US 12,105,506 B1
System and method for identifying and assembling sensor combinations optimized for output requirements
Jeffrey Sieracki, Silver Spring, MD (US)
Assigned to Renesas Electronics America, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by REALITY ANALYTICS, INC., Columbia, MD (US)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/648,919.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/141,466, filed on Jan. 25, 2021.
Int. Cl. G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G05B 23/02 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 23/0245 (2013.01) [G05B 23/0254 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 19 Claims
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1. A method of efficiently identifying and assembling a combination of sensors suitable for achieving a set of output requirements, the output requirements including a set of required output states, the method comprising:
on a processor, executing a sensor optimizer to generate at least one optimized sensor set defining at least one sensor channel, each sensor channel having a threshold value for at least one quality criterion, each optimized sensor set being validated for the set of output requirements by:
executing a channel selector to select sensor channels of the optimized sensor set according to the set of output requirements, the sensor channels of the optimized sensor set being down-selected from a predetermined set of available sensor channels, the sensor channels of the optimized sensor set mapping to the set of required output states, and
for each selected sensor channel, executing a sensitivity balancer to determine the respective threshold value therefor according to the set of output requirements, the threshold value being determined based on a prior testing of the sensor channel with respect to an input signal therefor; and
assembling an arrangement of sensors according to a selected one of the optimized sensor sets.