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A robot-enabled method of picking cases in a warehouse is provided. A robotic vehicle includes a processor configured to access a memory, a user input device, an output device, and a load platform, and has access to an electronically stored representation of a warehouse. The representation includes a map that defines aisles for storing items arranged as pick faces within the warehouse. A pick list is generated from an order; the pick list provides identifications of items to be picked to fulfill the order. Determined from the pick list is a plurality of stops at pick faces associated with the items. A route within the map is generated that includes the plurality of stops. The robotic vehicle iteratively guides itself along the route and automatically stops at each of the plurality of stops to enable loading of the items from the pick list onto the load platform.

Mobile routers in a tree-based network topology with a single clusterhead in an ad hoc network establish connectivity based on each attached mobile router sending a neighbor advertisement message to an attachment mobile router via a corresponding egress interface. Any neighbor advertisement message received by a mobile router is used to identify specified network prefixes that are reachable via the source of the neighbor advertisement message. Each attached mobile router outputs to its attachment router another neighbor advertisement message that specifies the network prefix used by the mobile router, and the specified network prefixes from its attached mobile routers. The mobile router also identifies peer mobile routers having the same depth, and selectively shares limited routing information with the peer routers, enabling the mobile router to bypass the clusterhead and reach remote prefixes via the peer routers without burdening the tree.

The invention proposes a method and a unit for controlling the flow of at least one TCP connection between a sender and a receiver. The method is of the type which consists in controlling, at the level of a given multiplexing node through which TCP segments relevant to the connection pass, a window size parameter contained in acknowledgement segments sent back by the receiver. The method comprises the steps of:

• • a) receiving an acknowledgement from the receiver on the up link (receiver to sender) of the connection at the level of said given multiplexing node;
  • b) controlling a window size parameter contained in, said acknowledgement segment on the basis of the difference between, firstly, a first context value associated with the TCP connection, defined as being the sequence number of the last segment that was transmitted from said given multiplexing node on the down link (sender to receiver) of the connection, to which the length of said segment is added, and, secondly, the sequence number indicated in said acknowledgement segment;
  • c) transmitting the acknowledgement segment to the sender the up link of the connection from said multiplexing node with the window size parameter thus controlled.

The invention discloses an intelligent parking induction system and a method. The intelligent parking induction system comprises an information collection system, a communication network, a central control system, an Internet and a user terminal, wherein the information collection system is connected with the central control system by the communication network, and the central control system is connected with the user terminal by the Internet. By adopting the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, the use rate of a parking lot can be greatly enhanced, the traffic jam of a city is reduced, the wastage of parking resources is avoided, and the management cost is lowered; and moreover, the satisfaction degree of a user can be enhanced, and a positive action is provided for improving the traffic condition of the city and the service level of a parking lot industry.

When the vehicle approaches an intersection, traffic signals located at the intersection are displayed on an intersection view, a traffic signal to be considered is displayed in a manner so as to be identifiable from the other traffic signals, arrows in the same directions as those of arrow signals for the traffic signal to be considered are displayed; and an arrow corresponding to an arrow signal permitting the vehicle to proceed in the direction of a guidance route is displayed in a manner so as to be identifiable from the other arrows.

A repeater and method provides a technique to minimize congestion and packet loss, which may be generated when a fault is detected in a ring type packet network or when the network recovers from such a fault. A repeater having a plurality of ports for transmitting and receiving packets in a ring type network for transmitting the received packets on the basis of an address included in a received packet and a transmitting port database indicating an identifier of a port to transmit the packet having the address as the destination, comprises a control packet processing block to detect reception of a fault notifying packet transmitted from a repeater having detected a fault and a control block to update, upon reception of the fault notifying packet from an immediately adjacent repeater, a port identifier of the transmitting port database having a port identifier of the port having received said fault notifying packet into a port identifier of a port connected to another immediately adjacent repeater.

The invention discloses an all-round intelligent guiding system and method for a large parking lot, and belongs to the field of intelligent traffic. The system disclosed by the invention comprises a guidance-initializing inlet unit, a guidance-stopping outlet unit, a guidance-path planning server, an anti-jamming coordinated controller, a guidance-indicting subsystem and a parking-space information-monitoring subsystem. Parking, vehicle taking-out and exit-guiding services are intelligently provided for a driver in the whole process from entering the parking lot to leaving the parking lot through the system by adopting a fork-passing triggering-type guidance-path updating and optimizing mechanism on the basis of a radio-frequency technology, a fork-passing triggering-type positioning mechanism and an anti-jamming path-planning mechanism, so that the parking lot is safer, more energy-saving and more highly-efficient in operation.

