162 results about "Automation engineering" patented technology

A feature automation process defines step-by-step instructions for involving automation engineers, defining, implementing and reviewing software test automation during the development of a feature or product. This process seamlessly integrates the roles of automation engineers and other resources into the software development life cycle (SDLC). An enterprise first creates a dedicated automation team. The feature automation team preferably works with a product / feature team to enable the latter team to better understand the roles of the automation engineers and to further facilitate transparency into the product / feature requirements, design and implementation activities. The feature automation process enables a quality assurance (QA) team to offload (to the feature automation team) the responsibility of writing test scripts, and for creating an automation framework, test designs, and for implementing and maintaining test code. The process ensures that all stakeholders are involved in the reviewing the automation framework and test design prior to test implementation to enhance the reusability of the framework and the stability of the test runs.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automation engineering, and relates to a basic control method through which an active and passive dual-hemispheroid structure capsule robot can freely adjust the posture in a gastrointestinal tract and can roll along each bending section of an intestinal tract by the use of space universal rotation magnetic vectors. The robot can freely adjust the posture with the aid of a following-up effect with corresponding azimuth rotation magnetic vectors under a state that the rotation magnetic vectors applied above the contact surface of the gastrointestinal tract drive an active hemispheroid to idle relative to the passive hemispheroid. The axis of the robot is basically the same with the bending direction of each section of the intestinal tract through the adjustment of the rotation magnetic vector azimuth according to images wirelessly sent by a camera arranged at the front end of the capsule robot, and rolling rotation magnetic vectors perpendicular to the bending direction of each section of the intestinal tract are applied in the horizontal plane, so that the active hemispheroid is driven to drive the robot to roll along the bending direction of each section of the intestinal tract, wherein the axis of the active hemispheroid is in the horizontal plane and the active hemispheroid is in contact with the intestinal tract.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automation engineering and discloses a method for controlling the direction of a rotation axis and the rotation direction of a space universal superposition rotating magnetic field. Three z-axis, y-axis and x-axis square Helmholtz coil groups are orthogonally nested, so that when the three groups of coils are driven by direct currents with the same current strength, the magnetic inductions generated at the center points of the three groups of coils have the same strength; the superposition rotating magnetic field is driven by an amplitude and phase compensation voltage signal through digitization so as to eliminate the influence of current lagging and inductive reactance on the current amplitude; and a same-frequency three-phase sinusoidal signal with the amplitude and the phase related to the axis azimuthal angle of a robot is used for driving to form the space universal uniform rotating magnetic field with the corresponding azimuthal rotating axis in a superimposed mode in a certain space surrounded by the three-axis orthogonal Helmholtz coil devices. According to the invention, by implementing the random regulation of the direction of the rotation axis and the rotation direction of the space universal rotating magnetic field, various operations of turning, moving forward, moving backward and the like of the micro robot in the bent or branch cavity environment are further implemented; and the method has wide application prospect.

An automated block or brick construction apparatus is provided by adapting a base transport assembly with a specialized working platform for brick, block and mortar. The working platform houses at least one robotic arm to accurately position mortar and block or brick in place on a wall construction. The working platform is controlled by a 3-D stringless guidance system for positioning vertically, horizontally, and laterally. The robotic arms place and position a block or brick and stage the subsequent blocks or bricks for installation. A first robotic arm can apply mortar onto a wall while a second robotic arm places a concrete masonry unit accurately onto the mortar and also place blocks in position. Application and movement of mortar and blocks are controlled by a programmable central processing unit.

A network based and automated engineering manufacturing analysis system as described herein is configured to manage producibility characteristics of a project or program throughout the lifecycle of the project or program. The system utilizes a collaborative data relationship and management tool that maintains metadata to create relationships between different information types for the project or program. The system relies upon real-time collaborative status updates that identify whether participants (e.g., vendors, designers, suppliers, and manufacturers) are satisfying requirements related to producibility characteristics. One example system designates a set of specified requirements for each project milestone level, and expects participants to provide electronic files, documents, or artifacts that evidence satisfaction of such requirements. The system processes requirement status updates in substantially real-time such that all participants can view the current project health and status at any time during the lifecycle of the project.

