348 results about "Order control" patented technology

A unique health score computation method is disclosed which masks underlying health statistics, yet provides a benchmark for a variety of applications. A system and method for collecting health related information, processing the information into a composite numerical value, and publishing the value is provided. The system includes a computer having a processor, memory, and code modules executing in the processor for implementation of the method. Information concerning a plurality of intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of a user is collected. Weighting factors are applied to the parameter in order control the relative affect each parameter has on the user's calculated numerical. The health score is computed using the processor by combining the weighted parameters in accordance with an algorithm. The numerical value is published to a designated group via a portal, while the underlying parameters remain private. In one implementation, the portal is an internet based information sharing forum.

The present invention is directed to a direct-drive fan system and a variable process control system for efficiently managing the operation of fans in a cooling system such a as wet-cooling tower or air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE), HVAC systems, mechanical towers or chiller systems. The present invention is based on the integration of key features and characteristics such as tower thermal performance, fan speed and airflow, motor torque, fan pitch, fan speed, fan aerodynamic properties, and pump flow. The variable process control system processes feedback signals from multiple locations in order control a high torque, variable speed, permanent magnet motor to drive the fan. Such feedback signals represent certain operating conditions including motor temperature, basin temperature, vibrations, and pump flow rates. Other data processed by the variable process control system in order to control the motor include turbine back pressure set-point, condenser temperature set-point and plant part-load setting. The variable process control system processes this data and the aforesaid feedback signals to optimize the operation of the cooling system in order to prevent disruption of the industrial process and prevent equipment (turbine) failure or trip. The variable process control system alerts the operators for the need to conduct maintenance actions to remedy deficient operating conditions such as condenser fouling. The variable process control system increases cooling for cracking crude and also adjusts the motor RPM, and hence the fan RPM, accordingly during plant part-load conditions in order to save energy.

Lower order control devices control plural battery cells configuring plural battery modules. An input terminal of the low order control device in the highest potential, an output terminal of the low order control device in the lowest potential, and a high order control device are connected by isolating units, photocouplers. Diodes which prevent a discharge current of the battery cells in the battery modules are disposed between the output terminal of the low order control device and the battery cells in the battery module on the low potential side. Terminals related to input / output of a signal are electrically connected without isolating among the plural low order control devices.

A battery system includes a battery module that is constituted with a plurality of serially connected battery cells, a plurality of integrated circuits that group the battery cells by a plurality thereof so as to perform processing on battery cells in each group, a first transmission path through which a command signal is transmitted via a first insulating circuit from a higher-order control circuit that controls the plurality of integrated circuits to a highest-order integrated circuit of the integrated circuit, a second transmission path through which a data signal collected by the plurality of integrated circuits is transmitted from the highest-order integrated circuit to a lowest-order integrated circuit, and a third transmission path through which the data signal is transmitted from the lowest-order integrated circuit to the higher-order control circuit via a second insulating circuit.

Provided is a blockchain management apparatus comprising at least one hardware processor configured to implement a block generation order control unit which prevents a block generation node of a plurality of blockchain nodes from generating a new block of a blockchain in response to a determining, by the blockchain management apparatus, that the new block is a block generated by the block generation node within a unit section, wherein the unit section corresponds to a preset number of blocks measured from a current block corresponding to a current block height of the blockchain, and the blockchain management apparatus manages a permission-based blockchain network including the plurality of blockchain nodes.

The invention discloses a multi-robot formation method, belonging to the field of intelligent control. The method comprises the following steps of: controlling the whole formation motion trail by the leader motion trail, firstly, determining a kinematics model of the leader, and determining the direction of the motion of the leader according to a resultant force of a repulsive force and a gravitational force; creating a motion model of following the leader by the follower, following the leader by the follower according to certain distance and angle, and determining the motion trail of the follower according to a motion model created by the artificial potential field; introducing an AdHoc between the leader and the follower, creating information feedback, and ensuring that no loss occurs in the process of following the leader by the follower. With the method provided by the invention, a multi-robot system can successfully avoid obstacles in the process of finishing tasks to reach a target point, and also can keep initial order in the whole process, implement real-time order control on multiple robots and be more suitable for some occasions where multiple robots are needed for finishing tasks (such as transporting, rescuing and the like) synchronously.

