Master Slave Stroboscope Control via Representative Relay
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Solution Overview
Problem
In multi-stroboscopic flash control systems, the master stroboscope's processing load increases significantly with the number of slave stroboscopes, as it needs to obtain information from each, leading to increased processing time and potential failures due to insufficient flash firing.
Innovation Solution
A master communication apparatus selects a representative slave stroboscope to collect and relay state information from other slave stroboscopes, reducing the processing load by decentralizing the information gathering and control signal transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the master stroboscope separately obtains information from all slave stroboscopes, then complete information collection is achieved, but the processing load and time required increase in proportion to the number of slave stroboscopes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a representative slave stroboscope as an intermediary between the master stroboscope and other slave stroboscopes. The representative slave collects state information from all slaves and relays it to the master, reducing the master's processing load while ensuring complete information collection. This mediator approach resolves the contradiction by distributing the information gathering task.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the information collection task by designating one slave (the representative) to handle collection from all slaves, while the master only communicates with the representative. This segmentation divides the complex many-to-many communication into simpler one-to-one and one-to-many relationships, reducing overall system complexity.
2Reliability
If the master stroboscope separately obtains information from all slave stroboscopes, then complete information collection is achieved, but the time required increases in proportion to the number of slave stroboscopes
Solution Approach 1:
The representative slave acts as a mediator that consolidates information from all slaves into a single communication channel. Instead of the master sequentially communicating with each slave (time-proportional to slave count), the master communicates once with the representative, significantly reducing information collection time while maintaining completeness.
3Extent of automation
If the master stroboscope performs overall control and separately obtains information from all slaves, then system control is achieved, but the processing load increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The representative slave serves as an automated intermediary that handles the tedious task of collecting state information from all slaves. The master maintains full control capability but delegates the information gathering workload to the representative, reducing processing load while preserving automated system control.
Solution Approach 2:
The representative slave autonomously performs the information collection task without requiring direct master intervention for each slave. This self-service approach allows the representative to independently gather and consolidate information, reducing the master's processing burden while maintaining system control.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a master communication apparatus. A selection unit selects a representative slave from a plurality of slave communication apparatuses. A notification unit notifies the plurality of slave communication apparatuses of the representative slave. Each of the plurality of slave communication apparatuses is configured to, if it is not the representative slave, transmit state information that indicates a state of the slave communication apparatus to the representative slave. A reception unit receives the state information of the plurality of the slave communication apparatuses from the representative slave. A transmission unit transmits a control signal for controlling the plurality of slave communication apparatuses based on the state information.