Stage Effects Console Logic Flow for Collision Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting systems for stage environments, which include multiple interconnected devices such as lights, trusses, and winches, face challenges in ensuring safety and efficient control of these movable components, particularly in preventing collisions and managing movement speeds remotely.
Innovation Solution
A controller console is developed to define and enforce sets of rules for the movement of stage devices, allowing users to set parameters like position, interlocks, and conditions using graphical logic flows, enabling safe and controlled operation of movable items like towers and winches.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple stage devices are controlled remotely with manual remote controls, then operational flexibility is improved, but safety control and collision prevention deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The control console establishes communication with each device to receive status information and sends control signals to adjust operational parameters. This feedback loop enables real-time monitoring and automatic safety interventions, resolving the contradiction by maintaining operational flexibility while implementing systematic safety control through continuous device-console interaction
Solution Approach 2:
The control console serves as an intermediary between operators and stage devices, replacing direct manual remote control with a mediated control system. This intermediary implements safety rules and coordination logic, preventing collisions while maintaining operational flexibility through centralized intelligent control
2Productivity
If movement speed of stage devices is increased for efficiency, then productivity is improved, but safety risks and collision risks worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The control console dynamically adjusts movement speeds and operational parameters based on real-time status information from devices and coordination requirements. This dynamic control enables high productivity when safe, while automatically reducing speeds or halting operations when collision risks are detected, resolving the contradiction between efficiency and safety
3Reliability
If comprehensive safety rules are implemented for all devices, then safety control is improved, but system complexity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The control console provides universal safety control functionality for multiple different stage devices through a single integrated system. Rather than implementing separate safety mechanisms for each device, the console applies coordinated safety rules across all devices, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive safety control
Data Source
AI summary
A controlling console for moving elements such as trusses and winches. A console body has a display screen, and a processor which is programmed to produce an output screen on the display screen which accepts controls for controlling at least one movable device. The output screen includes a plurality of different logical blocks which are connected together. Values and conditions such as true, false, rising edge or error can be entered. The console arranges this into a flow arrangement.