26th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 44 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210200133 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a transport path to guide a sheet transported in a predetermined transport direction, a rotating body pair capable of transporting the sheet in a first direction for nipping the sheet transported to the transport path thereby drawing the sheet to perform folding processing, and in a second direction for switching back the sheet to return to one direction side in the transport direction, a press member for pressing the sheet folded by the rotating body pair in the second direction, and a support portion for supporting the press member, where the support portion is disposed on the side opposite to the rotating body pair with the transport path therebetween and on the other direction side opposite to the one direction side in the transport direction with a nip line for connecting between the nip portion and a front end portion of the folding blade therebetween. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200134 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus performs folding processing so that one end of a sheet exists inside the folded sheet. The sheet processing apparatus includes a transport path to guide a transported sheet, a rotating body pair capable of transporting the sheet in a first direction to perform folding processing, and in a second direction for switching back the sheet subjected to the folding processing, a folding blade that pushes the sheet to a nip portion of the rotating body pair, a press member that presses the sheet folded by the rotating body pair in the second direction, and a shift section that shifts the press member for pressing the sheet. In switching back the sheet, a control section controls transport of the sheet so that the one end of the sheet is halted within a region between the press member and a guide face of the transport path. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200135 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING CAM HAVING COMPACT STRUCTURE CAPABLE OF DETECTION OF CONTACT STATE AND SEPARATED STATE OF DEVELOPING ROLLER RELATIVE TO PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM - An image forming apparatus includes a developing roller, a photo-interrupter, and a separation mechanism. The developing roller is movable between a contact position and a separated position. The photo-interrupter includes a light emitting element and a light receiving element. The separation mechanism includes a cam configured to move the developing roller between the contact position and the separated position. The cam includes a phase detection wall extending in a circumference direction. The phase detection wall has a first slit and a second slit. The first slit allows the light emitted from the light emitting element to pass therethrough when the developing roller is at the separated position. The second slit allows the light emitted from the light emitting element to pass therethrough when the developing roller is at the contact position. A size of the first slit in the circumferential direction is different from that of the second slit. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200136 | CLEANING BLADE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning blade includes an elastic member to contact a surface of a cleaning target member. The elastic member includes a base material and a surface layer on at least a part of a lower surface of the base material including a contact part. Martens hardness of the surface layer has a gradient of decrease from a surface of the surface layer toward the lower surface of the base material in a film thickness direction. The Martens hardness is 2.5 to 32.5 N/mm | 2021-07-01 |
20210200137 | FOREIGN SUBSTANCE COLLECTION APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A foreign substance collection apparatus includes: a frame body; a photosensitive drum; a cleaning roller which collects foreign substances from a surface of the photosensitive drum; a collecting roller which further collects the foreign substances having been collected by the cleaning roller from the cleaning roller; and a scraping member which scrapes off the foreign substances from the collecting roller. A foreign substance collecting portion included in the frame body has, in a posture during use: a first inner bottom surface which is positioned below the scraping member in a gravity direction; an outer bottom surface which is positioned further below the first inner bottom surface; and a connecting surface which intersects the first inner bottom surface and the outer bottom surface and which connects the first inner bottom surface and the outer bottom surface with each other. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200138 | WASTE TONER COLLECTING DEVICE FOR INCREASING WASTE TONER COLLECTING EFFICIENCY - A waste toner collecting device includes a waste toner container, a detector, and an auger. The waster toner container is to collect waste toner. The detector is to detect an amount of waste toner collected and accumulated in the waste toner container. The auger is to disperse the waste toner in the waste toner container. The auger includes a first blade to transport the waste toner in a first direction toward the detector in the waste toner container, and a second blade to transport the waste toner in a second direction opposite to the first direction in the waste toner container. The second blade includes a first blade section having a waste toner transport rate greater than a waste toner transport rate of the first blade. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200139 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an image forming apparatus includes a feeding module, an image forming module, and a fixing module. The feeding module feeds a recording material. The image forming module includes a photosensitive drum and forms a developer image on the recording material fed to the image forming module by the feeding module. The fixing module fixes the developer image formed by the image forming module to the recording material. The image forming module includes a scanner frame that supports an exposure unit configured to expose the photosensitive drum. The feeding module is installed on the scanner frame. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200140 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, having a casing, a cover, a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a photo-interrupter, a moving mechanism to move the developing roller between a contacting position and a separated position, and a controller, is provided. The moving mechanism has a cam including, a first cam portion, a phase-detector wall including a first slit and a second slit, and a cam follower. When the cover moves from the open position to the closed position, the controller conducts a first initializing control to cause the cam to rotate in a reverse direction, and after detecting the first slit based on a time period, in which light in the photo-interrupter passes through one of the first slit and the second slit, cause the cam to stop rotating. