5099 results about "Synchronous control" patented technology

Systems and methods are disclosed for time synchronization of operations in a control system. Synchronization networks and devices are provided for transferring synchronization information between controllers in a distributed or localized control system, which is employed in order to allow operation of such controllers to be synchronized with respect to time. Also disclosed are synchronization protocols and hardware apparatus employed in synchronizing control operations in a control system.

A technique is described which may be used to synchronize a plurality of different access controllers which control a plurality of distinct ports at the Head End of an access network. In the context of a cable network, the technique of the present invention may be used to synchronize desired upstream and / or downstream channels across different line cards within a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS). The technique involves utilizing a master time reference device which maintains and updates a current time reference, and periodically distributes synchronization signals to desired line cards in the system in order to synchronize these line cards. In a specific embodiment, the synchronization signals include current timestamp data generated from the master time reference device and distributed to all (or selected) line cards in the system. A slave time reference device on each of the line cards receives the periodic synchronization updates and uses the synchronization data to remain synchronized with the master time reference device. There are also provisions in this protocol to allow for hot insertion and removal of line cards, software reset or loading of the master and / or slave time reference devices, and redundant master time reference devices, including master time reference device fault detection and automatic fail over.

The invention provides a multi-sensor integrated synchronous control method and a multi-sensor integrated synchronous control system for high-precision time-space data acquisition. The method comprises the following steps of: establishing a time-space reference circuit which provides time reference and space reference; establishing a linear reference coordinate system through the time reference and the space reference, and implementing conversion between the linear reference coordinate system and a geodetic coordinate system; sending an analog control signal to an active synchronous sensor according to the preset parameters to realize synchronous control of the active synchronous sensor; and receiving an external event pulse signal, and responding to the interruption generated by the external event pulse signal to realize synchronous control of a passive synchronous sensor. An active synchronous control circuit and a passive synchronous control circuit are provided; and based on the time and space references provided by the time-space reference circuit, the circuits can expand random multiple sensor synchronous control cases aiming at different sensors and control requirements, and have extremely strong expansion and flexible functions.

A synchronized control method for a three-phase three-level boost-type rectifier with reduced input current ripple and balanced output voltages is disclosed. The proposed control allows simplifying the control circuit as much as possible without compromising the rectifier performance. In fact, besides simplicity, the control method featured synchronized command signals to de switching devices, minimized input current ripple, full controllability of the output voltage, dynamic balance of the output center point, constant switching frequency, simplified design of EMC filters, good transient and steady state performance, and low cost. The invention described first the most important configurations that the three-phase three-level boost-type rectifier may assume and studied the converter's operation. The concept involved for output voltage, input current, neutral point balance and control system design was presented.

The invention relates to a space borne TDICCD camera integral timing and adjusting method, which comprises the following steps: (1) the orbit is simulated with high precision in which positions parameters of photographed spots of the satellite under drift angle control or at different swinging angles are outputted such as vector coordinates and oblique distances of the photographed spots as well as vector simulation data for the satellite position; (2) the vector simulation data for the satellite position are analyzed to come out with the shift speeds of the photographed spots; (3) eliminate the radial-directional speeds from the shift speeds of the photographed spots to become the image motion speeds; (4) utilize the image motion speeds and the oblique distances of the photographed spots to obtain the integral times. The invention also provides a design method for TDICCD related parameters as well as a real-time adjusting method for integral times on the satellite under control of ground commands. The space borne TDICCD camera integral timing and adjusting method realizes an organic combination of simulation modeling with high precision and positional vector differential method, which eliminates errors introduced into the deduction process in traditional geometric analysis and calculation and controls error delivery to improve calculation precision; the arrival real-time adjusting method for integral times on the satellite ensures a reliable integral synchronous control.

A fiber scanning projector includes a light source comprising a plurality of monochromatic light sources, a modulator providing a modulation signal according to image information to the light source, a scanner scanning a screen with a light emitted from the light source and controlled according to the modulation signal, the scanner including a fiber bundle and an actuator which 2-axis-drives the fiber bundle, and a synchronization controller synchronizing driving of the actuator and driving of the modulator.

