AUTOMATIC CALCULATION OF MEASUREMENT CONFIDENCE IN FLEXIBLE MODULAR PLANTS AND MACHINES

• Main Authors: GEIPEL, Markus Michael, WURM, Kai, MAURMAIER, Mathias, NEIDIG, Jörg
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 21.06.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

The invention provides a method for providing output values with associated uncertainties for a flexible modular plant or machine comprising an arrangement of modular entities (21-2n). To a plurality of said modular entities (21-2n), uncertainty information associated with an operation of said modular entity (21-2n) is assigned. Input values are provided based on an operation of the modular entities (21-2n). A computing unit (12) calculates an output value based on said input values. The computing unit (12) calculates an input value uncertainty for each input value based on the uncertainty information of the modular entity (21-2n). The computing unit (12) calculates at least one output value uncertainty associated with the output value based on propagation of uncertainty and using the input value uncertainties. The output value and the at least one output value uncertainty is outputted.