A system for providing perceived first order control of an unmanned vehicle contains a memory and a processor configured by the memory to perform the steps of receiving instructions for updating x-axis location, y-axis location, z-axis location, and / or heading of the unmanned vehicle; converting received instructions for updating x-axis location, y-axis location, z-axis location, and / or heading of the unmanned vehicle into a set of relative distance coordinates from a current location of the unmanned vehicle; and adjusting the set of relative distance coordinates by a gain control, to minimize coordinate change, wherein gain control provides a rate change in the x-axis location, y-axis location, z-axis location, and / or heading, resulting in a new set of coordinates. A screen displays a location dot representing current location of the unmanned vehicle and an outer limit circle surrounding the location dot representing an outer boundary for movement of the unmanned vehicle.

A computer-parsing system based upon using vectors (lists) to represent natural-language elements, providing a robust, distributed way to score grammaticality of an input string by using as a source material a large corpus of natural-language text. The system uses recombining of asymetric associations of syntactically similar strings to form an the vectors. The system uses equivalence lists for your the organization subparts of the string to build equivalence lists for our the province longer strings in an order controlled by the potential these / parse to be scored. The power of recombination of Entries from: vector elements in building longer strings provides a means of representing collocational complexity. Grammaticality scoring is based upon the number and similarity of the vector elements.

In an interworking apparatus operable in accordance with a radio protocol of using a plurality of radio channels in parallel and another protocol different from the radio protocol, a plurality of memories store a plurality of frames one by one in correspondence with the plurality of the radio channels, respectively. The memories may be for storing PPP frames and / or radio frames. The interworking apparatus may be included in a mobile station or an interworking facility, such as a base station, a mobile switching center. Without exerting any influence to the other radio channels prior to transmission, reception can be done by using no order control protocol. This is very effective and helpful to improve in the transmission efficiency.

An optimization apparatus (compiler program, method and recording medium) for changing the order of execution of instructions in a program to be optimized includes an exception occasion instruction detection section which detects a first instruction having a possibility to cause an exception, an assurance instruction detection section which detects a second instruction executed prior to the first instruction, the second instruction assuring that no exception of the first instruction occurs, and an execution order control section which changes the position of the first instruction in execution order so that the first instruction is executed before a conditional branch instruction for selectively executing the first instruction and after the second instruction.

A system for supply chain management is provided. The system includes two or more manufacturer systems receiving order data, such as data identifying goods that have been ordered for each of two or more warehouses, and generating first and second shipment data, such as data identifying the actual amount of goods that were shipped. A warehouse system receives the order data, such as to allow a warehouse operator to make plans for accommodating the order, and the shipment data, such as to notify the warehouse operator of actual amounts of goods that have been shipped. An order controller system generates the order data and receives the shipment data, such as data identifying goods that are being shipped to the order controller system.

A packet flow control apparatus performing flow control of packets each having variable length, includes: a buffer memory for temporarily accumulating arrived packets until a sending time of each packet; a counter updated based on a rate determined in accordance with a packet length calculated by a counter value of the counter and limited flow of packets; a sending time determining section for determining the sending time of each packet based on the counter value and a present time; and a sending order control section for managing a sending order of each packet accumulated in the buffer memory, and for sending a read instruction of each packet to the buffer memory, based on the sending time determined by the sending time determining section.

An information processing apparatus includes an order information storage part that stores order information defining an order in which a plurality of processes are to be executed with respect to data; a setting part that prompts selection of a processing apparatus that is to execute a process of the plurality of processes from one or more processing apparatuses, and stores association information indicating an association between the process and the selected processing apparatus in an association storage part; and an order control part that prompts the one or more processing apparatuses that are associated with the plurality of processes to execute the plurality of processes in the order defined by the order information.

The invention provides a comprehensive management system for a platform and load integrated satellite and relates to the technical field of aerospace aviation. The problems that the resource use rate is low and extendibility can not be achieved due to the fact that a distributed type satellite-borne computer design method is adopted in an existing satellite electronic system are solved. The comprehensive management system for the platform and load integrated satellite comprises an integrated comprehensive control unit and a standard function extension unit. The standard function extension unit is interconnected with the integrated comprehensive control unit through an external CAN bus. The integrated comprehensive control unit is composed of a comprehensive management module, a communication interface module, a secondary power source and an arbitration logic control module. The standard function extension unit comprises an order control panel, an active temperature control panel and a mechanism control panel. According to the comprehensive management system, resources are integrated, the number of single machines and elements is reduced, orders are integrated, the order types and forwarding links are reduced, telemetering is integrated, redundant telemetering is reduced so that the bandwidth can be increased, functions are integrated, test links and test procedures are reduced, performance is integrated, and the size, the weight and power consumption of equipment are reduced.

