Environmental Factor Control Model for Real-Time Microbe Cultivation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current environmental factor control systems in microorganism cultivation apparatuses require human operator expertise for real-time monitoring and control, making real-time adjustments impossible.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for transforming discontinuous training data into continuous form using serialization points and interpolation methods to train an environmental factor control automation model, enabling real-time control through a computer device.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If human operator control is used for environmental factor monitoring and control, then control decisions can be made based on operator expertise, but real-time control adjustments are impossible

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol accuracyVSAvoidreal-time control capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a digital replica of the human operator's decision-making process by training an AI model on historical operation data. The model learns from the operator's expertise and replicates their control decisions, enabling automated real-time control that mirrors human judgment without requiring continuous human intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical human operator system with an automated AI-based control system. The AI model processes sensor data and generates control commands automatically, substituting the human-in-the-loop mechanism with an autonomous system that can respond in real-time while maintaining the quality of expert decision-making.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of manufacture

If discontinuous training data is used for model training, then data processing is simpler, but the model cannot learn continuous environmental变化 patterns

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing simplicityVSAvoidmodel learning accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms discontinuous training data into continuous form by filling missing values through interpolation and temporal aggregation. This ensures the AI model receives uninterrupted sequences of environmental data, enabling it to learn continuous patterns of environmental changes while maintaining the simplicity of working with originally discrete sensor measurements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces data preprocessing techniques as intermediaries between the raw discontinuous sensor data and the AI model. These preprocessing steps (interpolation, aggregation, normalization) act as mediators that convert discontinuous data into continuous form, allowing the model to learn temporal patterns without requiring changes to the underlying sensor infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11797859B2Environment factor control device and training method thereof
Publication Date: 2023.10.24 MAKINAROCKS CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program includes instructions to perform following steps for data processing when the computer program is executed by one or more processors, the steps including: recognizing at least one continuous section from each raw data subset; determining at least one serialization point, based on a start point and an end point of each of the at least one continuous section for each of the raw data subset; and generating a training data set by generating serialized training data, based on the at least one serialization point.