555 results about "Passive control" patented technology

A surgical robotic system is disclosed that provides a combination of a programmed control, such as active control or passive control, when a high degree of accuracy is required and manual control when a high degree of accuracy is not required, such as during the removal of osteophytes, irregular bone growth and / or soft tissue. Manual resection may be completed by switching from the programmed control mode to the manual control mode and allowing the surgeon free control of the cutting tool. The manual resection may be carried out using some navigational features of the robotic system such as allowing the surgeon to visualize the position of the cutting tool thereby allowing accurate resection of osteophytes, irregular bone and tissue while having the unrestricted freedom to move the cutting tool. The programmed control mode may be reserved for procedures that require a high degree of accuracy, for example, the reaming of a bone and placement of an implant onto the bone.

An implantable drug delivery device is provided with a passive flow control device is provided in the form of a valve which may assume two flow states. Flow control is achieved by duty cycling the valve using a control module which generates appropriate signals in response to an input telemetry signal corresponding to a desired flow rate. In another embodiment, a passively controlled bolus delivery device is provided to deliver a bolus of drug in addition to normal dosage.

The present invention includes a method of monitoring and controlling interior functions of a vehicle, for example, a memory seat position, a vehicle pedal position, a steering column position, a vehicle interior temperature, and / or whether the vehicle is occupied or unoccupied at certain times and under certain conditions. The interior functions are controlled by passively monitoring a characteristic of an occupant, determining an identity of the occupant based on the monitored characteristic, and regulating the interior function based upon the identity of the occupant. The monitored characteristic, for example, may be representative of a weight classification or biomass associated with the occupant, or a signal or input generated based upon a user identification device, for example, a key fob or other personal electronic device carried by the occupant.

The invention belongs to a containment cooling system, in particular, to a high-capacity and fully passive containment cooling system. The containment cooling system is used for collecting thermotechnical parameters related to the containment by using a sensor and tracking a cooling process; a plurality of storage boxes for storing different coolants is arranged above the containment; the dynamic control of containment cooling power can be realized by choosing the types of the coolants and adjusting the flows of the coolants; and by using a generalized passive control unit, the start-up and the whole running process of the containment cooling system can be completely independent on external power supply, thus the containment cooling system has a characteristic of fully passiveness.

An apparatus for shipping articles under controlled temperature conditions, having alternating enclosure walls for providing temperature insulation and for providing alternating reservoirs of phase change materials, wherein the respective phase change materials are different in each alternating reservoir. The innermost reservoirs comprise a thermal insert which modifies the control temperature inside the container.

A surgical robot with seven degrees of freedom, including various types of joints, offers a hybrid active-passive control for operation both manually and by programmed navigation. One of the degrees of freedom allows the robot to be moved efficiently around the axis of a patient's body to provide ample workspace for surgical procedures in an operating room.

Disclosed herein are surface-functionalized powders which alter the solidification of the melted powders. Some variations provide a powdered material comprising a plurality of particles fabricated from a first material, wherein each of the particles has a particle surface area that is continuously or intermittently surface-functionalized with nanoparticles and / or microparticles selected to control solidification of the powdered material from a liquid state to a solid state. Other variations provide a method of controlling solidification of a powdered material, comprising melting at least a portion of the powdered material to a liquid state, and semi-passively controlling solidification of the powdered material from the liquid state to a solid state. Several techniques for semi-passive control are described in detail. The methods may further include creating a structure through one or more techniques selected from additive manufacturing, injection molding, pressing and sintering, capacitive discharge sintering, or spark plasma sintering.

The invention provides a satellite team configuring control method based on fuel consumption optimization. The satellite team configuring control method based on the fuel consumption optimization comprises the following steps: team configuring control input is calculated, plane external orbit control is judged to be carried out or not according to the control input, if the plane external orbit control is needed, a corresponding speed increment and an orbit control time are worked out, coupling influences of the plane external orbit control on orbital elements in a plane are calculated, and the control input in the plane is corrected; then the orbital elements in the plane are jointly adjusted, the coupling influences among the adjustment of the orbital elements in the plane are taken into account, and effective compensation is carried out. An appropriate value k is determined according to whether drifting is needed to achieve passive control, and a three impulse speed increment and the orbit control time are obtained through calculation. The satellite team configuring control method based on the fuel consumption optimization achieves the team control based on fuel optimization, and can control configuring initialization, configuring maintenance and reconfiguration of the satellite team under the condition of a circle-similar non-equatorial orbit.

An apparatus and method apply water to a hydrogen-containing composition, such as a hydride, in the presence of a catalyst that promotes hydrolysis to generate hydrogen in a controlled manner. The amount of catalyst used can be carefully tailored so that the reaction rate is limited by the amount of catalyst present (passive control) or it can be sufficiently large so that the reaction is controlled by the rate of water addition (active control).

