34 results about "Real time kinetics" patented technology

A system and method for providing power and alignment control within an irrigation system having at least two spans and a drive system for moving the spans. According to a first preferred embodiment, the present invention includes a method for maintaining the alignment which includes the steps of: receiving a first set of Global Positing System (GPS) location data and second set of Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) error data; comparing the first set of GPS location data with the second set of RTK error data; calculating RTK error correction data; transmitting RTK error correction data to the intermediate drive towers and the last drive tower; calculating the location of the last drive tower using GPS data and RTK error correction data; calculating a straight, center line between the center pivot and the last drive unit; calculating the relative distances between each intermediate drive tower and the calculated center line using a linear regression algorithm; and controlling the average speed over time of each intermediate drive tower to reduce distance between their current locations the calculated center line The present invention provides a system for aligning drive towers within an irrigation system.

The present invention provides a method for aligning spans using real-time kinetics (RTK) data communicated through a power line carrier system. According to a further preferred embodiment, the method of present invention includes the steps of: receiving a first set of GPS location data and second set of RTK data; comparing the first set of GPS location data with the second set of RTK data; calculating RTK error correction data; creating an RTK error correction data signal containing RTK error correction data; modulating the RTK error correction data signal for transmission on a power line carrier; transmitting the RTK error correction data signal through a power line BUS onto a power line to a last drive tower; de-modulating the RTK error correction data signal; calculating the location of the last drive tower using the RTK error correction data; calculating a straight, center line between the pivot and the last drive unit; calculating the relative distances between each intermediate drive tower and the calculated center line; and controlling the speed or average run time of each intermediate drive tower to reduce distance between their current locations and the calculated center line.

The invention relates to a modeling method of a large-flexibility flight vehicle based on online identification. The modeling method comprises the four steps of building of a unit mechanism model, parameterization of the unit model, building of an overall flight dynamic model and online identification. According to the fact that when the large-flexibility vehicle is on flight, wings can be subjected to geometric nonlinearity deformation, and a structural model of flexible wings is built based on a nonlinear beam theory; a continuous vibration system is discretized to obtain a unit structure model; aiming at the feature that aerodynamic force is unsteady, an unsteady aerodynamic theory is utilized to build an aerodynamic force model; the aerodynamic force model and external forces like gravity are substituted into the structural model to obtain a unit gas bomb mechanism model; according to needs, variables capable of being measured by proper sensors are selected as parameters, and parameteriztion of the unit model is conducted; moreover, the parameters are utilized to achieve connection among units; a many-body dynamic theory is utilized to build the overall dynamic model of the flight vehicle; finally, a proper sensor is selected to achieve parameter online identification to obtain the large-flexibility flight vehicle real-time dynamic model.