581 results about "Equilibrium control" patented technology

A dual output buck-boost power converter operates with a single inductor to achieve high efficiency with automatic or inherent load balancing. Switches associated with the opposite polarity outputs are driven based on feedback signals, with one feedback signal being a reference voltage and another feedback signal being related to an opposite polarity output. The opposite polarity feedback signal is provided to a comparator with a reversed polarity to achieve a simple balanced control that maintains polarity outputs. The power converter delivers power to each output with each switching cycle and uses a single inductor to achieve high efficiency performance.

A control system for controlling an exoskeleton worn by a user and having one or more actuators associated with various body members of the exoskeleton each corresponding to a body part of the user. The control system comprises a user interface for receiving input data indicative of a desired movement sequence, a memory component for storing pre-programmed movement data indicative of one or more sequential instructions required to effect the movement sequence, each instruction being associated with relative actuator movements for performing the instruction, and an actuator controller for moving the one or more actuators according to the relative actuator movements for each instruction. The control system also comprises a terrain sub-system for adjusting the actuator movements upon detection of a change in terrain slope and a balance control sub-system for periodically adjusting the balance of the exoskeleton during relative movement of the one or more actuators.

A gas separation process uses a structured particulate bed of adsorbent coated shapes/particles laid down in the bed in an ordered manner to simulate a monolith by providing longitudinally extensive gas passages by which the gas mixture to be separated can access the adsorbent material along the length of the particles. The particles can be laid down either directly in the bed or in locally structured packages/bundles which themselves are similarly oriented such that the bed particles behave similarly to a monolith but without at least some disadvantages. The adsorbent particles can be formed with a solid, non-porous core with the adsorbent formed as a thin, adherent coating on the exposed exterior surface. Particles may be formed as cylinders/hollow shapes to provide ready access to the adsorbent. The separation may be operated as a kinetic or equilibrium controlled process.

The invention discloses a method for achieving battery pack balance control and a battery pack charging method. The method for achieving battery pack balance control comprises the following steps: determining whether the voltages of all single batteries are in a set voltage range by a battery management chip or a singlechip, if so, measuring the magnitude of a charge current by a current detection resistor when the voltage of a single battery is larger than the balance voltage and the voltage difference between the battery and the battery with the lowest voltage is larger than a balance upper limit difference; setting corresponding balance current according to the magnitude of the charge current, and carrying out energy balance; stopping discharge of the battery when the voltage of the balanced battery is less than the balance voltage or the voltage difference between the balanced battery and the battery with the lowest voltage is lower than the balance lower limit difference. Under the centralized control of the chip or the singlechip, the method has the advantages of high reliability, flexible setting of various control parameters and wide application range.

A control system and method generate joint variables for motion or posing of a target system in response to observations of a source system. Constraints and balance control may be provided for more accurate representation of the motion or posing as replicated by the target system.

The invention discloses a refrigerant flow control method for a multi-connected air-conditioning system during heating. The refrigerant flow control method controls the refrigerant flow in the system by adjusting the opening of an electronic expansion valve in a switched-off indoor unit, and comprises the following steps: a. enabling the air-conditioning system to enter a heating operational mode; b. switching off or switching on the valve according to the condensing pressure and evaporating pressure of the system; c. switching on the valve according to the exhaust temperature of a compressor; and d. switching off or switching on the valve according to the condensing saturation temperature converted from the condensing pressure or according to the coil temperature of the switched-on indoor unit, the coil temperature of the switched-off indoor unit, the outlet temperature of a heat exchanger in the switched-off indoor unit and the inlet temperature of the heat exchanger in the switched-off indoor unit. The dynamic equilibrium control strategy for a refrigerant provided by the invention can automatically adjust the opening of the electronic expansion valve in the switched-off indoorunit according to the system operation conditions, thereby avoiding energy waste and reduced heating effect caused by overlarge deviation of the opening of the expansion valve, and improving the heating performance of the air-conditioning system.

An image capturing apparatus having an auto focus function or an auto exposure function stores digital image data output from an A/D conversion unit as first image data directly or after performing predetermined processing, and stores the digital image data serving as a base of the first image data as second image data after performing predetermined processing for the digital image data. The apparatus then detects a face region from the second image data, and displays the image on the basis of the image data output from the A/D conversion unit while the face region is detected form the second image data. After completion of detection of the face region from the second image data, the apparatus extracts information for auto focus, auto exposure, or white balance by using, of the first image data, data at a portion corresponding to the face region that is detected by said face detection means, and performs auto focus control, auto exposure control, or white balance control.

A momentum-based balance controller controls a humanoid robot to maintain balance. The balance controller derives desired rates of change of linear and angular momentum from desired motion of the robot. The balance controller then determines desired center of pressure (CoP) and desired ground reaction force (GRF) to achieve the desired rates of change of linear and angular momentum. The balance controller determines admissible CoP, GRF, and rates of change of linear and angular momentum that are optimally close to the desired value while still allowing the robot to maintain balance. The balance controller controls the robot to maintain balance based on a human motion model such that the robot's motions are human-like. Beneficially, the robot can maintain balance even when subjected to external perturbations, or when it encounters non-level and/or non-stationary ground.