An infusion and blood collection device allows clean blood collections into a collection tube via a previously installed angiocatheter without interrupting the administration of intravenous therapies after initial installation. The device optionally includes passive control of the blood collection flow rate to prevent contamination of the collected blood draw with the IV therapy fluid being simultaneously infused through the angiocatheter. A blood collection method uses an infusion and blood collection device to draw a clean blood sample from a patient and into a collection tube via a previously installed angiocatheter without interrupting the administration of intravenous therapies.

The present disclosure concerns the application of the “Wave Bearing Concept” to journal and thrust fluid film bearings to increase performance and reliability. The wave surface is present on whichever member is stationary or non-rotating. Some applications are: pressurized gas journal wave bearings for increased load capacity and dynamic stability; journal wave bearings with liquid lubricants for extreme load capacity and excellent thermal and dynamic stability under any load; thrust wave bearings for axial positioning and axial loads; journal bearings with an elastic wave sleeve that can be activated via actuators (“active / passive control fluid film bearing”) or may change by itself (“smart bearings”) to adapt the bearing performance to the applied bearing load and speed. Journal and thrust bearings incorporating the present invention are appropriate for either mono-directional or bi-directional rotation.

Systems and methods for controlling traffic on a communications network include dynamic and flexible control plans that enable service providers to control or influence customer access to communications facilities. Communications facilities are monitored to identify network elements, such as cell sites, that are overloaded. When the traffic intensity on a particular facility exceeds a predetermined level, either active or passive control is imposed on subscribers that are in the geographic area of the facility. Active control involves blocking, delaying or disrupting subscriber calls during the critical time period. Passive control involves providing cost incentives or disincentives during low or peak periods of traffic intensity. Customers are notified of the commencement and / or termination of active or passive control preferably via SMS. When implemented with stationary cellular service, the systems and methods aid in traffic engineering and provide opportunities for customers to reduce the cost and increase the accessibility of telephone service.

The present invention relates to a variable rigidity initiative power absorber applied to vibration damping for machinery, electrical equipment and noise control. The fault that the control band width of the passive control type absorber is too narrow, the control energy needed by initiative control type absorber is excessive and the vibration absorption effect of semi- initiative control type absorber is insufficient is solved. The structure feature of the absorber is that: an execution unit includes a base frame, the top of the base frame is disposed with a pair of base seats, the base seats are disposed with annular guide rods, and the two sides of the opening of the annular guide rod are respectively connected with magnetic current variable elastic bodies, the annular guide rods are connected with movable mass blocks, power mechanisms are disposed at the lower part of the power mass blocks. The invention has good vibration absorption effect, wide oscillation damping frequency band, less consume energy, the input energy is less than the initiative control absorber, therefore, the stability is better than the initiative control absorber; the absorber is simple in structure, easy in control method, and high in system reliability.

A comparison unit compares the outside air temperature in outside air temperature information acquired by an outside air temperature acquisition unit with an outside air temperature threshold that has been set by a threshold setting unit. A first information acquisition unit acquires ON operation information. A device control unit performs passive control when the outside air temperature is in a temperature range on a comfortable side with respect to the outside air temperature threshold. Where the outside air temperature is in a temperature range on an uncomfortable side with respect to the outside air temperature threshold, the device control unit performs passive control until an ON operation is performed and performs active control once the ON operation is performed. The passive control involves performing OFF control of the active device and natural environment usage control of a passive device. The active control involves performing ON control of the active device.

A novel passive control technique for laminar flow over air transportation vehicles and space reentry vehicles flying at high supersonic and hypersonic speeds is disclosed. The control of laminar flow can be achieved by applying an array of surface roughness elements in the region before the laminar-turbulent transition. For example, an array of two-dimensional rings, stripes, or closely packed three-dimensional isolated roughness elements may be used to stabilize the instability waves and delay transition. The roughness elements may have a height between 40% and 60% of the local boundary-layer thickness. The exact location, height, and spacing of surface roughness elements may be determined by a numerical simulation strategy based on the most unstable second mode, e.g. using known eN transition prediction method, experimental measurement, or any other suitable technique.

A thermally-activated exhaust treatment device, such as a catalytic converter (20); for vehicles includes a core having an inner housing (21) and a catalytic material (27, 27′). A jacket includes an outer housing (22) enclosing the inner housing (21) but characteristically not contacting the inner housing (21). The inner and outer housings (21, 22) includes walls (30, 31) forming a vacuum-drawn scaled insulation cavity (26) around the inner housing (21). A temperature-activated variable insulator device is positioned within the outer housing (22) and includes a hydrogen source (32) and controls for controlling the variable insulator device. A vacuum-maintenance device is incorporated into the insulation cavity (26), and includes a small container, getter material positioned in the container, a porous member allowing gas in the insulation cavity (26) to communicate with the getter material. A multi-layered radiation shield is position in the vacuum space and is loosely coupled to the inner housing (21). A vacuum detector includes a visible indicator of the vacuum in the insulation cavity (26).

