287results about "Measurement arrangements for variable" patented technology

An on-board insect monitoring system, comprising insect luring and capturing means, a digital camera, cleaning means, and a processor configured to acquire images or video from the camera, recognize at least one insect species; count insects of the species, evaluate an insect density, provide an indication corresponding to the recognition, the count and / or the density, and actuate the cleaning means in response to the density. A method for monitoring and predicting insect populations, comprising providing insect monitoring stations for collecting data comprising a presence of an insect species, a number of insects of the species, and / or and a total number of insects, providing the data to a server, retrieving previously received data, determining, a change in the data, ascribing, to each station, a predicted value for the data based on the changes and the station locations and providing the data and / or the predicted value to a user.

An X-ray inspection apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey articles, an X-ray irradiation unit configured to irradiate the articles conveyed by the conveyance unit with X-rays, an X-ray detection unit configured to detect X-rays transmitted through the articles, an image generation unit configured to generate an X-ray transmission image based on a detection result by the X-ray detection unit, and a calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the X-ray transmission image, the total amount of the articles conveyed per predetermined time by the conveyance unit.

A sensor including at least one sensor element configured for measuring an external parameter and outputting one or more results representative for the external parameter, an output buffer configured for receiving the one or more results or a processed version thereof and for applying an analog signal representative for the result or a time multiplexed sequence of analog signals representative for the results on a sensor terminal, and a control circuit configured for obtaining an ID of the sensor, and for receiving a trigger signal, and for determining whether the trigger signal matches the ID of the sensor, and for enabling the output buffer during a predefined period when the trigger signal matches the ID of the sensor.

A leakage electrolyte solution detection device includes a hyperspectral imaging device, an image extractor, and a determination unit. The hyperspectral imaging device includes an optical unit that collects reflected light by scanning a rechargeable battery on which the electrolyte solution injection process has been completed, a dispersive element that disperses light processed by the optical unit, and an image sensor that converts the light dispersed by the dispersive element into an electric signal, and acquires a hyperspectral image of a rechargeable battery. The image extractor extracts an image of a band related to a characteristic wavelength of an electrolyte solution from the hyperspectral image. The determination unit determines a presence or absence of a leakage electrolyte solution by analyzing the image extracted by the image extractor.

A method of dynamic, real-time generation of a blended output from a plurality of sensors is provided. The method includes, at a frame rate, periodically storing samples from the plurality of sensors; band pass filtering the stored samples separately for each of the plurality of sensors over a time scale characteristic of a type of error for the plurality of sensors; storing the filtered samples; at an accumulation rate, iteratively updating a covariance matrix based on a selected number of filtered samples, removing data from the covariance matrix for any of the plurality of sensors that have failed; and calculating, based on the covariance matrix, changes to real-time coefficients to be applied to the outputs of each sensor of the plurality of sensors; and at the frame rate, applying the changes to the real-time coefficients; and calculating the blended output for the plurality of sensors based on the real-time coefficients.

The invention discloses an environment monitoring method and system for a bee breeding warehouse, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the re-fitting of at least one abnormal environment data difference value based on other environment data difference value sequences according to a preset fitting strategy, and obtaining a fitting environment data difference value corresponding to the at least one abnormal environment data difference value, judging whether a difference value between a certain fitting environment data difference value and a certain abnormal environment data difference value is greater than a preset threshold value or not; constructing an environment data difference value change set according to the first environment data difference value, a certain abnormal environment data difference value and the second environment data difference value, and comparing the environment data difference value change set with other environment data difference value change sets; and determining a monitoring result of a certain environment data corresponding to the certain abnormal environment data difference value according to a comparison result. And the phenomenon that the temperature change possibly has delay can be discriminated, so that the accuracy of environment monitoring and early warning is effectively improved.

A method for the automated early detection of defects in an electrically powered device (1) of a technical system (10) is described. In this method, power parameter values ​​(PIW, POW) of the device (1) are continuously determined based on a continuous measurement of a power parameter of the device (1). A time-averaged power parameter value (PIM, POM) is calculated based on these continuously determined power parameter values ​​(PIW, POW) of the device (1). This time-averaged power parameter value (PIM, POM) is then compared with a reference value (RW) determined based on a reference value (PIM', POM') of the device's (1) power parameter. Finally, based on the result (ΔEV) of this comparison, it is determined whether a defect (D) of the device (1) has occurred or whether a defect (D) is to be expected in the future.A maintenance management system (20) is also described.

