388 results about "Operational capabilities" patented technology

The invention relates to a cloud platform supporting fusion network service and an operating method thereof. The cloud platform is provided with a plurality of hardware and software resources, and is connected with three access networks of a telecommunication network, an interconnection network and a broadcasting and television network respectively through three core networks of operators of the three networks and the corresponding communication protocol to allow platform users (including the operators of the three networks or service providers and the like) to rent platform resources according to respective requirements to deploy respective services and operational capabilities. The cloud platform has a layered structure, and is provided with a platform management layer, a service execution layer, a resource virtualization and management layer and a hardware resource layer respectively from top to bottom, and in an interactive mode among the layers, an upper-layer module uses the function provided a lower-layer module in a mode of interface call. The cloud platform supports the platform users to adjust the rent resources dynamically and conveniently according to actual requirements, and simultaneously, provides the access capability on the resources of the three networks and convenience for the development and operation of the fusion network service by the platform users.

A system for facilitating selection, installation, and configuration of device drivers in a managed environment. The system includes a first mechanism for automatically accessing information about a device for which a driver is to be installed on a computer connected thereto and providing a signal in response thereto. The information includes device type and operational capabilities. A second mechanism selects a driver for the device and installs and automatically configures the driver on the computer based on the signal. In a specific embodiment, the first mechanism includes a database that maintains the information, which is organized according to an asset identification number. The information includes first and second portions. The first portion of information is obtained and entered in the database upon installation of the device. The second portion of the information includes operating system and language information pertaining to the computer. The second mechanism includes a website portal accessible by via the computer for enabling downloading of the driver. The second portion of the information is obtained from headers that are automatically supplied to website portal user-interface software by a browser running on the computer and accessing the website portal. The user-interface software runs on the website portal and enables the user to enter the asset identification number into the website portal. The asset number enables the website portal to automatically select and / or build an appropriate driver package.

An aircraft (40a) is provided that includes a plurality of arms (41, 42, 43, 44) with selected arms having the ability to either adjust their length, have arm segments operative to move about an articulated joint in two or three dimensions, or have one arm operative to adjust an angle between the one arm and another arm, or any combination of the foregoing. Thrust generators are repositionably mounted on selected arms, and a control system enables automated, on-board, or remote control of the thrust generators, repositioning of the thrust generators on the arms, adjustment in the length of the selected arms, the movement of selected arms about the articulated joints, and adjustment of the angle between two or more arms, all while maintaining directional control of the aircraft in flight or on the ground. The aircraft has operational capabilities that exceed existing designs and facilitates manned and unmanned delivery of cargo and transportation of passengers.

A system and method for communicating data obtain operational data associated with a control system of a vehicle consist. The operational data is obtained at a first vehicle of the consist. The operational data is communicated from the first vehicle to one or more second vehicles in the consist. Responsive to a loss of the operational data at the first vehicle, at least the operational data that was lost at the first vehicle can be communicated from one or more of the second vehicles to the first vehicle. Onboard the first vehicle, an operational capability of the consist to perform a movement event can be determined using the operational data that was lost at the first vehicle and that was communicated from the at least one of the one or more second vehicles to the first vehicle.

The invention provides, in some aspects, improved methods, apparatus and systems for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operation that utilize multiple data links between a UAV and a control station in order to transmit control and actionable intelligence data. Such methods, apparatus and systems can be used, for example, to monitor a selected environment (e.g., an oil field or other terrain / environment of interest). In a related aspect, such data links comprise satellite communication channels.

A method provides policy based adaptive application capability management and device attestation for dynamic control of remote device operations. The method includes instrumenting applications installed on a remote device to examine their runtime application programming interface (API) invocations to trusted functions abstracted by a trusted services platform anchored to an underlying firmware, software or hardware root of trust, and managing the application security operations based on the execution context and dynamic privilege controls to restrict their capabilities. The invention also provides a local attestation agent to perform state measurements for platform trust, configuration and operational metrics, and generates device policy based platform and application level alerts. These alerts allow operations technology (OT) administrators to dynamically control the operational capabilities of applications, to deal with discovered vulnerabilities and exploits, before requiring distribution of application software upgrades or patches onto a large number of distributed remote devices.

A method of enhancing a communication capability of a communication unit (112), operating in a communication system (100) that facilitates communication to and / or from a plurality of communication units. The method includes the step of operably coupling a first communication unit (112) to one or more neighboring communication units (114, 116) such that said communication unit is able to utilize at least one operational capability of one or more of its neighboring communication units to enhance communication to and / or from said first communication unit.