The invention provides terminal automatic access and configuration management methods. A bidirectional terminal registration management mechanism is established in a way of a terminal side power-on registration initiating mechanism first, a main station side regular polling mode supplemented, so that the problem of incapability of smoothly finishing a registering process caused by failures of links of a terminal, a communication network or a system main station is solved, and automatic accessing management efficiency and reliability of a large-scale power distribution terminal are increased and improved effectively. Meanwhile, an integral running and management configuration method for a system side terminal is provided, automatic resolution configuration of the registered terminal and information interaction with systems such as a system side power distribution automation system, a PMS (Power Production Management System) and a GIS (Geographic Information System) are considered, and automatic flexible configuration of the terminal is finished by correlation of information such as topology and equipment accounts, so that correct and reliable running of the terminal is ensured; labor cost in power distribution automation engineering construction and engineering operation and maintenance processes is lowered greatly; the power distribution automation operation and maintenance management efficiency and the automation level are increased; and power distribution operation and maintenance management lean development is supported.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automatic engineering, and discloses a man-machine interaction control method for a space universal rotating magnetic field. Man-machine interaction control of the direction of the rotating axis of the space universal magnetic field is achieved by applying a same-frequency sinusoidal signal current type space universal rotating magnetic field superposition formula with side sway and pitch angles of the axis of the magnetic field in a longitude and latitude coordinate system as related amplitude values and phases of input variables to a three-axis orthogonal nested Helmholtz coil device, controlling the side sway and pitch angles in a separated mode through two control rods respectively, forming the rotating magnetic field with the axis capable of being independently scanned in the directions of the side sway and pitch angles in the uniform area surrounded by the three-axis orthogonal nested Helmholtz coil device in an overlapped mode, and regulating the side sway and pitch angles of the axis of the magnetic field according to wirelessly-transmitted images of a camera at the front end of a capsule robot. Independent scanning of the robot in the two directions of side sway and pitch is achieved, the man-machine interaction operation is simple and rapid, and posture adjustment and rolling operability of the robot in the bent environment is improved.

The invention provides a feeder automation simulation training system. The system comprises a distribution main station, an EPON communication network, distribution terminals, and a feeder rack etc., the distribution main station is provided with a simulation system microcomputer, the simulation system microcomputer is provided with a simulation system service terminal software and a distribution SCADA, the simulation system service terminal software comprises a feeder fault simulation software and a two-dimensional virtual feeder test module, and the two-dimensional virtual feeder test module comprises a virtual operation learning module and a feeder operation test module. According to the system, the intensification of assemblies of a distribution automation system with disperse geographical areas is realized, low voltage of the primary rack is realized, the structure is concise and clear, the debugging, tests, and training of automation modes of various feeders can be performed, the training and examination modes of automation operation maintenance operation are optimized, the danger in the processes of operation, testing, and examination is reduced, and the pertinence of the distribution automation engineering training is improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automotive engineering, which relates to a magnetic driving control device and a method used for a multi-capsule medical micro-robot. The invention is characterized in that the control of motion is realized by regulating a clearance between a spiral fin on the external surface of the robot and a flexible pipe wall; by the relation between the rotation speed of the robot rotation magnetic field and a radial expansion clearance, a plurality of robots are designed to have different starting rotation speeds; a rotary magnetic field is generated by the cirques of two magnetic poles and driven in different starting rotation speed sections, thus realizing the adjustment and the relative positioning control of the floating speed of the multi-capsule internal micro-robot. The invention has the advantages of good reliability and practicability of the robot, excellent motion performance, high driving efficiency, large applicable range of pipe diameter and simple and easy control. The invention is applicable to flexible pipe wall environments, can be driven by different starting rotation speed sections under the same magnetic field, and can realize the operation to the motion and positioning of a plurality of robots.