A method and apparatus are provided for conducting peer-to-peer communications while channel hopping among two or more wireless channels, at least one of which is a restricted channel. One type of restricted channel requires the use of DFS (Dynamic Frequency Selection) or a similar scheme for avoiding use of the channel during certain circumstances (e.g., for radar avoidance). Communicating peers may synchronize a channel-hopping sequence with TBTTs (Target Beacon Transmission Times) of the restricted channel(s), so that they switch to such a channel in time to capture a beacon and determine whether the channel is free. If the channel is free, or if no beacon is received, they may immediately begin or resume their communications. They may also quiesce just before another TBTT so as to capture that beacon. Thus, the peer-to-peer communications do not diminish a peer device's ability to receive and comply with channel switch announcements.

The present invention provides an on-vehicle communication device capable of suppressing a delay in providing information, avoiding congestion, and sufficiently securing transmission power. An on-vehicle communication device (100) according to the present invention includes communication control means (3) that controls a transmission cycle and transmission power when data is transmitted from transmitting/receiving means (2). The communication control means (3) uses own vehicle information and surrounding vehicle information to estimate a degree of risk (R) and a safe distance (Ds) of own vehicle. The communication control means (3) controls the transmission cycle of own vehicle based on a communication channel utilization rate of own vehicle, a communication channel utilization rate of a surrounding vehicle and the degree of risk (R) of own vehicle. The communication control means (3) controls the transmission power of own vehicle based on the communication channel utilization rate of own vehicle, the communication channel utilization rate of the surrounding vehicle and the safe distance (Ds).

The invention relates to a mechanism for performing multicast transmission in a cellular network. In order to enable establishment of resources only in cells containing members of the multicast group and to avoid congestion on the uplink channel, a multicast service notification is transmitted to mobile stations, thereby informing members of the multicast group of an upcoming multicast session. The moment for a response to said multicast service notification is selected in the mobile stations and a presence report is sent from at least one of said mobile stations at the response moment of said at least one mobile station. The presence report or reports are received within a radio access network, and radio resources are established for multicast transmission in a cell of the cellular network when the presence report(s) received in said cell meet(s) predetermined criteria.

The invention relates to a shifting video code rate regulation method based on experience qualitative forecast. According to the invention, a sending end divides an encoding video speed rate into four grades, when a mobile terminal user requires a video business, the scale of the initial code rate of a video is middle, and thus, a QoE prediction model is periodically utilized to calculate a user taste value; the predicted QoE value and the presupposed QoE threshold value are compared, if the user experience quality is lower than the threshold value, and the corresponding adjustment is performed according to the network congestion indication and encoding video speed rate fedback by a receiving end in two periods; and the code rate grade of the next period is output until the request is finished, wherein the QoE prediction model is positioned on a video server side, and the decision tree structure is improved through training a plurality of gradients. The shifting video code rate regulation method provided by the invention can be used for solving a problem that in the current code rate regulation method, the video quality subjective feeling of users can not be considered, a network resource is fully utilized, meanwhile, the generation of network congestion is avoided or slacked, and the taste quality of the users is effectively improved.

The invention relates to prostheses for amputated patients. The shaft of the prosthesis (10) consists of an outer shell (11) and a concentric inner shell (11'). Both shells are provided with longitudinal slits (12, 12') which are staggered in relation to each other and extend essentially in the axial direction. The diameter of the shaft (10) of the prosthesis can be adjusted by means of tightening elements (13, 14). An adapter (20) is fixed in the shaft of the prosthesis (10) in such a way that the height of said adapter can be adjusted. A conical bearing surface for the stump of the limb is provided on the upper side of the adapter (20), a holding element (29) for fixing an artificial limb is provided on the lower side of the same, and a coupling is provided inside the adapter for detachably fixing the coupling pin (41) of a commercially available silicone liner (40).

Techniques whereby a transmitter/receiver pair are cooperatively arranged to buffer incoming data to both the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter and receiver of the pair are coupled, generically, by pre-existing channel which has a known, fixed capacity. The transmitter/receiver pair exploits whatever delay is permissible, as determined by end-users of the data, for the data stream or streams that are using the channel for the purpose of accommodating periods of excessive instantaneous aggregate data transfer demands. The matched transmitter/receiver pair thereby permits (i) the transmission of a variable rate stream over a channel with capacity less than the peak rate of the stream, or (ii) the multiplexing of variable and/or fixed rate data streams.

The invention discloses a traffic light control method. A traffic flow detector is used for real-time detecting traffic flow signal at the exit of a crossing, and when the exit is identified in jam status, the signal lights for coming to the crossing are all turned red, until the jam status is released. The invention also discloses a traffic light system. The invention is used for real-time detecting vehicle status at the exit of a crossing, and when the exit is in jam status, the invention prevents vehicle from further moving to the exit. The invention prevents vehicles from jamming the whole crossing, and ensures normal running of vehicles in other directions.

Loads for a wireless network having a plurality of end nodes are predicted by constructing a computer data set of end-to-end pairs of the end nodes included in the network using a computer model of the network; constructing a computerized set of observables from social information about users of the network; developing a computerized learned model of predicted traffic using at least the data set and the observables; and using the computerized learned model to predict future end-to-end network traffic.