Actuator Input Screen With Sensor Track for Malfunction Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing input control systems for actuator motion commands lack the ability to effectively monitor and correlate sensor signals with motion commands, making it difficult for operators to ensure meaningful relationships and detect potential malfunctions or issues during actuator operations.
Innovation Solution
The input control system displays a sensor signal track parallel to the sequence track, allowing users to visualize and correlate sensor signals with motion commands, including the use of sensors like angle, acceleration, force, or image sensors, and enables the comparison of stored and current sensor signal sequences to detect deviations and potential malfunctions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If sensor signal tracking and correlation functionality is added to monitor and correlate sensor signals with motion commands, then the ability to detect malfunctions and ensure meaningful relationships is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the sensor signal tracking functionality with the existing motion command sequence display by showing both in the same input screen. The sensor signal track is integrated alongside the movement symbol sequence, allowing operators to view both motion commands and corresponding sensor signals simultaneously in a unified interface, thereby detecting malfunctions without significantly increasing operational complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary visual representation layer that correlates sensor signals with motion commands through timing alignment and graphical display. This intermediary layer processes sensor signals and presents them in a form that can be easily correlated with movement symbols, enabling malfunction detection without requiring complex direct analysis of raw sensor data
2Ease of operation
If real-time sensor signal correlation and monitoring is implemented, then operator ease of use is improved through better visibility, but the device complexity increases due to additional processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates visual copies or representations of sensor signals that are displayed alongside motion command sequences. Instead of requiring operators to analyze complex raw sensor data, the system generates simplified visual copies of sensor signal trajectories that can be directly compared with movement symbol sequences, enhancing operator visibility while keeping processing requirements manageable
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal dimension to the display by showing the timing correlation between motion commands and sensor signals. The sensor signal track is arranged to reflect time progression, allowing operators to visually assess whether sensor signals occur at the expected times relative to movement commands, thereby improving ease of operation through intuitive temporal visualization
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AI summary
An input control for providing motion commands to an actuator, including an input screen on which a plurality of movement symbols are arranged, each of which is associated with a motion command for the actuator, and which includes a sequence track for lining up copies of the movement symbols along an alignment direction, having a processor which is configured to interrogate the sequence track in order to determine a sequence of motion commands and to output the sequence of motion commands and/or an actuator control signal sequence which is dependent on the sequence of motion commands, and wherein a sensor signal track is arranged in parallel with the sequence track, which is configured for displaying a sensor signal sequence of at least one sensor signal of a sensor system assigned to the actuator.