A computerized method for modifying an optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network is described. The method includes providing an initial configuration of the optical WDM network. At least one parameter that represents a characteristic of a span in the optical WDM network as defined by the initial configuration is evaluated. The initial configuration of the optical WDM network is modified in response to the evaluation. The method can also include determining if a predetermined set of engineering rules are satisfied.

The invention belongs to the field of mechanical automation engineering, and particularly relates to a pipeline moving mechanism with a self-adaption function. A plurality of motor driving mechanisms are distributed uniformly on the circumference of a central fixing component; each motor driving mechanism is connected with the central fixing component through a spring folding mechanism; driving module pedrail wheel systems are installed on both sides of each motor driving mechanism; the radial distance between the motor driving mechanisms and the central fixing component is changed through extension and extraction of the spring folding mechanism so as to adapt pipelines of different diameters; the pipeline moving mechanism moves in pipelines of different diameters under the driving of the motor driving mechanisms; and the driving module pedrail wheel systems on two sides of at least one motor driving mechanism abut against the inner wall of a pipeline in the moving process all the time. According to the pipeline moving mechanism with the self-adaption function, the structure is simple and compact; few corollary devices are required and the operation is easy; and the pipeline moving mechanism can adapt pipelines of different diameters, advance and retreat in the pipelines and sheer as the pipelines bend.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automation engineering and relates to an electromagnetic driving two-degrees of freedom spherical robot wrist and a control method thereof. The electromagnetic driving two-degrees of freedom spherical robot wrist is a high-integration driving spherical wrist device, the two output ends of an internal universal joint and an external universal joint passing through the same rotating center are coaxially connected, and a radial magnetizing permanent magnet in a servo mechanism is directly driven by a coaxial servo magnetic moment in a space universal rotary magnetic field to realize side-sway and pitching two-degrees of freedom rotation. The electromagnetic driving two-degrees of freedom spherical robot wrist overcomes the defects of a complicated driving machinery wrist, the wrist driving system is simple and light in structure, high in transmission efficiency, static and dynamic performance and control and response speed, can solve the modeling problem of the existing spherical electromagnetic driving joint three-dimensional complicated magnetic field, realize precise modeling of the spherical electromagnetic driving joint magnetic field and precise decoupling of electromagnetic coupling and mechanical coupling, and remarkably improves the response sensitivity and positioning precision of electromagnetic driving spherical joint control.

The invention relates to a method for on-line detecting position and speed of mobile robot in the pipeline filled up with liquor. It is technically characterized by that on the robot self body a high impedance substance can be added so as to raise reflectivity of ultrasonic wave, and a liquid-immersed receiving-transmitting integrated ultrasonic sensor is adopted to transmit pulse signal and receive object reflected sigal, and a compensation method of ultrasonic echo signal can be used to make the attenuation resulted from scatterance and sonic diffusion in the propagation process of ultrasonic wave in the liquid obtain the compensation so as to can measure the propagation time of said signal and can define the position of said robot.