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200141 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a control board, a draw-out unit including a photosensitive drum configured to bear a toner image and rotate about a rotation axis, a developing unit, and a unit contact, the developing unit including a developing roller and a memory, and a door configured to face the draw-out unit at a closed position. The door includes a door contact electrically connected to the control board. The draw-out unit includes a facing surface configured to face the door positioned at the closed position, and a grip portion provided at a center portion of the facing surface in an axial direction of the rotation axis. The unit contact is provided in a region outside an end surface of the grip portion in the axial direction and below the grip portion in a vertical direction. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200142 | REPLACEABLE UNITS OF AN ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING DEVICE HAVING A SHIPPING OR STORAGE SEPARATOR - A toner cartridge according to one embodiment includes a body having a reservoir for storing toner and a rotatable developer roll mounted on the body and in fluid communication with the reservoir. A portion of an outer surface of the developer roll is exposed along a front of the body for supplying toner from the reservoir to a corresponding photoconductive drum on an imaging unit when the toner cartridge is installed on the imaging unit in an operative position of the toner cartridge relative to the imaging unit. A first engagement member positioned on a rear of the body is configured to engage a corresponding second engagement member on the imaging unit when the toner cartridge is installed on the imaging unit to retain the toner cartridge in a storage position of the toner cartridge relative to the imaging unit with the developer roll spaced away from the photoconductive drum. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200143 | TONER CARTRIDGE, TONER SUPPLYING MECHANISM AND SHUTTER - According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dismounted from the receiving device and (d) a retracted position retracted from the engaging position, and wherein the engaging portion is movable from the retracted position to the engaging position with rotation of the open/close member from the closing position to the opening position. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200144 | SHIPPING OR STORAGE SEPARATOR FOR REPLACEABLE UNITS OF AN ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A component separator system for use with an electrophotographic image forming device according to one example embodiment includes a first replaceable unit and a second replaceable unit for use in the image forming device. The second replaceable unit is manually separable from the first replaceable unit. The first replaceable unit is mateable with the second replaceable unit in an operative position of the first replaceable unit relative to the second replaceable unit with a first imaging component of the first replaceable unit in operative contact with a second imaging component of the second replaceable unit. Engagement of a first engagement member of the first replaceable unit with a second engagement member of the second replaceable unit retains the first replaceable unit in a storage position relative to the second replaceable unit with the first imaging component spaced away from the second imaging component. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200145 | CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge detachably mountable to an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a main assembly side drive transmission member and a main assembly side urging member, the cartridge including a rotatable photosensitive drum; a rotatable developing roller for developing a latent image formed on the drum, the developing roller contactable to and spaceable from the drum; an urging force receiving portion for receiving an urging force from the urging member to space the roller from the drum; a cartridge side drive transmission portion capable of coupling with the main assembly side drive transmission member to receive a rotational force for rotating the roller; a releasing member capable of urging the main assembly side drive transmission member to decouple the cartridge side drive transmission member from the main assembly side drive transmission member by the urging force receiving portion receiving the urging force from the main assembly side urging member. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200146 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A developing unit, which is attachable to and detachable from a photosensitive member unit, includes: a developing roller; a housing in which a holding space that holds toner is formed; and a pressing receiving portion that receives pressing force from a pressing member. The housing includes a first bottom portion that projects toward an outer side of the holding space, and a second bottom portion that projects toward the outer side of the holding space, in a state in use. When viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the developing roller, at least part of the pressing receiving portion is located in a space surrounded by the first bottom portion, the second bottom portion, and a tangent line tangent to both an outer wall of the first bottom portion and an outer wall of the second bottom portion. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200147 | CARTRIDGE UNIT - A cartridge unit includes: a first unit which includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion; and a second unit which includes a first supported portion, a second supported portion, and a storage member, the storage member including a memory contact, and a contact arrangement surface on which the memory contact is disposed. The second unit rotates from a first position to a second position in a state in which the first supported portion is supported by the first supporting portion and the second supported portion is supported by the second supporting portion to be positioned with respect to the first unit. A normal direction of the contact arrangement surface faces toward a direction in which the memory contact is exposed. The normal direction faces toward a direction opposite to a direction in which the second unit is directed from the first position to the second position. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200148 | HOLOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided is a holographic microscope including an input optical system configured to emit polarized input beam, a first beam splitter configured to emit an object beam by reflecting a portion of the polarized input beam, and emit a reference beam by transmitting a remaining portion of the polarized input beam, a reference optical system configured to separate the reference beam into a first reference beam and a second reference beam, a camera configured to receive the first reference beam and the second reference beam and the object beam that is reflected by an inspection object, the camera including a micro polarizer array, wherein a first polarization axis of the first reference beam is perpendicular to a second polarization axis of the second reference beam. