United States Patent (19)
`Wilson et al.
`
`54 PERIPHERALDATA ACQUISITION,
`MONITOR, AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL
`UTE
`SYSTEM VIA PERSONAL COMP R
`75 Inventors: Dennis A. Wilson, McHenry; Mark
`S. Williamsen, Crystal Lake, both of
`I.
`73) Assignee: Ansan Industries, Ltd., Rockford, Ill.
`21 Appl. No.: 927.168
`21 Appl. No
`22) Filed:
`
`Aug. 5, 1992
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`63
`
`Related U.S. Application Data
`Continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 862,624, Apr. 1, 1992,
`which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 832,716,
`Feb. 7, 1992, Pat No. 5,220,522, which is a continua-
`tion of Ser. No. 350,115, May 9, 1989, Pat. No.
`5,099,444.
`51 Int, Cl.......................... GOSB 11/01; G06F 3/00
`52 U.S. C. ............................... 364/146; 364/709.09:
`340/825.06; 340/825.36; 34.5/168
`58 Field of Search .............. 364/146, 709.09, 709.11,
`364/188; 395/500; 340/706, 825.06, 825.54,
`825.55, 825.36
`
`56)
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`-
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`(List continued on next page.)
`Primary Examiner-Paul P. Gordon
`Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Welsh & Katz, Ltd.
`57
`ABSTRACT
`A peripheral data acquisition, monitor, and adaptive
`control system is disclosed in which a personal con
`puter (PC) and one or more input/output (I/O) Bridge
`devices interface signals from electronically-controlled
`devices to the PC via the keyboard port, thus permitting
`data, such as measurement data, to be automatically and
`directly entered into application programs such that the
`PC can take action and control outputs based upon the
`measurement data. A software control program is also
`disclosed which allows the user to configure the system
`for orienting the user as to which devices are being
`controlled, reading digital and analog inputs, making
`decisions based upon the information using specific
`user-defined conditions, and setting digital outputs. The
`system is also adapted to interface with a wireless or AC
`power-line transmission media.
`
`32 Claims, 36 Drawing Sheets
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`40
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`4- 2 st2
`461N
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`47 NC
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`364/709.01
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`... 340/706
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`364/709.01
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`... 364/200
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`402
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`ACPOWER LINE
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`POWER LINE
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`POWER LINE
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`DECODER
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`APPLANCE
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`COMMAND
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`MAJOR
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`H-10 inputs
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`When fix Beep
`iS received:
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`APPLICATION SOFTWARE CALLS FOR
`REMOTE MODULE TO BETURNED ON
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`APPLICATION CREATES BRIDGE COMMAND
`TO SELECT THE SPECIFED MODULE
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`COMMAND ESSENT TO BRIDGE VIA
`KEYBOARD INTERFACE
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`I/O BRIDGE SYNTHESIZES PROPER BT
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`COMMAND ESSENT TO BRIDGE
`VAKEYBOARD INTERFACE
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`I/O BRIDGE SYNTHESIZES PROPER BT
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`SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION, THE
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`POWER LINE CARRIER
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`AND NOIFIES THE USER
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`FIG 10A
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`X-10 POWER LINE CARRIER
`TRANSMISSION ISSENT FROMA
`SOURCE OTHER THAN THE HOST PC
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`IF PRESENT, THE SELECTED MODULE
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`TRANSMISSION
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`TRANSMISSION SELECT CODES
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`INTERFACE MODULE
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`I/O BRIDGE INTERPRETS THE TRANSMISSION
`SELECT CODE AND REPORTS T TO THE HOST
`PC APPLICATION SOFTWARE
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`TRANSMISSION COMMAND CODES
`DETECTED BY THE X-O TWO-WAY
`INTERFACE MODULE
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`COMMAND CODE AND REPORTS T TO THE HOST
`PC APPLICATION SOFTWARE
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`PERIPHERALDATA ACQUISITION, MONITOR,
`AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM VA
`PERSONAL COMPUTER
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`a power source therefor. Specialized software programs
`must be written to instruct the circuit card to take a
`particular measurement and to return the data to the
`CPU such that the reading can either be saved on a disc
`storage unit or displayed on a video monitor. While
`these data acquisition accessories reduce the tedium
`associated with the reading and recording of measured
`values and decrease the possibility of errors in such
`reading and recording, they still have at least one major
`drawback-that of requiring specialized knowledge of
`the particular data acquisition system and the ability to
`program the CPU and the data acquisition circuit card
`in order to perform the desired functions.