The present invention relates to a training device and method for predicting adhesion to an electrode, an electrode monitoring device and an electrode manufacturing method using a prediction model trained using same, and a lithium secondary battery manufactured thereby. The training device for predicting adhesion to an electrode according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a memory in which a near-infrared spectrum for an electrode and a measurement value for the adhesion of the electrode are stored; a prediction model which receives a differential average of a plurality of wavenumber sections including characteristics for the adhesion of the electrode in the near-infrared spectrum so as to predict the adhesion of the electrode; and a processor which receives the near-infrared spectrum, performs a first-order differentiation on the near-infrared spectrum, extracts the plurality of wavenumber sections from the first-order differentiated near-infrared spectrum, calculates a differential average of the plurality of wavenumber sections, and transmits the differential average to the prediction model, wherein the processor may receive a prediction value predicted by the prediction model for the adhesion of the electrode, and train the prediction model such that the prediction value is close to the measurement value.

[Problem] The present invention provides an information processing system and the like which enable autonomous movement control of a movable body while seamlessly performing highly accurate self-position estimation in a movement path over the inside and the outside of a structure. [Solution] An information processing system according to the present invention is for self-position estimation of a movable body provided with a receiver for acquiring reception information from a satellite positioning system and with a sensor for acquiring environment information. The information processing system is provided with: a reference coordinate conversion unit for converting both a first coordinate system indicating the reception information and a second coordinate system indicating the environment information into a reference coordinate system based on base point coordinates; and a self-position estimation unit for estimating third self-position information represented by the reference coordinate system, on the basis of first self-position information indicated by the reception information and second self-position information that is calculated by comparing the environment information with reference environment information.

Disclosed is a process to manufacture an environmental sensor. The process includes dispensing a dry powder material to a first area on a media element, wherein the powder material includes a plurality of microcapsules, each microcapsule encapsulating an environmental indicator material. The process further includes dispensing an adhesive to the media element. After the powder material and the adhesive have been dispensed to the media element, the powder material is in contact with the dispensed adhesive, and the adhesive holds the powder material in position.

The invention relates to a method for remotely measuring and / or remotely controlling an operating state (28) of at least one technical system (9) by means of a telemetry device. In order to determine the operating state (28), at least one state variable (29) of the system (9) characterizing the operating state (28) is determined by acquiring (31) raw measurement data (30, 30') for a respective state variable (29) via at least one measuring sensor (3, 3') of the telemetry device and processing this raw measurement data (30, 30'). At least part of the processing comprises final processing (33) to produce final measurement data (34) for a respective state variable (29) by a data management module (4) of the telemetry device.The final processing (33) is performed by the data management module (4) using artificial intelligence, wherein, in particular, final measurement data (34) forming characteristic values ​​of a respective state variable (29) and / or characteristic values ​​of a respective state variable (29) are determined from final measurement data (34) and / or from intermediate measurement data (35) which were preprocessed (32) from the raw measurement data (30, 30'). Furthermore, the invention relates to a telemetry device for implementing the method.

A threat sensing system and method thereof including at least one threat sensing device having a first sensor configured to transmit first sensor data via a first communication protocol and a second sensor configured to transmit second sensor data via a second communication protocol that is different than the first communication protocol; and a system gateway having a processor configured to: receive the transmitted first and second sensor data, determine an existence of a threat by processing a probability to give a confidence score based on the first and second sensor data that corresponds to a predetermined known threat, and communicate the existence of the threat to a recipient device when the confidence score is above or equal to a threshold value.

The invention provides a method for measuring the air volume in the cross section of an air duct of a non-uniform wind field, which comprises the following steps of: counting the rotation of a speed measuring fan by using electric signals of at least one speed measuring fan with the same specification uniformly distributed in the cross section of the air duct of the non-uniform wind field and a corresponding rotating speed measuring unit; a rotating speed value is obtained through processing by a monitoring analysis unit and is converted into a circumferential wind speed; according to the circumferential linear speed, the outer diameter of the speed measuring fan and a flow calibration coefficient, the air volume in the sensed plane area is calculated; meanwhile, the air volumes in the plane areas sensed by the other speed measuring fans are calculated according to the steps, and then the weighted average value of the air volumes is calculated, namely the air volume of the cross section of the whole air duct; torque is generated through the wind speed of an average fan blade surface and a plane, the average wind speed of a fan blade and a cross section is generated after weighted average is carried out through a rotating shaft, then weighted values of the torques and the average wind speed are calculated, and therefore the technical means similar to the overall data average wind speed is adopted for carrying out accurate wind quantity measurement on a non-uniform wind field air channel.