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200149 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM PROVIDING HOLOGRAPHIC LAYER AS MICRO-LENS AND COLOR FILTER ARRAY IN AN IMAGER - A method, apparatus, and system that provides a holographic layer as a micro-lens array and/or a color filter array in an imager. The method of writing the holographic layer results in overlapping areas in the hologram for corresponding adjacent pixels in the imager which increases collection of light at the pixels, thereby increasing quantum efficiency. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200150 | HOLOGRAPHIC REALITY SYSTEM, MULTIVIEW DISPLAY, AND METHOD - A holographic reality system and multiview display monitor a user position and provide virtual haptic feedback to the user. The holographic reality system includes a multiview display configured to display a multiview image, a position sensor configured to monitor the user position, and a virtual haptic feedback unit configured to provide the virtual haptic feedback. An extent of the virtual haptic feedback corresponds to an extent of a virtual control within the multiview image. The holographic reality multiview display includes an array of multiview pixels configured to provide different views of the multiview image by modulating directional light beams having directions corresponding to the different views and an array of multibeam elements configured to provide the directional light beams to corresponding multiview pixels. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200151 | HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A holographic image display device according to one embodiment comprises: an image display unit on which a holographic image is displayed; and a spatial impression providing unit which forms a space surrounding the holographic image, and includes a transparent color material such that the space looks colored and the holographic image can be recognized from the outside. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200152 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING HOLOGRAM WITH WIDE VIEWING ANGLE - A method and apparatus for generating a hologram with a wide viewing angle is disclosed. The method includes generating a elemental complex hologram by applying oblique projection to three-dimensional (3D) information of an object based on a viewing direction, and generating a final hologram by superposing a plurality of elemental complex holograms generated based on different viewing directions. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200153 | BALANCE-SPRING FOR HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A balance-spring intended to equip a balance of an horological movement, comprising a core made of Nb—Ti made from an alloy consisting of: niobium: balance to 100% by weight, titanium: between 5 and 95% by weight, traces of elements chosen from the group consisting of O, H, C, Fe, Ta, N, Ni, Si, Cu, Al, each of said elements being present in a quantity between 0 and 1600 ppm by weight, the total quantity formed by all of said elements being between 0% and 0.3% by weight, wherein the core made of Nb—Ti is coated with a layer of niobium, said layer of niobium having a thickness between 20 nm and 10 μm. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200154 | DISPLAY MECHANISM FOR A WATCH - A display mechanism for a watch and a watch including the display mechanism, which includes a display for displaying information, a first and second mobile elements and a support, so that when the first mobile element moves with a first primary speed, the second mobile element moves into a first position so as to cover the display and when the first mobile element moves with a first secondary speed, the second mobile element moves into a second position so as to expose the display. Thus, the display can be exposed which allows to maximize the display surface when information is present on the display. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200155 | MOVING INDICATOR FOR AN ANALOGUE DISPLAY DEVICE - A moving indicator for an analogue display device, in particular for a timepiece. The indicator includes a multi-layer part including an opaque metal layer and a transparent light guide layer and forming a body and a head of the indicator. The head is centred relative to a rotational axis of the indicator and arranged to receive a luminous flux on the bottom face thereof. A fluorescent material is arranged on the transparent light guide layer at the head of the indicator to absorb at least part of said luminous flux and to re-emit a second luminous fluorescence flux in the transparent light guide layer. Other aspects comprise a set of indicators, a display device and a watch comprising one or more moving indicators. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200156 | Watch - A watch includes: a crown including a head portion and a shaft portion; a stem pipe including a first surface that includes an insertion hole through which the shaft portion is inserted and has a distance from a surface of the shaft portion as a first distance in cross-sectional view, and a second surface that is provided at a position closer to an end portion of the insertion hole than the first surface and has a distance from the surface of the shaft portion as a second distance larger than the first distance; a packing disposed between the surface of the shaft portion and the first surface; and a metal ring that is disposed between the surface of the shaft portion and the second surface and is in contact with the packing. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200157 | TESTABILITY METHOD OF A THERMOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A testability method ( | 2021-07-01 |