An automated board processing system and the corresponding processes that receives job orders comprising a needed set of specifically sized boards cut to specified lengths for assembly into components such as wall structures, roof trusses or other trusses. The system and processes expediently processes a series of boards from board feeding portion comprising individually selected magazines or other board sources to convey, measure, mark and / or saw same with optimal mechanical simplicity and efficiency thereby completing the job order. A control processor receives the job order and controls operation of the plurality of magazines or other board sources, the conveying, the measuring, the marking, the sawing, and the replenishment of the board sources in the board feeding portion.

In order to suitably intercommunicate an output signal from a sensor arranged outside an actuator with a higher-order control system, an output from a contact sensor at an arbitrary position on a robot is entered to a nearest actuator device in that a wiring route is the shortest (or joint driving is not interfered therewith). Then, in the actuator device, the output of the outside sensor is processed to remove noise and sensor information is computed, and the processed results are bus-transmitted to the higher-order control system together with a drive-control signal of the actuator and sensor information from sensors housed in the actuator.

A material handling system automatically each picking orders using a put wall. A controller determines whether any of more than one removable intermediate holders in a put wall that are within the reach of a first robotic arm contain one or more articles that are ready for transporting away from the put wall. The controller directs the first robotic arm to: (i) engage the selected removable intermediate holder, (ii) move the selected removable intermediate holder to an empty order container, and (iii) reorient the selected removable intermediate holder to transfer the one or more articles from the selected removable intermediate holder to the empty order container. In one or more embodiments, the articles can be placed in the put wall by conveying donor totes to an each picking robotic arm that places picked articles into an end effector of a second robotic arm.

In a communication device using a communication protocol with data loss compensation functions provided at both an upper layer and a lower layer, a transmission order among packets to be transmitted is controlled at the lower layer, according to the transmission states of upper layer connections to which the packets belong, such that when there is at least one non-transmitted packet for each one of at least two different upper layer connections, at least two packets to be transmitted consecutively are belonging to different upper layer connections.

A traffic management method based on vehicle-to-infrastructure integration technology comprises the following steps of S1, acquiring motion data of all vehicles which are connected with a road-side unit in a vehicle-to-infrastructure technology (V2I) communication mode; S2, detecting whether an abnormal event occurs, and determining the type of the abnormal event; S3, when the abnormal event is a traffic accident, executing a step S4; S4, extracting the position and the speed of all vehicles in a traffic accident range in a preset time period; S5, calculating an average vehicle speed V in the traffic accident range; S6, comparing for determining whether the average vehicle speed V is smaller than a preset least vehicle speed V_min, if yes, performing a step S18, and otherwise, performing a step S7; ....; and S12, calculating the number sumi of queuing vehicles of each lane behind a first parking line and sequencing the numbers sumi from highest to lowest, and dynamically distributing passing time length of each lane according to the sumi. The traffic management method has beneficial effects of high traffic management efficiency, no manpower resource consumption and low danger coefficient. The traffic management method has functions of dynamically distributing lanes for the vehicles, improving traffic operation efficiency, performing ordered control on the vehicles at a crossing, and effectively reducing traffic accident rate at the crossing.

The present invention pertains to an STB (100) used by being connected to a printer (200) and a content distributing apparatus (21) that receives an order for consumables (223a-223c) used by the printer (200). The STB (100) includes the following: a communication I / F unit (103) for obtaining a content with which a point value is associated; a job management unit (106b) which outputs the obtained content so as to allow the printer (200) to print it, and also accumulates the point value associated with the content; a point accumulation unit (109); a printer I / F unit (107); and an ordering control unit (106a) for transmitting, to the content distributing apparatus (21), a notification for ordering consumables, together with the accumulated point value. The content distributing apparatus (21) receives the order for the consumables from the STB (100), and performs charging processing of reducing the price of the consumables by the amount equivalent to the point value transmitted together with the order.

