358 results about "Planning process" patented technology

A client-server system for corporate travel planning, expense reporting and travel management that utilizes a corporate database server to enable accurate and timely pre-travel and post-travel decision making that is fed by a travel planning process and an expense reporting process, plus a SABRE data feed of all booked data and back office system data as well as a hand-off of exchange and void ticket information that comprises a Travel Planning module, a Travel Decision Maker module, and a Travel Expense Reporting module. The system uses a corporate database environment communicating with a real-time CRS data feed that enhances the Travel Planning module by offering the traveler live choices of air, car, and hotel availability based upon company travel policy as well as live access to current or company negotiated fares while also allowing the Travel Decision Maker module to make comparisons between booked information and actual current travel data.

Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to make completion design an integral part of the well planning process by enabling the rapid evaluation of completion performance. This integration may include an earth model and may specify wellpath parameters, completion parameters, and other parameters in a simulation of operations using the earth model. The simulation generates well performance measures, which may be optimized depending on well performance technical limits. The optimization may be used to maximize an objective function. The system may include multiple users at the same or different locations (e.g. over a network) interacting through graphic user interfaces (GUI's).

This invention relates to a method for implementing an off shore / off site activity in an organization, with most optimal skills transfer process. The said process includes the steps ofassessing the suitability of outsourcing and whether the activity should be carried out on-site, locally or remotely, based on pre-determined parameters and decision ratios,planning the process including the minimum groundwork required before the actual process can begin,identifying the various milestones in the process and the deliverables in each milestonesmonitoring the progress of the migration process and the ways and means to take corrective action, and,evaluating the results of the development.

A system and method for planning a pathway through an anatomical luminal network of a patient including a computing device having at least one processor; a display device in communication with the computing device; and a user interface configured for display on the display device and configured to guide a user through a pathway planning procedure. The user interface includes a patient selection window configured to receive a user input to select a patient having CT image data on which to perform pathway planning; a target selection window configured to receive a user input to select at least one target from the CT image data; and an airway finder window configured to generate at least one pathway from the at least one target to an entry point of the anatomical luminal network in response to a user input.

Disclosed is a computer-implemented planning process that aids a system administrator in the task of creating a job schedule. The process treats enterprise computing resources as a grid of resources, which provides greater flexibility in assigning resources to jobs. During the planning process, an administrator or other user, or software, builds a job-dependency tree. Jobs are then ranked according to priority, pickiness, and network centricity. Difficult and problematic jobs then are assigned resources and scheduled first, with less difficult jobs assigned resources and scheduled afterwards. The resources assigned to the most problematic jobs then are changed iteratively to determine if the plan improves. This iterative approach not only increases the efficiency of the original job schedule, but also allows the planning process to react and adapt to new, ad-hoc jobs, as well as unexpected interruptions in resource availability.

A client-server system for corporate travel planning, expense reporting and travel management that utilizes a corporate database server to enable accurate and timely pre-travel and post-travel decision making that is fed by a travel planning process and an expense reporting process, plus a SABRE data feed of all booked data and back office system data as well as a hand-off of exchange and void ticket information that comprises a Travel Planning module, a Travel Decision Maker module, and a Travel Expense Reporting module. The system uses a corporate database environment communicating with a real-time CRS data feed that enhances the Travel Planning module by offering the traveler live choices of air, car, and hotel availability based upon company travel policy as well as live access to current or company negotiated fares while also allowing the Travel Decision Maker module to make comparisons between booked information and actual current travel data.

A system and associated method for automated disaster recovery (DR) planning. A DR planning process receives disaster recovery requirements and a target environment configuration from a user to design DR plans for the target environment configuration that meets disaster recovery requirements. The DR planning process accesses a knowledgebase containing information on replication technologies, best practice recipes, and past deployment instances. The DR planning process creates the DR plans by analyzing the disaster recovery requirements into element risks, associating replication technologies to protect each element risks, combining associated replication technologies based on the best practice recipes, and selecting highly evaluated combination based on the past deployment instances. The DR planning process presents the DR plans as classified by replication strategy-architecture combination for each DR plans and marks how strongly each DR plans are recommended.