The invention discloses a synchronous rectification control circuit of a switch power supply, which is used for the the secondary rectification control of the switch power supply. The circuit comprises a primary state detection unit and a rectifier tube control circuit, wherein the primary state detection unit is used for receiving the voltages of the two ends of the secondary winding of the switch power supply and outputting a state signal to the rectifier tube control circuit; and the rectifier tube control circuit is used for outputting a synchronous control signal according to the state signal and the drain-source voltage of a secondary rectifier tube of the switch power supply so as to control the on and off of the rectifier tube. By adopting the embodiment of the invention, the voltages and parasitic damped oscillation at two ends of the secondary winding, which are excited by normal primary switch actions, can be distinguished based on the voltage second procuct of the voltages of the two ends of the secondary winding, thereby achieving the secondary rectification control which can be adaptively regulated and ensuring a correct detection state.

An image displaying apparatus displaying a color image with favorable quality on a predetermined surface comprises; light source unit for emitting light beams within different wavelength ranges optically modulated by image information; light combining unit for combining light beams from the light source unit into a light beam; scanning unit for scanning a scanned surface with the light beam from the light combining unit and forming image thereon; and controlling unit for synchronously controlling the scanning unit and the light source unit, wherein dividing unit for dividing a light beam into light beams is provided within an arbitrary optical path on light-incident side of the scanning unit; receiving unit and adjustment unit for adjusting quantity of light emission of one or more light source unit based on the light quantity received by the receiving unit are provided on one of the optical paths divided by the dividing unit.

A welding system, in certain embodiments, includes a synchronization controller configured to override a first nominal calibration of a first wire drive, or a second nominal calibration of a second wire drive, or both, in response to a tension condition or a compression condition of a welding wire feeding between the first and second wire drives. A welding system, in other embodiments, includes a welding wire drive having a motor, a controller, a nominal calibration, and a multi-drive synchronization parameter. The multi-drive synchronization parameter may be configured to control speed, or torque, or both, of multiple drives including the welding wire drive to facilitate synchronization of the multiple drives.

The invention provides an LED atmosphere illumination control system, which adopts the standard DMX512 control protocol and a bus type network structure. A controller intensively controls all LED lamps. The system comprises an embedded light synchronous controller, an indoor atmosphere illumination controller, a general high-power LED drive, a transmission medium and the LED lamps. The system canperform scene mode control by network control mode, remote control mode, automatic control mode, manual control mode and various control modes; no less than nine scene modes are preset or can be freely set according to individual preference; digital diming can be achieved by an embedded program, and the illumination and the color tone of the light can be controlled precisely; and each lamp can beindependently controlled or can be controlled by networking. The system can ensure the evenness of the illumination effect while achieving the energy-saving illumination control and is widely applicable to local intensive illumination control of public places and families.

The invention discloses an uplink synchronization control method, a base station and a user device thereof. Wherein the method comprises: selecting a reference uplink communication channel from different uplink communication channels of one user device according to prearranged selecting principles, taking the timing initial lead of the reference uplink communication channel as the uniform timing initial lead of each uplink communication channel, carrying out uplink synchronization control to each uplink communication channel according to the uniform timing initial lead, and thereby improving the data throughput.

The invention provides an unmanned plane route planning and remote synchronous control method, and relates to the field of unmanned plane control. The method provided by the invention can be wieldy applied to intelligent mobile equipment including mobile phones and panel personal computers. A system can be divided into two major parts, wherein an unmanned plane serves as an actuating end for measuring attitude angle, the longitude and latitude and the height information of an airframe, and sending the information to the intelligent mobile equipment through a wireless data transmission module or a Wi-Fi module, and synchronously receiving the information returned via the intelligent mobile equipment, and executing relevant flight operation. The intelligent mobile equipment can be inclined and rotated to acquire the angle data output via a gyroscope and an accelerometer on the equipment, thus, the unmanned plane can perform the same action as the equipment; and the intelligent mobile equipment has he functions of receiving and displaying data, and returning the information to the unmanned plane through an external wireless data transmission module or the Wi-Fi based on the command and flight information set on a touch screen. With the adoption of the method provided by the invention, the flexibility of an unmanned plane system can be improved; and the unmanned plane system can be simply operated just like playing a game.

