Simplifying for an Operator to Handle a Crane of a Container Lifting System
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsDawid Ziobro, Gayathri Gopalakrishnan, Simon Hallstadius Linge
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Abstract
A method managing a group of cranes of a container lifting system, a container lifting management device as well as a container lifting system. The cranes have different selectable operational states comprising manual control, supervised autonomous control and unsupervised autonomous control. A container lifting management device displays a supervisory view of the group of cranes to at least one operator, in which supervisory view the operation of the cranes is visualized, analyses the behavior of the different cranes and suggests or implements a change in operational state of at least one of the cranes based on the analyzed behavior.
Claims13
A method for managing a group of cranes of a container lifting system, where the cranes have different selectable operational states comprising manual control, supervised autonomous control and unsupervised autonomous control, the method being performed by a container lifting management device and comprising:
- displaying a supervisory view of the group of cranes to at least one operator, in which supervisory view the operation of the cranes is visualized;
- analyzing the behavior of the different cranes;
- and
- suggesting or implementing a change in operational state of at least one of the cranes based on the analyzed behavior.
A container lifting system, comprising:
- a group of cranes;
- and
- a container lifting management device comprising a processor operative to:
- display a supervisory view of a group of cranes to at least one operator, in which supervisory view the operation of the cranes is visualized and where the cranes have different selectable operational states comprising manual control, supervised autonomous control and unsupervised autonomous control;
- analyze the behavior of the different cranes;
- and
- suggest or implement a change in operational state of at least one of the cranes based on the analyzed behavior.
A computer program for managing a group of cranes of a container lifting system, where the cranes have different selectable operational states comprising manual control, supervised autonomous control and unsupervised autonomous control, the computer program comprising computer program code which when run by a processor causes the processor to:
- display a supervisory view of the group of cranes to at least one operator, in which supervisory view (SV) the operation of the cranes is visualized,
- analyze the behavior of the different cranes, and
- suggest or implement a change in operational state of at least one of the cranes based on the analyzed behavior.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.