925 results about "Full coverage" patented technology

A control system for a mobile robot (10) is provided to Effectively cover a given area by operating in a Plurality of modes, including an obstacle following mode (51) and a random bounce mode (49). In other embodiments, spot coverage, such as spiraling (45), or other modes are also used to increase effectiveness. In addition, a behavior based architecture is used to implement the control system, and various escape behaviors are used to ensure full coverage.

Disclosed herein are flexible, solar powered photovoltaic (PV) integrated roofing membrane and related methods of manufacturing such a membrane. The disclosed membrane and methods beneficially provide solar power to structures in either off-grid or on-grid connections. The roofing membrane may comprise multiple membrane strips or members having electrically interconnected photovoltaic solar elements. The membrane members preferably have distinct patterns for the solar elements located thereon that provide for coverage of entire sections, upon installation, as well as accommodate interconnections between the solar elements. Moreover, the membrane will appreciate the numerous types of patterns to achieve such purposed of full coverage and electrical coupling.

A data processing application logging, recording, and reporting process and infrastructure. Compliance with regulatory directives such as HIPAA, internal organizational and corporate, personal information privacy, and other security policies can thus be enforced without the need to recode legacy application software. In one preferred embodiment, a core agent process provides “listener” functionality that captures user input events, such as keyboard and mouse interactions, between a user and a legacy application of interest. The agent obtains instructions for how to deal with such events, accessing information that describes the application's behavior as already captured by an application profiler tool. Keyboard and mouse data entry sequences, screen controls and fields of interest are tagged during application profiling process. This data is stored in application profile developed for each mode of a legacy application. The technique can be implemented in various Information Technology (IT) environments including mainframe / terminal applications and / or client / server applications. Thus, full coverage of “fat” client, “thin” client, and legacy “mainframe” applications can be provided with a common approach across an enterprise.

The invention belongs to the technical field of floor sweeping robots, and provides a room map building method and device for a floor sweeping robot. The method comprises the steps that an indoor area is swept in a full coverage mode, and position coordinates of obstacles and a room map are generated according to the full coverage sweeping process; the room map is divided into multiple subareas according to the position coordinates of the obstacles in the room map, and a sweeping path is planned for each subarea; and sweeping is carried out according to the planned sweeping paths, and the position coordinates of the obstacles, the room map and the sweeping paths are updated. By means of the room map building method and device, working efficiency of the floor sweeping robot can be improved. In addition, operation is convenient, implementation is easy, the application range is wide, and usability and practicability are high.

A stent pattern includes an improved portal region for repairing a main vessel and a side branch vessel forming a bifurcation. More particularly, the stent has rings aligned along a common longitudinal axis that are connected by links, where the stent has a proximal section, a distal section, and a central section (portal region). The number of rings and the expanded diameter of the sections are varied to create a “trap door” capable of expanding to a slightly larger diameter than the proximal section and the distal section of the stent. The configuration of the stent pattern of the portal region prevents the occurrence of portal overlap of immediately adjacent rings into the portal region during stent deployment. The stent is implanted at a bifurcation so that the proximal section and the distal section are in the main vessel, and the central section contacts at least a portion of the opening to the side branch vessel. A second stent can be implanted in the side branch vessel and abut the expanded central section to provide full coverage of the bifurcated area in the main vessel and the side branch vessel.

A control system for a mobile robot (10) is provided to effectively cover a given area by operating in a plurality of modes, including an obstacle following mode (51) and a random bounce mode (49). In other embodiments, spot coverage, such as spiraling (45), or other modes are also used to increase effectiveness. In addition, a behavior based architecture is used to implement the control system, and various escape behaviors are used to ensure full coverage.

A control system for a mobile robot (10) is provided to effectively cover a given area by operating in a plurality of modes, including an obstacle following mode (51) and a random bounce mode (49). In other embodiments, spot coverage, such as spiraling (45), or other modes are also used to increase effectiveness. In addition, a behavior based architecture is used to implement the control system, and various escape behaviors are used to ensure full coverage.

A data processing application logging, recording, and reporting process and infrastructure. Compliance with regulatory directives such as HIPAA, internal organizational and corporate, personal information privacy, and other security policies can thus be enforced without the need to recode legacy application software. In one preferred embodiment, a core agent process provides “listener” functionality that captures user input events, such as keyboard and mouse interactions, between a user and a legacy application of interest. The agent obtains instructions for how to deal with such events, accessing information that describes the application's behavior as already captured by an application profiler tool. Keyboard and mouse data entry sequences, screen controls and fields of interest are tagged during application profiling process. This data is stored in application profile developed for each mode of a legacy application. The technique can be implemented in various Information Technology (IT) environments including mainframe / terminal applications and / or client / server applications. Thus, full coverage of “fat” client, “thin” client, and legacy “mainframe” applications can be provided with a common approach across an enterprise.