The configurations of a resonant converter system and a controlling method thereof are provided. The proposed resonant converter system includes a resonant converter receiving an input voltage for outputting an output voltage, a rectifying device having a first rectifying switch and a synchronous rectification control circuit coupled to the resonant converter and including a signal generation apparatus generating a weighted turn-off signal to turn off the first rectifying switch at a zero crossing point of a first current flowing through the first rectifying switch.

A welding system is provided, in which two electrodes are directed at a joint between two work pieces and the electrodes are energized with DC pulse or AC welding waveforms at a controlled waveform phase angle. The systems include a synchronizing controller to synchronize the welding waveforms, and a work point allocation system provides one or more work point values to the welding machines to provide synergic control of the welding according to a user selected system work point value or parameter. The systems and methods further provide for synchronized work point value modulation for the opposite sides of a dual fillet weld. The system and method further provide a high energy heat source that directs intense heat at a portion of the weld joint to improve weld penetration.

The invention discloses a pipe leakage detecting system, comprising a controller and a pipe leak detector, wherein, the controller processes and store data in the pipe leak detector through a wireless technology; the pipe leak detector also comprises a sensor, an amplifier, an analog-digital conversion module, a main processor, a GPS clock synchronization control module, a wireless communication module and a power supply module, wherein, the sensor is arranged on a pipe to be detected; the amplifier is connected with the sensor; the analog-digital conversion module is connected with the amplifier; the main processor is connected with the analog-digital conversion module; the GPS clock synchronization control module is connected with the main processor; the wireless communication module is connected with the main processor; and the power supply module is connected with the main processor. In the invention, sensors are arranged on the outer wall of the pipe at intervals and receive sound waves produced by leakage points on the pipe under the condition that GPS time service error is less than 200nS, thereby realizing high sensitive detection of the pipe leakage and high precise positioning of leakage sources. In addition, the pipe leakage detecting system is characterized by low cost, small volume, light weight, being portable and convenient operation.

The invention relates to a tunnel lining disease detection device based on an infrared temperature field and a gray level image. The tunnel lining disease detection device comprises a vehicle-mounted mobile platform, illumination equipment, a photoelectric encoder, a GPS (Global Position System) receiver, an inertia unit, a synchronous controller, an area-array camera, an infrared thermal imager, an acquisition server, a display control device and a power supply system; tunnel lining two-dimensional image data, infrared temperature field data and fracture surface deformation data are combined with positioning data of the GPS, the inertia unit and the photoelectric encoder to establish a tunnel model with gray level information, temperature information and fracture surface deformation; and tunnel lining cracks are analyzed, and the length, width and lining leakage water information of the cracks are automatically detected. For the tunnel lining disease detection device, the advantages of infrared temperature field detection and two-dimensional gray level image crack detection are combined so that the detection result is relatively reliable, the speed is rapid and the working efficiency is greatly improved.

This invention discloses a synchronous play control method for supporting multi-source flow media, in which, a device realizing said method includes a separator, a decoder set, a multi-source flow media module, a multi-source video flow combination module, an OSD and an audio filter lens, in which, the separator separates the video and audio data in the multiple local media files or the multiple flow media, the decoder set calls related decoders to decode them to be sent to the multi-source flow media synchronous module, which applies a system of multi-size hierarchical synchronous control to control the multi-route media flow synchronously among and in the media objects, the multi-source video combination module combines multiple videos to one route, the OSD module laminates the combined data, volume, the current play time or caption information to output the video, the audio filter lens carries out formation transformation and linear overlap to the multiple audios then to output the audio.

