digital Twin of a Stewart platform.

This paper aims to highlight the outcomes of a demonstrator where a Stewart platform and its Digital Twin are developed within the scope of a Final Degree Project. First, an exhaustive charaterization of the sensors and actuators was performed, followed by the assembly of both the mechanical and electronic elements of the Stewart Platform. Afterwards, the Hexapod was programmed, set up and calibrated and, finally, a user interface that combines the digital twin animation with other dynamic inputs and outputs is developed to interact with the real prototype. This cross-disciplinary methodology, as the core of electronic engineering, aligns with the philosophy of laboratory practices for students in the Electronics Department at University of Malaga.