The invention accelerates successful learning in a wide variety of existing and developing learning environments by generating the most effective dynamic adaptive tutoring tailored to a current learner model. It provides a full coverage of a basic tutoring functionality including passive and active tutoring manners, as well as presenting, testing and diagnosing modes. An innovative component of the invention, a unified generator of intelligent tutoring, deals exclusively with a logical aspect of tutoring leaving all media aspects to be realized by traditional components of tutoring systems. The generator represents a generic logical core (brain) of known specific intelligent tutoring systems comprising a reusable tutoring engine and a reusable tutoring knowledge / data framework including a reusable learner model. All together they transform traditionally sophisticated courseware authoring into a simple fill-in-frameworks routine and automatically generate intelligent tutoring in any specific learning environments including available educational, training, simulation, knowledge management and job support systems.

Disclosed herein are rigid solar powered photovoltaic (PV) integrated roofing membrane and related methods of manufacturing such a membrane. The disclosed membrane and methods beneficially provide solar power to structures in either off-grid or on-grid connections. The roofing membrane may comprise multiple membrane strips or members having electrically interconnected photovoltaic solar elements. The membrane members preferably have distinct patterns for the solar elements located thereon that provide for coverage of entire sections, upon installation, as well as accommodate interconnections between the solar elements. Moreover, the membrane will appreciate the numerous types of patterns to achieve such purposed of full coverage and electrical coupling.

An improved stent design and stent delivery catheter assembly for repairing a main vessel and a side branch vessel forming a bifurcation. The stent includes rings aligned along a common longitudinal axis and connected by links, where the stent has one or more portals for aligning with and partially expanding into the opening to the side branch vessel. The stent is implanted at a bifurcation so that the main stent section is in the main vessel, and the portal section covers at least a portion of the opening to the side branch vessel. A second stent can be implanted in the side branch vessel and abut the expanded central section to provide full coverage of the bifurcated area in the main vessel and the side branch vessel. Radiopaque markers on the stent and on the tip of the delivery catheter assist in aligning the portal section with the opening to the side branch vessel.

An improved stent design and stent delivery catheter assembly for repairing a main vessel and a side branch vessel forming a bifurcation. The stent includes rings aligned along a common longitudinal axis and connected by links, where the stent has one or more portals for aligning with and partially expanding into the opening to the side branch vessel. The stent is implanted at a bifurcation so that the main stent section is in the main vessel, and the portal section covers at least a portion of the opening to the side branch vessel. A second stent can be implanted in the side branch vessel and abut the expanded central section to provide full coverage of the bifurcated area in the main vessel and the side branch vessel. Radiopaque markers on the stent and on the tip of the delivery catheter assist in aligning the portal section with the opening to the side branch vessel.

A full coverage fluidic oscillator (2) includes a fluidic circuit member preferably having an oscillation inducing internal chamber, at least one inlet (8) or source of fluid under pressure, at least a pair of output nozzles (14, 16) connected to the source of fluid for projecting at least first and second impinging fluid jets into free space, where the first and second impinging jets collide or impinge upon one another at a selected jet angle to generate a substantially omni-directional sheet jet having selected thickness. The first and second jets are aimed at a pre-selected intersection point in free space where impingement is to occur. The sheet jet's thickness Δy is determined by the time-varying path or oscillation of each of the first and second impinging jets. The first and second impinging jets can be made to oscillate or pulsate by use of vortex generating amplifier structures (68, 70, 72, 149) within the internal chamber's fluid flow paths.

The invention discloses a design method of a full-coverage traversal path planning algorithm of a cleaning robot. The design method of the full-coverage traversal path planning algorithm of the cleaning robot comprises the following main processes of generating a traversal cleaning trajectory in a rectangular region by utilizing a Standard chaotic equation, decomposing a to-be-cleaned region into rectangular sub-regions, constructing rectangular iterative sub-regions, constructing an optimal sub-region joining path, constructing rectangular transition sub-regions and repeated sub-regions, constructing an optimal full-coverage traversal cleaning connection diagram, automatically joining the iterative sub-regions, and realizing a full-coverage traversal cleaning task in a feasible region. The algorithm of the design method of the full-coverage traversal path planning algorithm of the cleaning robot is low in repetitive rate and high in coverage rate; a cleaning blind area does not exist; the algorithm is high in planning efficiency; a start point and an end point are not needed to be determined; and the algorithm is simple and is easy to realize. By using the design method of the full-coverage traversal path planning algorithm of the cleaning robot, the indoor cleaning by the robot can be met quite well and the task of planning the full-coverage traversal path is realized.