A system (100) for identifying electrical load types for a variety of different electrical loads (102, 103, 104), wherein the system comprises: a hierarchical load attribute database (108) comprising a plurality of layers (110), wherein a (112) of the layers contains a plurality of different load categories, wherein a first layer (112, L1) of the plurality of layers contains the different load categories; wherein a second layer (L2) of the plurality of layers contains a plurality of different load subcategories for each of the different load categories; and wherein a third layer (L3) of the plurality of layers contains the different electrical load types for the different load subcategories; and a processor (114) which is constructed (116) to: Acquiring a voltage waveform and a current waveform for a corresponding one of the different electrical loads; Mapping a voltage-current trajectory onto a grid containing a plurality of cells, each of which has a binary value of zero or One is assigned based on whether the voltage-current trajectory passes through each of the cells; Extracting a variety of different properties from the depicted grid of cells as a graphical signature of the corresponding one of the different electrical loads; Deriving a category of the corresponding one of the different electrical loads from the hierarchical load attribute database; and Identifying one of a variety of different electrical load types for the corresponding one of the different electrical loads, where the voltage waveform and the current waveform each represent a total number of K data points of the form (v k , i k ) contained, where: k = 1,...,K; where v k and i k correspondingly, a voltage and a current value of a sampled data point k; where maximum and minimum values ​​of the voltage waveform and the current waveform are calculated from: v max = max v k , V min = min v k , i max = max i k , i min = min i k , v 0 = 1 2 ( v max + v min ) , and i 0 = 1 2 ( i max + i min ) ; where v0 and i0 are both averages of the corresponding maximum and minimum values ​​that form the central points of the grid of cells, where Δ defines a size of the grid; where dv = v max − v 0 Δ di = i max − i 0 Δ ; the processor is further configured to generate two sequences from the voltage waveform and the current waveform as: { v 0 − dv ⋅ Δ , v 0 − dv ⋅ ( Δ − 1 ) , … , v 0 , … , v 0 + dv ⋅ ( Δ − 1 ) , v 0 + dv ⋅ Δ} and { i 0 − di ⋅ Δ , i 0 − di ⋅ ( Δ − 1 ) , … , i 0 , … , i 0 + di ⋅ ( Δ − 1 ) , i 0 + di ⋅ Δ} where each of the two sequences has N = 2Δ+1 elements; where the grid of cells includes a first axis having N cells and a second axis having N cells; and where each of the cells has a position value (v0 + dv · x,i0 + di · y) and a binary model value B x,y is assigned, which is initialized to 0.

A liquid level sensor can include a circuit board and a thermistor bridge supported by the circuit board comprising a first pair of thermistors and a second pair of thermistors. A heat sink can be coupled to the circuit board proximate the first pair of thermistors and not the second pair of thermistors. A power supply can be configured to provide pulses of electrical current through the thermistor bridge. A controller in communication with the thermistor bridge can be configured to receive a measurement signal from the thermistor bridge output a low product indication when the measurement signal satisfies a predetermined condition.

The present application discloses a map correction method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring first point sets outside the maximum inner contour in an original map and second point sets outside an outer contour; deleting the first point sets and the second point sets on the map to obtain an adjusted map; determining an overlapping point set according to the first point sets and the second point sets, wherein the overlapping point set comprises overlapping points in the first point sets and the second point sets; and supplementing the overlapping point set to the adjusted map to obtain a corrected map. When the original map is acquired, the original map is post-processed, so that the requirement for the computing power of an onboard processor is reduced, and the correction efficiency and accuracy of the map are improved.