The invention belongs to the field of mechanical automation engineering, in particular to a modular reconstructed snakelike robot. The modular reconstructed snakelike robot comprises a visible module, a temperature detecting module, a humidity detecting module, a gas detecting module and a connecting module, wherein the two ends of the visible module, the temperature detecting module, the humidity detecting module and the gas detecting module are respectively designed with identical quick change interfaces, and can be connected through connecting modules; the visible module consists of a standard module, a visible camera, a camera mounting base and the like; the visible camera is fixed at one end of the standard module through the camera mounting base; and the other end of the standard module is connected with other modules. The modular reconstructed snakelike robot is compact in structure and light in weight, has the active and passive driving capacity, is stronger in environment adaptability, can combines different modules according to different conditions to obtain such environment information as temperature, humidity, harmful gas and layout of ancient tombs and catacombs so as to preferably finish the catacomb detection task.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automation engineering, relates to a phase correction method for space universal rotating field azimuth errors, and specifically discloses a linear polarization voltage phase difference compensation method. The method is characterized in that voltage phases of large coils serve as measuring references, the phase difference of the input voltage of small coils and the phase difference of the input voltage of intermediate coils are measured according to linear polarization characteristics of two-phase orthogonal harmonic signal superposition, digital compensation is performed on the input voltage, and the influence on the rotating field azimuth errors and caused by different electric parameters of the three sets of coils is eliminated. The beneficial effects of the method are that by employing the linear polarization voltage phase difference compensation method, the superposition rotating field azimuth errors due to the difference of the electric parameters of the three sets of Helmholtz coils with different structures can be eliminated, the azimuth accuracy of the space universal rotating field can be improved, the influence on the azimuth accuracy of the space universal rotating field and caused by coil mutual inductance can especially be eliminated, and a technical problem that coil mutual inductance calculation and compensation are difficult can be solved.

The present invention relates to design and configuration engineering and more particularly to providing a Configurator system that automates aspects of the engineering design process. The Configurator System automates the configuration engineering process associated with creating new designs for customers based on a catalog of pre-designed options and can generate 2D drawings and 3D models necessary to manufacture the product in an automated fashion.

This invention belongs to automatic engineering technique field and relates to a basic method to realize the double-direction swim of micro robot in sealed tube through magnetic field driving. It provides a double-direction driving model with robot head and tail which have two resonance frequency driver thin films according to push characteristics of vibration thin film and liquid couple and thin film each phase of resonance frequency relation characteristics. It generates drive magnetic field through Helmholtz double coil driving between two resonance frequency of the front and back thin film driver to realize the continuous adjusting and position control of the robot swimming speed.

An operating device and a method for operating a machine in automation engineering are disclosed. A touch-sensitive screen detects simultaneous contact with the screen at different positions on the screen, and an external key with a geometric key pattern is provided. A reference pattern is stored in the operating device which compares the geometric pattern determined from the different screen positions detected upon contact of the external key with the screen with the stored reference pattern and allows specific operating actions for operating the machine if the determined geometric pattern matches the stored reference pattern. Authorization to operate a machine can thus be easily ascertained.

The invention relates to an agriculture and fishery three-dimensional production automation engineering system. The agriculture and fishery three-dimensional production automation engineering system comprises a main control system, sub-control systems and unit area control systems. Each unit area control system comprises a water surface crop planting system and a water body aquatic animal breeding system. For all agriculture and fishery operation and water body purification in each unit area, monitoring devices transmit information to unit area control terminal computers and select operation modules through feedback information, the refined, automatic and mechanical operation management mode is achieved in the whole process, and therefore agriculture and fishery management is made timely, accurate and reasonable, and economic benefits are improved and the recyclable production idea is achieved on the basis of reducing manual work input and lowering labor intensity.

The invention relates to the technical field of engineering measurement, and discloses a high-automation engineering measuring method. According to the engineering measuring method, a computer technology, a communication technology and an automatic engineering measuring technology are combined, behaviors such as data measurement, data processing, data analysis and imaging recording can be automatically carried out in the engineering measurement process, high-automation measurement integrating the advantages of rapid measurement, inerrant measurement, threshold-free measurement, visible measurement, paperless measurement and the like can be achieved accordingly, measuring operation is easy, simple, efficient and accurate, and application and promotion are convenient.

This invention belongs to the technical field of automatic engineering, which relates to a capsule robot and a multi-wedge effect drive control method thereof. The invention is characterized in that the outside surface of the robot forms a plurality of bumps with spiral rib brasses so as to form a plurality of wedged angles, and the multi-wedge effect theory of fluid is used for controlling the movement of the capsule robot; the centrifugal force of the bumps with spiral rib brasses of the robot and the rigidity of miniature elastic hinges are used for adjusting the contact degree between therobot and the soft elastic pipe wall of the robot; a ring with two magnetic poles is used for generating a rotating magnetic field so as to adjust and control the moving speed of the capsule robot. The invention has the advantages that the robot has high driving efficiency, favorable reliability and practicability, can vertically move in a soft elastic pipe wall, and has good adaptability to the environment of the soft elastic pipe wall, wide applicable scope of pipe diameter and easy control.