The invention relates to a method for constructing a full-coverage all-direction resource sharing family endowment service system, belonging to the field of the information processing and transmission technology. The invention is technically characterized by mainly comprising a system platform, an Internet website subsystem, a call platform subsystem, an Internet aged-people interaction subsystem, a 120 first-aid supplementary information service subsystem, a home delivery logistics subsystem, home service scheduling subsystem and a call termination subsystem, wherein the call termination subsystem mainly comprises a computer, dual tone multi-frequency signal receiving and transmitting equipment, a telephone terminal and computer software. The family endowment service system constructed with the method can be used as an integrated network service system in the community and further as a digital information platform. The method of the invention is not only a special method applied to a special object but also a general method for constructing an information processing and transmission system serving the public. For example, the method of the invention can be used for constructing the full-coverage all-direction resource sharing life insurance service system.

The invention discloses an intelligent safety supervision system for power construction. The supervision system comprises an on-site integrated AI safety monitoring terminal and a safety monitoring background system, wherein the on-site integrated AI safety monitoring terminal is used for confirming a site operation safety control process, tracking, shooting and storing site operation, recognizingsite violation behaviors, recognizing whether documentations is qualified, warning and controlling the site violation behaviors, and performing safety warning on site operation; and the safety monitoring background system is used for displaying information of each construction point in real time, controlling a construction site, statistically collecting uploaded information, and performing safetyanalysis on an offline video. Therefore, the timeliness ratio and accuracy rate of safety supervision are effectively enhanced, and the technical effect of full coverage safety supervision of the working site is achieved.

The invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle cruising and monitoring system for forest fire. The weight of the unmanned aerial vehicle is reduced, flight time is prolonged, an unmanned aerial vehicle cruising range is enlarged, route planning is carried out for fire monitoring, and an unmanned aerial vehicle flight control system is combined with a geographic information system. The route planning not only guarantees monitoring quality and monitoring full coverage but also considers the hardware parameters and the flight safety of the cruising unmanned aerial vehicle, a rotary head carries a thermal infrared imager and a colorful high-definition camera, the thermal infrared characteristics of the image of the forest fire are fully utilized, and an automatic monitoring and identification method for forest fire information is designed. Even if the forest fire monitoring distance of the unmanned aerial vehicle is long, fire characteristics can be accurately captured. A colorful high-definition image is compressed and transmitted back to a ground command post, a high-definition fire video image can be quickly transmitted to the ground, a fire position can be accurately reported, so that convenience is brought to the ground command post in accurately judging a fire situation and organizing people to fight the fire, and precious fire-fighting time is saved.

Methods of fabricating needle arrays on a wafer scale include etching a wafer of columns and needles and coating the same with an electrically insulating material and exposing electrically conductive tips. This process can benefit from using a slow spin speed to distribute resist material across the wafer before etching and using a carrier wafer to support singulated arrays to allow full coverage of upper array surfaces with electrically insulating materials. These processes allow for efficient high volume production of high count microelectrode arrays with a high repeatability and accuracy.

The invention discloses a full-coverage cleaning method of a sweeping robot and a sweeping robot. The method includes: a grid map is initialized at a first starting point and thus grids in the grid map are ones with grid filling states being non-cleaning states, wherein the first starting point is an original point of the grid map; according to a designated planning mode, cleaning is carried out and a cleaned area is marked to form a first grid map; whether a phenomenon of falling into a cleaning dead zone occurs is determined; if so, escaping from the cleaning dead zone is carried out; a coverage region of the cleaning dead zone is marked on the first grid map to form a second grid map; whether a non-cleaning region exists in the second grid map is determined; if so, movement to the non-cleaning region is carried out; and the non-cleaning region is cleaned based on a planned cleaning route. Therefore, full-coverage cleaning work of the unknown region is completed efficiently; leak sweeping and repeated cleaning are avoided; and the cleaning efficiency is improved.

A wireless network is provided that uses pseudo-static time slots. These time slots remain fixed in time unless and until a network controller specifically changes them and the network controller subsequently receives confirmation of the change. Times and durations of the pseudo-static time slots are only changed in small steps as each relevant device in the network acknowledges the step. To aid in allowing full coverage even during a change of active devices, when a transmitter and receiver are moved to a new time slot, the receiver is set to listen to both the old and the new time slots until the transmitter confirms that it has made the switch.

