System with at least two floor treatment apparatuses
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous floor treatment apparatuses lack effective cooperation and support mechanisms, leading to suboptimal performance and resource utilization when operating in a system with multiple devices.
Innovation Solution
A system with a common database that stores and shares detection parameters among floor treatment apparatuses, allowing each apparatus to access and utilize detection parameters from others to adjust its operations, optimize work cycles, and schedule usage based on capabilities and task requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple floor treatment apparatuses operate independently without sharing data, then each apparatus can function autonomously, but the overall system efficiency and cooperation between apparatuses deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central server as an intermediary that receives detection parameters from multiple floor treatment apparatuses and provides adjusted parameters back to them. This mediator enables cooperative operation and information sharing without requiring direct complex communication between each apparatus, thus improving system efficiency while managing complexity through a centralized coordination point.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the detection capabilities and operational data from multiple independent apparatuses into a unified system through the central server. By combining detection parameters from various apparatuses and generating optimized adjustment parameters centrally, the system achieves improved overall productivity while the complexity is managed through the unified approach rather than requiring complex inter-apparatus coordination.
2Reliability
If floor treatment apparatuses share detection parameters through a common database, then cooperation and optimization between apparatuses improves, but the complexity of data management and communication increases
Solution Approach 1:
The central server acts as an intermediary that manages the exchange of detection parameters between apparatuses and the database. Instead of requiring complex peer-to-peer data management between apparatuses, the server centralizes this function, improving reliability by ensuring proper data handling while reducing the communication complexity that each individual apparatus must manage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where detection parameters from apparatuses are stored in the database, processed to generate adjusted parameters, and then provided back to the apparatuses for optimized operation. This feedback loop improves work cycle success by enabling continuous optimization based on accumulated detection data, while the automated feedback process managed by the server reduces manual data management complexity.
3Productivity
If floor treatment apparatuses use adjusted parameters based on detection data from other apparatuses, then work cycle optimization improves, but the time required for parameter adjustment and processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing detection parameters in the database and pre-calculating adjusted parameters before they are needed for actual floor treatment operations. This allows apparatuses to quickly retrieve optimized parameters without performing time-consuming real-time calculations, thus improving dirt pick-up efficiency while minimizing the time loss associated with parameter processing during active operation.
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AI summary
A system has at least two floor treatment apparatuses for treating a surface in an automatically controlled fashion based on defined adjustment parameters of the floor treatment apparatus, wherein each of the floor treatment apparatuses features at least one detection device for detecting at least one detection parameter of the floor treatment apparatus and/or of an environment of the floor treatment apparatus. In order to enhance a system of this type in such a way that the floor treatment apparatuses advantageously cooperate and support one another, the system features a common database that is assigned to the floor treatment apparatuses. Detection parameters of at least two floor treatment apparatuses are stored in the database in association with the adjustment parameters of the respective floor treatment apparatus.