The invention discloses an accompanying robot path planning method and system based on obstacle virtual expansion. The method includes a step of constructing an environment map, namely a step of constructing a two-dimensional occupancy grid map according to an actual scene, with each grid being labeled as an obstacle zone or a walkable zone; a step of setting initial coordinate positions of an accompanying robot and a movable target in the grid map; a step of constructing a sliding window for the robot; a step of subjecting the obstacle zones to expansion processing, namely a step of performing initial expansion on grids where an obstacle is according to a shortest distance between the center of the robot and a body edge, determining the number of grid layers expanded on the basis of the minimum impassable zone, adopting the grids in the expanded zones as obstacle virtual expansion grids, and labeling the grade of danger of obstacle influences on the obstacle virtual expansion grids; and a step of planning a path for the accompanying robot based on an A* algorithm and an incremental path planning process. Incremental path updating is performed by adopting a path of the last moment,thus saving path planning time and increasing the response speed of the accompanying robot.

Therefore, the illustrative embodiments provide an apparatus for performing horticultural tasks. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus is comprised of a number of data storage devices, a planning process, and a processor unit. The number of data storage devices includes a knowledge base. The processor unit executes the planning process and accesses the knowledge base on the number of data storage devices to identify a horticultural need for a plurality of plants.

A method for managing spare parts and tools for a manufacturing enterprise is disclosed. Historical demand values are statistically analyzed to determine optimal stocking levels for spare parts based upon required availability percentages, parts lead times, and the statistical distribution parts demand levels. Parts stocking decisions can also be based upon planned and preventative maintenance timeframes with such parts ordered on an as-needed basis in accordance with lead times. Spare parts inventory management can utilize an enterprise-wide computer system to integrate parts demand planning with systems used for engineering and other changes to manufacturing processes and facility maintenance systems. The computer system can perform varying degrees of the parts reordering and planning process and automate certain steps while providing for decision of other issues by parts management personnel.

Therefore, the illustrative embodiments provide an apparatus for performing horticultural tasks. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus is comprised of a number of data storage devices, a planning process, and a processor unit. The number of data storage devices includes a knowledge base. The processor unit executes the planning process and accesses the knowledge base on the number of data storage devices to identify a horticultural need for a plurality of plants.

The invention discloses a parking system path planning method based on an improved ant colony algorithm, and aims at solving the problem of AGV vehicle access path planning in an intelligent parking garage so that vehicle accessing can be completed in the shortest possible time, utilization rate of parking places can be enhanced, time of waiting for vehicle accessing can be reduced for social members and automatic management of parking equipment can be realized. The concrete planning steps are that an AGV working environment model in the intelligent parking garage is created by adopting a grid method; the conventional ant colony algorithm is optimized and improved by introducing of new node state transfer probability and an updating strategy of combination of local and global pheromones; and simulated testing is performed on the AGV vehicle access path planning process by applying the improved ant colony algorithm and the result is outputted. The method has high global search capability and great convergence performance, and can effectively enhance path search efficiency, shorten search path length and reduce the number of path turnings and can also enable the AGV to effectively avoid obstacles in the complex operation environment so as to search the optimal collision-free path.

The invention relates to a rapid forming method based on a double-forming head. The method comprises the following steps that (1) a three-dimensional solid model is built, and a model data file is output; (2) the model data file is recognized and analyzed through a software program, hierarchical processing is carried out, and then partition processing is carried out or partition processing is carried out, then hierarchical processing is carried out, and discrete two-dimensional layer information is obtained; (3), through the path planning process, a scanning path of the obtained discrete two-dimensional layer information is planned, and according to scanned outline information, forming head scanning paths with two kinds of precision can be respectively planned; (4) according to the outline information of each layer of scanning, a conventional precision forming head needle rapidly performs filling on the interior, a high-precision forming head needle performs high-precision filling on the surface of the outline, and the filling manufacturing work of each layer can be jointly completed by the conventional precision forming head needle and the high-precision forming head needle; (5) layer-by-layer printing is carried out; (6) the working process of the step (4) and the working process of the step (5) are repeated until all printing work is completed, and a workpiece is taken out; (7) aftertreatment is carried out on the taken-out workpiece.

A life-components oriented financial planning system comprises a timeline planning interface module for generating an interface comprising a plurality of histograms representing a planning target's “life components”; a projection generation module comprising projection generation formulae, wherein the entire projection data form the projection set of a “life road”; a financial destiny chart module for creating financial destiny charts from projection data in projection sets. Each life component comprises four kinds of “projections”, income, expenses, assets and liabilities. The position and length of the histogram represent values of a corresponding life component. The planning target's life road comprises life components; life components are grouped by financial modules and formed from projections; the projection comprises items. The present invention can strengthen trust in the planning process, making a planning target input more personal data to plan for himself or herself. The status the system simulates becomes clearer as more information is provided.