A switching system is provided. The switching system includes electromechanical switching circuitry, such as a micro-electromechanical system switching circuitry. The system may further include solid state switching circuitry coupled in a parallel circuit with the electromechanical switching circuitry, and a controller coupled to the electromechanical switching circuitry and the solid state switching circuitry. The controller may be configured to perform selective switching of a load current between the electromechanical switching circuitry and the solid state switching circuitry in response to a load current condition appropriate to an operational capability of a respective one of the switching circuitries.

A hybrid blade wind turbine device formed of at least a pair of straight outer airfoil blades, and a pair of inner helical wing blades, as supported for rotation within a safety protective cage structure, which wind turbine can be mounted in the vertical, horizontal, or other aligned operational positions. The inner helical half wing blades, being preferably somewhat shorter than the length of the outer airfoil blades, act to “regularize” the swirling wind regime flowing through the hybrid wind turbine, so as to maximize the efficiency of the outer airfoil blades. The helical half wing blades can be formed of individual segmented vane segments to provide improved operational capabilities for the overall hybrid wind turbine. To best harness annualized available wind conditions, the hybrid wind turbine can be customized, through modification of the number of vane segments, the selection of the specific shape of the outer airfoil blades, and the specific operational positioning of the outer airfoil blades. Alternatively, the helical half wing blades can be formed as generally smooth-walled blades.

The invention discloses a mixed type underwater navigation detector which comprises a bow compartment, a main chamber, an electronic control chamber and a peak tank which are coaxially and sequentially connected, wherein the bow compartment and the peak tank are communicated with an outside water area; the main chamber and the electronic control chamber are sealing chambers; two wings are symmetrically installed at a connection position of the main chamber and the electronic control chamber; a sonar height gauge and an acoustic transceiver are installed in the bow compartment; a non-contact electric energy and signal transmission assembly is sleeved outside the main chamber; a gesture adjustment system and a buoyancy adjustment system are installed in the main chamber; the buoyancy adjustment system is installed on the front portion of the main chamber; buoyancy is adjusted through movement of a piston; two sides of the piston are isolated and sealed through rolling membranes; electronic equipment for controlling an aircraft is installed in the electronic control chamber; and a propeller propelling system and a steering control system are fixed on the peak tank. The mixed type underwater navigation detector has characteristics of underwater gliders and autonomous underwater vehicles, and can be abutted with an underwater connection platform to conduct non-contact charging and data transmission, so that continuous operational capability and applied range of underwater aircrafts can be increased.

A method of the present invention is directed to recycling a battery that includes a plurality of lithium cells removable from one another. The battery is tested to measure internal resistance of the lithium cells to determine if the lithium cells present a predetermined level of operational capability. The lithium cells having the operational level less than the predetermined level of operational capability are replaced with new lithium cells as the battery is re-assembled. The removed lithium cells are recycled.

A motor starter is provided. The motor starter includes micro-electromechanical system switching circuitry. The system may further include solid state switching circuitry coupled in a parallel circuit with the electromechanical switching circuitry, and a controller coupled to the electromechanical switching circuitry and the solid state switching circuitry. The controller may be configured to perform selective switching of a load current from a motor connected to the motor starter. The switching may be performed between the electromechanical switching circuitry and the solid state switching circuitry in response to a load current condition appropriate to an operational capability of a respective one of the switching circuitries.

The invention discloses a life evaluation method for a modular multilevel converter (MMC). The life evaluation method comprises the following steps: reading year-round temperature data of a running natural environment of the MMC and power data input into the MMC; performing analytic calculation on the average value and the effective value of the current of sub-modules IGBT and Diode of the MMC; calculating the average loss power Ploss,T and Ploss,D of the sub-modules IGBT and Diode of the MMC within the fundamental frequency period; calculating the average temperature rise Tja of a semiconductor device within the working frequency period by use of a Forster network model to obtain the average junction temperature value Tj of IGBT modules (IGBT modules, IGBTs, including IGBT and Diode); modifying fitting calculation of loss of the IGBTs according to the average junction temperature of the IGBTs; calculating the extreme values of the function temperature within the working frequency and counting the year-round fundamental frequency junction temperature cycle; counting fluctuation information of the year-round low-frequency junction temperature; and calculating the failure number Nf of the fundamental frequency and the low frequency of the semi-conductor device by use of a Bayerer life model, and obtaining the life of the MMC in combination with operation conditions. The life evaluation method can reliably forecast the life of the MMC, can effectively improve the forecasting calculation speed through obtaining an analytical expression of both current and the junction temperature, and has the characteristics of project operational capability and the like.

