US 12,487,570 B2
Planning a technical process having hierarchically structured tasks and parallelization options
Sebastian Albrecht, Hallbergmoos (DE); Bernd Kast, Ichenhausen (DE); and Wendelin Feiten, Neubiberg (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/247,376
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077263
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 30, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/073913, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 14, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20200014 (EP), filed on Oct. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0418249 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G05B 15/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 15/02 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1661 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for executing a technical process comprising hierarchically structured tasks, and wherein the technical process includes modification of physical units, the method comprising:
providing dependency specifications for hierarchically structured tasks;
deriving parallelization options from the dependency specifications;
generating a first action sequence based on the parallelization options;
executing the first action sequence;
receiving process data reflecting an actual state of the technical process;
generating a second action sequence based on the process data; and
executing hierarchically structured tasks in the technical process based on the second action sequence
wherein the first action sequence implements the hierarchically structured tasks; and
the second action sequence replaces the first action sequence; or
the second action sequence follows the first action sequence in time; or
the second action sequence halts the technical process.