A synchronization control method in a communication system including a mobile station and a base station includes generating a synchronization request at the base station when data addressed to the mobile station arrives, receiving the synchronization request from the base station at the mobile station, transmitting feedback information at the mobile station as a response to the synchronization request, receiving the feedback information at the base station, generating timing advance information at the base station based on a reception timing of the feedback information, transmitting the timing advance information from the base station to the mobile station, and adjusting a transmission timing of uplink data at the mobile station, based on the timing advance information.

The subject invention relates to integrating agents, control logic, and simulations in order to simulate and validate a control strategy for a physical system. The systems and methods integrate agents and control logic with simulations, and utilize the integrated agents, control logic, and simulations to generate a proxy. The proxy can be employed to couple one or more controllers executing the agents and control logic with the simulations. Visualization is utilized to visualize the simulation, including the agents and the control logic. In addition, the systems and methods utilize a synchronization algorithm to synchronize the execution times of the controllers and the simulations. The foregoing mitigates validation through building and testing physical system and / or test beds. Upon validating control strategies, associated agents and logic can be loaded in one or more industrial controllers controlling the physical system, and the simulation can be utilized to represent the physical system.

A process control system simulation technique performs real-time simulation of an actual process control network as that network is running within a process plant in a manner that is synchronized with the operation of the actual process control network. This real-time, synchronized simulation system includes a simulation process control network and a process model which are automatically updated periodically during the operation of the actual process control network to reflect changes made to the process control network, as well as to account for changes in the plant itself, i.e., changes which require an updated process model. The disclosed simulation system provides for more readily accessible and usable simulation activities, as the process control network and the process models used within the simulation system are synchronized with and up-to-date with respect to the current process operating conditions. Moreover, this simulation system is more accurate as it uses process models developed from the current state of the process whenever the simulation system beings to perform a simulation. Still further, the disclosed simulation system is easy to operate, as it uses the same user interface applications as the actual process control network and can be initialized and used at any time during operation the process plant without any significant configuration or set-up activities.

A electric motor drive apparatus comprising a voltage control unit performing voltage control processing that determines alternating-current voltage command values serving as command values of the alternating-current voltages to be supplied to the alternating-current electric motor and generates switching control signals for the inverter; and a control mode selection unit selecting a synchronous control mode in which a cycle of electric angle of the alternating-current electric motor is synchronized with a switching cycle of the inverter, or an asynchronous control mode in which the cycles are not synchronized with each other. Current detection processing is performed to detect currents flowing in coils of the alternating-current electric motor in every standard calculation cycle that is set to a half of a cycle of the carrier.

The invention provides a data backup method of a distributed file system. The method includes: setting up a thread pool by a synchronous control node, distributing source files to each thread according to a copy list, and parallelly conducting metadata synchronization of each source file and the corresponding target file; judging content consistency of each file block in the source files and the target files by each thread of the synchronous control node to analyze difference between each distributed source file and the corresponding target file; judging content consistency of each chunk in the source files and the target files by a source data node to analyze difference between the source file blocks and the target file blocks; duplicating data of the source file blocks to the corresponding target file blocks by a target data node according to the difference analyzing results of the source file blocks and the target file blocks. Data transmission among trans-cluster data nodes can be reduced by effectively using existing data of the target files of a target file system, and data backup execution time is shortened since file backup is completed by taking a file block as a unit.

This invention provides a multi-channel clock synchronizing method and a system, in which, a phase calibration theory is used and a phase calibration module takes received sampling clocks of a main device and a path of sampling clocks output by a drive module of a slave device as the phase calibration automatic control input signal to regulate the phase of a reference clock of the main device so as to realize accurate synchronizatin of main and slave devices, and the system includes a main device and at least one slave device and provides a DSP+FPGA module used in generating active synchronous signals and a control mode selecting module used in realizing selection of active and automatic modes, which can realize accurate synchronization of multi-channel clocks, and an operator can regulate phase difference of main and slave device actively when the clock system is lost at automatic synchronization to realize synchronization again.

