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Modern farming is currently being done by powerful ground equipment or aircraft that weigh several tons and treat uniformly tens of hectares per hour. Automated farming can use small, agile, lightweight, energy-efficient automated robotic equipment that flies to do the same job, even able to farm on a plant-by-plant basis, allowing for new ways of farming. Automated farming uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are equipped with detachable implements and reservoirs and that we call “aerial farm robots.” Automated farming uses high-precision GPS and other precision positioning and vision technology to autonomously and precisely perform crop dusting, planting, fertilizing and other field related farming or husbandry tasks. The subsystems for the control, refill, recharge and communication subsystems of the aerial farm robots are part of the overall automated farming system, and can autonomously handle most of the husbandry tasks on a farm.

Systems and methods for tracking, differentiating and awarding loyalty credits to patrons of a gaming establishment are disclosed. Tracking can be facilitated by and loyalty credits can be stored on patron issued loyalty credit instruments such as printed tickets, magnetic-striped cards, room keys, portable wireless devices and smart cards. Loyalty credits can be awarded for and combined with other loyalty credits awarded for gaming activities involving wagers, game play, and possible monetary awards, as well as purchasing activities involving the procurement of food, lodging, entertainment, transportation, merchandise or services. Theoretical all expenditures profiles can be established for patrons based upon the gaming activities and purchasing activities of the patrons. Customized comps can be awarded on the initiative of the gaming establishment and without any specific request from a patron. Such comps can be based on tracked information on gaming activities and purchasing activities of the patrons.

Modern farming is currently being done by powerful ground equipment or aircraft that weigh several tons and treat uniformly tens of hectares per hour. Automated farming can use small, agile, lightweight, energy-efficient automated robotic equipment that flies to do the same job, even able to farm on a plant-by-plant basis, allowing for new ways of farming. A hybrid airship-drone has both passive lift provided by a gas balloon and active lift provided by propellers. A hybrid airship-drone may be cheaper, more stable in flight, and require less maintenance than other aerial vehicles such as quadrocopters. However, hybrid airship-drones may also be larger in size and have more inertia that needs to be overcome for starting, stopping and turning.

The invention is directed to a collector mirror for short-wavelength radiation based on a plasma. It is the object of the invention to find a novel possibility for managing the temperature of a collector mirror for focusing short-wavelength radiation generated from a plasma which allows an efficient thermal connection to be produced between the optically active mirror surface and a thermostat system without the disadvantages relating to space requirements or high-precision manufacture of the collector mirror. This object is met, according to the invention, in that the collector mirror has a solid, rotationally symmetric substrate which comprises a material with high thermal conductivity of more than 50 W/mK and in which channels for cooling and temperature management are incorporated in the substrate so that a heat transport medium can flow through directly and for rapidly stabilizing the temperature of the optically active mirror surface. Heat of transient temperature spikes which occur in pulsed operation for plasma generation at the mirror surface and which temporarily exceed the temperature average by a multiple is quickly dissipated.

In an internal combustion engine, at least one rotation variable characterizing the rotational movement of a crankshaft is ascertained cylinder-specifically. It is provided that, in an operating state in which differences and/or fluctuations of the rotation variable are basically a function of a combustion position, the instant of a fuel injection is adapted cylinder-specifically in order to reduce the differences and or fluctuations.

The invention relates to a method for introducing and removing workpieces, especially vehicle bodies, into or from a treatment area (20) by rotational movements, whereby the treatment area serves for treating surfaces of the workpieces (1). A workpiece (1) is detachably fixed at a holding frame (2) which is moved together with at least one workpiece that is situated thereon at an essentially constant speed and by a continuous translation. The workpiece (1) is rotated around a rotational axle (6) at least at the beginning and end of the treatment area (20) and simultaneously with the translation movement. The rotational axle (6) is orientated vertically in relation to the moving direction of the holding frame (2) and is lifted and lowered during rotation.

In a method and system for data and signal transfer between different sub-units of a medically-related system, in particular a CT system, digitized signals and digital data are transmitted together on a transmission line by means of serial multiplexing. The digitized signals and the digital data are transferred combined into individual packets having a length that is so small that the adherence to a predetermined updating rate of the signals is achieved. The expenditure for the wiring as well as for future expansions in medically-related systems can be significantly reduced.

