Safety monitoring under field operating conditions requires decision-relevant information with ensured interpretability. Monitoring systems are expected to generate information suitable for decision-making from a shared hazard stimulus while maintaini...
Safety monitoring under field operating conditions requires decision-relevant information with ensured interpretability. Monitoring systems are expected to generate information suitable for decision-making from a shared hazard stimulus while maintaining interpretive consistency at the decision stage over extended operation. Continuous signals reflect progressive coupling between environmental conditions and sensing interfaces, supporting early awareness of accumulated or advancing risk states. Declaration information indicates attainment of a critical state in an explicit manner, enabling intervention decisions without additional interpretive burden. These two forms of information differ fundamentally in functional role and interpretive demand, requiring role-specific representation and operational principles.
During extended operation, baseline variation, surface state evolution, contact instability, and reduced observability accumulate over time. These conditions degrade stability and reproducibility of continuous signals and enable uncertainty arising at the measurement stage to propagate into the decision stage. In conventional architectures deriving trend information and activation judgment through a single processing path, minor deviations in signal interpretation influence decision criteria. This coupling results in reduced warning clarity, elevated decision thresholds, and instability of judgment rules across operating conditions. This dissertation defines such failure behavior as information role overload and attributes its origin to signal representation structures lacking explicit separation of informational functions.
This dissertation proposes a design principle separating informational roles at the level of signal representation. The proposed approach incorporates material and surface design, threshold configuration, multiple hazard stimuli, distinct operating modes, and observation-dependent design implications within a unified design perspective. Physically separated parallel signal representations are constructed for a shared hazard stimulus, with single informational roles maintained per representation. Continuous representations convey trend information with physically interpretable characteristics, while declaration representations present perceivable state transitions under observation conditions ensuring sufficient interpretability. Integration of informational roles, signal representations, and observation conditions demonstrates preservation of consistent interpretability and predictable system behavior across operating conditions. The proposed design principle provides a structured basis for improving interpretive reliability and operational stability in safety monitoring systems.