3346 results about "Coordinate control" patented technology

A document management system / method allowing coordinated synchronized modifications and secure, scalable, multi-level, and controlled access to Data Content and / or Documents (DCDS) over a computer network between multiple Content Owners and / or Reviewers (CORS) is disclosed. The system / method is configured to allow any number of CORS to share DCDS using a Content Collaboration Platform (CCP) while retaining complete DCDS integrity / retrieval control using a hierarchical Access Rights and Control List (ARCL) to prevent CORS from uncoordinated DCDS modification and prohibiting local maintenance of DCDS copies after the expiration of a CORS Data Access Session (DAS). Upon termination of a CORS DAS, the system synchronizes modifications to the DCDS and coordinates control information among various CORS to ensure proper return of the DCDS back to its original CORS owner and associated CORS storage location.

An energy saving control for appliances via an intelligent thermostat is provided. This intelligent thermostat provides programmatic control over the HVAC system, and provides coordinated control over the appliances. This control over the appliances is accomplished via a communications network between the intelligent thermostat and the appliances. The appliances include occupancy sensors and transmit usage and occupancy information to the intelligent thermostat. The intelligent thermostat processes this information to determine the occupancy of the dwelling. The thermostat controls the HVAC system and the appliances according to the determined occupancy of the dwelling.

A method and system are associated with distributed generation of electric power. Power demand data of at least one electric power consumer is monitored over time. Power supply data of a regional power distribution system is also monitored over time. The power demand data and the power supply data are analyzed to coordinate control of at least one distributed generation system associated with the electric power consumer.

An ultrasonic horn assembly is configured so that irrigating fluid can be supplied only to a vibrating tip portion of the ultrasonic horn and so that suction aspiration can occur through a portion of the ultrasonic horn not in contact with the irrigating fluid. Controllers supplying irrigation fluid during a surgical procedure and controlling suction aspiration via monitoring of fluid level in the patient cavity are operatively coupled one to another to coordinate control of the fluid level in the patient cavity. Circuitry controlling power, frequency and amplitude of the tip of the ultrasonic horn occurring as a result of operation of a source of ultrasonic signal generating power controls either or both the supply of irrigation fluid and the suction aspiration so as to minimize damping of vibration of the tip of the ultrasonic horn. An optical viewing element is provided to view the tip of the ultrasonic horn.

A control device for controlling a display of a computer system for use with a video game includes a coordinate control unit for providing information related to a vertical and horizontal tilt of the control device, a mouse control unit for inputting conventional mouse input information, a game control unit for inputting game control information and a controller for processing the information provided by the coordinate control unit, mouse control unit and game control unit. The vertical and horizontal point of view of the user in the video game and / or the vertical and horizontal position of a cursor on the display is determined based on the information related to the vertical and horizontal tilt of the control device. The control device is preferably shaped like a firearm to enhance the realism of the video game, but may be shaped like a conventional game pad.

An ultrasonic horn assembly is configured so that irrigating fluid can be supplied only to a vibrating tip portion of the ultrasonic horn and so that suction aspiration can occur through a portion of the ultrasonic horn not in contact with the irrigating fluid. Controllers supplying irrigation fluid during a surgical procedure and controlling suction aspiration via monitoring of fluid level in the patient cavity are operatively coupled one to another to coordinate control of the fluid level in the patient cavity. Circuitry controlling power, frequency and amplitude of the tip of the ultrasonic horn occurring as a result of operation of a source of ultrasonic signal generating power controls either or both the supply of irrigation fluid and the suction aspiration so as to minimize damping of vibration of the tip of the ultrasonic horn. An optical viewing element is provided to view the tip of the ultrasonic horn.

