1775 results about "Inner loop" patented technology

A catheter includes a sealed multi-lumen heat transfer extension designed to internally circulate a coolant, and thereby cool tissue or fluid surrounding the catheter. The heat transfer extension includes a tube having a distally positioned region that coils about the tube's longitudinal axis. The tube houses multiple lumens running longitudinally along the tube. These lumens include one or more supply lumens and one or more return lumens. A distal fluid exchange reservoir resides at the tube's tip, for the purpose of redirecting fluid from the supply lumen(s) to the return lumen(s). The heat transfer extension may include a shape memory structure causing the heat transfer extension to vary its shape according to temperature. Namely, the extension assumes a coiled shape under predetermined shape-active temperatures, and it assumes a non-coiled shape under other predetermined shape-relaxed temperatures. The catheter also includes an interface having supply and return lines to provide coolant to the heat transfer extension, and remove coolant returning therefrom. To connect the supply/return lines with the supply/return lumens, the invention may include a fluid transfer housing. Optionally, one or more of the lumens may be configured as flow-through lumens to exchange fluids with the patient.

A heat pipe is partially-filled with a liquid, such as water, and is used to transfer heat from a rotating element, such as a rotor, via phase change and internal recycle of the liquid. Several heat pipes may be disposed radially around the rotating axis of the rotating element. The heat pipes may have a curved inner surface with a curvature not corresponding to the central axis of the heat pipe and positioned opposite the rotating axis so to experience greater centrifugal forces, to advance formation of a liquid film to improve heat transfer. For a rotor, the heat pipes, though individually placed as revolving heat pipes, in total exhibit behavior that approximates the favorable heat-transfer behavior of a single larger rotating heat pipe, but with heat-transfer surface area dispersed throughout the rotor, and without compromising structural integrity of the rotor shaft.

A method and apparatus for forecasting and controlling neurological abnormalities in humans such as seizures or other brain disturbances. The system is based on a multi-level control strategy. Using as inputs one or more types of physiological measures such as brain electrical, chemical or magnetic activity, heart rate, pupil dilation, eye movement, temperature, chemical concentration of certain substances, a feature set is selected off-line from a pre-programmed feature library contained in a high level controller within a supervisory control architecture. This high level controller stores the feature library within a notebook or external PC. The supervisory control also contains a knowledge base that is continuously updated at discrete steps with the feedback information coming from an implantable device where the selected feature set (feature vector) is implemented. This high level controller also establishes the initial system settings (off-line) and subsequent settings (on-line) or tunings through an outer control loop by an intelligent procedure that incorporates knowledge as it arises. The subsequent adaptive settings for the system are determined in conjunction with a low-level controller that resides within the implantable device. The device has the capabilities of forecasting brain disturbances, controlling the disturbances, or both. Forecasting is achieved by indicating the probability of an oncoming seizure within one or more time frames, which is accomplished through an inner-loop control law and a feedback necessary to prevent or control the neurological event by either electrical, chemical, cognitive, sensory, and/or magnetic stimulation.

A watch-type mobile terminal including an antenna is provided. The watch-type mobile terminal may include a body configuring an external appearance of a watch and operating as a loop antenna, a plurality of feeding units applying each of a plurality of communication signals to the loop antenna, and a ground part connected to a ground of the watch. In this case, the body may include a metal housing connected to the ground part and corresponding to an outer loop, a metal bezel connected to the plurality of feeding units and corresponding to the inner loop, and a slot member disposed between the metal housing and the metal bezel to electrically disconnect the metal housing from the metal bezel. An antenna for providing a plurality of communication services may be provided.

The invention relates to the technical field of four-rotor aircrafts, in particular to a small four-rotor aircraft control system and method based on an airborne sensor. The small four-rotor aircraft control system based on the airborne sensor comprises an inertia measurement unit module, a microprocessor, an electronic speed controller, an ultrasonic sensor, an optical flow sensor, a camera, a wireless module and a DC brushless motor. By merging the information of a light and low-cost airborne sensor system, the six-DOF flight attitude of the aircraft is estimated in real time, and a closed-loop control strategy comprising inner-loop attitude control and outer-ring position control is designed. Under the environment without a GPS or an indoor positioning system, flight path control and aircraft formation control based on the leader followed strategy over the rotorcraft are achieved through the airborne sensor system and the microprocessor, wherein the flight path control comprises autonomous vertical take-off and landing, indoor accurate positioning, autonomous hovering and autonomous flight path point tracking. According to the small four-rotor aircraft control system and method, a reliable, accurate and low-cost control strategy is provided for achieving autonomous flight of the rotorcraft.

