Patent ID: 7055062

Claim:
A self-diagnose and self-repair method for facilitating operation of an automated system, the method comprising: monitoring at least one operational parameter of the automated system; automatically detecting an abnormal status of the at least one operational parameter; automatically evaluating the abnormal status of the at least one operational parameter to isolate a possible fault resulting in the abnormal status; undertaking automated repair of the possible fault, and thereafter, automatically determining whether the abnormal status has been eliminated; and wherein the monitoring, automatically detecting, automatically evaluating and undertaking automated repair are implemented by autonomous components, including at least one auto-detection component, an auto-fault isolation component, and an auto-fix component, each of which is selectively invoked by a supervisory component as needed for a particular self-diagnose or self-repair of the automated system, and wherein the monitoring and the automatically detecting are performed by the at least one auto-detection component upon being invoked by the supervisory component, the automatically evaluating is performed by the auto-fault isolation component upon being invoked by the supervisory component and the undertaking automated repair is performed by the auto-fix component upon being invoked by the supervisory component.