Modular Object Host Matching via Directory Service
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Solution Overview
Problem
Industrial control configurations face challenges in efficiently matching modular objects with hosts that have complementary capabilities, leading to suboptimal operation and resource management in complex mechanical and electronic systems.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes a directory to publish capability and operational requirement information, allowing modular objects to bind with hosts that meet their needs, and employs a resource manager to create bindings, along with a subscription service for communication, ensuring optimal matching and resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual matching methods are used to bind modular objects with hosts, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but matching efficiency and operational optimization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables modular objects and hosts to automatically publish their own capability metadata and operational requirements to the directory service. Each component self-describes its interfaces, supported protocols, and resource needs without external intervention, allowing the system to autonomously perform matching based on published information.
Solution Approach 2:
A directory service acts as an intermediary between modular objects and hosts, storing published capability metadata and facilitating automatic matching. The resource manager subscribes to directory updates and creates bindings based on published information, eliminating the need for manual matching while maintaining system organization through a centralized information repository.
2Ease of operation
If automatic matching systems are implemented to optimize resource allocation, then operational efficiency improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous feedback through subscription services that monitor directory updates in real-time. When modular objects or hosts publish capability changes, the resource manager receives notifications and automatically re-evaluates bindings to maintain optimal resource allocation, ensuring the system adapts to changing conditions without manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
Modular objects and hosts publish their capability metadata and operational requirements to the directory service in advance, before matching occurs. This preliminary publication of information allows the system to perform efficient automatic matching without requiring complex real-time analysis during binding operations.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive metadata collection is performed to ensure accurate matching, then matching precision improves, but information processing overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The metadata information is segmented into distinct categories including interfaces, supported protocols, and resource requirements. Each modular object and host publishes specific capability data points separately, allowing the system to process and match based on individual attributes without handling monolithic data structures, thereby reducing processing overhead while maintaining matching precision.
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AI summary
An object can be used in an industrial control configuration in relation to performing a function or task. Matching can occur such that an object with operational requirements can bind with a host that has capabilities that meet those operational requirements—matching can occur automatically as well as through user operation. Once matched, different functionality can be presented to a user pertaining to the object. To assist the user, the object can include external references, logic, local or private data, as well as others in addition to resources. To facilitate operation, capabilities and resources can be published in a directory that can be accessed by different entities—sometimes with security constraints in order to protect configuration integrity. Likewise, a subscription system can be employed such that when a change to a related entity is made, a notice can transfer to related entities and operation can alter based upon the change.