The invention relates to a swimming pool cleaning robot with orderly remote control, comprising a cleaning robot main machine, a power supply control box and a remote controller, wherein the cleaning robot main machine comprises a filter, machine housing components, an axial flow pump, a seal box, left and right transmission systems, clearer rollers and self-suspension cables; the left and right transmission systems respectively drive the front and rear cleaner rollers to rotate, thereby synchronously driving external teeth to contact the bottom of a wall of the pool so as to drive the robot to creep; sliding friction is generated between the outer edges of cleaning belts on the cleaner rollers and the bottom or the wall of the pool, thereby carrying out the operation of cleaning; an overload sensor is arranged in a control system of the cleaning robot and is used for detecting and judging the wall contact state during creeping cleaning, and corresponding signals are sent to cause the cleaning robot to be switched to a next program to work; and the remote controller has the functions of bidirectional communication, and a display screen can display working conditions and has the function of malfunction alarm. The robot carries out path planning design for the swimming pools with different shapes, and adopts the path method of entire journey back turning and the path method of half journey back turning, thereby realizing the orderly and full coverage cleaning of the swimming pools with different shapes.

In some embodiments, apparatus and systems, as well as methods, may operate to select an amount of imaging coverage associated with a substantially tubular object and a rotary scanner coupled to a telemetry system. Determining circumferential and longitudinal scan sampling intervals to provide substantially full coverage of the substantially tubular object may be included. Waveform sampling and transducer driving waveform parameters may also be determined according to an available data transmission bandwidth associated with the telemetry system.

The invention provides a dam slope deformation monitoring system and method. According to the monitoring system, an unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry system is utilized to monitor dams in the whole reservoir area, and an encrypted monitoring area with large deformation quantity and large digital elevation difference (a steep slope) is determined; in the encrypted monitoring area, a ground-based interferometric radar measurement system is utilized to determine a first level key area with larger deformation quantity; in the first level key area, a ground-based three-dimensional laser radarsystem is adopted to select a second level key area with larger deformation quantity, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is adopted in the second level key area to determine a key monitoringparticle with high deformation speed, and a micro core pile is utilized to monitor and forewarn the collapse process of the key monitoring particle area. According to the dam slope deformation monitoring system and method, precise positioning of the collapse position of the dams in the whole reservoir area and integrated monitoring and early warning of space, air and ground are achieved through time seamless monitoring from slow to fast to the instant of collapse and full coverage monitoring from large area to small area to particle and from two-dimensional to three-dimensional space variation.

The invention, which belongs to the field of traffic big data application, discloses an urban traffic situation sensing method and a visualization method. According to the invention, urban floating car GPS data, electric police pass data, video monitoring data and mobile phone signaling data are transmitted to a big data analysis platform in real time; with utilization of video recognition, big data analysis, data fusion, internet, visualization and other technologies, multi-source traffic data fusion is realized; precise macroscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic parameters including the urban traffic operation index, road segment driving speed, and intersection flowing capacity and the like are obtained; and different levels of parameters reflecting the urban traffic situation are displayedat one map by using a visualized interface. Therefore, the comprehensive, full-space-time, full-coverage urban traffic operation situation is displayed precisely.

The invention relates to an AP (access point) transmitting power optimization method based on energy conservation and interference avoidance in a green WLAN (wireless local area network). The AP transmitting power optimization method is used for solving the problems of energy waste caused by the dense deployment of APs and the superposition of coverage areas, and the influence of common-frequency components on the communication quality in the WLAN. The AP transmitting power optimization method comprises the following steps of: determining the number of the APs required to be used for realizing WLAN full coverage according to the WLAN and the coverage range of a single AP with default transmitting power; clustering the APs with the dense deployment in the WLAN by adopting a fuzzy K-mean clustering method or a neural network method or other methods; selectively closing the majority of APs according to a clustering result, realizing WLAN wireless signal full coverage by the remainder minority of the APs, and forming an AP distribution structure simultaneously, namely, initializing an AP transmitting power optimization algorithm; repeatedly calculating the repeated coverage degree of each AP coverage area, and arraying the coverage areas; and controlling the AP transmitting power to reduce the coverage radius of each AP, so as to realize the purposes of energy conservation and interference avoidance of the APs.

The present invention discloses a low-energy loss robot full coverage path planning method and system. The system comprises a robot, a ranging sensor, an encoder and an IMU. The method comprises: establishing an environment grid map by using an instant positioning and map construction algorithm; preprocessing a grid map, and adjusting a resolution and a reachable cleaning area of the grid map; defining the energy loss cost function of a mobile cleaning robot full coverage path, and calculating an optimal grid map segmentation direction by using a finite heuristic search algorithm; using the segmentation direction to perform area segmentation on the grid map through each vertex in the grid map; performing matching detection on the adjacent segmented areas, and combining the segmented areaswith a higher matching degree into a segmentation area; and determining a traversal direction according to the map segmentation direction, and sequentially traversing each segmentation area to plan afull coverage path. According to the technical scheme of the present invention, the concave polygon is segmented into convex polygons, so that planning an arch full coverage path can be facilitated, and the cleaning efficiency is greatly improved.