A damper system is connected between pivotal components of a vehicle suspension system to inhibit movement of the components during a condition of potential vehicle roll. The system can be actively or passively controlled. The damper system can have a single damper or multiple dampers and may be connected to work in conjunction with vehicle stabilizers including torsion bars, single compensator stabilizing systems and dual compensator stabilizing systems. In the compensator stabilizing systems, the damper can be separate from the compensators or integral with the compensators. The dampers also can be formed as integral structures with shock absorbers. The dampers can be of various types, including but not limited to linear dampers and rotary dampers.

Methods are provided for stabilizing a haptic interface of a computer-controlled one-port virtual-reality system or a two-port teleoperation system comprising a robot manipulator. “Stabilizing” means to reduce the sense of vibration in a haptic interface. A Passivity Observer is computed to measure the amount of energy produced at the haptic interface, and a Passivity Controller is calculated to damp or absorb excess energy which causes the sense of vibration. This invention also provides a “filter,” i.e. a threshold function which returns zero velocity if the computed estimated velocity is less than a small predetermined value, which may be applied to estimated velocities determined in impedance-based methods of this invention so as to remove noise in the velocity estimate. To improve speed of reaction of the systems, this invention also provides methods for resetting the Passivity Observer to zero when it has been too positive for too long a period of time. Systems implementing these methods are also provided.

A system and method for providing a substantially constant volume exhaust or ventilation air terminal system is shown for controlling exhaust and / or return airflow rates in a system having a central fan or ventilator. The system and method permits zone-by-zone or area-by-area airflow regulation or control in non-demand areas in response to a demand or call for ventilation in demand areas. In one embodiment, the system employs at least one constant airflow controller or regulator situated in a damper. Another embodiment shows a combination of a first constant airflow controller or regulator situated or mounted on a damper with a second constant airflow controller or regulator situated in a duct associated with the damper. In still another embodiment, a constant airflow controller or regulator is provided in a duct, and used in combination with a solid damper.

The invention discloses a magnetorheological buffering unit structure based on impact load and a control method thereof, aiming to mainly solve the technical problems that parameters of an oil-gas type buffer cannot be adjusted in working process, and accordingly a landing gear buffer cannot be balanced with a large power energy source required from outside for realizing ground sliding, landing off and actively controlling the landing gear. The magnetorheological buffering unit structure comprises a magnetorheological damper and a magnetorheological liquid chamber, and the magnetorheological liquid chamber can move in the magnetorheological damper through a sealing device. During testing, the unit structure main body is mounted on an impact test platform. Variable-structure oil holes of a conventional oil-gas type buffer are replaced by oil-needle-free constant-interface oil holes, passed oil damping force is controlled by applied magnetic field, and magnetic field is supplied by applied current. The magnetorheological buffering unit structure is reasonable in structure and capable of buffering impact energy produced by impact force effectively, and meanwhile, oil return holes can prevent wheels from jumping off the ground while landing. The magnetorheological buffering unit structure has functions of an oil-gas type passive-control buffer, realizes half-active buffer control effect, and is mainly applied to the technical field of aviation.

The invention relates to a bionic ankle joint. The ankle joint uses joint bearing. The bearing inner ring is connected with the calf and the outer ring is connected with the foot. The outer ring revolves the inner ring. The foot of the robot is driven to move relative to the calf. The uplifting and unbending motion of ankle joint and the rotary motion along the axis line of the calf are respectively controlled by a pair of springs. One end of the spring is connected with the calf and the other end is connected with the foot. When the robot dumps towards the sideways, the equilibrium position is recovered under the function of spring. The invention can realize flexible motion of ankle joint with homocentric triaxiality with compact structure. The energy loss can be reduced using the mode of combining the pneumatic muscle active control and spring passive control and the effect of buffering can be obtained.

The invention provides a semi-active six-degree-of-freedom simulation device, which aims to solve the problems of high manufacturing cost and low safety due to active control over the simulation of a six-degree-of-freedom floating state of a spacecraft under the outer space weightless condition and poor simulation effects and high resistance due to the adoption of a passive control mode. An air foot is connected with a lower connecting plate through a connecting rod; the lower connecting plate is connected with an upper connecting plate through a vertical column; the two ends of a feed rod are connected with the lower connecting plate and the upper connecting plate respectively; a first end of a screw rod is connected with the lower connecting plate; a second end of the screw rod penetrates through the upper connecting plate to be driven by a motor; the screw rod is connected with a sliding block through a nut; the feed rod is connected with the sliding block through a sliding sleeve; the sliding block is connected with pitching shafts on the two sides through a force sensor; a pitching frame is arranged on the pitching shafts through a second bearing; the nut is used for fixing the bearing; and a mounting plate is arranged on the pitching frame through a first bearing. The device has the advantages of active simulation modes and passive simulation modes, and is a six-degree-of-freedom floating state simulation device which has low manufacturing cost and a good simulation effect and is safely used.