An area mixed traffic self-adapting signal coordinated control method relates to the technical field of the automatic control, wherein the vehicle information for entering the control junction is detected through a detector, and the vehicle information is transmitted to the traffic signal controller; the traffic signal controller performs the preheating on the traffic flow data, while the area coordinated control computer analyzes the traffic flow operation state of each inlet section of the junction, to perform the realtime analysis forecast, provides the optimized traffic signal project timing parameters to the traffic signal controller. The method of the invention divided the city road net into a plurality of subareas, adopts the layer net working to coordinated control the duration time of the traffic light at each junction, advances the traffic capacity, prevents the traffic congestion, reduces the off gas, ensures the traffic safety.

An energy saving control for appliances via an intelligent thermostat is provided. This intelligent thermostat provides programmatic control over the HVAC system, and provides coordinated control over the appliances. This control over the appliances is accomplished via a communications network between the intelligent thermostat and the appliances. The appliances include occupancy sensors and transmit usage and occupancy information to the intelligent thermostat. The intelligent thermostat processes this information to determine the occupancy of the dwelling. The thermostat controls the HVAC system and the appliances according to the determined occupancy of the dwelling.

The invention discloses an intelligent coordination control method of a dynamic bi-directional green wave band for an urban traffic trunk road. The method comprises the steps of starting, processing coordination parameters, processing intersection parameters, processing time and processing cycle, etc. The method adopts a double-stage control structure, namely, a control layer of a traffic control center server and a control layer of an intersection intelligent signal controlling machine, through the information interaction and the coordination of the traffic control center server and the intersection intelligent signal controlling machine, phase sequence is optimized in an on-line manner; and common period, highway section upper phase difference, highway section down phase difference, the starting time of an upper coordination phase, the starting time of a down coordination phase, green ratio at each intersection and other key control parameters are optimized and calculated on a real-time basis. The intelligent coordination control method gets rid of the limit of equal intersection intervals required for the coordination control of the green wave band for the urban traffic trunk road, and realizes the unceasing travel of bi-directional traffic flows on the main road by applying the traffic engineering technique, the artificial intelligence technique and the automatic control technique, thereby reducing the parking rate while the traffic capacity of the trunk road is improved, and obviously reducing the traveling time.

A wireless device is provided with a first and a second wireless transceivers to transmit and receive signals wirelessly in accordance with a first and a second protocol, respectively. The wireless device is further provided with a first and a second controller manager to control, in a coordinated manner, the transmit and receive operations of the first and second wireless transmitters. In various embodiments, the wireless device is further provided with at least one time sharing state machine to facilitate the coordinated control of the wireless transceivers. In some of these embodiments, the wireless device is further provided with a workload monitor to cooperate with the at least one time sharing machine to facilitate the coordinated control be adaptively performed, based at least in part on transmit and receive workloads of the two protocols. In various embodiments, the protocols may be selected pairs of Bluetooth, 802.11 FH, 802.11 D, 802.11 High Data Rate, Home RF and the like. The wireless device may also be used as a master device or a gateway device of two wireless networks.

Light shows are produced by a plurality of individuals at a gathering using a plurality of personal wireless cellular devices wherein each device is carried by a respective individual and wherein each device has a programmable digital processor and a controllable light show illumination source. A light show application program resides on each personal wireless cellular device for providing coordinated control of the light show illumination sources. An event server stores at least one event sequence corresponding to a predetermined gathering and including at least one timed action. The event sequence is downloadable by the plurality of personal wireless cellular devices for activation of the controllable light show illumination sources in accordance with the event sequence. The system further includes a synchronizer in each device for initiating the timed action. The synchronizer may be a clock or a proximity detector (such as a Bluetooth connection with nearby users).

A telecommunications system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of network clients (150) including a positioning controller (504) and a communications controller (502); and a positioning server (152) including a coordinating controller (161) for maintaining a database of network clients to be tracked, said database further including position-presence correlation information for individual users; wherein said positioning server (152) is adapted to receive position information from said plurality of network clients and distribute presence information related to said position information as one or more e-mails to one or more network enterprise devices (122, 104).

