KR102000250B1 - Base on side thruster control dual type national marine electronics association combiner for communication output signal digitization, and communication output signal digitization system including the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a NMEA combiner function for digitizing a communication output signal based on a dual-type side trusser control, and a communication output signal digitizing system including the same. A first aspect of the present invention is a semiconductor device comprising: an input / output board (I / O Board); And an NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 formed in the I / O board 1 in addition to the NMEA combiner functional unit 100; And the NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 requests the digital communication unit 200 to digitize the communication output signal to add a digital communication function to the analog function and transmits the communication output signal to the plurality of side trusser units, / Digital (Analog / Digital) communication is selectively used in the communication system of the present invention.
A second aspect of the present invention is a NMEA combiner functional unit 100 formed in an I / O board 1 in addition to the NMEA combiner functional unit 100, 100, and the digital communication unit 200, the N data transmission method, the data format protocol, and the data contents are handled according to the related standard (IEC61162-1) in the data communication data specification to provide the data packet structure of the RS422 serial communication method between the digital communication unit 200 and the communication (RS422), Baud rate (4800 bps), Synchronous mode (Asynchronous), Start bits (1bit), Data bits (8bits (D7 = 0, Least Significant Bit) The present invention provides an NMEA combiner for digitizing a communication output signal based on a dual-type side trusser control, which is characterized in that data communication is carried out with a stop bit (1 bit (output as 1)) and Parity (None).
Thus, in the case of existing communication, only the analog communication can be outputted, and it is possible to solve the limitations that are difficult to use for the ship using the NMEA system.
In addition, even if the existing NMEA combiner is used, it can be accommodated inside the I / O board by changing the method of attaching it to the outside, so that the dual type NMEA communication method is used so that it can be applied without additional equipment And the like.
In addition, it provides an effect that the error rate of the digitized communication signal can be operated within 0.1%.

Description

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The present invention relates to a system for digitizing a communication output signal to which an NMEA combiner function for digitizing a communication output signal of a dual-type side trusser control is applied. More specifically, It is possible to solve the limitations that are difficult to use for ships using the NMEA method and to accommodate them inside the I / O board by changing the way of attaching them to the outside through functionalization of existing NMEA combiner, Side trusser control to enable the error rate of the digitized communication signal to be less than 0.1% by making it possible to output together and to be applied without any additional equipment. The NMEA combiner for dual type communication output signal digitization, And a communication output signal digitization system including the same Intended.

Generally, it is necessary to finely steer the hull so as to be parallel with the seawall or the dock when the ship rides on the seawall or enters the dock for repair.

This need also arises to secure a sophisticated position in special vessels such as drillships. In this case, a side thruster device is used. In general, a tunnel which is horizontally penetrated to the stern or forward side is provided with a fan capable of forward rotation and reverse rotation to discharge water to the opposite side Thereby finely adjusting the position of the ship.

That is, a tunnel is formed horizontally through the forward or stern side hull, and a side trusser using a fan connected to the forward and reverse rotatable motors is installed in the tunnel to discharge the inflow water to the opposite side to be moved, The position is fine-tuned.

Meanwhile, the communication system for interlocking between the side trussers, the Voyage Data Recorder, the GPS device, and the AIS (Auto Identification System) devices corresponding to different equipments in the ship is a conventional hardwiring ) Method to digital (digital) communication method.

In the conventional hardwiring method, the number of necessary information and the number of wires are added as N: N ratio.

On the other hand, when using the digital communication method, it is possible to add transmission / reception information to the software without additional hardwiring at the ratio of N: 1 and the number of necessary information and wiring. This has the great advantage that the user can add the desired information even after all cables are installed in the ship.

Patent Application No. 10-2014-0175240 Patent Application No. 10-2008-0132597 Patent Application No. 10-1999-0048491

The present invention solves the above problems. In the conventional communication, only the analog communication can be outputted. Therefore, in the ship using the NMEA method, the side trusser control dual type communication output And a communication output signal digitization system applying the NMEA combiner function for signal digitization.

In addition, the present invention changes the method of attaching it to the outside through the functionalization of the existing NMEA combiner and accommodates it in the input / output board (I / O board) Side trusser control for enabling dual-type NMEA communication method to be applied without the need to use the NMEA combiner function for digitizing the communication output signal of the dual type, and a communication output signal digitizing system including the same .