The invention discloses an underwater vehicle path planning method based on ocean current historical statistic information, comprising the following steps of: determining a sailing region, rasterizing the sailing region, generating an ocean current field in the sailing region by an ocean current historical statistic database, taking an electronic chart as an environment field to simplify and combine obstacles, islands and phytal zones in the sailing region and generate a prohibited area, storing ocean current information and prohibited area information according to grids, creating a path evaluation function, searching for an optimal path by a particle swarm optimization algorithm, outputting the optimal path and ending the path planning process. In the method provided by the invention, the ocean current field closer to a true value is generated by the ocean current historical statistic database, under the condition of taking full account of ocean current influence, the path evaluation function is designed based on safety, economical efficiency and smoothness, the particle swarm optimization algorithm is used as a path searching algorithm to perform global path planning for the underwater vehicle so as to plan an underwater vehicle sailing path which is closer to a practical sailing path.

The invention discloses a method for planning an optimal path for incremental environment information sampling of an indoor mobile robot. The method comprises the following steps: (1) acquiring surrounding environment information, and establishing obstacle collision risk-based evaluation probability; (2) planning a path by utilizing an optimal path planning algorithm for the incremental environment information sampling; (3) enabling the indoor mobile robot to select the path and enter a new path planning process. By adopting the optimal path planning algorithm for the incremental environment information sampling, the current optimal path can be planned in real time according to the current conditions of the indoor mobile robot and the inherent nonholonomic constraints of the robot; meanwhile, a collision detection environment in a search tree extension process is optimized; the planning efficiency is improved; the indoor mobile robot can reach a specified position quickly and safely.

The invention discloses a multi-target distribution and flight path planning method for multiple rescue helicopters, which relates to the technical field of aviation emergency rescue. The method comprises the steps of evaluating aviation rescue task execution feasibility, conducting disaster area map image processing, obtaining a feasibility matrix through the evaluation of the rescue task execution feasibility, taking the feasibility matrix as a coefficient matrix for a solution matrix Xij, solving distribution results according to tasks of different quantities of the rescue helicopters and target points through a Hungary algorithm, obtaining a flight path solution space by extracting a safety zone topological structure by adopting an image processing method and morphological characteristics, obtaining the shortest path in the flight path solution space by a heuristic A* search algorithm, combining the results of multi-target distribution for multiple rescue helicopters, forming an emergency plan for rescue task execution of the helicopters, and calling a Google Earth flight simulation API (Application Program Interface) to demonstrate the emergency rescue plan and making preflight preparation, so as to improve the efficiency and safety of the aviation emergency rescue. The method is simple, the time complexity is low, the flight path planning process is visual, and the result is distinct.

The invention discloses a power grid planning method considering the power transmission and distribution price. The current planning systems including the power grid planning rule, the investment deciding method and the power grid planning method fail to meet new requirements, of power transmission control and constraint and connection of new energy into the grid, of complex and undetermined environments. The provided power grid planning method comprises steps of: constructing a power grid planning model considering the power transmission and distribution price and establishing constraint conditions of the power grid planning model; using a stochastic load flow method based on the half invariant method to examine the constraint conditions and converting the nondeterminacy probability optimization problem into determinacy optimization problem; and using an improved NSGA-II algorithm to solve the power grid planning mode, and solving an optimal power distribution network extension planning scheme. According to the invention, by use of the power grid planning mode, checking of the cost of the power grid and the power transmission and distribution earnings in the planning process is achieved; invalid cost of power grid enterprises is reduced; and economic benefit of a power grid planning scheme based on market-oriented construction of the electric power is increased.

The invention relates to an active power distribution network multi-target layered planning method considering demand side management and energy storage; the method comprises the following steps: building a dual-layer model; the upper planning model integrally considers various economic costs of a power distribution company in a planning process and the reliability and stability of the power distribution network as the upper layer goals, considers the demand side management and energy storage equipment investment and economic benefits, and determines a target function and constraint conditions; the lower planning model takes the minimum distribution power resection volume in the planning process as the target function, considers the maximum effective utilization of the distributed power supply, reduces the distributed power supply output via wind and light curtailment measures, and adjusts transformer tap joint and reactive compensation equipment to carry out active control. The methodcan improve the power supply reliability and distribution network operation stability, and can delay power grid upgrades.