A multi-chip module instrument controller having various interface and operational capabilities. The controller incorporate a microprocessor and both volatile and non-volatile memories. The controller includes variable analog-to-digital conversion bit depths, with higher bit depths for some applications. Additionally, the controller includes a separately controllable field programmable gate array that acts as a parallel processor with internal or separate external clock. The FPGA preferably includes more than thirty thousand gates (30,000) and adds a freely re-configurable and separately programmable multi-purpose digital system that can run independent of the microprocessor.

The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation of lane planning in an autonomous vehicle. Sensor data are received that capture ground images of a road the autonomous vehicle is on. Based on the sensor data, a current lane of the road that autonomous vehicle is currently occupying is detected. Information indicating presence of a passenger in the vehicle is obtained and used to retrieve a personalized lane control model related to the passenger. Lane control for the autonomous vehicle is planned based on the detected current lane and self-aware capability parameters in accordance with the personalized lane control model. The self-aware capability parameters are used to predict operational capability of the autonomous vehicle with respect to a current location of the autonomous vehicle. The personalized lane control model is generated based on recorded human driving data.

An authentication method and system are provided for devices in a home network. The device authentication method includes: storing a secret key list that contains IDs of computationally weak devices without public key operational capabilities, each ID being provided from the respective computationally weak device, and secret keys corresponding to the IDs; receiving session information including a session from a computationally weak device; operating the session information based on the secret key list, and authenticating the computationally weak device; if the computationally weak device is authenticated, generating authentication acknowledgement information about the session information and the authentication of the computationally weak device, and transmitting the information to a general device with public key operational capabilities; and at the general device, carrying out an operation on the received session information and extracting the session.

This application is directed to methods, computer program products, and systems for processing equipment status messages and similar information. In one embodiment, status messages originating from a plurality of pieces of equipment are input and compared to user determined thresholds, and indicators are output reflecting the comparison. The indicators may includes fuel level information, operational capability and maintenance health. A computer program product includes computer readable media for inputting a plurality of the equipment status messages, comparing the equipment status messages with user determined thresholds, and generating a plurality of indicators to display equipment status. A system for viewing the health status of aircraft includes sensors to transmit health status messages, a network arranged for transmitting the messages, a processor arranged to compare health status data with user determined thresholds, and a display to output a health status indicators.

The invention relates to a smart home control system and method. The system includes a speech acquisition unit which acquires speech information and sends the speech information to a network-to-network connector, the network-to-network connector used for connecting a plurality of terminals and includes a speech recognition unit used for analyzing the speech information to generate control instructions, and the terminals which are used for receiving the control instructions to execute corresponding operation. With the technical schemes of the invention adopted, a speech recognition function can be realized through a gateway, speech recognition work can be completed through the operational capability of a gateway processor, a corpus can be further subdivided through a face recognition unit, and therefore, the speed of speech recognition can be improved; the matching time of speech in the corpus is recorded, and the division of the speech in the corpus in the time dimension can be further realized according to user' behaviors, and therefore, the speech information can be analyzed more accurately, so that the control instructions can be obtained.

The invention provides a communication protocol adapting method and system. Workflow and initial operational capability (IOC) thought are used in the method and the system; a component scheduling controller schedules corresponding components for protocol resolving according to the type of each request; and the scheduling is set through a configuration file, the related components are integrated and scheduled for resolving each component of an adapting protocol according to a responsibility chain mode one by one, the scheduling of the components is realized through an extensive makeup language (XML) configuration template, class files are automatically generated through the formulated XML configuration template, the generated class files are instantiated into objects during communication protocol adapting, protocols of a peripheral platform are dynamically injected into attributes of the objects, and the objects storing data are assembled to generate a message of an XML protocol. By the method and the system, manual operation is reduced, the production efficiency of daily development is improved, the performance of the system is improved, the function expansibility is enhanced, and a fundamental framework is made for realizing automatic adapting of the communication protocols.