Also, the present invention provides a NMEA combiner function for digitizing a communication output signal of a dual-type side trusser control for operating an error rate of a digitized communication signal within 0.1%, and a communication output signal digitizing system including the same .

However, the objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to accomplish the above object, a communication output signal digitizing system in a dual-type side trusser control according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input / output board (I / O board) 1; And an NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 formed in the I / O board 1 in addition to the NMEA combiner functional unit 100; And the role of the NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 is to request the digital communication unit 200 to digitize the communication output signal to add a digital communication function to the analog function and to provide a plurality of side trusser units, And an analog / digital (Analog / Digital) communication is selectively used.

In the communication output signal digitization system of the dual type side truss control according to another embodiment of the present invention, the role of the NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 is a function of the digital communication unit 200 and the recommended standard 422 And outputs the analog communication output signal as a part of the input / output board 1, which is a side thruster controller terminal board, and outputs the digitized analog communication output signal. Collect signals together to enable output.

In order to achieve the above object, in an NMEA combiner function for digitizing a communication output signal based on a dual-type side trusser control according to an embodiment of the present invention, an input / output (I / O) The NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 formed in an additional configuration is connected to the NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 in order to provide a data packet structure of an RS422 serial communication method between the function of applying the NMEA combiner function unit 100 and the digital communication unit 200, Data specification covers N data transmission method, data format protocol, data contents according to related standard (IEC61162-1), communication method (RS422), Baud rate (4800 bps), synchronous method (Asynchronous), Start bits (1 bit (output as 0)), Data bits (8 bits (D7 = 0, transmitted from LSB (Least Significant Bit))), Stop bits (output as 1 bit) and Parity .

In this case, the NMEA combiner function for digitizing the side-trusser control dual type communication output signal according to another embodiment of the present invention is a function of the NMEA combiner function unit 100 and a truss The TRC data structure, which is Thruster Control Data (hereinafter referred to as 'TRC'), is transmitted at regular intervals to provide the status of control data for the side trestor devices.

Further, in the NMEA combiner function for digitizing the communication output signal of the dual-type side trusser control according to another embodiment of the present invention, the TRC data structure includes a number of thruster, bow or stern (number of trussers, RPM demand value, RPM mode indicator, Pitch demand value, Pitch mode indicator, Azimuth demand, Operating location, an indicator (operating position indicator), and a Sentence status flag.

In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the role of the NMEA combiner for digitizing the communication output signal based on the dual-type side truss control is realized by individually or group-by-side control of the side truss device for transmitting TRC data using the individual ID And a multiplexing unit for multiplexing data to be transmitted to each of the side trusser units divided for each channel with respect to the generated control data.

The NMEA combiner function for digitizing the communication output signal of the dual-type side truss control according to the embodiment of the present invention and the communication output signal digitization system including the NMEA combiner function for the dual communication output signal digitization, It provides the effect of solving the limitations that are difficult to use for ships using the NMEA method.

In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the NMEA combiner function for digitizing the communication output signal based on the dual-type side trusser control and the communication output signal digitizing system including the NMEA combiner function, And it is accommodated in the I / O board by changing the way of attaching it to the outside, so that the dual type NMEA communication method can be used so that it can be applied without additional equipment.

In addition, the NMEA combiner function for digitizing the communication output signal of the dual-type side trusser control according to another embodiment of the present invention and the communication output signal digitization system including the NMEA combiner function can reduce the error rate of the digitized communication signal by 0.1% Or less.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a function of a combiner as an external view in an NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 constituting a communication output signal digitization system in a dual-type side trusser control according to an embodiment of the present invention. Is implemented in a circuit board inside the terminal board.
2 is a block diagram illustrating internal functional components of the NMEA combiner functionalization 100 of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of an NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 used in a communication output signal digitizing system in a dual-type side trusser control according to an embodiment of the present invention and a data packet of an RS422 serial communication method between a digital communication unit 200 Fig.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 used in a communication output signal digitizing system in a dual-type side trusser control according to an embodiment of the present invention and a trusser control data (Hereinafter referred to as " TRC ").
FIG. 5 is a graph showing the relationship between the function of the NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 used in the communication output signal digitizing system in the side trusser control dual type according to the embodiment of the present invention and the trusser response data (Hereinafter, referred to as " TRD ").
6 is a block diagram of an input / output board (I / O board) (FIG. 6) in which a function of the NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 used in the communication output signal digitizing system in the dual type of side trusser control according to the embodiment of the present invention 1 is a reference diagram showing a circuit diagram for the digital communication unit 200 inside.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention will be given with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

In the present specification, when any one element 'transmits' data or signals to another element, the element can transmit the data or signal directly to the other element, and through at least one other element Data or signal can be transmitted to another component.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a function of a NMEA function unit 100 constituting a system for digitizing a communication output signal in a dual-type side trusser control according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. to be. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the internal components of the NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 of FIG.

