126 results about "Spatial system" patented technology

Disclosed is a method, system, and program for providing access to spatial data. A request for data is received. Enterprise and third party data are integrated. The integrated data is processed. Spatially referenced results are generated using the processed data. The spatially referenced results are returned in response to the request.

A building automation system (BAS) comprising a plurality of end devices, at least one communication network, a protocol-independent server engine, and a graphical user interface (GUI). The end devices are each associated with at least one of a space, a system, or a subsystem for at least a portion of a building or a campus. The communication network supports a plurality of communication protocols and communicatively couples at least a portion of the plurality of end devices. The server engine is communicatively coupled to the at least one communication network and, in one embodiment, is adapted to selectively implement the dynamic extensibility capability to establish communications with, to receive and store data about, and to control the end devices and to selectively implement the automatic configuration capability to determine at least one characteristic of each of the end devices, wherein the at least one characteristic comprises a communication protocol compatible with the end device

A building automation system (BAS) comprising a plurality of end devices, at least one communication network, and a protocol-independent server engine. The end devices are each associated with at least one of a space, a system, or a subsystem for at least a portion of a building or a campus. The communication network supports a plurality of communication protocols and communicatively couples at least a portion of the plurality of end devices. The server engine is communicatively coupled to the at least one communication network and includes means for selectively implementing a dynamic extensibility capability for the BAS that establishes communications with and control of the plurality of end devices over the plurality of communication protocols, and means for selectively implementing an automatic configuration capability for the BAS that supports addition of end devices to the plurality of end devices by determining at least one characteristic of each end device. Methods of establishing communications with unknown end devices in a building automation system (BAS) based upon metadata descriptors provided by known and unknown end devices are also disclosed.

Apparatus and methods for performing satellite proximity operations such as inspection, recovery and life extension of a target satellite through operation of a “Satellite Inspection Recovery and Extension” (“SIRE”) spacecraft which can be operated in the following modes (teleoperated, automatic, and autonomous). The SIRE concept further consists of those methods and techniques used to perform certain (on-orbit) operations including, but not limited to, the inspection, servicing, recovery, and lifetime extension of satellites, spacecraft, space systems, space platforms, and other vehicles and objects in space, collectively defined as “target satellites”. The three basic types of SIRE proximity missions are defined as “Lifetime Extension”, “Recovery”, and “Utility”. A remote cockpit system is provided to permit human control of the SIRE spacecraft during proximity operations.

The large-scale green power, pure chilled, heated water and / or conditioned directed air are produced using wind, heat and vapor of the free humid air in the structured multi-unit space-saving vortex tower providing direct three-phase voltage induction with alternating magnetic whirl formed by pole radial self-orienting magnetic concentrators swirled via all-weather multi-step tornado-like flow supplementary energized, enhanced and controlled by a spatial system of fast directing and accelerating low-temperature steam jets injected through fleshing of recycled, separated and stored condensate slightly heated with any renewable, waste, secondary, or prime source of low-temperature heat, partly via combining with solar pond and heaters or / and geothermal media, or / and waste, secondary or initial heat of large thermal, atomic power plant or intensively energy consuming industry, reducing specific investment, energy and pure water costs, quality requirements, specific pollution and waste heat atmospheric injection, with possibilities of partial local weather corrections through conditioned directed waste tower air; a new sector with various directions can be widened, based on applying of the same principles of energizing, enhancement, control and usage of any kind of fast gaseous confined vortex flow via any kind of supplementary low-temperature steam

The present invention relates to a radar apparatus that uses a plurality of transmitting / receiving antennas A1-A4 and receives a reflected wave, of a transmitted wave, reflected from a target. By utilizing the property that the path of the transmitted wave from an antenna A1 and its reflected wave and the path of the transmitted wave from the next selected antenna A2 and its reflected wave share the same spatial system, and therefore that both received signals have the same characteristics in terms of frequency and phase, a judgment is made as to whether there exists any difference between the receiving characteristics of the antennas, and the received signal is corrected in accordance with the result of the judgment. It is also possible to judge the presence or absence of a change in the characteristic of each antenna, and apply a correction accordingly, even during the normal operation of the apparatus.

Guaranteeing space availability for thin devices includes reserving space without committing, or fully pre-allocating, the space to specific thin device ranges. Space may be held in reserve for a particular set of thin devices and consumed as needed by those thin devices. The system guards user-critical devices from running out of space, for example due to a “rogue device” scenario in which one device allocates an excessive amount of space. The system uses a reservation entity, to which a thin device may subscribe, which reserves space for the thin device without allocating that space before it is need to service an I / O request.

The invention provides an all-fiber transmission reflection integrated terahertz time-domain spectroscopy system. At present, most of the terahertz time-domain spectroscopy systems refer to free-space systems and have the defects of complex structure, low stability and the like. Aiming at the problem, femtosecond laser pulse is transmitted by virtue of optical fibers, so that the usage amount of optical devices in the light path is reduced, and the light path is simple and stable in structure. Meanwhile, because the femtosecond laser pulse comes into a terahertz emitter and a terahertz receiver by virtue of optical fibers, the light path structure of the system is not influenced by the movement and rotation of the positions of the terahertz emitter and the terahertz receiver, the terahertz receiver and the terahertz emitter can be respectively arranged on two rotatable optical guide rails, and flexible switch between terahertz transmission and reflection time-domain spectroscopy systems can be further realized. Therefore, the problem that the terahertz spectroscopy system is complex in structure and large in size in the prior art is solved.

