Remote operation receiving system, remote operating system and program thereof

• US 9,268,324 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2014
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Neusoft Corporation
• Original Assignee: Neusoft Corporation
• Inventors: Cui, Hua
• Primary Examiner(s): Kiswanto, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US14/518,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20150112485A1
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1689 Teleoperation
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/406 characterised by monitoring or safety G05B19/19 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0208 characterized by the configuration of the monitoring system
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0224 Process history based detection method, e.g. whereby history implies the availability of large amounts of data

Abstract

The present invention relates to a remote operation receiving system, for suppressing the generation of the executive results of the action which don'"'"'t meet the operating aim. The host unit of a local server may enable a target equipment to perform the corresponding action according to a remote operation instruction received from a remote operating device (S400). Based on the history data, the condition variation in the target equipment generated between the operation reference timing to the current timing is detected (S320˜S345). The operation reference timing refers to the time point when the condition displayed on the screen in a distant device is monitored from the monitoring device when the distant operating device is operated. If the condition variation is relatively large, then the remote operation instruction is abandoned (S430), and if smaller, then the target equipment performs the action to which the remote operation instruction corresponds (S400).

Claims

1. A remote operation receiving system, characterized by, including:

a receiving unit for receiving a remote operation instruction for a target equipment from an external device;

a sending unit for monitoring at least one of the target equipment and a surroundings of the target equipment, generating provided data provided to the external device indicating a condition of the target equipment according to monitoring data sent from a monitoring device for outputting the monitoring data indicating its monitoring results, and sending the provided data to the external device for displaying the condition of the target equipment based on the provided data sequentially;

a detecting unit for detecting a condition variation in the target equipment generated between a pre-performing timing and an operation reference timing according to the monitoring data from the monitoring device, wherein the pre-performing timing is the timing before an action to which the remote operation instruction received by the receiving unit corresponds is performed by the target equipment, and the operation reference timing is the timing when the condition displayed on the external device is monitored in the monitoring device during instructing the external device to send the remote operation instruction; and

a control unit, based on the condition variation detected by the detecting unit, controlling the target equipment not to perform the action to which the remote operation instruction corresponds when the condition variation is greater than the reference, or controlling the target equipment to perform the action to which the remote operation instruction corresponds when the condition variation is equal or less than the reference.

2. The remote operation receiving system of claim 1, characterized by,

the remote operation receiving system includes an accumulation unit for storing the monitoring data from the monitoring device in a storing device as history data at each monitoring timing;

the detecting unit detects the condition variation according to the history data at the each monitoring timing stored in the storing device.

3. The remote operation receiving system of claim 2, characterized by,

the sending unit is configured to send the provided data generated based on the monitoring data to the external device together with an identification code corresponding to the monitoring timing;

the external device is configured to, if instructing to send the remote operation instruction is performed, send the remote operation instruction corresponding to the operation to the remote operation receiving system together with a condition information source displayed at the operation, that is, an identification code of the provided data;

the receiving unit receives the remote operation instruction and the identification code;

the detecting unit detects the condition variation according to the history data at the each monitoring timing stored in the storing device, at the same time, according to the identification code received by the receiving unit, the history data indicating the condition of the target equipment at the operation reference timing is determined.

4. The remote operation receiving system of claim 1, characterized by,

the monitoring device includes a camera, for taking photographs of at least one of the target equipment and the surroundings of the target equipment and outputting taken-photograph data as the monitoring data;

the sending unit sends the taken-photograph data to the external device as the provided data.

5. The remote operation receiving system of claim 1, characterized by,

regarding to the condition variation, if a condition difference, between the condition of the target equipment at the pre-performing timing and the condition of the target equipment at the operation reference timing, is greater than a reference, before the difference becomes to be equal or less than the reference, the target equipment is controlled, by the control unit, not to perform the action to which the remote operation instruction corresponds;

and, the target equipment is controlled to perform the action to which the remote operation instruction corresponds when the said difference is equal or less than the reference.

6. The remote operation receiving system of claim 5, characterized by,

if the state in which the difference is beyond the reference lasts for more than a specified time, the control unit abandons the remote operation instruction.

7. A remote operating system, characterized by, including:

a remote operation receiving system of claim 1; and

a remote operating device, as the external device, for sending the remote operation instruction to the remote operation receiving system, and displaying the condition of the target equipment according to the provided data received from the remote operation receiving system.

8. A non-transitory storage medium comprising a program, characterized by,

enabling an information processing system of a computer to perform the following steps, wherein a remote operation instruction for a target equipment from an external device is received by the information processing system:

a sending step for monitoring at least one of the target equipment and a surroundings of the target equipment, generating the provided data provided to the external device indicating a condition of the target equipment according to the monitoring data sent from a monitoring device for outputting the monitoring data indicating its monitoring results, and sending the provided

data to the external device for displaying the condition of the target equipment based on the provided data sequentially;

a detecting step for detecting a condition variation in the target equipment generated between a pre-performing timing and an operation reference timing according to the monitoring data from the monitoring device, wherein the pre-performing timing is a timing before an action to which the remote operation instruction corresponds is performed by the target equipment, and the operation reference timing is the timing when the condition displayed on the external device is monitored in the monitoring device during instructing the external device to send the remote operation instruction;

a control step, based on the condition variation detected by the detecting unit, controlling the target equipment not to perform the action to which the remote operation instruction corresponds when the condition variation is greater than a reference, or controlling the target equipment to perform the action to which the remote operation instruction corresponds when the condition variation is equal or less than the reference.