US 12,443,768 B2
Method, device and positioning system for positioning a sensor
Arianna Bosco, Munich (DE); Christoph Heinrich, Donauwörth (DE); Mohamed Khalil, Munich (DE); and P. V. Sudev Nair, Karnataka (IN)
Assigned to SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/259,589
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/066869
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/007663, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18182182 (EP), filed on Jul. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0334418 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 30/10 (2020.01); G06F 30/23 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/10 (2020.01) [G06F 30/23 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for positioning a sensor comprising the following steps:
providing a physical simulation model of a technical system, the physical simulation model comprising a virtual sensor at a given position,
simulating a performance of the technical system by the physical simulation model,
providing a first response signal of the virtual sensor to the simulated performance at the given position,
determining a first optimized position for the virtual sensor where the first response signal of the virtual sensor to the simulated performance is intensified by an optimization algorithm, wherein the first optimized position for the virtual sensor is different than the given position,
providing coordinates of the first optimized position for positioning a physical sensor at the technical system,
simulating an introduced fault of the technical system by the physical simulation model,
providing a second response signal to the introduced fault by the virtual sensor,
determining a second optimized position of the virtual sensor, where the second response signal to the introduced fault is intensified, by the optimization algorithm, wherein the second optimized position of the virtual sensor is different than the first optimized position for the virtual sensor,
providing the coordinates of the second optimized position and/or the second response signal to the fault at the second optimized position,
transferring the coordinates of the second position or the second optimized position to a control module of a positioning system; and
placing the physical sensor at the first optimized position or the second optimized position by the control module of the positioning system controlling an actuator to place the physical sensor, wherein a feedback loop is implemented as a function of the placing to refine a positioning of the physical sensor based on the feedback loop.