Autonomous Work Region Allocation for Synchronized Machine Completion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous work machines do not share information about their working capacity and work regions, leading to inefficiencies in collaborative work.
Innovation Solution
An autonomous work system that includes a setting apparatus to allocate work regions between multiple work machines based on their capacities and obstacle information, ensuring that work times are synchronized and optimized.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple autonomous work machines operate independently without information sharing, then each machine can autonomously complete its tasks, but work efficiency is reduced due to uncoordinated operations and inability to share work regions
Solution Approach 1:
A setting apparatus serves as an intermediary between multiple autonomous work machines, collecting work time information from each machine and calculating optimized work region allocations. This mediator enables information sharing and coordination without requiring direct communication between machines, resolving the contradiction by centralizing information management while maintaining machine autonomy.
2Productivity
If work regions are allocated without considering work time synchronization, then allocation is simple and quick, but work efficiency decreases due to mismatched completion times and idle periods
Solution Approach 1:
The setting apparatus collects actual work time information from each autonomous work machine as feedback, uses this data to calculate optimized work region allocations that synchronize completion times, and redistributes regions accordingly. This feedback loop enables dynamic adjustment of work regions based on real performance data, achieving work time synchronization while managing complexity through automated calculation.
3Loss of time
If work regions are dynamically adjusted based on work time differences, then work time synchronization is achieved, but the system complexity increases due to continuous monitoring and recalculation requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The setting apparatus performs preliminary calculations of work time differences and determines optimal work region allocations before distributing tasks to machines. By pre-calculating balanced allocations based on machine capabilities and current work progress, the system reduces the need for continuous real-time adjustments, thereby achieving work time synchronization while limiting the increase in system complexity.
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AI summary
An autonomous work system includes a first work machine, a second work machine, and a setting apparatus, in which the setting apparatus sets a part of an entire work region as a first work region in which the first work machine performs work, and calculates a first work time required for the first work machine to perform the work in the first work region, sets a region other than the first work region in the entire work region as a second work region in which the second work machine performs work, and calculates a second work time required for the second work machine to perform the work in the second work region, changes the first work region and the second work region such that a difference between the first work time and the second work time is within a predetermined value, transmits information regarding the changed first work region to the first work machine, and transmits information regarding the changed second work region to the second work machine.