Collection Path Control for Unreachable Region Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Collection devices face challenges in detecting environmental data from unreachable regions within a target space, such as small corners or areas behind obstacles, due to their size limitations and inability to access these areas.
Innovation Solution
A collection device system that sets a detection path based on unreachable regions within a target space, using a combination of acquisition, control, and detection devices to calculate environmental data from surrounding areas, and employs a sub-collection device to gather data from inaccessible locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a collection device moves along a predetermined path to detect environmental data, then detection capability at accessible locations is improved, but inability to detect data in unreachable regions (corners, behind obstacles) worsens measurement completeness
Solution Approach 1:
The collection device is divided into a main body and a detachable sub-collection device. The sub-collection device can be deployed to unreachable regions while the main body remains at accessible locations. This segmentation allows the system to collect environmental data from both reachable and unreachable areas, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision at accessible locations and completeness of data coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The sub-collection device acts as an intermediary between the main collection device and the unreachable regions. It is deployed to hard-to-reach areas via a transmission medium (such as a wire or cable), enabling data collection from locations that the main device cannot access directly. This intermediary approach ensures complete environmental monitoring without compromising the main device's operational base.
2Area of stationary object
If the collection device size is increased to reach more areas, then coverage of unreachable regions improves, but device complexity and operational constraints worsen
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of increasing the size of a single collection device, the system segments the detection function into a main device and a smaller sub-device. The sub-collection device is specifically designed to be compact for deployment in narrow or confined unreachable regions, while the main device provides operational control and data processing. This segmentation achieves extended coverage without requiring the main device to be oversized or overly complex.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extends detection coverage by adding a spatial dimension through the transmission medium that connects the main device to the sub-device. Rather than expanding the main device's physical footprint in all directions, the sub-device is deployed along a specific path (wire/cable) to reach distant or hard-to-access locations, effectively extending coverage in a targeted dimensional direction without increasing overall device complexity.
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AI summary
A collection device includes an acquisition device, a control device, and a detection device. The acquisition device acquires information inside a space of a target region. The control device sets a detection path for a collection device based on an unreachable region within the space of the target region. The detection device acquires environmental data including environmental data of the unreachable region detected when the collection device moves along the detection path in the space of the target region.