Disclosed is an information processing apparatus for controlling an application object moving autonomously in a shared virtual space in which avatars representing users of other information processing apparatuses are active. The apparatus comprises a distribution examining element for examining distribution of the active avatars in the shared virtual space, a coordinate controlling element for controlling coordinates of the application object in accordance with results of the examination by the distribution examining element and a display controlling element for controlling display of information by the application object controlled in coordinates by the coordinate controlling element.

The invention relates to the technical field of photovoltaic micro-grid control, and particularly discloses a real-time coordination and control method of a photovoltaic micro-grid system. A central real-time optimal control layer and a local control layer are involved in the real-time coordination and control method. The central real-time optimal control layer collects the voltage and frequency of an AC bus of the photovoltaic micro-grid system, the charge state of a storage battery pack, the output power of photovoltaic power generation micro-sources, the output power of the storage battery pack, the output power of a super capacitor and the real-time power of a load in real time, generates a real-time coordination and control strategy and a secondary frequency modulation and scheduling plan, and issues the strategy and the plan to all local controllers. The local control layer coordinates and controls all the micro-sources in real time, and particularly achieves the scheduling plan issued by the central real-time optimal control layer. According to the real-time coordination and control method, a micro-grid central optimizing controller can manage, coordinate and control all the local controllers in a unified mode, the micro-grid can efficiently and economically run, the output power of the photovoltaic power generation unit is utilized to the maximum extent, the output power fluctuation and the tracking load change of the photovoltaic power generation unit are restrained, the running method of the micro-grid is reasonably adjusted, and energy balance is achieved.

The invention relates to an autonomously identifying and capturing method of a non-cooperative target of a space robot, comprising the main steps of (1) pose measurement based on stereoscopic vision, (2) autonomous path planning of the target capture of the space robot and (3) coordinative control of a space robot system, and the like. The pose measurement based on the stereoscopic vision is realized by processing images of a left camera and a right camera in real time, and computing the pose of a non-cooperative target star relative to a base and a tail end, wherein the processing comprises smoothing filtering, edge detection, linear extraction, and the like. The autonomous path planning of the target capture of the space robot comprises is realized by planning the motion tracks of joints in real time according to the pose measurement results. The coordinative control of the space robot system is realized by coordinately controlling mechanical arms and the base to realize the optimal control property of the whole system. In the autonomously identifying and capturing method, a self part of a spacecraft is directly used as an identifying and capturing object without installing a marker or a comer reflector on the target star or knowing the geometric dimension of the object, and the planned path can effectively avoid the singular point of dynamics and kinematics.

The invention discloses an all-round intelligent guiding system and method for a large parking lot, and belongs to the field of intelligent traffic. The system disclosed by the invention comprises a guidance-initializing inlet unit, a guidance-stopping outlet unit, a guidance-path planning server, an anti-jamming coordinated controller, a guidance-indicting subsystem and a parking-space information-monitoring subsystem. Parking, vehicle taking-out and exit-guiding services are intelligently provided for a driver in the whole process from entering the parking lot to leaving the parking lot through the system by adopting a fork-passing triggering-type guidance-path updating and optimizing mechanism on the basis of a radio-frequency technology, a fork-passing triggering-type positioning mechanism and an anti-jamming path-planning mechanism, so that the parking lot is safer, more energy-saving and more highly-efficient in operation.

The invention discloses a method for controlling the planeness of cold-rolling strip steel, which comprises the following steps of: carrying out planeness feed-forward control, planeness feedback control and coordination control between both; detecting the cross-section shape and the planeness of a hot rolling incoming material, and actually-measured rolling technological parameters of each frame in real time based on a profiler configured on a No. 1 frame inlet, wherein the parameters comprise rolling force actually-measured values and plate shape adjusting mechanism actually-measured values, and carrying out the feed-forward control on the planeness of each frame outlet; and actually measuring the planeness of the cold-rolling strip steel based on a plate shape roller configured on an outlet of a cold rolling mill, and intensively carrying out the feedback control on the planeness of a final frame outlet. The method can eliminate the influences of the cross-section shape and the planeness of the hot rolling incoming material and fluctuations of the rolling technological parameters on the planeness of the final frame outlet to improve the planeness quality of the cold-rolling strip steel on the one hand, and can automatically control the planeness of each frame outlet, reduce incidence of abnormal conditions, such as fracture surfaces, deviation and the like, and improve the stability in the production process of tandem cold strip rolling on the other hand.