A MEMS accelerometer system can include a proof mass device having a proof mass configured to move from an initial position in response to an input acceleration, a transducer operatively connected to the proof mass device to output a transducer signal correlating to a movement and / or position of the proof mass, a driver operatively connected to the proof mass device and configured to drive the proof mass, and a controller operatively connected to the driver to control the driver. The controller is operatively connected to the transducer to receive the transducer signal and output a drive signal to the driver to drive the proof mass toward an initial position. The system can include an observer module operatively connected to the controller to receive the drive signal. The observer module can be operatively connected to the transducer to receive the transducer signal. The observer module can be configured to deterministically estimate the input acceleration based on the transducer signal and the drive signal based on a deterministic model. The observer module can be configured to output an estimated input acceleration signal.

To provide a validation method for detection of passage of a Karman line by a portable article.SOLUTION: The verification method relates to verification on detection of passage of a Karman line by a portable article (2) embarked in a rocket, and the portable article comprises: an acceleration sensor (8) capable of measuring acceleration of the portable article; and an electronic unit for processing the acceleration measurements made so as to detect passage of the Karman line by the portable article. The validation method comprises: calculating at least one confidence index related to the measurements made by the portable article for at least one variable being a function of force applied to the portable article; verifying whether at least one condition given to the at least one confidence index is met, so as to validate or not a detection of the passage of the Karman line by the portable article and therefore by the rocket. The present invention further relates to the portable article, in particular a watch, designed to be able to implement a detecting method and a validation method of passage of the Karman line according to the present invention.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The embodiment of the utility model provides a finished product inspection bench for guide rail production, and relates to the technical field of guide rail production and machining.The finished product inspection bench comprises a base, supporting legs are fixedly installed at the four corners of the top of the base, and efficient detection of a guide rail body is achieved through cooperation of a driving mechanism and a detection mechanism; the sliding block and the top seat are driven by the first motor to move to adapt to guide rails of different sizes; the second motor drives the guide roller to rotate and assists the guide rail in transversely sliding on the bearing plate to achieve all-dimensional detection, the combination of the hydraulic cylinder and the pressure sensor is used for detecting the compression resistance bearing capacity and the surface flatness condition of the guide rail, in the detection process, the guide roller transversely moves and cooperates with the pressing roller to roll on the guide rail, and pressure fluctuation is detected through the pressure sensor. The device not only is convenient and accurate in detection, but also is high in adaptive capacity, can synchronously detect the bearing capacity and the surface quality of the guide rail, and remarkably improves the overall use performance.

The present disclosure relates to transportation and related methods and systems including software-defined vehicles, vehicle operating states, an identity management system, an intelligent digital twin system that creates, manages, and provides digital twins for transportation systems using sensor data and other data, quantum computing methods and systems, including a set of quantum computing services, generative-AI methods and systems, and biology-based systems and methods for communicating and / or handling data.

Systems and apparatuses for receiving data from a plurality of sensors and using the data, as well as other data, to generate a parking recommendation for an autonomous vehicle and instruct the autonomous vehicle to travel to the recommended parking location are provided. Data may be received from a plurality of sensors within a first autonomous vehicle, as well as from other vehicles and / or structures. Historical parking data associated with the first autonomous vehicle may also be extracted. In some examples, an expected future trip of the first autonomous vehicle may be determined. The system may then evaluate the data to generate a parking recommendation for the first autonomous vehicle. The system may generate and transmit instructions for traveling from a current location to the recommended parking location and may cause the first autonomous vehicle to travel to the recommended parking location.

This disclosure relates to systems and methods for management of information, including environmental information, obtained by a variety of sensors associated with one or more distributed mobile sensor platforms. In certain embodiments, the geographically transitory nature of a mobile sensor platform may be leveraged to facilitate collection of environmental information over a larger geographic area than that of a fixed sensor platform. Embodiments disclosed herein provide for information consistency and / or quality checking of information obtained by mobile sensor platforms. Further embodiments may be used to incentivize the collection and / or acquisition of certain data via point and / or credit-based compensation.

