Aircraft Seat Harness Routing Within Tight Cable Space
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity and number of connections and configurations in aircraft seat-to-seat cable routing pose challenges, requiring significant time and effort to meet all requirements, often leading to deviations from standards.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for automated seat-to-seat cable routing that includes a user interface and a controller to generate and select overlength routings based on user inputs, ensuring compliance with aircraft-specific requirements and standards, and updating the design environment accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If automated routing system is implemented, then design time is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical routing processes with an automated computer-based system that uses algorithms to generate and evaluate cable routing options. The system automatically processes design requirements, generates multiple routing alternatives, and evaluates them against constraints, substituting human engineers' manual work with computational automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The automated routing system performs self-evaluation of generated routing options against design requirements and constraints. The system independently identifies compliant routings without requiring manual intervention at each evaluation step, allowing the design process to proceed autonomously through multiple iterations.
2Reliability
If multiple routing options are generated, then compliance with requirements is improved, but computational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the cable routing design problem into discrete evaluable options. The system generates multiple distinct routing alternatives and evaluates each independently against the same set of requirements, breaking down the complex design space into manageable segments that can be systematically assessed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system generates more routing options than strictly necessary to ensure compliance. By creating an excess of candidate solutions, the system increases the probability of finding compliant routings while distributing the computational burden across multiple simpler evaluation tasks rather than one complex optimization problem.
3Manufacturing precision
If automated evaluation of all requirements is performed, then routing accuracy is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary generation of multiple routing options before detailed evaluation. By pre-processing the design space and organizing candidate routings in advance, the system prepares data structures that enable faster subsequent evaluation against all requirements, reducing the time needed for comprehensive checking.
Solution Approach 2:
The automated evaluation process continuously assesses routing options against all requirements without interruption. The system maintains persistent evaluation state and processes multiple routing candidates in sequence without restarting the evaluation framework, keeping the useful action of compliance checking continuous rather than intermittent.
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AI summary
A system and method for automated seat-to-seat routing in an aircraft is disclosed. The system may include a user interface configured to receive user input data and a controller communicatively coupled to the user interface. The system may be configured to acquire a set of requirements corresponding to an aircraft seat cable design environment, acquire boundary coordinates defining a limited space for generating cable routings, acquire two or more nominal length routings for different cables, generate a set of overlength routings for each cable, output the overlength routings for user selection, acquire a selected cable routing for each cable, and update the aircraft seat cable design environment based on the selected cable routings.