The invention relates to a multi-lane free flow video vehicle position and control method, the processes thereof are that: step 1, virtual coils are arranged in the visual field of a panoramic camera to form a detection area. Step 2, when a vehicle enters the detection area, a video detector starts an algorithm program to obtain the position of the vehicle. Step 3, a central processing unit starts a microwave communication system and an image snapshot system. Step 4, a logical comparison system judges whether the vehicle has electronic label information, if without, executing step 8. Step 5, the logical comparison system judges whether a vehicle license plate number in the electronic label information and the vehicle license plate number which is identified by a license plate recognition system are consistent, if not consistent, executing step 8 is. Step 6, the images of the vehicle which are snapshot are deleted. Step 7, toll transaction is done, and a transaction record is formed after the transaction. Step 8, the transaction record which is transferred to a background billing system is further treated. Step 9, returning to a main process. The method can achieve an electronic toll collection function in a multi-lane free flow mode through the accurate location for the vehicle and the coordination control for a system.

The invention discloses a coordination control and optimization method for battery energy accumulation and photovoltaic power generation based on a co-direct current bus in synchronization and independent operation modes, which supports the access of various types of storage batteries and photovoltaic battery boards through the free combination of the co-direct current bus of a DC (Direct Current) / DC converter, the automatic intelligent charge-discharge management of a storage battery branch and the maximum power tracing management of a photovoltaic battery board branch, wherein the branches are completely independently controlled to realize optimization management; the energy collected by a direct current bus is interacted with the energy of a power grid or an independent load through a post DC / AC (Alternating Current) converter; the DC / AC converter adopts a method for carrying out directional vector control on the voltage of the power grid and modulating the space vector pulse widthof the voltage in the course of the synchronization operation in an active and reactive complete decoupling control mode; and V / f control is adopted in the course of the independent operation to provide a constant voltage and frequency reference to an alternating current bus. The result of an experiment proves that the invention can realize the coordination complementary control and the autonomous optimization management of photovoltaic power storage and has the advantages of good generality, practicality and application prospects.

The invention relates to a multi-agent optimized coordination control method of an electric network in the technical field of electric networks, which comprises the following steps of: collecting local electric information, transmitting the local electric information to a central agent of a microgrid and issuing a control command by a local electric network to the central agent of the microgrid simultaneously; computing by a grid technology; issuing a new control command by the central agent of the microgrid and transmitting the information to a regulation agent of the local electric network by a network line simultaneously; receiving a dispatching instruction of the central agent of the microgrid by the agent of each element and carrying out logical judgment on a result executing these dispatching commands according to the collected local electric information; and meanwhile, optimizing the electric network within a control range by the regulation agent of the local electric network and controlling a computer to carry out parallel computation by the grid technology. The invention is suitable for carrying out optimal dispatching on a distributed energy resource of an intelligent electric network, can control each power supply by an optimization scheme, also enhances the operational processing time greatly and ensures that the intelligent electric network runs safely, stably and economically.

The invention relates to a multi-objective coordination-typed self-adaptive cruise control method for a vehicle, comprising the following steps: 1) according to the detail requirements of the multi-objective coordination-typed self-adaptive cruise control for a vehicle, the performance indicators and I / O restriction of MTC ACC are designed, and multi-objective optimization control problem is established; and 2) MTC ACC control law rolling time domain is used for solving the objective optimal control problem, and the optimal open-loop control quantity is used for carrying out feedback and achieving closed-loop control. Based on the steps, the control method comprises the following four parts of contents: 1. the modeling for the longitudinal dynamics of a traction system; 2. the performance indicators of MTC ACC; 3. the I / O restriction design of MTC ACC; and 4. solution by the MTC ACC control law rolling time domain. By constructing multi-objective optimization problem, the control method not only solves the contradiction among the fuel economy, the track performance and the feeling of the driver, moreover, on the same simulation conditions, compared with the LQ ACC control, the control method simultaneously reduces the fuel consumption and vehicle tracking error of the vehicle, and achieves the multi-objective coordinating control function.