The invention relates to the field of mechanical automation engineering. The invention aims at providing a wall-climbing grinding robot for a large-scale storage tank. The wall-climbing grinding robothas the characteristics of being good in grinding effect, reliable in operation and high in working efficiency. According to the technical scheme, the wall-climbing grinding robot for the large-scalestorage tank is characterized by comprising a wall-climbing walking mechanism, a grinding mechanism and a calibration video detection mechanism which are arranged at the front part of the wall-climbing walking mechanism, a lifting mechanism used for driving the grinding mechanism and the calibration video detection mechanism to vertically move, a rear video detection mechanism arranged at the rear part of the wall-climbing walking mechanism, a control box arranged on the wall-climbing walking mechanism and an external console connected to the control box through a cable, wherein the wall-climbing walking mechanism comprises a walking support, a pair of driving wheels and a pair of driven wheels which are arranged at the bottom of the walking support through connecting frames, and two driving motors used for driving the driving wheels to rotate through bevel gear sets respectively.

The invention relates to a system for use in automation engineering, particularly in process and / or factory automation engineering, comprising: - at least one field device 1a, 1b, 1c,..., 5 equipped with a base firmware 2, wherein the field device 1a, 1b, 1c,... can be configured by means of a specific application firmware 3a, 3b, 3c,... for a specific application purpose; - a higher-level unit 4 via which the at least one field device 3a, 3b, 3c,... can be operated, wherein a first operating program 5 is provided for the operation and the first operating program 5 has an operating program module 5a, 5b, 5c,... corresponding to the specific application firmware 310; and - a bus 6 via which the higher-level unit 4 communicates with the at least one field device 1a, 1b, 1c,... by means of the operating program 5.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automatic engineering, and relates to a directional wireless energy transmission method of a spatial linear polarization universal alternating magnetic field. The invention provides a driving method for a spatial linear polarization alternating magnetic field with a randomly-adjusted direction and superposed by a three-axis orthogonal Helmholtz coil and an operation means. The superposed linear polarization magnetic vector direction is coincided with an induction coil axis and electromagnetic induction is generated by adjusting current amplitudes and phases of three alternating currents in the three-axis orthogonal Helmholtz coil, the power supply demand of an energy receiving device is satisfied, so that high-efficiency, safe and stable directional wireless energy transmission is achieved; and meanwhile, the size of the induction coil internally arranged in the energy receiving device can be reduced, and a solid foundation is laid for function extension of a capsule robot in future.

The invention discloses a double-hemispheric capsule robot attitude detection method based on a magnetic vector error calibration image and belongs to the technical field of automation engineering. The method uses the error distribution characteristic of a spatial universal rotation magnetic vector, firstly, the least azimuth error direction of the magnetic vector is determined as an initial imagecalibration position of the attitude of a double-hemispheric capsule robot, image information before and after attitude adjustment is acquired by a camera, recognition and matching of feature pointsof the image are performed, the relative attitude change before and after attitude adjustment is obtained by combination of epipolar geometry and a rotation matrix, and the actual attitude of the double-hemispheric capsule robot is effectively estimated. The method can estimate the attitude of the double-hemispheric capsule robot in wide gastrointestinal environments only by the camera carried bythe robot without any external hardware resources.

A method for computer assisted planning of a technical system with a first structure of multi-category objects is provided. Each multi-category object describes a technical component and includes a plurality of facets. Each facet is of a specific category and refers to information about the technical component. Categories of a multi-category object refer to different disciplines for designing a technical system. The disciplines include mechanical, electrical and automation engineering. Further, a second structure of a specific category is provided and has category-specific elements. Each category-specific element describes a technical component with respect to the corresponding specific category. Each facet of a specific category of a multi-category object describing a technical component in the first structure is related to a category-specific element of the specific category describing the technical component in the second structure. The first and second structures are changeable by a user during planning of the technical system.