A method of establishing a new category in enterprise marketing planning (EMP) comprising of a self-contained, integrated, stand-alone system with three interconnecting subsidiary systems: Enterprise Market Planning (EMP) Modules, Competitor Signalling Environment (CSE) Portal and EMP Project Management (PMO) System through which integration of operational with market planning data and processes at strategic and / or corporate planning levels may provide enhanced market competitiveness to emerging brand and emerging market companies without sufficiently deep process / systems integration knowledge, experience and capabilities a business mission-critical central data integration and messaging system with built-in content, formats, rules, and processes to enable the optimisation of business strategies within existing Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) through strategic intervention of the Enterprise Market Planning system (EMP), wherein the EMP System is configured to reduce the lack of convergence between operational and market planning processes for improved investment prioritisation in competitive market and brand performance an integrated, modular, and content-rich enterprise market planning system designed to accelerate organisational learning, collaboration and competencies in market and brand competitiveness processes from market and customer knowledge to communications and technology alignment, market performance measures, rules and formats via a single, unified data access and retrieval point and an integrated business information management system that may shape essential market and brand convergence behaviours enterprise-wide among assigned users within emerging brand and / or emerging market enterprises seeking to align business activities, investments, systems and competencies in the building of stronger and more globally-competitive corporate, product and service brands.

A system and method for dynamically allocating human resources to a project plan is provided. Audit data associated with legacy planning processes may be analyzed in order to estimate an amount of work effort, a cost, or other information associated with various resources (e.g., the resource may be assigned a relative value based on skills maturity, experience, overall repertoire, or other factors). As such, a more accurate assessment of a given project plan may be created, thereby providing various advantages, such as minimizing risks, improving confidence in estimates or proposals, improving return on investment calculations, maximizing profitability per project, or effectively identifying which projects should be allocated to skilled workers, entry level or lower skilled workers, or otherwise.

The invention provides an electric automobile traveling path planning method based on a driving working condition. The electric automobile traveling path planning method comprises the following steps:step 1: determining a starting point and a finishing point; loading road network information, an average speed of each road section, uphill information of each road section and road section congestion information; setting a default initial speed v0 of an automobile vehicle; automatically detecting current residual total energy of an the electric automobile by a system; step 2, planning a shortestpath L0 according to the starting point and the finishing point by utilizing a shortest path Dijkstra algorithm; step 3, carrying out energy consumption analysis on the L0, calculating total energy consumption and judging whether the total energy consumption can reach or not, wherein the energy consumption analysis is divided into energy consumption of next 2 kilometers in the future, energy consumption from a residual road section of to the finishing point and extra energy consumption caused by uphill. According to the electric automobile traveling path planning method provided by the invention, a charging pile and the road network information of a road are effectively combined; a driving process considers the average speed which is dynamically calculated and a road grade which are dynamically calculated, and an electric automobile traveling path planning process is finished relatively well; a route can be more accurately planned for a user.

The invention provides an underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning method based on a cuckoo search algorithm and belongs to the technical field of underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning. In detail, according to the problems existing in underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning, the method includes the five basic steps of modeling, initializing the cuckoo search algorithm, updating the positions of cuckoo nests, selecting the global optimum position, judging an end condition and outputting the optimum route. According to the method, simplicity, high efficiency and global searching capacity of the cuckoo search algorithm are utilized well. Compared with a traditional underwater vehicle route planning method, the underwater vehicle three-dimensional route planning method is higher in intelligence and adaptability and is higher in flexibility and easier to implement compared with other intelligent optimization algorithms; the process of route planning is performed in a three-dimensional environment, a planned route is higher in practicability compared with a route planned in a two-dimensional environment, and the navigation requirements of an underwater vehicle can be met very well.

The invention discloses a low-orbit satellite routing strategy method based on a deep reinforcement learning architecture, and belongs to the field of wireless communication. Firstly, an iridium constellation network is established, and a deep reinforcement learning framework is established in combination with a Markov decision process; and for a certain satellite node A, a HELLO packet is periodically sent to a neighbor node, and an adjacent node communicated with the link state of the current node A is searched, a next hop node of a current node is obtained by inputting a destination node coordinate, a link state of the current node and a link state of a neighbor node into a deep reinforcement learning architecture, and a next hop node is continuously obtained in the same way; and when aspecial routing condition (such as open circuit, loop and congestion) occurs, a link state is repeatedly input into the deep reinforcement learning architecture by adopting a corresponding solution strategy until a destination node is reached, and a path planning process is finished. According to the method, the system complexity and the storage overhead are reduced, the effect of detecting the satellite link state in real time is achieved, and satellite routing is more stable and reliable.