The invention relates to a high frequency Coriolis mass flowmeter digital signal processing system. The high frequency Coriolis mass flowmeter digital signal processing system comprises a DSP chip, a first signal conditioning module, a second signal conditioning module, a constant flow source, a Pt100 platinum resistor, a first ADC, a second ADC, a third ADC, an analog driver module, an external expansion FLASH module, a PWM output module, a current output module, an external expansion UART module, an HART modulation module, a man-machine interface module, a power down protection module and software. For signal processing of a high frequency Coriolis mass flow sensor, a TMS320C6726 chip with the strong operational capability and the high processing speed is used as a core processor, and the high frequency Coriolis mass flowmeter digital signal processing system is invented. Based on the zero-cross detection algorithm and DTFT algorithm, the high frequency Coriolis mass flowmeter digital signal processing system solves the problem that the algorithm cannot guarantee real-time performance after sampling frequency of high frequency sensor signals is increased.

The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation of route planning for an autonomous driving vehicle. A source location and a destination location are first obtained, where the destination location is where the autonomous driving vehicle is to drive to. One or more available routes between the source location and the destination location are identified. A self-aware capability model is instantiated with respect to the one or more available routes and is predictive of the operational capability of the autonomous driving vehicle with respect to each of the one or more available routes. The preference of a passenger present in the autonomous driving vehicle is determined in terms of a route to take for the autonomous vehicle to drive to the destination location. Based on the self-aware capability model and the preference of the passenger, a planned route to the destination location is then automatically selected for the autonomous driving vehicle.

The invention provides a digital control system of a great-power bidirectional electric automobile charger system converter, belonging to the technical field of electric automobile chargers. The control system adopts a structure of matching a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) with a PLD (Programmable Logic Device) and combines the stronger data operational capability of the DSP, the high integration of the PLD and the repeated programming property of hardware, thereby making the structure of the controller hardware compact and greatly improving versatility, reliability and real-time property. The controller charger proposed by the invention can charge various batteries to reach a fully charged state at a higher speed without influencing the service life of the batteries and is convenient to adopt various intelligent charging strategies.

The invention discloses a man-machine co-driving control system based on a driver model and handling inverse dynamics and a switching mode of the man-machine co-driving control system. The man-machineco-driving control system comprises a sensor system, a driving intention recognition model, a man-machine co-driving model, a right switching control system and an executive system. The method comprises the following steps: monitoring driving environment information, vehicle state information and driver state information by the sensor system, wherein a driver state signal is transferred to the driving intention recognition model; establishing a man-machine co-driving model based on the handling inverse dynamics and the driver model, and calculating expected control input and control input ofthe driver; performing necessary correction by the system on the basis of understanding the driving intention of the driver based on the established man-machine co-driving switching law, and performing full authority control by the other party when the driver temporarily loses control ability or the auxiliary system temporarily loses auxiliary operational capability to avoid unnecessary man-machine interference. According to the man-machine co-driving control system disclosed by the invention, the operating burden of the driver is reduced, and man-machine alternative disharmony is avoided.

The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation of route planning for an autonomous driving vehicle. A source location and a destination location are first obtained, where the destination location is where the autonomous driving vehicle is to drive to. One or more available routes between the source location and the destination location are identified. A self-aware capability model is instantiated with respect to the one or more available routes and is predictive of the operational capability of the autonomous driving vehicle with respect to each of the one or more available routes. Based on the self-aware capability model, a planned route to the destination location is then automatically selected for the autonomous driving vehicle.

A kit and method for converting a locomotive from a first configuration to a second configuration having a different operational capability. The kit includes a traction assembly including a mechanical subassembly configured to mechanically couple a first axle of a truck to a traction system of the locomotive; and an electromotive subassembly configured to electromotively couple the first axle to the traction system of the locomotive via the mechanical subassembly. When the kit is installed in the locomotive, the locomotive is converted from the first configuration having the first axle uncoupled from the traction system and a second axle of the truck coupled to the traction system to the second configuration having the first axle coupled to the traction system and a second axle coupled to the traction system.

A demand regulator with air dilution regulates the pressure and flow of a respiratory gas with an outlet leading to a respiratory mask. A dilution valve controlled by a Bourdon tube varies the ratio of atmospheric air to oxygen in a crew mask based on ambient pressure. The Bourdon tube in the dilution valve assembly flexes in response to changes in atmospheric pressure causing the dilution valve to gradually open or close. As altitude increases the dilution valve gradually closes causing more oxygen to be provided to the facemask. The amount of added oxygen for a given atmospheric pressure can be accurately controlled at all altitudes due to the greater adjustment available in the device for calibration and operation compared to the current art. This greater operational capability eliminates the excess use of oxygen at low to intermediate altitudes as is common problem with the current art.