The embodiment of the invention provides a PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) rectifier controlling method and a PWM rectifier. The PWM rectifier controlling method is a passivity control method based on repeated control and compensation, and comprises the following steps: a control law of the PWM rectifier based on the interconnection and damping configuration of port controlled dissipation Hamilton models is obtained with a Lagrange-Charpy integral method; and a composite controller including repeated control and passive control is used as a controller of the PWM rectifier, and the passive control is compensated by the repeated control according to the control law so as to suppress periodic interference. According to the embodiment of the invention, PWM rectification of a unit power factor can be realized, and at the same time the harmonic interference of a power grid is better suppressed under the condition of not detecting load harmonic current so as to improve power quality. Compared with the conventional PWM rectifier, the PWM rectifier disclosed by the invention has the functions of harmonic suppression and reactive compensation under the condition of not increasing hardware cost.

The present invention relates to a manufacturing method for wind turbine blade and a wind turbine manufactured according to that method. The wind turbine blade comprises two shell parts wherein each shell part has a leading edge connected to a trailing edge via an inner surface. One of the two shell parts comprises an extended shell section which is configured as a flexible shell section. The shell section is configured to flex in a radial direction from a first position to a second position relative to the leading edge when an incoming wind is acting on the pressure side of the wind turbine blade. The wind turbine blade may be manufactured using a non-bonding layer removable arranged adjacent to the glue line between the two shell parts which reduces the amount of manual grinding or polishing of the glue region. This provides a wind turbine blade with an improved blade characteristic where the extended flexible shell section is specifically designed to have significant flexibility. The configuration provides a method for passively controlling the lift of the wind turbine blade.

A multi-dimensional hyperelastic shape memory alloy damper is a damping control device which is used in the technologies of civil construction and mechanical engineering. It is characterized in that: the damper is mainly composed of shape memory alloy thread, internal and external steel containers. The internal and external steel containers are coaxial and the shape memory alloy threads distribute level symmetry along the circle radial of the steel containers. The shape memory alloy threads penetrate into the external steel container and out of the internal steel container, and their ends are fixed on the internal and external steel containers separately. The threads are pulled to the midpoint of its hyperelastic platform by the prestrain of the adjustable screws and nuts. The plane motion of the internal steel container relative to the external steel container causes the elongation and shortening alternative change of the threads to provide stable damping force and large energy dissipation force. Its effects and advantages are: it has passive energy dissipation effect on any direction in the flat and functions of vibration damping and reduction on vertical and torsion direction. It can realize the multi-dimensional passive control of the structure.

The invention discloses a rope-traction upper limb rehabilitation robot and a control method thereof, wherein, the rehabilitation robot comprises a central control device, a control mode select switch, a servomotor, hauling ropes, a supporting plate and a bracket, and can be divided into a bracket-type structure and an upright post-type structure. The control method comprises passive control and active control and can be switched between the two control ways. In the bracket-type structure, a motor M4 is connected with a main bracket and an auxiliary bracket, and the auxiliary bracket is controlled to rotate horizontally. Three cantilever beams of the auxiliary bracket are connected with three servomotors and can tug the supporting plate to move in three-dimensional space respectively through the ropes, and a forearm of a patient is put on the supporting plate to move in the three-dimensional space along with the supporting plate. In the upright post-type structure, the three servomotors fixed on an upright post can tug the supporting plate to move in three-dimensional space respectively through the ropes, and the forearm of the patient is put on the supporting plate to move along with the supporting plate. The rehabilitation robot can help the patient to tug an upper limb, is convenient for the patient to carry out rehabilitation training in larger motion space, and achieves optimized motor function restoration.

The invention discloses a permanent magnetic synchronous motor control system under variable damping-based two-degree-of-freedom passive control. The system consists of a main circuit and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit comprises a signal detection circuit, a rotating speed control outer ring and a torque control inner ring. A rotating speed outer ring controller is designed by adopting a PI (Proportion Integration) control method, and the output is a given signal of passive control; a variable-damping two-degree-of-freedom passive control method is adopted in a torque magnetic chain inner ring controller, and the output is a two-phase alternating-current voltage on a two-phase rotary coordinate system; and passive control of the permanent synchronous motor is realized through space vector pulse width modulation conversion and a power switching device acting on a main circuit inverter. Due to the adoption of a passive control method disclosed by the invention, independent setting of the tracking performance and interference performance is realized, the rotating speed of the motor meets the requirement of accurate control, and the overall performance of the system can be improved effectively.