Enclosed is an active and reactive coordination control method for permanent-magnet direct-driven wind turbines in the low-voltage ride-through process. Two different control strategies are employed for a grid side converter according to amplitude change of power grid voltage: when the power grid voltage is in a normal state, the grid side converter is in an active-priority maximum power tracing control mode so that the wind turbines capture wind energy to the maximum extent; when the power grid voltage is beyond the normal range, the grid side converter is in an active priority control mode so that the dynamic reactive current which is injected into an electricity system meets the requirements of grid combining. An engine side converter is in a direct-current voltage control mode based on rotor energy storage, power unbalance of the direct-current side of the engine side converter is relieved and the direct-current voltage is stabilized by utilizing the self rotating speed of the permanent-magnet direct-driven wind turbines and the change of the kinetic energy. The active and reactive coordination control for the wind turbines before or after the sudden change of the power grid voltage is realized according to the amplitude change of the power grid voltage, the fluctuation of the direct-current bus voltage is restrained by releasing or storing the rotor kinetic energy, so that the low-voltage ride-through capability of the permanent-magnet direct-driven wind turbines is improved, reactive power support is rapidly and accurately provided for the power grid, and certain support is given to restoration of the power grid voltage.

The invention enables a novel single-motor and double-clutch type hybrid electric vehicle to be a study object and provides a control method of the process of utilizing a motor to start an engine during vehicle running. First a structure and a working mode of the hybrid electric vehicle are analyzed, a system dynamics model is established, a working range of the hybrid electric vehicle is divided, corresponding torque management strategies are formulated; then in the practical application process, whether the conditions for utilizing the motor to start the engine are achieved is judged by calculating demand torque, value of state of charge (SOC) of a battery, a rotating speed of the motor; and when the conditions for utilizing the motor to start the engine are achieved, model switch is performed, a moment-limiting clutch jointing instruction is sent out, and the processing of utilizing the motor to start the engine is achieved by controlling oil pressure of a moment-limiting clutch hydraulic cylinder and utilizing the formulated torque coordination-control strategies to perform coordination control of motor torque, engine torque and transmission torque of a moment-limiting clutch. By utilizing the advantage that the motor responds fast and timely increasing or reducing the motor torque according to the control strategies, the control method provides the demand torque for starting the engine during the vehicle running or compensates the insufficiency of the engine torque, reduces impact degree in the switching process and improves ride comfort of the hybrid electric vehicle.

A means for improving the dynamic and voltage stability of utility transmission systems is provided by the coordinated control of windfarms. Electrical measurements of the system, which may include synchronized phasors, are supplied to one or more windfarm controllers, which in turn perform a regulation function improving the damping of electromechanical oscillations or voltage performance in the utility system. The control structure is of a decentralized nature, which maintains operation in case of communication failures. The benefits are improved damping to electromechanical oscillations and better voltage performance and ultimately increased utilization of assets, reducing the install additional network assets.

This invention discloses a sort of method of the PID parameter setting of the coordinated control system of the cell-system generating set which belongs to this area of the control technique of the set. This method identifies the multivariable dynamic mathematic model of the unit plant according to the universal structural style. Used the series decoupling principle and the two-degree of freedom control structure the coordinated control system of the unit plant which has the PID form is thought out based this model, thereby the each setting step of the related parameter are get in this system by combining the theoretical derivation and the engineering test. This invention has this character in that the consecution is clear; the practicability is good, and it fits to engineering apply. The engineering technical personnel structures the corresponding coordinated control system expediently, and combines the engineering test aimed at the unit plant of various group, it sets out the related parameter of this system availably.