The invention discloses a spacecraft assembly oriented three-dimensional structured process design system and method. The three-dimensional structured process design system comprises a process planning management module, a process digital prototype associated management module, a process compiling module, a process controlled and publishing module. The process planning management module is used for planning process volumes and a process route and establishing a process file structure tree; the process digital prototype associated management module is used for being associated to the process file structure tree and a product structure tree provided by a process digital prototype; the process compiling module is used for allocating materials, tooling, tools and auxiliary resources, compiling process sequences and generating a working procedure route map; the process controlled and publishing module is used for initiating a process approval flow and publishing process files to a field manufacturing execution system. By the spacecraft assembly oriented three-dimensional structured process design system and method, the process digital prototype is taken as a unique data source, close association between the process file structure tree and the product structure tree is realized, and process compiling efficiency is improved by taking typical process statements as templates.

A system and method for perceiving drilling learning through visualization is provided. In one embodiment using three-dimensional visualization of the earth model as a foundation, a new IT development strategy focuses on perceiving "Drilling Learning" by an intuitive method. Symbols, known as "Knowledge Attachments" are attached to each wellbore trajectory displayed in the three-dimensional environment, with each symbol indicating a specific event-such as one related to drilling operations or problems. A Knowledge Attachment system proves particularly useful to represent disparate data at once, in such a manner that the interdependencies between the earth model and drilling operational data are evident and correlated. Operational issues and lessons learned from prior wells are easily accessed and perceived in the context of the earth model. By understanding this information at the beginning of the well planning process, operational efficiencies may be improved.

The invention relates to a speed planning method during NURBS curve interpolation of an industrial robot. The method comprises that (1) a characteristic equation, based on a parameter u and a feed velocity v, of an NURBS curve is established; (2) a velocity constraint relation, based on the geometrical constraints as centripetal acceleration and chord-height error, of the NURBS curve is established; and (3) according to the fact that the feed speed in the robot end changes monotonously, predictive speed segmentation is carried out on the NURBS curve to obtain a segment point interpolation parameter set, and a speed planning process is completed. The speed planning method is especially suitable for the NURBS curve in which multiple teaching points are known, a movement track of the robot end needs to be smooth, and the movement speed and acceleration of the robot end cannot change abruptly; the geometric characteristics of the NURBS curve are taken into consideration when speed limitation is established; the curve is segmented predictively according to the monotonicity of speed change; and impact on the robot during NURBS curve interpolation is greatly reduced.

The invention relates to an improved S curve acceleration and deceleration control method based on a trigonometric function and belongs to the motion control field. According to the method, a curve isdivided into stages according to different motion characteristics, in the planning process, whether each stage exists is discussed through parameter restriction and actual situations to acquire the operation time of each stage, and a displacement curve after planning is acquired. On the basis of acceleration and deceleration of a traditional S curve, the acceleration and deceleration control method based on the trigonometric function is introduced, acceleration and deceleration continuity can be effectively guaranteed, and impact on numerical control equipment is reduced to the maximum degree.

The invention discloses a path planning determining method based on cladogram topological road network construction, which comprises the steps of: obtaining city complete road network data, constructing a road network full-connected graph G expressing original geographic information by applying an adjacent topological cladogram; classifying and dividing the road network full-connected graph G into a Y-type road network topological cladogram; obtaining the minimal branching tree comprising all target nodes; and eliminating invalid branching nodes by adopting a branching delimiting searching strategy for the minimal branching tree comprising all target nodes in a road planning problem, reducing incidence matrix dimensionality and obtaining a planning result. The invention has the advantagesof optimizing algorithm complexity of the road planning process and improving road planning efficiency.

A method for managing spare parts and tools for a manufacturing enterprise is disclosed. Historical demand values are statistically analyzed to determine optimal stocking levels for spare parts based upon required availability percentages, parts lead times, and the statistical distribution parts demand levels. Parts stocking decisions can also be based upon planned and preventative maintenance timeframes with such parts ordered on an as-needed basis in accordance with lead times. Spare parts inventory management can utilize an enterprise-wide computer system to integrate parts demand planning with systems used for engineering and other changes to manufacturing processes and facility maintenance systems. The computer system can perform varying degrees of the parts reordering and planning process and automate certain steps while providing for decision of other issues by parts management personnel.