`If the peripheral data acquisition, monitor, and con
`trol system is even moderately sophisticated, a service
`technician, typically one who has significant experience
`in both computer programming and electronic control,
`must install the system and troubleshoot it. A further
`difficulty is often encountered in that existing software
`application programs for performing data reduction and
`analysis, based on the keyboard entry of data, must be
`modified, or even rewritten, in order to accept input
`from the data acquisition circuit card. Once such a
`system is configured and programmed by the service
`technician, it usually becomes very difficult or impossi
`ble for the average unskilled user to change anything in
`the system configuration, to test the correct operation
`of particular control devices in the system, or to even
`obtain a general understanding of the overall system
`operation.
`For example, in the case of a security system having
`window and door sensors in a number of different build
`ings located across an office complex, a security guard,
`having no programming or electronics background,
`would typically be responsible for operating the system.
`In order to allow an employee into one of the doors at
`one of the buildings, the security guard usually has to
`disable either the entire system, or at least that portion
`of the system corresponding to that building, instead of
`being able to disable only that particular sensor at the
`door being used. Even if the security system was sophis
`ticated enough to provide this capability, the security
`guard would only have a vague recollection of which
`door sensor in which building is being disabled, instead
`of being presented with a precise visual image on a
`display monitor of the location of that particular door
`sensor with respect to the physical layout of the build
`ing and/or the entire office complex. Moreover, if that
`particular door sensor was faulty, the security guard
`typically would not be provided with the capability to
`change the system configuration to render that door
`sensor inoperative and test the remaining sensors in the
`system once the system configuration has been changed.
`Similarly, using aforementioned the example of a
`computerized production sorting system in a factory, it
`is often desirable to completely automate each step in
`the manufacturing process and provide data acquisition
`capabilities to test the manufactured product using a
`personal computer. In the past, this has typically re
`quired a dedicated PC to run the system using custom
`ized software specifically developed for that particular
`manufacturing process. If even a single one of the man
`ufacturing steps is changed to accommodate a new
`product, the entire system typically must be shut down
`temporarily to reconfigure the system by reprogram
`ming the software. As will be appreciated by those
`skilled in the art, this procedure is excessively time
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`CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED
`APPLICATIONS
`This application is a continuation-in-part of applica
`tion Ser. No. 07/862,624, filed Apr. 1, 1992, which is a 10
`continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/832,716,
`filed Feb. 7, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,220,522, issued
`on Jun. 15, 1993, which is a continuation of application
`Ser. No. 07/350,115, filed May 9, 1989, now U.S. Pat.
`No. 5,099,444, issued on Mar. 22, 1992. All of the above
`applications are hereby incorporated by reference as if
`fully set forth herein.
`REFERENCE TO COMPUTER PROGRAM
`APPENDEX
`A computer program appendix, comprising a total of 20
`511 pages of computer object code listing with a single
`page Table of Contents, is attached to parent applica
`tion Ser. No. 07/862,624 as Appendix A, and is hereby
`incorporated by reference into this application as if fully
`set forth herein.
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`AUTHORIZATION TO COPY COMPUTER
`PROGRAM APPENDIX
`A portion of the disclosure of this patent document
`contains material which is subject to copyright protec- 30
`tion. The copyright owner has no objection to the fac
`simile reproduction by anyone of the patent document
`or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and
`Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise
`reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.
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`FIELD OF THE INVENTION
`The present invention generally relates to the field of
`computer systems for the monitoring and controlling of
`peripheral devices for the purpose of data acquisition 40
`and for remote control. More specifically, the present
`invention relates to computer systems including a per
`sonal computer (PC) and one or more input/output
`peripheral data acquisition, monitor, and control de
`vices which interface signals from electronically-con- 45
`trolled devices to the PC, thus permitting data, such as
`measurement data, to be automatically and directly
`entered into application programs such that the PC can
`take action and control outputs based upon the measure
`ment data.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
`Numerous computer software programs have been
`developed to provide computer control of data acquisi
`tion systems designed to automate every step in a partic- 55
`ular process. An example of such an automated process
`would be a production sorting system, where products
`are tested under computer control to see if the products
`are within predetermined limits for certain parameters
`and, if not, to reject them. Such a computerized produc- 60
`tion sorting system tends to be expensive, bulky, and of
`limited utility outside of the narrow use for which it was
`originally designed.
`There has also been a trend to develop data acquisi
`tion accessories for use with desktop computers. Many 65
`of these accessories comprise plug-in circuit cards
`which are connected to the personal computer's central
`processor unit (CPU) and are dependent upon the PC as
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`consuming and very costly. Furthermore, in order to
`adaptive control system which interfaces to existing
`perform testing by automatic data acquisition for this
`power-line carrier or wireless transmission media.
`new product, the necessary modification of the test
`These and other objects are achieved by the present
`fixture, the system configuration, and the data acquisi
`invention, which, briefly stated, is a peripheral data
`acquisition, monitor, and adaptive control system in
`tion application software is quite often a tremendous
`undertaking. It may even prove to be more cost effec
`cluding a personal computer (PC) and one or more
`input/output (I/O) Br