The present invention relates to a diagnostic method of injector failure in common rail fuel injection system. Said method includes the following steps: firstly, utilizing acquisition and analysis of transient rotational speed of engine, then utilizing the injection compensation quantity obtained according to engine inter-cylinder balanced algorithm to make statistical analysis of compensation quantity variable tendency and adopting probability statistic method to judge the failure of injection system, so that it can greatly raise the accuracy of failure judgment of fuel injection system.

The invention relates to a comprehensive control method for the outlet temperatures of a heating furnace, belonging to the field of furnace temperature control technology. The invention is characterized in that branch balance control makes the outlets temperatures of a multi-branch heating furnace uniform, and automatic load lifting and dropping can be realized. By using state feedback prediction control of measured states and feedforward control, the method effectively improves the anti-interference ability. A state space model of the heating furnace is obtained by mechanism modeling, in no need of testing devices. An on-line model is self-adaptive, which effectively overcomes process characteristic change and improves the rate of putting into operation. Low-value fuel can realize idea valve location interval control, thus saving high-value fuel. The comprehensive control of the outlet temperatures ensures the uniform and stable outlet temperatures of the heating furnace, which is easy to operate and economical.

A system and method are provided for performing setup operations for receiving a different amount of data while processors are performing message passing interface (MPI) tasks. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the processors to call a synchronization operation. An MPI load balancing controller maintains a history that provides a profile of the tasks with regard to their calls to synchronization operations. From this information, it can be determined which processors should have their processing loads lightened and which processors are able to handle additional processing loads without significantly negatively affecting the overall operation of the parallel execution system. As a result, setup operations may be performed while processors are performing MPI tasks to prepare for receiving different sized portions of data in a subsequent computation cycle based on the history.

The invention discloses an automatic speed-change electrical wheel hub, comprising a left wheel hub frame, a right wheel hub frame, a housing, a motor, a transmission shaft, a wheel, a brake device arranged on the transmission shaft, and a self-adaptive two-speed automatic speed-change assembly driven by the motor rotor via a transmission device. The transmission device is arranged in the intracavity of the motor stator. The automatic speed-change electrical wheel hub has the advantages that the motor transmission device is arranged reasonably, the consumption of the manufacture materials of the housing is lowered, the whole wheel hub has a compact size and a light weight, the manufacturing cost is reduced, and the invention can enable the output power of the motor and the driving status of vehicles to always be in an optimum matching status to achieve the balancing control of the driving moment of the vehicles and the synthesized driving resistance; the speed change can be operated automatically along with the change of the driving resistance by the self adaptive without cutting off the driving force, so that the invention is beneficial to the energy-efficiency of the vehicles and the mechanical power equipment, and can satisfy the usage under the conditions of mountain areas, hills and heavy loads; and the transmission of the invention has a light weight and a compact structure.

The invention, which belongs to the power converter control field of the driving motor, relates to a method for controlling neutral point voltage balance of a three level converter, wherein the method is based on a voltage space vector pulse width modulation technology and is used for controlling a neutral point clamped three level inverter. The method comprises the following steps that: step one, an action time distribution factor of a redundant small vector is obtained; step two, an area where control on a neutral point potential balance can be realized by a nearest three vector (NTV) method is obtained; step three, an NTV action area in a mixed voltage space vector pulse width modulation method is obtained; step four, a switching condition of the mixed voltage space vector pulse width modulation method is designed; and step five, the mixed voltage space vector pulse width modulation method with a proportion of pm is realized. According to the invention, a redundant small vector distribution factor is employed to design a switching condition of a mixed voltage space vector pulse width modulation strategy; therefore, an essence of a space vector modulation method is embodied; themethod can be used flexibly and used variables are less, so that it is beneficial for analysis and development application.

The invention discloses a travel-increasing control system of a travel-increasing type electric automobile. An engine controller carries out dynamic control to the work of an oil injector and an ignition coil, and the engine controller calculates an external torque request according to a regulating torque, a reversed towing torque, a combusting torque and a target torque of an engine crankshaft of a current engine ahead of time and sends the external torque request to a travel-increasing controller. The travel-increasing controller and a generator or a motor response to the external torque request, engine rotating speed control is achieved through the balance control of the crankshaft torque, and the practical rotating speed output by the travel-increasing control system is in accordance with a target rotating speed. The travel-increasing control system of the travel-increasing type electric automobile can achieve the control to the rotating speed output by the travel-increasing control system without an electronic-control air damper, the engine can adopt a non-throttle air inlet mode, the control logic of the engine controller is simple, a single-cylinder or double-cylinder motorcycle engine controller and an economical engine controller can be used, and efficiency cost maximization can be achieved.