20210200158 | CONTACT RESPONSIVE METRONOME - A metronome includes a body, a sensor coupled to the body and a controller in communication with the sensor. The sensor is configured to detect one or more strikes by a user of the metronome. The controller is configured to receive a first user input to select a tap tempo mode, detect via the sensor a strike by the user on the body of the metronome, determine a tempo based on a plurality of strikes by the user. The controller is further configured to detect modulation of how the strikes are made to the body of the metronome and automatically adjust the tempo based on the detected modulation of the strike. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200159 | SAFETY DEVICE AND STRIKING-WORK MECHANISM - A safety device for a striking-work including a first wheel, a second wheel and an actuating member. The first wheel is meshed which drives it in rotation about a shaft and it includes an abutment member. The second wheel is also in rotation about the shaft and is in contact with the abutment member. The second wheel includes a portion configured for an actuating member to act on the intermediate portion so as to move the second wheel. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200160 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided an information display device making it possible to improve the reliability of a display against an external force. The information display device includes a case portion for displaying time information in a predetermined operation mode, and a band portion to be worn on an arm, and includes one piece of thin display inside the case portion and the band portion. Inside the band portion, the thin display, a metal sheet, and a resin sheet are laminated. The present technology can be applied to an information display device, etc., for example. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200161 | WATCH DIAL HAVING AN ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY - A watch dial having an organic light-emitting diode display. The display includes an anode, a structured layer of coloured resin, which is preferably photosensitive, in contact with the anode. The display further includes an organic layer stack in contact with the anode and with the structured coloured resin layer. At least one of the organic layers is a light-emitting layer. The display also includes a cathode in contact with the organic layer stack. Also, a watch including the dial and a method for manufacturing the dial. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200162 | MULTI-INTERFACE GPS TIME SYNCHRONIZATION - A time synchronizer receives UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) time in serial+PPS (Pulse Per Second) format from a GPS (Global Positioning System) device and outputs timestamp data in multiple formats, including: CAN (Controller Area Network), Ethernet, gPTP (generic Precision Time Protocol), and serial+PPS. Multiple data sources receive timestamp data in the multiple formats and each provide data in a unified UTC time base to a sensor-fusion device. The unified UTC time base is based on the timestamp data in the multiple formats output by the time synchronizer. The time synchronizer may perform edge detection for a first transition of an internal clock signal following a transition of the PPS signal received from the GPS device. The internal clock signal may be asynchronous with the PPS signal received from the GPS device. The internal clock signal may have a frequency of 40 MHz. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200163 | MULTI-AGENT DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT IN BUILDINGS - Reinforcement Learning agent interacting with a real-world building to determine optimal policy may not be viable due to comfort constraints. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide multi-deep agent RL for dynamically controlling electrical equipment in buildings, wherein a simulation model is generated using design specification of (i) controllable electrical equipment (or subsystem) and (ii) building. Each RL agent is trained using simulation model and deployed in the subsystem. Reward function for each subsystem includes some portion of reward from other subsystem(s). Based on reward function of each RL agent, each RL agent learns an optimal control parameter during execution of RL agent in subsystem. Further, a global optimal control parameter list is generated using the optimal control parameter. The control parameters in the global optimal control parameters list are fine-tuned to improve subsystem's performance. Information on fine-tuning parameters of the subsystem and reward function are used for training RL agents. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200164 | BUILDING DATA PLATFORM WITH EDGE BASED EVENT ENRICHMENT - An edge platform of a building communicatively coupled to a cloud system, the edge platform including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon and one or more processors executing the instructions causing the one or more processors to receive an event from a piece of building equipment of the building, the event indicating a data value associated with the piece of building equipment occurring at a particular time, identify contextual data of a data structure that provides a contextual description of the event, generate an enriched event by enriching the event with the contextual data, the enriched event including the data value, the particular time, and the contextual data, and communicate the enriched event to the cloud system configured to operate based on the enriched event. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200165 | BUILDING DATA PLATFORM WITH EXTERNAL TWIN SYNCHRONIZATION - A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to store a digital twin of the building comprising a graph data structure, the graph data structure comprising a plurality of nodes representing entities of the building and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing relationships between the entities of the building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive an modification to the digital twin of the building, generate a change feed event of a change feed, the change feed event recording the modification to the graph data structure, and synchronize, based on the change feed event, an external digital twin of the building of an external system with the digital twin of the building by communicating with the external system. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200166 | SERVO PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND SERVO PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT METHOD - In order to improve usability during parameter adjustment, this adjustment device performs a simulation in which a set value of a servo parameter received during a slide operation period of a slider bar is reflected in a FFT analysis result of response characteristics of speed control or position control, and the simulation display of the frequency characteristics and phase characteristics is updated on the adjustment screen. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200167 | CONTROL PROGRAM CODE CONVERSION - Techniques for converting an initial control program code version to a new control program code version are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, input and output states of an industrial controller are monitored while the industrial controller executes the initial control program code version to operate a machine system and functional design specification for the industrial controller is generated. An instruction set of the industrial controller is converted into a new instruction set for a new industrial controller, and one or more equivalent instructions in the new instruction set that are equivalent to instructions in the instruction set of the industrial controller are identified. The new control program code version is generated based on at least the functional design specification and the one or more equivalent instructions in the new instruction set that are equivalent to the instructions in the instruction set of the industrial controller. