Motor Drive Parameter Tracking for Storage-Efficient Change Logging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mobile gardening, forestry, construction, or soil cultivation devices face challenges in efficiently determining and storing information about changes in their motor drive systems, particularly in resource-constrained environments, where limited resources necessitate resource-saving storage solutions.

Innovation Solution

A method involving repeated recording and comparison of motor drive system parameters over time, with storage only when significant changes are detected, utilizing a motor drive system with a detection device and evaluation unit to automatically determine and store information about changes, optimizing storage by minimizing resource usage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If all recorded parameter values are stored continuously, then complete information is available, but resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidresource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential information (changes in parameter values) from the continuous data stream, storing only when deviations occur rather than storing all recorded values. This selective extraction approach maintains information completeness for diagnostic purposes while significantly reducing storage resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system discards redundant information (unchanged parameter values) and recovers only the meaningful changes. By comparing current values with reference values and storing only deviations, the system eliminates waste of storage resources while preserving diagnostically relevant information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #34Discarding and recovering

2Measurement precision

If parameter recording frequency is increased, then detection precision improves, but resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechange detection precisionVSAvoidresource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses feedback through comparison of recorded parameter values with reference values to determine when storage is necessary. This feedback mechanism allows the system to maintain high detection precision by continuously monitoring parameters while intelligently activating storage only when changes are detected, thus reducing overall resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs partial action by recording parameters continuously at high frequency for detection purposes, but applies excessive action (storage) only when necessary - i.e., when parameter changes are detected. This approach maintains measurement precision while avoiding the resource cost of continuously storing all high-frequency data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Loss of information

If storage operations are performed frequently, then information availability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation availabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by establishing reference values before operation and continuously comparing current parameters against these references. This preliminary setup enables the system to determine storage necessity in advance, simplifying the decision-making process and reducing the complexity of storage management while ensuring information is available when changes occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system serves itself by automatically comparing parameters, detecting changes, and triggering storage operations without external intervention. This self-service approach to change detection and storage management reduces the complexity of system control while maintaining information availability, as the system autonomously determines when storage is needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP4234911A1Mobile garden, forestry, building or soil working device, system and method for determining information on a change in a mobile garden, forestry, building or soil working device
Publication Date: 2023.08.30 ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO KG
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for determining information (Info) about a change (VA) of a mobile garden, forestry, construction or soil cultivation device (1), wherein the garden, forestry, construction or soil cultivation device (1) has a motor drive system (2), wherein the method comprises the steps: a) repeatedly acquiring a characteristic parameter (KG) of the motor drive system (2), b) comparing at least one first value (W1) of the acquired characteristic parameter or a parameter based thereon (BG1) from a first period (ZR1) and at least one second value (W2) of the acquired characteristic parameter or parameter based thereon (BG2) from a second period (ZR2) with each other, and c) storing the information (Info) about the change (VA) of the garden, forestry, construction or soil cultivation device (1) depending on a result of the comparison.