 1 and 2, the function of the NMEA combiner function unit 100 is added to the outside in order to change and collect the hard wired or analog output method from other equipments to the digital communication method, (I / O Board) 1, as shown in FIG.

Accordingly, the function of the NMEA combiner function unit 100 compensates for the disadvantages of the conventional analog output method, and uses a method of both analog and digital in the side truss control according to the smart ship trend.

That is, the function of the NMEA combiner functional unit 100 is a dual-type side trusser control, and the NMEA combiner function is changed to configure a self circuit in the input / output board 1 to enable digital communication output .

In the single type of the side truss controller, the pitch order data and the pitch feedback data are inputted to the Voyage (Voyage) using the analog input / output method (10 V, 4 to 20 mA) The NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 according to the present invention has a digital communication function for adding a digital communication function to the analog function, as opposed to linking with a ship equipment such as a data recorder 200 can be additionally provided so that the user can selectively use analog / digital communication.

That is, in order to add a digital communication function to the analog function of the NMEA combiner functional unit 100, the digital communication unit 200 is requested to digitize the communication output signal, and a plurality of side trusser units, a ship unit, and an analog / / Digital) communication can be selectively used.

At this time, the NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 exchanges data with the digital communication unit 200 through a serial communication method corresponding to RS422 (recommended standard-422), thereby generating a side thruster controller terminal board As a part of the input / output board 1, the analog communication output signal is digitized and output, so that it can be used for a ship using the NMEA system, unlike the conventional communication system in which only the analog communication output signal is provided.

As a result, in the present invention, by utilizing the digitized communication output signal, the transmission error rate can be limited to within 0.1%, and the NMEA combiner function can be implemented in the input / output board 1 Thus providing an effect that can be applied without additional equipment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of an NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 used in a communication output signal digitizing system in a dual-type side trusser control according to an embodiment of the present invention and a data packet of an RS422 serial communication method between a digital communication unit 200 Fig.

Referring to FIG. 3, N data transmission method, data format protocol, and data contents are handled according to the related standard (IEC61162-1) as the data communication data specification, and communication method (RS422), baud rate (4800 bps) ), Stop bits (1 bit (output as 1)), Parity (Asynchronous), Start bits (Output 1 bit), Data bits (8 bits (D7 = 0, Least Significant Bit) (None).

Here, IEC61162-1 uses NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100, which is a single device, to transmit data to various receiving devices through a single talker (data transmitting device) and a multi listener (device that receives data from other devices) This paper deals with protocols for unidirectional serial communication.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a communication router according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 4, Control data (hereinafter, referred to as 'TRC').

FIG. 5 is a graph showing the relationship between the function of the NMEA combiner functioning unit 100 used in the communication output signal digitizing system in the side trusser control dual type according to the embodiment of the present invention and the trusser response data (Hereinafter, referred to as " TRD "). 6 is a block diagram of an input / output board (I / O board) 1 in which an NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 used in a system for digitizing a communication output signal in a dual-type side trusser control according to an embodiment of the present invention is formed; The digital communication unit 200 of FIG.

First, referring to FIG. 4, the TRC data structure must be transmitted at regular intervals to provide the status of the control data for the side trestor device. For this, the number of thruster, bow or stern (number of thrusters, stern or stern), RPM demand value, RPM mode indicator (RPM mode indicator), Pitch demand value (pitch demand value) indicator, azimuth demand, operating location indicator, and a sentence status flag.

The function of the NMEA combiner function unit 100 is to have a function of selecting control data and generating control data for each side or group of side truss devices to which TRC data is to be transmitted by using individual IDs, Multiplexing for transmission to each side trestor device grouped for each channel.

For this purpose, a combine function module, a speed conversion module (speed conversion module), and an NMEA conversion module (NMEA conversion module (if required) can be utilized for the function of the NMEA converter function module 100.

