Shovel Operation Planning from Real-Time Performance Status

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing working machines, such as shovels, face challenges in performing operations efficiently under various conditions, impacting work efficiency.

Innovation Solution

An operation support system is implemented, comprising a shovel, an information processing device, and a sensor group, which coordinates with the shovel to enhance operation efficiency by determining future operations based on performance status and enabling remote control, automatic, and autonomous functions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If working machines perform operations based on fixed procedures, then operational simplicity is maintained, but work efficiency deteriorates due to inability to adapt to various conditions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvework efficiencyVSAvoidoperation control complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The working machine performs operations autonomously by detecting its own performance status and automatically determining future operations without external intervention. The machine serves itself by making operational decisions based on real-time data from sensors monitoring its performance state.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The operation planning part determines future operations in advance based on current performance status before the machine actually needs to execute them. This preliminary planning allows the machine to prepare optimal operation sequences ahead of time, improving efficiency without adding operational complexity during execution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If autonomous operation planning is implemented, then work efficiency improves through adaptive operations, but system complexity increases due to additional processing requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation efficiencyVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The information processing device serves multiple functions: it detects performance status, determines future operations, and controls machine execution. By consolidating these functions into a single multi-functional system, the patent improves operation efficiency without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors performance status and uses this feedback to determine future operations. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables adaptive autonomous operation planning that improves efficiency while keeping the system structure manageable through iterative optimization rather than complex predetermined sequences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250283308A1Working machine, information processing device, and program
Publication Date: 2025.09.11 SUMITOMO HEAVY IND LTD
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AI summary

An information processing device includes an operation planning part configured to determine a future operation of a working machine from among a plurality of operations according to a performance status of an operation of the working machine. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has a program embodied therein for causing an information processing device to determine a future operation of a working machine from among a plurality of operations according to a performance status of an operation of the working machine.