Systems and methods for designing and assembling form boards with attached wire routing devices for use in wire bundle assembly. The assembly method comprises: (a) establishing a coordinate system of a form board having a multiplicity of holes; (b) using a computer system to determine locations of form board devices of different types with reference to the coordinate system of the form board based on engineering data specifying a wire bundle configuration; and (c) fastening the form board devices of different types to respective holes of the form board having centers closest to respective locations determined in step (b). The form board devices may be inserted robotically or manually.

Structural design systems, methods, and computer readable media for selective simulation of coverage in a floor plan are disclosed. The system may include a processor configured to: access a floor plan demarcating multiple rooms; perform a machine learning method, semantic analysis, or geometric analysis on the floor plan to identify at least one opening associated with at least one room from the multiple rooms; access a functional requirement associated with the at least one opening; access at least one rule associating the functional requirement with the at least one opening; define at least one area of interest or disinterest using the at least one rule and the functional requirement; access a technical specification associated with the functional requirement; generatively analyze the at least one room, the technical specification and the area of interest or disinterest to define a solution that conforms to the functional requirement; and output the solution.

Tools and techniques are described to automate line testing when wiring devices (such as equipment and sensors) to controllers. Controllers have access to databases of the devices that are controlled by them, including wiring diagrams and protocols, such that the controller can automatically check that each wire responds correctly to stimulus from the controller. After testing, a reporting device rapidly shows the results of the line testing.

A cable route setting method according to the present disclosure includes: defining unit areas in a floor where a cable is to be wired; and specifying a cable route of the cable passing through each of the unit areas to any of a route between a left side and a right side, a route between the left side and an upper side, a route between the upper side and the right side, a route between the left side and a lower side, a route between the lower side and the right side, a route between the upper side and the lower side, a route between the left side and a center, a route between the right side and the center, a route between the upper side and the center, and a route between the lower side and the center.

An interactive information system includes a first frame, a second frame, and a first inter-frame cable. A first interactive module is arranged in the first frame and includes a first display module; a first touch input module; at least one first user input device; a first control module bridge board configured to transmit intra-frame electrical signals; a first interactive module bridge board configured to transmit inter-frame signals; and a first intra-frame cable. A control module is arranged in the second frame and includes a logic module configured to generate the first GUI and to perform function of the interactive information system based on user inputs. The first interactive module and the control module are electrically coupled via only the first inter-frame cable. Both the first frame and the second frame contain an electro-magnetic (EM) shielding material.

The present invention provides a cable planning method based a fast marching method applied with simulated annealing (FMM/SA) algorithm. In the FMM/SA algorithm-based cable planning method, the FMM used to obtain the optimal submarine cable path with the lowest life-cycle cost, and the SA algorithm is used to continuously adjust the weight of each design consideration with the aim to achieve an optimal cable path that is as close as possible to a real-life cable path which has a history of cost-effectiveness and resilience. The set of weights contributed to the optimal cable path is then used as an optimal set of weights of design considerations for cable path planning. The FMM/SA algorithm-based cable planning method can provide a computationally effective approach which has lower computation costs and better performance in generating cable paths with optimal life-cycle cost and reliability.

A method of operating a computer aided design (CAD) system model for modelling an article to be manufactured includes receiving a representation of the article, receiving constraints for the article, determining a maximum permissible curvature of one or more parts of the article, measuring the maximum curvature of the one or more parts of the article in the received representation and comparing the measured maximum curvature with the maximum permissible curvature. If the measured maximum curvature of at least one of the one or more parts exceeds the determined maximum permissible curvature, an error indication is provided. If the measured maximum curvature of each of the one or more parts does not exceed the determined maximum permissible curvature, the received representation for the article is stored.

A wiring assistance method includes receiving wiring data associated with a set of industrial automation devices and a set of wires and determining a set of wire properties based on the wiring data. The wiring assistance method also includes generating a wiring design based on the set of wire properties. The wiring design includes a set of wire couplings, each wire coupling indicative of a connection between two or more industrial automation devices of the set of industrial automation devices. The wiring assistance method also includes generating, based on the wiring design, a wiring instruction indicative of a first wire coupling of the set of wire couplings for display via an electronic display.

The invention concerns a computer-implemented method for generating a 3D design of an electrical system to be deployed in a portion of a building, the 3D design comprising a set of source positions, a set of charging positions, and cable paths. The method comprises: identifying a set of architectural elements from a spatial representation of the portion of the building; a step of voxelization of the set of architectural elements; generating a weighted graph comprising all possible cable paths; solving shortest path problems to compute a set of potential cable paths between respectively each one of the set of charging positions and each one of the set of source positions using the weighted graph; selecting the cable paths among the set of potential cable paths.

In certain embodiments, a selection of a first point and a second point within an infrastructure may be obtained via a user interface. A plurality of pathways, including a plurality of cable trays, between the first point and the second point may be determined. A first set of cable trays, having weights that do not exceed weight thresholds, may be identified. Images of the first set of cable trays may be obtained from a plurality of image sensors within the infrastructure. Fullness levels of the first set of cable trays may be determined based on the images. A second set of cable trays, having fullness levels that do not exceed fullness thresholds, may be identified from the first set of cable trays. One or more recommended pathways between the first point and the second point may be determined based on the identified second set of cable trays.