In the present invention, a module may mean a functional and structural combination of hardware for carrying out the technical idea of the present invention and software for driving the hardware. For example, the module may mean a logical unit of a predetermined code and a hardware resource for executing the predetermined code, and it does not necessarily mean a physically connected code or a kind of hardware. Can be easily deduced to the average expert in the field of < / RTI >

Here, the TRC control data is defined as "$ - TRC, x, xx, a, xx, a, xx, a, a * hh &lt; CR &Gt; < LF > &quot;.Quot;, &quot; * "indicates the start of NMEA data," TRC "is the TRC control data format of the user defined data," x, xx, a, xx, a, xx, The following is the Checksum, where "hh" is the Checksum value, <CR> is 0x0d, and <LF> is 0x0a.

Referring to Figure 5, the TRD data structure must be transmitted at regular intervals to provide the status of the response data from the side trestor device. To do this, use the Number of Thruster, bow or stern, RPM response, RPM mode indicator, Pitch response value, Pitch mode indicator, Pitch mode indicator), and azimuth demand (azimuth demand).

The NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 has a function of receiving control data selection and response data for each side or group of side trestor devices to receive TRD data by using individual IDs, Demultiplexing can be performed by receiving from each side trestor device classified for each channel.

Here, the TRD control data is defined as "$ - TRD, x, xx, a, xx, a, xx * hh <CR> <LF>" using a custom format that begins with "$ - TRD" "Can be expressed as "$" Indicates the start of the NMEA data, "TRD" indicates the TRD response data format among the user-defined data, "x, xx, a, xx, a, xx" "hh" indicates a Checksum value, <CR> indicates 0x0d, and <LF> indicates 0x0a.

An input / output board (I / O Board) 1 including an NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 can be connected to other navigation communication equipment (not shown) using an input port 100a capable of receiving NMEA signals It is possible to directly receive data from the PC or send and receive TRC data and TRD data by the NMEA converter functional unit 100. In the case of some VDRs or ECDISs, Therefore, it is possible to receive data using the Ethernet interface.

The output port 100b can perform a data session connection between the NMEA combiner functional unit 100 and the side trestor device in a wireless manner for port reduction and simple connection.

As described above, preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed in the present specification and drawings, and although specific terms have been used, they have been used only in a general sense to easily describe the technical contents of the present invention and to facilitate understanding of the invention , And are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that other modifications based on the technical idea of the present invention are possible in addition to the embodiments disclosed herein.

1: Input / output board
100: National Marine Electronics Association Combiner (NMEA)
100a: input port
100b: output port
200: Digital Connection Part

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I / O Board (1); And
An NMEA combiner 100 functioning as an addition to the input / output board I; / RTI &gt;
The NMEA combiner functionalization unit 100 requests the digital communication unit 200 to digitize the communication output signal to add a digital communication function to the analog function and transmits the digital signal to the plurality of side trusser units and the ship unit and the analog / / Digital) communication is selectively used,
The NMEA combiner functionalization unit (100)
In order to provide the data packet structure of the RS422 serial communication method between the NMEA combiner functional unit 100 and the digital communication unit 200, an N data transmission method and data Format protocol and data contents. Communication method (RS422), Baud rate (4800 bps), Synchronization method (Asynchronous), Start bits (1bit), Data bits (8bits (D7 = 0, Data communication is performed with Stop bits (output from LSB (Least Significant Bit))), Stop bits (Output with 1 bit) and Parity (None)
The TRC data structure, which is thruster control data (hereinafter referred to as 'TRC') among the communication data packet structure between the NMEA combiner functional unit 100 and the side trestor,
To be able to generate the control data selection and control data for individual or group side truster devices to be transmitted at regular intervals to provide the status of the control data for the side trestor devices and to transmit TRC data using the individual IDs And multiplexing the generated control data to be transmitted to each side trusser unit classified for each channel.
The NMEA combiner functionalization unit (100) according to claim 1,
Output board 1, which is a side truss controller (TPM) terminal board, through a serial communication method corresponding to the digital communication unit 200 and the RS422 (recommended standard-422) And the output signal is digitized and output. The communication output signal digitization system in the dual-type side truss control.
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The TRC data structure includes a Number of Thruster, a bow or stern, a RPM demand value, an RPM mode indicator, a Pitch demand value, A pitch mode indicator, an azimuth demand, an operating location indicator, and a sentence status flag. In the dual-type side trusser control, Communication output signal digitization system.
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