The invention discloses a method and a device for performing electric magnetization resistance welding-braze welding compounding on dissimilar materials by assistance of an applied magnetic field. In the process of performing resistance welding-braze welding on the dissimilar metal material, a liquid solder is subjected to auxiliary electromagnetic stirring and ordered control, and the molten liquid solder is subjected to the reinforced booster action of electromagnetic stirring and electric magnetization by using an external applied alternating magnetic field which is generated by a magnet exciting coil in a welding area so as to promote directional flow of the liquid solder, and rupture of membranes, wetting, spreading and diffusion of the liquid solder on the surface of the metal material with a higher melting point, promote the liquid solder and a base metal which is molten by the metal material with a lower melting point to be mixed fully, promote interdiffusion of elements and compositions between the solder and the base metal and alloying between the two, improve uniformity of compositions of a soldered seam, reduce the weld defects, optimize the texture and the performance of the soldered seam, and improve the resistance soldered joint; and the device has the advantages of simple structure, flexible application, lower cost, good effect, and easy implementation.

The invention discloses a controlling method of net-shaped relay of media transmitting path and IP communication system, which comprises the following steps: setting one or more media relay translators in the media with public net IP address in the IP communicating system; dividing the media relay translator into different components according to the intercommunicating property; judging the belonged ISP pattern through IP communication system in the registering course of communication terminal; selecting one medial relay translator or combining couple of two media relay translators in the same group in the IP communication control channel intercommunicating establishing course; building media channel through media relay translator for communicating terminal; detaching the media channel for IP communication system after finishing the communication. The system contains database, network pattern detector, order control server, media relay translator and media relay distributor. The invention elevates the IP communication service quality effectively, which has strong constructability, extendibility and load balance mechanism.

A method and system for determining an optimal order for rebooting servers in a data center. After an abnormal shutdown event in a data center, a power restoration management (PRM) server detects a restoration of power capable of being available for a rebooting of servers in the data center. A power restoration management program automatically and dynamically determines an optimal order for rebooting the servers, where the order is a result of applying policies based on weighted factors. The PRM server or a manual process reboots the servers in the determined order. The rebooting includes an enhancement of a financial position of an organizational entity associated with the data center. The enhancement of the financial position includes increasing a financial profit of the organizational entity or decreasing a financial loss of the organization entity.

The invention belongs to the technical field of electronic commerce, and provides an express item delivery method, an intelligent express cabinet and a server. The method comprises the steps that an intelligent terminal receives an express item delivery request input by a user and sends the express item delivery request to the server; when the server receives the express item delivery request, an express item delivery code and an order corresponding to the express item delivery code are generated, and the express item delivery code is sent to the intelligent terminal; after the intelligent express cabinet obtains the express item code, the server is searched for an order corresponding to the express item code, a bin is controlled according to the order to be opened so as to accept an express item, and ordering confirming information is sent to the server after the express item is accepted; the server executes an ordering operation according to the ordering confirming information, and ordering completing information is returned back to the intelligent terminal. Self-service expression item delivery is achieved, a user can perform self-service ordering, self-service payment and self-service express item delivery in the express item delivery process, contact with a courier and express item acceptance during meeting are not needed, and the expression item delivery convenience and efficiency are greatly improved.

A method for the operation of a wind park with a plurality of wind energy plants, which each one have one control unit at a time, which can control and / or adjust the wind energy plant in response to a received desired value for an electric variable, the method having the following steps: a higher order control calculates and / or receives a currently permitted maximum value for the electric variable which the wind park is allowed to provide, the higher order control determines a desired value for the electric variable for each wind energy plant and forwards the same to the wind energy plants, characterized in that the higher order control determines the desired value for each one of the wind energy plants depending on the currently maximum and / or minimum available values of all the wind energy plants.

Provided is a method and apparatus for ensuring a deterministic execution characteristic of an application program to perform data processing and execute particular functions in a computing environment using a micro architecture. A lock controlling apparatus based on a deterministic progress index (DPI) may include a loading unit to load a DPI of a first core and a DPI of a second core among DPIs of a plurality of cores at a lock acquisition point in time of each thread, a comparison unit to compare the DPI of the first core and the DPI of the second core, and a controller to assign a lock to a thread of the first core when the DPI of the first core is less than the DPI of the second core and when the second core corresponds to a last core to be compared among the plurality of cores.