Context-Based XR Data Prioritization in Industrial Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively present data to users in industrial environments, often overwhelming or hindering them due to inappropriate amounts or formats of data, which can obstruct task performance and relevance.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that categorize sensory datasets from industrial automation systems, determine context information, and prioritize data presentation based on user inputs and environmental conditions, using extended reality devices to provide relevant data in intuitive formats.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all sensory datasets are presented to the user, then complete information is provided, but the user becomes overwhelmed and task performance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments sensory datasets into multiple categories (e.g., safety-critical, operational, informational) and applies different presentation priorities to each category. This allows the system to maintain information completeness while organizing data in a hierarchical structure that prevents user overload by emphasizing only relevant information at any given moment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different presentation qualities and formats to different data categories based on their importance and context. Critical safety data receives prominent, immediate presentation, while less critical data is presented in summarized or deferred formats, allowing the system to preserve all information while optimizing presentation quality for each type.
2Loss of information
If data is presented in detailed formats, then information completeness is improved, but cognitive load increases and user efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent dynamically adjusts data presentation formats based on real-time context information, user preferences, and task requirements. The system transitions between detailed and summarized views, and between different presentation modalities, optimizing the balance between information completeness and cognitive load according to current operational needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes presentation parameters (level of detail, format type, presentation timing) based on data category priority and context. High-priority data categories receive detailed immediate presentation, while lower-priority categories receive summarized or deferred presentation, allowing the system to maintain information availability while controlling cognitive load through parameter adjustment.
3Ease of operation
If context-based prioritization is implemented, then user guidance is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary categorization and context analysis of sensory datasets before presentation, establishing a hierarchical structure and priority framework in advance. This preprocessing organization enables efficient real-time decision-making about what data to present and in what format, reducing the computational complexity during actual operation while maintaining high-quality user guidance.
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AI summary
A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium includes instructions. The instructions, when executed by processing circuitry, are configured to cause the processing circuitry to receive a plurality of sensory datasets associated with an industrial automation system from a plurality of sensors, categorize each sensory dataset of the plurality of sensory datasets into one or more sensory dataset categories of a plurality of sensory dataset categories, determine context information associated with the plurality of sensory datasets, the context information being representative of an environmental condition associated with an extended reality device, the industrial automation system, or both, determine a priority of each sensor dataset category of the plurality of sensory dataset categories based on the context information, determine output representative data to be presented by the extended reality device based on the plurality of sensory datasets and the priority, and instruct the extended reality device to present the output representative data.