Machine human interface—MHI
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsArquimedes Martinez Canedo, Lingyun Wang
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Abstract
A method for operating a machine-human interface in an automation environment includes receiving or automatically retrieving, by a machine-human interface computer, sensor data corresponding to a plurality of humans working the automation environment. The machine-human interface computer applies a human model to the sensor data to yield a plurality of human state records, each human state record corresponding to one of the humans working within the automation environment. The machine-human interface computer also identifies automation tasks using a factory state schedule. Based on the plurality of human state records, the machine-human interface computer assigns the automation tasks to the plurality of humans.
Claims9
A method for operating a machine-human interface in an automation environment, the method comprising:
- receiving or automatically retrieving, by a machine-human interface computer, sensor data corresponding to a plurality of humans working the automation environment, the sensor data sufficient to assign a value indicative of an ability to perform a particular task for each of the humans of the plurality of humans and to determine a location of the humans;
- applying, by the machine-human interface computer, a human model to the sensor data to yield a plurality of human state records, each human state record corresponding to one of the humans working in the automation environment;
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- identifying, by the machine-human interface computer, one or more potentially unsafe conditions between a particular human in the automation environment and the automation environment based on the plurality of human state records;
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- one of altering the operation of the automation environment and sending an alert to the particular human in the unsafe condition.
A machine-human interface system for use in an automation environment, the system comprising:
- a computing device comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium in operable communication with the processors, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processors to execute a plurality of components comprising:
- a machine interface component configured to send and receive data to one or more machines in the automation environment,
- a data fusion component comprising a plurality of sensor modules, each sensor module configured to retrieve human sensor data from a sensor data source, the sensor data sufficient to assign a value indicative of an ability to perform a particular task for each of the humans of the plurality of humans,
- a human model configured to maintain a human state record for each human in the automation environment based on the human sensor data retrieved by the data fusion component, the sensor data and the human model being sufficient to identify each individual human, and
- a decision making component configured to perform one or more decision making operations related to the automation environment based on the human state record for each human in the automation environment and a factory state record, wherein the decision making operations comprise allocation of tasks to each human in the automation environment, and wherein the decision making component assigns each task to a particular human based at least in part on the value and the human model.
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