The invention discloses a 3D video interaction robot with an emotion module and an expression module. The 3D video interaction robot comprises an input module used for receiving user behaviors and user information, the emotion module used for obtaining the corresponding emotion kind and emotion level of the robot according to the user information and the current user behavior and feeding back corresponding emotion data to a processing module, the expression module used for finding the 3D character action animation and voice matched with the corresponding emotion data according to the emotion kind and the emotion level, an output module displaying the corresponding 3D character action animation and meanwhile broadcasting the voice of a 3D character, and the processing module carrying out coordinated control over the modules. The 3D video interaction robot is abundant in function and capable of achieving the various functions of daily robot reminding, news pushing, recording assistance, recording, replacement for internet data retrieval, retrieval, phone dialing assistance, nearby friends, nearby food and the like.

A roll stability control system (18) for an automotive vehicle (10) includes an active anti-roll bar system (62) and a rollover sensor (40) that generates a roll attitude signal indicative of a pending rollover of the vehicle. A controller (26) controls the active anti-roll bar system (62) to prevent the vehicle from rolling over in response to the roll attitude signal. The controller (26) may also control a brake system (60). The brake system may be used in addition to the active anti-roll bar system to prevent rollover of the vehicle.

A programmable bus stopping system of a mobile vehicle in electrical communication with controllers or actuators for all of the safety and warning devices requiring actuation upon a vehicle stop for passenger egress. The electrical communication may be through an area wide network that may allow multiplexing. In addition the controllers or actuators, the communication network may be electrically engaged to an electronic system controller for coordinating operation of controllers and actuators. There may be a manual switch, push-button, or actuator accessible to the driver of the vehicle that allows communication to activate a series of activities that must occur upon a bus stopping to let on or let off passengers. The system activation points may be tied to vehicle speed or to vehicle position relative to a stop requiring a component or components to activate. The system may learn a route and the automatic actions of the safety and warning devices of the vehicle when a driver drives the route once manually initiating the actions and then the system programs itself to perform all the actions related to safety and warning devices.

The invention relates to a modularized multi-level converter sub-module control and protection method. The control and protection method comprises the following processing modes: in four control models of a sub-module, executing different control and protection logics by using a sub-module controller; generating a sub-module internal interface output signal, detecting an input signal and diagnosing a plurality of faults; executing control and protection actions by using the sub-module controller according to an action priority level; detecting the voltage of an energy storage capacitor C by using the sub-module controller; and performing asynchronous serial communication between the sub-module controller and a valve-based controller. In the method, a complete and intelligent control and protection scheme is designed aiming at the structure of the modularized multi-level converter sub-module, the coordinated control and protection of the overall sub-module can be realized, so that the stable and reliable operation of the sub-module in a converter and the coordinated matching with an overall control and protection system of the converter are ensured.

The invention provides an integral optimization method and system for an automatic power generation system of a coal-fired unit. The method comprises the steps of carrying out control valve flow characteristic test and adjustment according to control valve flow characteristic parameters, carrying out combustion optimization on a wind and smoke subsystem and a combustion subsystem, carrying out a fuel disturbance test and a control valve disturbance test to generate typical test parameters, using the typical test parameters to generate a dynamic unit model, constructing a coordinating simulation system according to a coordinating controller and the dynamic unit model, using the dynamic unit model to optimize a feedforward controller and carry out simulation verification on the coordinating simulation system simultaneously, carrying out DCS configuration and parameter debugging in the simulation system, carrying out a constant-voltage slide-voltage variable-load test and a constant-load voltage-transformation test to generate technical indexes of the variable-load rate, the variable-load accuracy, variable-load response time and the main steam pressure accuracy, judging whether the technical indexes meet the preset technical indexes, and if on yes judgment, carrying out a slide-voltage variable-load test to enable the coal-fired unit to operate normally.