# US 2013/0158679 A1 · Apparatus and method for controlling construction machinery > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2013/0158679 A1 - Document ID: US20130158679A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/818,621 - Filed: 2011-08-23 - Published: 2013-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2010-08-23 - Assignees: Doosan Infracore Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Joonho Oh; Dal Sik Jang; Daehie Hong; Ki Young Kim - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20130158679A1 ## CPC - G05B 11/01: electric - E02F 3/438: {Memorising movements for repetition, e.g. play-back capability} - E02F 9/265: {with follow-up actions (e.g. control signals sent to actuate the work tool)} - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - E02F: DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C49/00) ## Abstract The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for controlling construction machinery, and an operation pattern control device according to the present disclosure includes an operation pattern recognition device configured to analyze operation being performed by the construction machinery and a driving control device configured to control individual equipment of the construction machinery to match the operation pattern analyzed by the operation pattern recognition device, and the operation pattern recognition device includes: a data accumulation unit configured to receive and accumulate a manipulation signal of an operator; an operation pattern analysis unit configured to determine a present operation pattern by analyzing data of the accumulated manipulation signal; a probability model analysis unit configured to determine data, which is not determined from the operation pattern analysis unit, by using a probability model; and a pattern result output unit configured to output operation determined from the operation pattern analysis unit and the probability model analysis unit to the driving control device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus for controlling construction machinery, comprising: an operation pattern recognition device configured to analyze an operation being performed by the construction machinery; and a driving control device configured to control driving of each operating device of the construction machinery to match an operation pattern analyzed from the operation pattern recognition device, wherein the operation pattern recognition device comprises: a data accumulation unit configured to receive and accumulate any one of a manipulation signal of an operator, and a driving data of individual equipment of the construction machinery; a operation pattern analysis unit configured to determine a current operation pattern by analyzing data of the accumulated manipulation signal; a probability model analysis unit configured to analyzes data, which has not been analyzed by the operation pattern analysis unit, by using a probability model; and a pattern result output unit configured to output operation determined by the operation pattern analysis unit and the probability model analysis unit to the driving control device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the operation pattern analysis unit comprises: a first operation group pattern analysis unit configured to determine whether or not the operation pattern corresponds to at least one operation pattern included in a preset first operation group; and a second operation group pattern analysis unit configured to determine whether or not the operation patterns, which are not determined by the first operation group pattern analysis unit, correspond to at least one operation pattern included in a preset second operation group. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the probability model analysis unit analyzes frequencies of operations with respect to the accumulated data, extracts an operation having a high frequency, and determines a pattern of a current operation by applying a probability model, which corresponds to the operation having the high frequency, among the probability models which are prepared for each operation. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the probability model analysis unit extracts the operation having the high frequency by analyzing frequencies of operations with respect to the accumulated data, and determines a pattern of the current operation by applying a probability model, which corresponds to the operation having the high frequency of operation, among the probability models which are prepared for each operation. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The apparatus of claim 4, wherein in a case in which the operation having the high frequency is a first operation, the probability model analysis unit analyzes the frequency of operation by using a first probability model, and according to the first probability model it is determined that the operation pattern is the first operation in a case in which the frequency of the first operation is higher than a preset reference value, and it is determined that the operation pattern is not the first operation in a case in which the frequency of the first operation is lower than the reference value. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The apparatus of claim 4, wherein in a case in which the operation having the high frequency of operation is a second operation, the probability model analysis unit analyzes the frequency of operation by using a second probability model, and according to the second probability model, it is determined that the operation pattern is the second operation in a case in which the frequency of the second operation is equal to or more than a first reference value, that the operation pattern is not the second operation in a case in which the frequency of the second operation is less than the first reference value and the frequency of the first operation is higher than a second reference value, that the operation pattern is the second operation when the frequency of the second operation, which is different from the first operation, is equal to or more than a fourth reference value, and the operation pattern as fourth operation when the frequency of the second operation is less than the fourth reference value, in a case in which the frequency of the second operation is lower than the first reference value and the frequency of the first operation is a third reference value, and that the operation pattern is a fourth operation in a case in which the frequency of the second operation is less than the first reference value, and the frequency of the first operation is less than the third reference value. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The apparatus of claim 5, wherein in a case in which the operation having the high frequency of operation is third operation, the probability model analysis unit analyzes the frequency of operation by using a third probability model, and according to the third probability model, it is determined that the operation pattern is the third operation in a case in which the frequency of the third operation is equal to or more than a fourth reference value, it is checked whether or not the immediately previous operation pattern of the current operation pattern is the fourth operation in a case which the frequency of the third operation is less than the fourth reference value, and thereafter it is determined whether or not the operation pattern is the third operation by checking again the frequency of the first operation, the frequency of the third operation except the first operation, and the frequency of each of the preset reference operation. ### Claim 8 A method of controlling construction machinery, comprising: accumulating, upon receipt, any one of a manipulation signal of an operator and a driving data of individual equipment of the construction machinery, through a data accumulation unit; determining a current operation pattern by analyzing data accumulated in the data accumulation unit, through an operation pattern analysis unit; determining the operation pattern by using a probability model through a probability model analysis unit in a case in which an operation pattern is not determined by the operation pattern analysis unit; and outputting the operation pattern to a driving control device, which controls individual equipment, through a pattern result output unit, to correspond to the operation pattern determined from the operation pattern analysis unit and the probability model analysis unit. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the probability model analysis unit analyzes frequencies of operations with respect to the accumulated data thereby extracting an operation having high frequency, and determines a pattern of the current operation by applying a probability model, which corresponds to the operation having the high frequency, among the probability models which are prepared for each operation. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein in a case in which the operation having the high frequency is a first operation, the probability model analysis unit analyzes the frequency of operation by using a first probability model, and according to the first probability model, it is determined that the operation pattern is the first operation in a case in which the frequency of the first operation is higher than a preset eleventh reference value, and it is determined that the operation pattern is not the first operation in a case in which the frequency of the first operation is lower than the eleventh reference value. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein in a case in which the operation having the high frequency is a second operation, the probability model analysis unit analyzes the frequencies of operations by using a second probability model, and according to the second probability model, it is determined that the operation pattern is the second operation in a case in which the frequency of the second operation is equal to or more than a first reference value, determines that the operation pattern is not the second operation in a case in which the frequency of the second operation is lower than the first reference value and the frequency of the first operation is higher than a second reference value, that the operation pattern is the second operation when the frequency of the second operation, which is different from the first operation, is equal to or more than a fourth reference value, that the operation pattern is a fourth operation when the frequency of the second operation is less than the fourth reference value, in a case in which the frequency of the second operation is lower than the first reference value and the frequency of the first operation is a third reference value, and that the operation pattern is the fourth operation in a case in which the frequency of the second operation is less than the first reference value, and the frequency of the first operation is less than the third reference value. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein in a case in which the operation having the high frequency of operation is third operation, the probability model analysis unit analyzes the frequency of operation by using a third probability model, and according to the third probability model, it is determined that the operation pattern is the third operation in a case in which the frequency of the third operation is equal to or more than a fourth reference value, it is checked whether or not the immediately previous operation pattern of the current operation pattern is the fourth operation in a case which the frequency of the third operation is lower than the fourth reference value, and thereafter it is determined whether or not the operation pattern is the third operation by checking again the frequency of the first operation and the frequency of the third operation except the first operation by each preset reference.