ACOUSTIC REPRESENTATION OF STATES OF AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT
First Claim
1. A method for the acoustic representation of states of an industrial plant,processing signals of the industrial plant using a machine classifier to determine current state of the industrial plant,based on the determined current stated of the industrial plant, selecting an audio profile from a number of audio profiles using a computer,converting the audio profile into an acoustic signal, andoutputting the acoustic signal to a plant operator.
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Abstract
A machine classifier classifies signals of an industrial plant and determines a current state as a result. On the basis of the current state, an audio profile is selected from a number of audio profiles and issued in the form of a synthetically generated acoustic signal to a plant operator. For that purpose, the state of the industrial plant is continuously evaluated and, for example, with the aid of a MIDI sequencer, is used to manipulate different tracks of a piece of music or of synthetically generated artificial background noise. In this way, the plant operator is able to discern intuitively, and optionally even subliminally, divergences from a normal operation of the industrial plant, which can only be communicated to the operator via the overloaded visual channel with great difficulty, or not at all. The plant operator can therefore learn of the state of the industrial plant via the auditory sense or learn that in certain situations the industrial plant does not sound right. Since for that purpose use is made of a comparatively underused sensory channel with the acoustic perception, even small changes in the acoustic signal produce a high level of alertness in the plant operator.
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1. A method for the acoustic representation of states of an industrial plant,
processing signals of the industrial plant using a machine classifier to determine current state of the industrial plant, based on the determined current stated of the industrial plant, selecting an audio profile from a number of audio profiles using a computer, converting the audio profile into an acoustic signal, and outputting the acoustic signal to a plant operator.
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13. A computer program stored in non-transitory computer-readable media and executable by a processor to:
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process signals of the industrial plant using a machine classifier to determine a current state of the industrial plant, based on the determined current stated of the industrial plant, select an audio profile from a number of audio profiles using a computer, convert the audio profile into an acoustic signal, and output the acoustic signal to a plant operator.
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14. An arrangement for the acoustic representation of states of an industrial plant, comprising:
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a machine classifier programmed for processing signals of the industrial plant and for determining a current state of the industrial plant, a first processing unit programmed for selecting an audio profile from a number of audio profile by means of the current state, a second processing unit programmed for converting the audio profile into an acoustic signal, and an interface to a tone generator, which is connected to an acoustic output means and is designed to output the acoustic signal to a plant operator. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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