Patent ID: 11885211
Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E  G | IPC E  G

Claim 7:
8. A method for automated drilling, comprising:
receiving, at a service layer of a rig operating system, a tool-agnostic request to perform a process;
determining, by the service layer of the rig operation system, one or more activities to complete the process; and
direct an activity layer of the rig operating system to cause the one or more activities to be performed, wherein the activity layer is configured to:
identify a first controller module associated with a first activity of the one or more activities; and
trigger the first controller module to initiate the first activity, wherein the first controller module is configured to:
receive, from the activity layer, tool-agnostic instructions based on the tool-agnostic request,
identify a first one or more drilling tools to initiate the first activity,
translate the tool-agnostic instructions to tool-specific instructions, and direct the first one or more drilling tools to initiate the first activity in accordance with the tool-specific instructions.