Operation support apparatus, system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11740912-B2
Application number	US-201917425832-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 1, 2019
Priority date	Feb 1, 2019
Publication date	Aug 29, 2023
Grant date	Aug 29, 2023

Abstract

An operation support apparatus (100) includes a storage unit (110) configured to store time-series data (111), and operation information (112), a specification unit (120) configured to specify a plurality of change points in a change trend of the states from the time-series data (111), and specify each of a plurality of time windows as one of a plurality of operating modes in the target system, and an operation-set generation unit (130) configured to extract, for each of the plurality of time windows, a set of operations performed at a time included in that time window from the operation information (112), generate an operating-mode operation set (113) in which the operating modes corresponding to the respective time windows are associated with the extracted set of operations, and stores the generated operating-mode operation set (113) in the storage unit (110).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An operation support apparatus comprising:
at least one memory configured to store instructions and time-series data obtained by measuring states of a target system controlled according to a plurality of operations performed by an operator, and operation information, the operation information being a set of at least one of the plurality of operations and a time, and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
specify a plurality of change points in a change trend of the states from the time-series data, and specify each of a plurality of time windows as one of a plurality of operating modes in the target system, the plurality of time windows being separated at at least one of the plurality of change points; and
extract, for each of the plurality of time windows, a set of operations performed at a time included in that time window from the operation information, generate an operating-mode operation set in which the operating modes corresponding to the respective time windows are associated with the extracted set of operations, and store the generated operating-mode operation set in the storage unit.

2. The operation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to:
specify each of a plurality of patterns that are obtained from the time-series data by performing a pattern analysis thereon as a change trend of the states; and
specify a time at a boundary of each of the patterns as the change point.

3. The operation support apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to specify, among the plurality of patterns, patterns whose change trends have a degree of similarity therebetween equal to or higher than a predetermined value as operating modes of the same type.

4. The operation support apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to:
integrate two or more patterns adjacent to each other into one pattern when a degree of similarity between their change trends is equal to or higher than a predetermined value; and
specify a time at a boundary of the integrated pattern as the change point.

5. The operation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the operation information includes history information of at least one of a plurality of operations performed by the operator and an operation instruction for the operator based on an operation plan that is planned in advance within a period corresponding to the time-series data, and
wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to:
extract a set of operations performed in the time window; and
extract an operation instruction corresponding to the time window from the operation instructions when no operation corresponding to the time window exists in the operation information, and generate the operating-mode operation set by associating the extracted operation instruction with the operating mode corresponding to the time window.

6. The operation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one memory further configured to
store external environment data including a plurality of pieces of environment data each of which corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of environment indexes, and
generate an action tree in which each of the operating modes is classified by using each of the plurality of environment indexes as a branching condition.

7. The operation support apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to generate and outputs the action tree as visualization information.

8. The operation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to generate and output visualization information of the operating-mode operation set.

9. The operation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to generate, based on the time-series data and the operating-mode operation set, an operator model for each of the operating modes, the operator model being configured to derive a set of operations performed by the operator from the state of the target system.

10. The operation support apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to input, in response to the designation of a target state of the target system in a time window in the future, the target state to the operator model in the operating mode corresponding to the time window in the future, derive a set of operations therefrom, and output the derived set of operations.

11. The operation support apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the at least one processor further configured to execute the instructions to train a simulator for predicting a state of the target system by using the time-series data and the operating-mode operation set, and
generate the operator model based also on the trained simulator.

12. An operation support method wherein a computer performs processes including:
specifying, from time-series data obtained by measuring states of a target system controlled according to a plurality of operations performed by an operator, a plurality of change points in a change trend of the states;
specifying each of a plurality of time windows as one of a plurality of operating modes in the target system, the plurality of time windows being separated at at least one of the plurality of change points;
extracting, for each of the plurality of time windows, a set of operations performed at a time included in that time window from operation information, the operation information being a set of at least one of the plurality of operations and a time;
generating an operating-mode operation set in which the operating modes corresponding to the respective time windows are associated with the extracted set of operations, and
storing the generated operating-mode operation set in a storage device.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an operation support program for causing a computer to perform:
a process of specifying, from time-series data obtained by measuring states of a target system controlled according to a plurality of operations performed by an operator, a plurality of change points in a change trend of the states;
a process of specifying each of a plurality of time windows as one of a plurality of operating modes in the target system, the plurality of time windows being separated at at least one of the plurality of change points;
a process of extracting, for each of the plurality of time windows, a set of operations performed at a time included in that time window from operation information, the operation information being a set of at least one of the plurality of operations and a time;
a process of generating an operating-mode operation set in which the operating modes corresponding to the respective time windows are associated with the extracted set of operations, and
a process of storing the generated operating-mode operation set in a storage device.

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Higa Ryota
• Kato Junya

Classifications

• G06F9/44505 Primary

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  for systems · CPC title

• G06Q50/06 Primary

  Energy or water supply · CPC title

• G05B23/02

  Electric testing or monitoring · CPC title

• G06Q10/0631

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