A flight control system is configured for controlling the flight of an aircraft utilizing a three control loop design to robustly increase system performance. An inner loop comprises an improved linear quadratic regulator (LQR) search method, and an outer loop comprises a classic feedback summary gain design. A third loop comprises a steady state trim search method.

A Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter is implemented in software on a general purpose processor in a manner which reduces the number of memory accesses as compared to conventional methods. In particular, an efficient implementation for a general purpose processor having a substantial number of registers includes inner and outer loop code which together make memory accesses and KN multiply-accumulates, where L1 is the number of output vector elements computed during each pass through the outer loop and where L2 is the number of taps per output vector element computed during each pass through the inner loop. The efficient implementation exploits L1+2L2 general purpose registers. For an embodiment in which L1=L2=8, inner and outer loop code make memory accesses, which for filter implementations with large numbers of taps, approaches a 4x reduction in the number of memory accesses as compared to conventional methods.

A method and apparatus for treating sleep disordered breathing. An arousal index is determined for use in an outer loop of a control algorithm, the arousal index being a measure of the frequency of sleep arousals. The respiratory airflow signal in an inner loop of the control algorithm is monitored to detect an airway obstruction. If the arousal index is high, then the sensitivity of obstruction detection and/or the aggressiveness of the treatment is increased, and if the arousal index is low, then the sensitivity of the obstruction detection and/or the aggressiveness of the treatment is decreased

A system and a method for reverse link power control in a wireless communications network generates power adjust commands for mobiles being served by a network base station in a centralized manner by considering overall system performance when an increased interference condition is detected. In one implementation, a base station power control processor adopts a modified reverse inner loop power control (RILPC) and/or a reverse outer loop power control (ROLPC) algorithm when an increased interference condition is detected. According to the modified RILPC algorithm, a percentage of power-up adjust commands which would normally be generated when E_b/N_o measurements for served mobiles do not meet target E_b/N_o levels are converted to power down-adjust commands, thereby forcing some mobiles to reduce transmit power, at least temporarily, to constrain interference. When the increased interference condition persists, the percentage of power-up adjust commands which are converted to power-down commands may be changed. According to the modified ROLPC algorithm, the power control processor adjusts target E_b/N_o levels in a centralized manner based on an overall system state so that only a limited number of target E_b/N_o levels are allowed to increase when frame erasures occur. By preventing a percentage of target E_b/N_o level increases, at least temporarily, when frame erasures occur, a percentage of power up-adjust commands are avoided. Therefore, a similar effect to that achieved by the modified RILPC is achieved. In accordance with still a further implementation of the present invention, the modified RILPC algorithm may be used in combination with the modified ROLPC algorithm to provide greater resistance to increased interference conditions.

The invention relates to a modularized energy feedback traction power supply device and a control method thereof, wherein, the device comprises a multi-winding transformer, a plurality of PWM rectifier units and a central controller, wherein, the multi-winding transformer is provided with a primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings, and all of the secondary windings have the same connecting mode; each secondary winding of the transformer is connected with a PWM rectifier unit; the direct-current outputs of all the PWM rectifier units are connected to a direct-current bus of the general power supply device in serials. Double closed-loop control of voltage and current is adopted; an outer loop of direct-current voltage is arranged on the central controller and an inner loop based on synchronous rotating frame is arranged on each PWM rectifier unit. The power supply device is remarkably characterized by easy modularization, large capacity, bipolar energy transmission, high power factor, small current harmonic wave and stable direct-current voltage.

Parallelize a computer program by scoping program variables at compile time and inserting code into the program. Identify as value predictable variables, variables that are: defined only once in a loop of the program; not defined in any inner loop of the loop; and used in the loop. Optionally also: identify a code block in the program that contains a variable assignment, and then traverse a path backwards from the block through a control flow graph of the program. Name in a set all blocks along the path until a loop header block. For each block in the set, determine program blocks that logically succeed the block and are not in the first set. Identify all paths between the block and the determined blocks as failure paths, and insert code into the failure paths. When executed at run time of the program, the inserted code fails the corresponding path.

Servo controlled solenoids provide actuation of a pump piston and valves, and electronic LC resonance measurements to determine liquid volume and gas bubble volume. Third order nonlinear servo control is split into nested control loops: a fast nonlinear first-order inner loop causing flux to track a target by varying a voltage output, and a slower almost linear second-order outer loop causing magnetic gap to track a target by controlling the flux target or the inner loop. The inner loop uses efficient switching regulation, preferably based on controlled feedback instabilities, to control voltage output. The outer loop achieves damping and accurate convergence using proportional, time-integral, and time-derivative gain terms. The time-integral feedback may be based on measured and target solenoid drive currents, adjusting the magnetic gap for force balance at the target current.