Method (100) for detecting a gaseous substance, in particular ethanol, in a gas mixture using a gas sensor, with • a first detection step (101) in which at least one first measured quantity (K1) representing a first chemical and / or physical parameter of the gas mixture, in particular a concentration of ethanol, is detected by a first sensor element (4), • a second detection step (102) in which at least one second chemical and / or physical parameter of the gas mixture, in particular a temperature, a pressure or a humidity, which is different from the first chemical and / or physical parameter, is detected by a second sensor element (5), • a first comparison step (103) in which it is compared whether an absolute value of a time derivative of the first measurement quantity (K1) exceeds a first predetermined threshold (SW1) and whether an absolute value of a time derivative of the second measurement quantity (M) exceeds a second predetermined threshold (SW2), • a first determination step (104) in which a start time (t S ) and one at the start time (t S ) corresponding initial measurement (K Start ) of the first chemical and / or physical parameter is determined if the first comparison (103) is positive, • a third acquisition step (105) in which at least one further first measurement (K2) is acquired, • a second comparison step (106) in which it is compared whether at least one further first measurement quantity (K2) of the initial measurement quantity (K Start ) corresponds, • a second determination step (107) in which an end time (t E ) is determined if the second comparison (106) is positive, • a third comparison step (108) in which it is compared whether the amount of a difference between the end time (t E ) and the start time (t S ) greater than a specified minimum time interval (t) min ) is, and • a signal generation step (109) in which an output signal (10) is generated if the third comparison (108) is positive.

The present disclosure relates to transportation and related methods and systems including software-defined vehicles, vehicle operating states, an identity management system, an intelligent digital twin system that creates, manages, and provides digital twins for transportation systems using sensor data and other data, quantum computing methods and systems, including a set of quantum computing services, generative-AI methods and systems, and biology-based systems and methods for communicating and / or handling data.

The present invention pertains to a method to enable a human operator to have a piece of land cultivated, the method comprising providing an autonomous agricultural vehicle that is able to perform an agricultural operation, providing a processing unit to generate a cultivation plan for the piece of land, which plan comprises multiple distinct paths that spatially extend over the piece of land in parallel, providing input data to the processing unit, on the basis of which input data the processing unit calculates for the multiple distinct paths, a) the positioning of each of the paths on the piece of land, b) the direction in which the paths extend over the piece of land and c) the order in which all of the multiple distinct paths are to be crossed by the autonomous vehicle, and controlling the autonomous agricultural vehicle such that it autonomously crosses the land by moving over each of the said multiple distinct paths in the said order, while performing the agricultural operation in order to cultivate the piece of land, wherein in the method, before the agricultural vehicle is controlled to cross the land, the human operator is provided the option to manually determine the order in which at least a part of the multiple distinct paths are to be crossed by the autonomous vehicle. The invention also pertains to a method and system for generating a cultivation plan for such an autonomous vehicle.

Method (100) and system (41) for the continuous provision of measurement data (34, 40) relating to a measured variable of a power transformer (10). A higher accuracy of substitute calculated model measurement data (40) of a sensor (11, 38) in parallel with corresponding real measurement data (34) of a sensor (11) is achieved by an optimized selection (140) of a preference data model (54) from a plurality of potentially suitable data models (50) in conjunction with automatic condition monitoring of a sensor signal (34). In the event of a faulty or failed physical sensor (11), higher-level transformer control systems (42) can thus be provided with more precise and reliable model measurement values (40) of the power transformer (10). At the same time, the number of necessary physical sensors (11) on the power transformer (10) and thus costs and complexity can be reduced.Furthermore, the presented solution enables the implementation of additional virtual sensors (38) and additional measured variables without additional physical sensor hardware.

A bridge for a musical instrument, such as a guitar, can house a pickup system and include a body with apertures to engage studs of the musical instrument. Each stud has a diameter, each aperture is longer and wider than the diameter of the studs, and a length of each aperture is greater than a width of each aperture. A set of fasteners for each aperture engage the studs, respectively. The fasteners can be adjusted to adjust a fit of the bridge relative to the studs. In addition, saddles extend from the body and have notches for the instrument strings, respectively.

To provide a portable object capable of detecting with sufficient accuracy the crossing of the Karman line by a rocket.SOLUTION: A watch 2 includes a memory 4 and a detection device 6. The detection device 6 includes: an acceleration sensor 8 capable of measuring an acceleration vector of the watch in a three-dimensional coordinate frame linked to the watch; and an electronic unit 12 that is configured to be able to process measurement results supplied by the acceleration sensor. The electronic unit 12 is configured to be able to detect, solely by means of the watch on board the rocket, crossing of the Karman line by the rocket. Crossing of the Karman line by the watch is detected by the detection device on the basis of intermittent measurements performed by the acceleration sensor from take-off of the rocket until the crossing of the Karman line defined before space flight, and on the basis of at least one corresponding reference value stored in the memory.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1