The invention relates to a database structure that is constructed or arranged by the use of the internet map data, especially belonging to a generation and application method of high speed Web electric map based on the space database and SVG, which is composed of server and client end that is named foreground control module. The server contains the data permanent layer that includes SXW documents and Oracle Spatial, and the application logic layer that includes data storage, SXW analysis device, data updating device, SVG packaging device, SVG element plant, distribution device and client end. The effect of the invention is: the efficient and independent Oracle Spatial management and calculating spatial system. Because the space data performance and space dada calculation are separated, the terminal user greatly improves speed in space inquiry and map examination, so that it is beneficial in the user experience.

Embodiments of an emergency evacuation system are disclosed which may be installed within the knockouts of a panel of a modular work space system. During normal operation a battery power source within the emergency evacuation system is charged by normal AC power supplied through the modular work space system. In the event of a power outage or fire, the battery power source serves to operate emergency lighting.

A process for evaluating space systems for safety assurance and residual risk to the flight crew. The process includes a success oriented System Safety phase which attempts to reduce the probability of failure with respect to the loss of a crew member as low as practical; a failure oriented SPACESAFE phase which assumes that at least one Safety Critical Subsystem has failed and attempts to engineer a risk mitigation design minimize adverse effects on the crew; and an Integration phase which complimentary integrates the System Safety phase with the SPACESAFE phase. Such process allows for increased flight crew safety by minimizing risk of a failures that contribute to loss of a crew member.

The method for Hammerstein modeling of a steam generator plant includes modeling of the linear dynamic part of a Hammerstein model with a state-space model, and modeling the nonlinear part of the Hammerstein model with a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN). Particle swarm optimization (PSO), typically known for its heuristic search capabilities, is used for estimating the parameters of the RBFNN. Parameters of the linear part are estimated using a numerical algorithm for subspace state-space system identification (N4SID).

A system, method and apparatus for collecting and distributing real-time, high resolution images of the Earth (302) from GEO include an electro-optical sensor based on multimegapixel two-dimensional charge coupled device (CCD) arrays mounted on a geostationary platform. At least four, three-axis stabilized satellites (300, 314) in Geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) provide worldwide coverage, excluding the poles. Image data that is collected at approximately 1 frame / sec, is broadcast over high-capacity communication links (306) (roughly 15 MHz bandwidth) providing real-time global coverage of the Earth at sub-kilometer resolutions directly to end users. This data may be distributed globally from each satellite through a system of space and ground telecommunication links. Each satellite carries at least two electro-optical imaging systems that operate at visible wavelengths so as to provide uninterrupted views of the Earth's full disk and coverage at sub-kilometer spatial resolutions of most or selected portions of the Earth's surface.

A method of correcting ionospheric delays induced in received signals by space systems is disclosed. The method takes advantage of received GPS signals and received crosslink signals among spacecraft to estimate the effect of ionospheric delays and correct for such delays in the computation of the range estimation between spacecraft. The method generates and initial estimate of the ionospheric delay by tracking pseudorandom codes on both GPS and crosslink signals at known frequencies to correct an initial relative range vector. Using the corrected range vector generated from the use of code, the method subsequently estimates a more precise correction by considering the carrier phase error as induced by ionospheric delay. This includes estimate the integer ambiguities on both the GPS signals and the crosslink signals iteratively and subsequently estimating a more precise ionospheric delay correction with is applied to the relative position vector using the carrier phase measurements. The method is also applicable to non-navigation applications including measuring dynamic ionospheric structure and variability over a wide range of scale sizes, thereby greatly improving operational models of navigation and communications, and improving interdependent models of atmospheric, ionospheric, magnetospheric, and space weather physics and prediction.

A collision-avoidance system for use with an autonomous-capable vehicle can continuously receive image frames captured of the roadway to determine drivable space in a forward direction of the vehicle.The system can determine, for each image frame, whether individual regions of the image frame depict drivable space. The system can do so using machine-learned image recognition algorithms such as convolutional neural networks generated using extensive training data. Using such techniques, the system can label regions of the image frames as corresponding to drivable space or non-drivable space. By analyzing the labeled image frames, the system can determine whether the vehicle is likely to impact a region of non-drivable space. And, in response to such a determination, the system can generatecontrol signals that override other control systems or human operator input to control the brakes, the steering, or other sub-systems of the vehicle to avoid the collision.