An active sensor consisting of a measuring module and an interface module comprising at least one first current source, an input line and an output line, wherein the active sensor is supplied with energy via these two lines and the first current source is connected on the output side to the output line and the interface module generates the output signals of the active sensor in the form of current signals, wherein the interface module comprises a current sensing device which senses the load current of the measuring module, and a compensating device which can generate, on an output path connected to the output line, a first compensating current for compensating for amplitude fluctuations in the output current signals in dependence on the sensed load current of the measuring module. Also described is a method for compensating for amplitude fluctuations in the output current signals of an active sensor.

A textile belt strap, especially for use in personnel safety devices in land vehicles, aircraft and watercraft. At least one seam is provided on the belt strap for representation of loading of the belt strap that occurs. The seam extends in a longitudinal direction of the belt strap over a portion thereof, and is comprised of an upper thread disposed on one side of the belt strap and a lower thread disposed on the other side of the belt strap. Respective transverse seams are fixedly connected with the belt strap for delimiting opposite ends of the seam. An interlocking of the upper thread and the louver thread is provided externally of the belt strap such that either the upper thread or the lower thread has a linear length or extension between the transverse seams that delimit the seam.

An oxidation furnace for the oxidative treatment of fibers, especially for producing carbon fibers, which comprises a process chamber arranged inside a housing, a blowing device for hot air, at least one suction device arranged in an end region of the process chamber, at least one ventilator that circulates the hot air through the blowing device, the process chamber and the suction device, and at least one heating device arranged in the flow path of the hot circulated air. The suction device is formed from a plurality of vertically interspaced suction boxes. Said boxes have at least one outlet for the hot air, and at least one inlet for hot air, communicating with the process chamber and arranged in the outward-facing side of the suction boxes, that is the side that is at a distance from the center of the process chamber.

After a predetermined period of time has lapsed after transmission of a voice data packet representing a first voice section a second voice data packet representing the same voice section is transmitted. On the receiving end, a value for the transmission quality is determined for the first and for the second voice data packet and the one of the two voice data packets is processed that has the better transmission quality.

A digital filter comprises a plurality of filter units each realizing mutually independent filter functions with a predetermined recursive filter order on a signal path between the input and the output of the filter and operating at a first clock rate, a plurality of sampling devices operating at the first clock rate, and a weighting network coupled to the sampling devices and operating at a second clock rate. The filter units comprise at least one delay element which can be reset to a predeterminable value. To each of the filter units one of the sampling devices is allocated setting the respective delay element to a predetermined value dependent on a sampling rate conversion factor. An input signal is conducted, via the weighting network, to a respective sampling device, or digital internal sampling signals output by a respective sampling device are conducted to the output via the weighting network.

In a method to detect the pressure in an x-ray tube having a cathode of the x-ray tube that is heated with a heater current, and wherein electrons are accelerated between the cathode and an anode by an applied x-ray tube voltage, the heater current is measured, a tube current corresponding to the tube -ray voltage is measured, the difference between the measured heater current and the measured tube current is determined or the temporal change of the measured heater current or of the measured tube current is determined, the difference or the temporal change is compared with predetermined calibration values, and a value representing the pressure in the x-ray tube is determined from the comparison.

A method for operating a plurality of subscribers (X1, . . . , X4; Y1, . . . , Y4; Z1, . . . , Z4, B, C1, C2, D, E) that are connected to a serial bus, the bus including at least one address line for addressing the subscribers (X1, . . . , X4; Y1, . . . , Y4; Z1, . . . , Z4, B, C1, C2, D, E). In order to create as simple as possible and as cost-effective as possible a possibility of being also able to operate such subscribers as are originally addressed via the same address, it is provided that at least those subscribers (X1, . . . , X4; Y1, . . . , Y4; Z1, . . . , Z4, C1, C2) who originally are addressed via the same address be connected in series to the address line (3), and the address for the postconnected subscriber(s) (X2, . . . , X4; Y2, . . . , Y4; Z2, . . . , Z4; C2) be transmitted via the preconnected subscriber(s) (X1; Y1, Z1; C1).