The invention discloses a curved intestinal visual navigation method for a double hemispherical capsule robot, and belongs to the technical field of automation engineering. The method uses a followingof the double hemispherical capsule robot in a universal rotating magnetic field to determine alateral swing pitch angle of the axis, installs a vertical angle sensor in the double hemispherical capsule robot to determine a spin angle of a camera around the axis of the double hemispherecapsule robot,determines the attitude of the camera, then use the uniformity of the universal rotating magneticfield, combines attitude information to determine a direction vector of the centroid of a dark region of an intestine image in a fixed coordinate system relative to the double hemispherical capsule robot by coordinate transformation,and achievesthe navigation of the universal rotation magnetic field to the double hemispherical capsule robot in curved intestinal tracks. The method avoids the use ofa multi-camera structure and a complex intestinal three-dimensional reconstruction technology, and can achieve the navigation operation of the monocular vision-assisted double hemisphere capsule robot in the intestinal tracts without calculating the specific position information of the double hemispherical capsule robot.

In a method for controlling a field device F1 in automation engineering with a control program which comprises a framework application and executable software components which are associated with field devices and which encapsulate the control functionalities of field devices, the software component which is associated with the field device F1 is in two parts. It comprises a basic software component and an expansion software component, wherein the basic software component DTM-F1 is used for reading and writing device parameters of the field device F1 and provides a basic graphical user interface, and wherein the expansion software component DLL-F1 is produced from the program code of the device software GS of the field device F1 and provides the control functionality of the field device F1.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automation engineering and relates to a capsule robot in a three-dimensional closed unstructured space and a relative positioning method of an object tobe tested. The method comprises wirelessly transmitting real-time images obtained when a capsule robot is hovering at spot and is subjected to attitude adjustment to a human-computer interaction interface, carrying out image processing on the acquired images to identify and extract target feature points, and transforming a distance between the object area to a camera into a distance between the optic center of the camera to a specific feature point according to a monocular vision ranging principle. The method is a positioning method for determining the positions of the capsule robot and the object to be tested relative to the reference position in the area to be detected through changing a magnetic vector axis direction to drive a capsule camera to carry out feature target search in the area to be detected in situ, determining a spatial distance of the capsule robot and the object to be tested relative to the reference position according to the camera images, combining pitch angle andside swing angle information of the capsule robot when acquiring the target features in two processes and using the spatial geometric relationship of the capsule robot and the object to be tested relative to the reference positions.

The invention specifically discloses a wall-climbing detection robot, belonging to the field of mechanical automation engineering. According to the invention a driving wheel part and a driven wheel assembly are respectively installed on the front and rear ends of a flat plate located at the bottom of a vehicle; the driving wheel part is connected with a driving motor through a transmission device;a video detection system is installed on the front end of the flat plate located at the bottom of the vehicle; a flaw detection and thickness detection system is located behind the video detection system and comprises a detection dead plate, an elastic supporting assembly, a thickness gauge assembly and a magnetic particle detector; the detection dead plate is connected with the flat plate located at the bottom of the vehicle through the elastic supporting assembly and is extendable and retractable relative to the flat plate located at the bottom of the vehicle; the thickness gauge assembly and the magnetic particle detector separately penetrate the flat plate located at the bottom of the vehicle and are then installed on the detection dead plate; and the magnetic particle detector alwaysadheres to a detection plane with the expansion and retraction of the detection dead plate. The wall-climbing detection robot of the invention can accomplish the task of surface detection of equipment in the case that an operator is away from a detection site; a wheeled mobile platform is employed, so the wall-climbing detection robot can perform detection, inspection and other operations on complex working interfaces such as curved and arc interfaces.