A write-once-read-many (WORM) storage system that employs large-capacity and relatively inexpensive disks in connection with a file system on a file server is provided. The file system contains most or all of the required WORM functionality so as to impose a minimal footprint on client applications, client operating systems and open protocols if desired. The system is organized around WORM storage volumes that contain files that, when committed to WORM storage, cannot be deleted or modified. Any file path or directory tree structure used to identify the file within the WORM volume is locked and cannot be deleted. In one embodiment, the administrator creates a WORM volume, capable of storing designated WORM files. The client then creates an appropriate WORM file using the appropriate protocol semantics. The file is written to the volume and committed by transitioning the file attributes from a not-read-only to a read-only state. The- file system recognizes the persistently stored WORM attribute of any file in a WORM volume as WORM file. Henceforth, any attempt to modify the file attributes, write to the file, or delete the file, by clients, administrators or other entities is rejected and a request denied message is returned to the attempting party

A gray-box model of a system is constructed by specifying constraints for the system and applying subspace system identification to inputs and outputs of the system to determine system matrices and system state sequences for the system. A transformation matrix that satisfy the constraints from the system matrices and the system state sequences is determined, wherein the transformation matrix defines parameters of the gray-box model.

Cell-based systems may interlock in a reconfigurable configuration to support a mission. Space systems, for example, of a relatively large size may be assembled using an ensemble of individual “cells”, which are individual space vehicles. The cells may be held together via magnets, electromagnets, mechanical interlocks, etc. The topology or shape of the joined cells may be altered by cells hopping, rotating, or “rolling” along the joint ensemble. The cells may be multifunctional, mass producible units. Rotation of cell faces, or of components within cells, may change the functionality of the cell. The cell maybe collapsible for stowage or during launch.

A device for transmitting and / or receiving high-frequency signals in an open or closed, spatial system, wherein the device is embodied as an array antenna, which transmits and receives high-frequency signals with a specified form of wavefront. The array antenna comprises a support structure with transmitting and / or receiving antenna elements. The support structure comprises a dielectric material, wherein a transmitting / receiving unit is provided, at least one feeding network is provided for transferring the high-frequency signals between the transmitting / receiving unit and the transmitting and / or receiving, antenna elements, and wherein a control / evaluation unit is provided. The device provides an inexpensive, compact and resistant device for transmitting and receiving high-frequency signals, which is distinguished by an optimized radiation characteristic.

A locally adaptive spatial system renders spatially explicit population projections. The system identifies selected land areas that are excluded from future development. It identifies potential growth areas that identify land areas that are projected to gain populations by modeling land variables. The system classifies the population projections as infill or sprawl based on the current local urbanization index and identifies potential loss surfaces that identify land areas that are projected to lose populations. The system spatially allocates population changes at a county level based on the infill, sprawl, and population loss designations.

The invention provides a mountain fire disaster development tendency simulating and predicting method and device. The method comprises the steps of collecting fire scene dynamic data in real time; dynamically processing the fire scene dynamic data; according to the dynamically processed fire scene dynamic data and fire scene static data, adaptively selecting a mountain fire disaster development tendency model from a model library; according to the mountain fire disaster development tendency model, conducting mountain fire spreading simulation; according to a mountain fire spreading simulation result, predicting a mountain fire disaster development tendency. The geographical simulation system theory and dynamic data driven application system DDDAS technological paradigm provides a completely new thought for studies and simulation of a geographical complexity system. A geographical simulation system aims at solving the problem that the analysis ability of a GIS to the geographical spatial system process is week at present and helping predict development directions and evolutionary processes of geographic phenomena and objects; a dynamic data driven application system introduces dynamic measurement data into a simulation process, so that the instantaneity and the dynamic nature of simulation are achieved and the simulation precision is improved.

The invention provides an augmentation adaptive fuzzy control algorithm for free-floating space robot space trajectory tracking. The algorithm comprises the following steps: S1: establishing an underactuated joint space system dynamics equation; S2: deriving corresponding operation space system dynamics equation by using the system kinematic relationship; S3: performing fuzzy approximation treatment on the uncertain function items of the system based on fuzzy approximation; S4: introducing a self-adaptive regulation law to perform real-time regulation of the fuzzy weight, and further designinga self-adaptive fuzzy controller to realize accurate tracking of the expected trajectory of the system operation space. The control algorithm can be applied to a space robot underactuated model withuncertain model parameters and external disturbance, and can realize accurate tracking of the operation space trajectory; the calculated amount of the algorithm is reduced; the mechanical arm joint control moment and the carrier attitude control moment are separated to facilitate practical application.

The invention discloses a space laser communication forwarding system based on a passive optical switch. The system consists of a ground optical signal transmitting terminal, a space forwarding system and a ground optical signal receiving terminal. A transmitting end and a receiving end for space optical communications are placed on the ground, and the space forwarding system is carried by an aircraft and only forwards optical signals without processing such as amplification, modulation, demodulation and the like, so that the complexity of a space system is lowered greatly, and the sizes, weights and power consumption of space loads are lowered. Moreover, point-to-point or broadcasting-mode forwarding of the optical signals is realized through an optical switching system. The signals are modulated on the transmitting end, and demodulated on the receiving end, so that ground-space-ground forwarding communications are realized.

The present invention relates to a method for managing a vehicle sales geographic location / site and a method for facilitating vehicle sales in a Vehicle Sales Space System (VSS System) by managing and organizing the flow of people, vehicles, and material through the site. The VSS System has been developed using the latest technology to provide a safe, secure, and economical way to sell a vehicle at a secure access site.