Wireless Power MSAV System for Design Constraint Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for wireless power and energy analysis face challenges such as significant rework, uncertainty in design operability, miscommunication among design teams, and engineering failures due to ineffective balancing of performance, design, and operational needs, leading to unworkable designs and component failures.
Innovation Solution
A wireless power/energy system modeling and simulation (M&S), analysis, and visualization system that enables visual comparison and simulation of design variations, allowing users to input design specifications, select design elements, and visualize the influence of parameters on performance, while ensuring compliance with operational and design constraints through dynamic parameter locking and failure mode analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If designers manually evaluate multiple design variations without integrated visualization tools, then design flexibility is maintained, but significant rework and time loss occur due to flipping between multiple designs and losing critical correlations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple design evaluation functions into a single integrated MSAV system that simultaneously performs modeling, simulation, analysis, and visualization. This merging eliminates the need for designers to switch between separate tools and design files, allowing all design variations to be evaluated within one unified interface, thereby improving productivity and reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces visual dimensioning by creating graphical representations of design parameters and their correlations. Instead of evaluating designs through separate analytical steps, the system projects design data into visual dimensions where correlations between design choices and constraints become immediately apparent, enabling rapid comparison without manual rework.
2Adaptability or versatility
If designers explore multiple design choices without constraint visualization, then design creativity is enhanced, but design reliability decreases due to violating boundary conditions and constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous feedback mechanisms that automatically monitor design parameters against predefined boundary conditions and constraints. As designers explore design variations, the MSAV system provides real-time feedback on constraint compliance through visual indicators, allowing designers to maintain creativity while ensuring reliability by immediately seeing when designs violate constraints.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining boundary conditions and constraints before the design exploration process begins. The system prepares constraint validation rules and visual boundary representations in advance, so that as designers explore design choices, the constraints are already in place to guide and validate their selections, preventing violations before they occur.
3Ease of operation
If distributed design teams use different design methodologies without standardization, then team autonomy is maintained, but miscommunication and confusion increase when evaluating designs
Solution Approach 1:
The MSAV system serves as a universal platform that can accommodate multiple design methodologies and teams simultaneously. It provides a common visualization language and standardized output formats that work across different design approaches, allowing teams to maintain their autonomous methodologies while ensuring consistent interpretation of design results through the shared visual interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The system acts as an intermediary layer between distributed design teams with different methodologies. The MSAV platform translates various design outputs into a standardized visual format, mediating the communication between teams and eliminating misinterpretation while preserving each team's methodological autonomy.
4Device complexity
If designers lack cognitive aids for understanding parameter relationships, then design simplicity is maintained, but design precision decreases due to inability to balance performance, operational needs, and constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs color-coded visual indicators to represent different design parameters, their relationships, and constraint compliance status. This visual encoding provides cognitive aids that help designers quickly understand complex parameter relationships without increasing system complexity, enabling precise optimization by clearly showing which parameters need adjustment to meet performance and operational requirements.
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AI summary
Systems and related methods are provided for improving cognitive function of a wireless power system designer and simulate various aspects of a wireless power system as an aid in making design selections in a tradeoff environment. Various embodiment enable such improved cognitive function by providing machine instructions that generate various graphical user interfaces which enable the wireless power system designer to visualize, compare, select, and change a variety of independent and dependent variables pertaining to a plurality of potential wireless power systems, a plurality of potential diodes, and a plurality of potential coplanar striplines for use in a plurality of operational environments as desired by the wireless power system designer. Aspects of various embodiments display design constraint warnings thereby providing visual display of design space solutions that do not violate various design constraints.