The invention provides a grid-connected generation control method for a photovoltaic power generation converter. The method comprises the following steps of: grid voltage software phase lock, voltage outer loop establishment, current control and grid voltage orientated vector control, wherein the grid voltage software phase lock adopts a software three-phase phase-locked loop method; a phase-locked loop consists of a phase detector, a loop filter and an oscillator; the grid voltage orientated vector control adopts a double-closed-loop cascade control structure, namely a voltage outer loop and a current inner loop; the voltage loop controls a direct-current bus voltage; and the current loop controls an alternating-current side input current. By the method, the orientation is accurate, the direct-current bus voltage is controlled to be stable, and maximum power point tracking control is realized. Deadbeat control design is performed aiming at the current loop, so that the current loop controls the alternating-current side input current according to a current command given by the voltage loop and unit power factor operation is realized. By adopting a feedforward decoupling control method, stable grid-connected operation can be realized.

The present invention is a system and method for efficiently and incrementally updating the statistical timing of a digital circuit after a change has been made in the circuit. One or more changes in the circuit is/are followed by timing queries that are answered efficiently, constituting a mode of timing that is most useful in the inner loop of an automatic computer-aided design (CAD) synthesis or optimization tool. In the statistical re-timing, the delay of each gate or wire is assumed to consist of a nominal portion, a correlated random portion that is parameterized by each of the sources of variation and an independent random portion. Correlations are taken into account. Both early mode and late mode timing are included; both combinational and sequential circuits are handled; static CMOS as well as dynamic logic families are accommodated.

The invention discloses a four-rotor aircraft control method based on PID neural network (PIDNN) control. First, dynamic equations of a four-rotor aircraft are established based on the Newton-Euler equations, and then, a nested controller is proposed. An inner loop decentralized controller is designed based on a PIDNN method to realize attitude control, and the outer loop adopts a classical PID control method. Next, online learning of a PIDNN controller is realized by an error back propagation method, the connection initial weight of PIDNN is determined based on the principle of PID control, and an appropriate learning step is selected according to the discrete Lyapunov theory to guarantee the convergence of the controller. Thus, the control problem of a four-rotor aircraft caused by high degree of nonlinearity, strong coupling and under-actuating capability, disturbance from the external environment in the process of flight and other factors can be effectively solved.

The invention discloses a quick drying device for traditional Chinese medicine which is convenient for taking materials. It comprises a base, a No. 2 cylinder body and a No. 1 cylinder body. The No. 2 cylinder body is connected, and the No. 2 cylinder body and the No. 1 cylinder body are both cylindrical cylinder bodies. The diameter of the No. 2 cylinder body is larger than that of the No. 1 cylinder body. Support rods are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the lower end of the No. 2 cylinder body, and the lower end of the support rod slides The sleeve is provided with a support sleeve, and the inside of the support sleeve is provided with a built-in shock absorbing spring, which connects and fixes the support rod with the base. A crushing motor is fixed in the middle of the upper end of the No. 1 barrel. The structure of the present invention is simple and reasonable, and the shock absorbing effect is Well, the internal circulation of materials is realized, so that unqualified materials can be processed in time, and the heat in the exhausted hot air can be recovered and utilized. This internal circulation drying also reduces the pollution of the device to the environment and facilitates the discharge of materials.

This invention discloses a dual-feed AC-DC-AC converter control structure for wind power generation, and the rotor exciting magnetic converter using the fuzzy PI adaptive control strategy of current inner loop. When the generator no-load networking, the current inner loop uses the conventional PI regulator, and after networking, as to three modes, sub-synchronization, synchronization, super-synchronous, it uses fuzzy adaptive PI control. The network-side converter uses SPWM control strategy which fixed switching frequency and combining electric network electromotive front-feed. In the invention, both converting processes use four-quadrant operation PWM converters based on full-controlled devices, so it can not only improve the system dynamic response, reduce wastage and impact, achieve the two-way electric transmission, but also it can achieve wind power generation network side unit power factor sinusoidal current networking power generation operating.

A transfer device includes a plurality of rollers, a rotatable intermediate transfer belt wound around and stretched between the rollers, a transfer member disposed in the inner loop of the belt and facing an image bearing member of an image forming apparatus disposed at an outer circumference of the belt, to transfer an image formed onto the surface of the image bearing member when contacting the intermediate transfer belt, and a position adjuster to adjust the position of the intermediate transfer belt at different positions relative to the image bearing member. The positions include a contact state in which the intermediate transfer belt applied with a predetermined tension contacts the image bearing member, a first separation state in which the tensioned intermediate transfer belt separates from the image bearing member, and a second separation state in which the intermediate transfer belt separates further away from the image bearing member.