External Control Input for Mobile Rescue Device Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile rescue devices face challenges in combining a robust and simple structure with easy handling and adaptability to complex rescue missions, lacking effective control and coordination during operations.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that incorporate an external additional input means for controlling a mobile rescue device, allowing real-time data transmission and external control commands to enhance safety and coordination, with features like position detection, state information retrieval, and adjustable work sequence speed, enabling centralized control and increased safety during rescue operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the mobile rescue device has a robust and simple structure, then ease of manufacture and reliability are improved, but adaptability to complex rescue missions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The control system allows dynamic reconfiguration of device functionality through external control commands. The controller can adapt the work sequence and operating parameters in real-time based on rescue mission requirements, enabling a simple physical structure to deliver complex adaptive performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The external additional input means enables changing of control parameters and work sequence without physical modifications to the device structure. By transmitting control commands that modify operational parameters, the device achieves adaptability while maintaining structural simplicity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the mobile rescue device has numerous setting options, then adaptability to complex rescue missions is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control complexity is extracted from the mobile rescue device itself and relocated to an external control unit. The additional input means serves as an external brain that generates complex control sequences, while the rescue device executes these commands with simpler onboard electronics, reducing its inherent complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller acts as an intermediary between the simple physical device and the complex external control system. It translates external control commands into actionable signals for the working means, allowing the device to achieve high adaptability without incorporating complex control hardware.
3Ease of operation
If the operator concentrates on recovery operation, then ease of operation is improved, but control coordination deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The control function is segmented into two roles: the operator who focuses on the recovery task and the additional input means (operated by an observer) that handles control coordination. This division allows the primary operator to concentrate on manual operations while another person manages the electronic control commands, ensuring both ease of operation and proper coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The additional input means serves as an intermediary control interface that coordinates between the operator's actions and the device's automated responses. This mediator ensures proper control coordination without requiring the primary operator to divide attention.
4Adaptability or versatility
If external additional input means is used for real-time control, then adaptability and safety are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The controller is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple types of control commands from the external additional input means. It can interpret various control signals and adapt to different rescue scenarios, providing real-time control capability while maintaining a unified control architecture that doesn't significantly increase complexity.
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AI summary
A rescue system includes a mobile rescue device, in particular a spreading device, a cutting device, or a combined device having a spreading and a cutting function, including a base body with a handle, a working device arranged at the base body, a controller for controlling the work sequence of the working device, and an input device arranged at the base body for inputting control commands into the controller. Furthermore, an external additional input device is formed, which is structurally independent of the mobile rescue device and coupled or couplable with the controller of the mobile rescue device by a data transmission device.