The invention mainly discloses a method and device for producing spring bed core full-automatically; an automatic transmitter with simple and easy operation is used for connecting a spring coiling machine and a spring stringing machine integrally; under synchronous control, three machines coordinate the motion so as to realize full automatic production line from steel wire to bed core. The spring coiling machine equidistantly and horizontally outputs springs through a step conveying mechanism; the springs horizontally output adjust the turnover component of the automatic transmitter to be upright state and positioned into groups equidistantly by positioning components; the springs are pushed into the spring stringing machine from a conveying belt by means of the pushing component of the automatic transmitter to realize spring string. A full automatic production line is formed, and the steel wire as raw material is automatically made into the spring bed core, thereby greatly improving the production efficiency, shortening the production time in unit, reducing the labor intensity, and forming great economic benefit in enterprises; moreover, the obtained product has high quality and low defective rate, and the equipment failure rate is low.

When one video image (e.g., second video image) is blended or synthesized to video image (e.g., main video image), time base correction is made between both video data. A video data processing apparatus comprising a first video generator generating a first video data having an arbitrary frame rate, a second video generator generating a second video data having an arbitrary frame rate different from the first video data, and a synchronization controller using video reproduction time managed by the first video generator as a reference time, and correcting video reproduction time of the second video generator shifted from the reference time by repeatedly using the second video data to obtain frame synchronization.

The invention relates to the technical field of remote operating robot synchronous control, specifically discloses a remote operating robot fixed time control method based on a rapid terminal sliding mode. The method includes: selecting a master robot and a slave robot to form a remote operating system, measuring system parameters of the master robot and the slave robot respectively, measuring position information of the master robot and the slave robot on line, obtaining speed information of the master robot and the slave robot, designing a rapid terminal sliding mode surface, based on the designed rapid terminal sliding mode surface, using the system parameters of the main robot and the slave robot to design a self-adaptive fixed time controller, and using a Lyapunov equation to provide a relational expression between a parameter self-adaptive law, controller parameters, sliding mode surface parameters and system convergence time, thereby determining the controller parameters and the sliding mode surface parameters according to requirements of practical application for system convergence time and a relational expression between the system parameters and the system convergence time. The remote operating robot fixed time control method based on the rapid terminal sliding mode makes up for the defects in control speed and control accuracy of an existing remote operating robot system control method.

Disclosed is a context sensing application platform based on main body and a work method thereof, wherein the creation core of the invention is to supply a general-purpose processing model for obtaining context information, wherein the processing model comprises a gatherer communication module, a context information processing module, a management module, a knowledge information base, a context application processing module and a context sensing application platform of the context application processing module, when the application platform is supplied for sensing the context application, two mutually-independent and mutually-coordinated context information processing flows are proposed on how to use the context information processing steps, are mutually transparent, and share knowledge information through a synchronous control mechanism. The two processing flows are both on the basis of the context sensing and application platform of the invention, cover each flow of the context information processing, and reach knowledge sharing. The invention uses a main body to describe the context information, and reaches the universal share of knowledge information in the calculating field.

The invention discloses a multiple-target motion capturing system integrating optical localization and inertia sensing. The multiple-target motion capturing system integrating the optical localization and the inertia sensing comprises target motion capturing units, a target locating unit, a data synchronous control unit and a data receiving and processing unit. A plurality of target motion capturing units are provided. Under the control of the data synchronous control unit, the target motion capturing units and the target locating unit transmit data to the data receiving and processing unit. The optical localization and a mechanical motion capturing technology are integrated, one position, with least shielding, on the surface of each target is simply fetched and taken as an optical localization point to obtain accurate location data of each target, the motion posture data of each target are captured through the mechanical motion capturing technology, and then calculations are carried out on the two types of data in an integral mode to obtain the integrate motion postures of multiple targets. The purposes of accurate location of each target and accurate capture of human motion postures are achieved.