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200168 | TIME SERIES PREDICTION METHOD AND TIME SERIES PREDICTION CIRCUIT - The present invention provides a time series prediction method, wherein the time series prediction method includes the steps of: inputting a time series into a plurality of models to generate a plurality of predicted time series, respectively; using the plurality of models to calculate a plurality of uncertainty parameters, wherein the plurality of uncertainty parameters correspond to the plurality of predicted time series, respectively; determining a weight of each predicted time series according to the plurality of uncertainty parameters; and referring to the weight of each predicted time series to perform a weighting operation upon the plurality of predicted time series to generate a final predicted time series. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200169 | BUILDING DATA PLATFORM WITH GRAPH BASED CAPABILITIES - A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify a capability of an entity in a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building including the entity and the capability, the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building and the capability. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an operation associated with the entity, the operation associated with the capability of the entity and provide the command to perform the operation associated with the entity to an operating system. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200170 | BUILDING DATA PLATFORM WITH GRAPH BASED COMMUNICATION ACTIONS - A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an action for an entity. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify a service configured to perform the action based on a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, wherein the plurality of nodes represent entities of the building, the service, and one or more other services, wherein the plurality of edges represent relationships between the entities and communication actions of the service with the one or more other services and cause the service to perform the action by causing the service to perform one or more communication actions with the one or more other services indicated by the building graph. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200171 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING MULTIPLE BIM FILES IN A SINGLE INTERFACE - A system includes one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining a first building information model (BIM) file associated with a building, the building comprising one or more building assets, obtaining a second BIM file associated with the building, linking data from the first BIM file to data from the second BIM file, and concurrently presenting, via a single user interface, a representation of at least a portion of the first BIM file and the second BIM file based on the linked data. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200172 | CONTROLLING AN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT USING A METRIC PRIORITY - A metric priority is accessed, which identifies a priority of a plurality of different control metrics that are used in controlling an agricultural implement. Control signals are generated to control the implement to bring the metrics within corresponding predefined ranges in descending order of priority. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200173 | BUILDING DATA PLATFORM WITH EVENT ENRICHMENT WITH CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - A building system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an event from an event source, the event indicating a data value associated with the event source occurring at a particular time. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify contextual data of a database that provides a contextual description of the event, generate an enriched event by enriching the event with the contextual data, the enriched event including the data value, the particular time, and the contextual data, and provide the enriched event to a consuming application configured to operate based on the enriched event. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200174 | BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH HIERARCHY GENERATION - A system includes one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including receiving building information model (BIM) data associated with a building comprising one or more building assets, identifying one or more BIM objects within the BIM, identifying one or more object relationships between the one or more BIM object, applying a semantic description to each of the one or more BIM objects and the one or more object relationships, and generating a hierarchy structure for the building based on the one of more BIM objects and the one or more object relationships. The one or more BIM objects are associated with the one or more building assets and the hierarchy structure includes the semantic description of each of the one or more BIM objects and the one or more object relationships. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200175 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD - This energy management device is provided at a customer and is capable of controlling an electric appliance of the customer by communicating with a server. The server is configured to send a request for demand response. The energy management device includes: a receiver configured to receive the request for the demand response from the server; a transmitter configured to transmit a response indicating participation or nonparticipation with respect to the request; an electric appliance control unit configured to control the electric appliance; and an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information of the electric appliance. When determination that the request for the demand response is not achievable has been made after the response indicating participation has been transmitted, a response indicating nonparticipation is transmitted. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200176 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT DURING POWER-LOSS EVENT - Methods and systems for managing energy consumption during a power-loss event provide a backup power unit that can notify electronic devices of a switch to backup power. The electronic devices can then automatically minimize power consumption upon receiving such notification. The notification can take the form of one or more signals indicative of a backup power operational state. The signals may be sent to the electronic devices over any suitable wired or wireless connection. Depending on the particular operational states, the electronic devices can take one or more predefined backup power handling actions, such as reducing device functionality, entering low-power mode, performing a controlled shutdown, and the like. The particular actions taken may depend on the type of devices, such that certain devices may have power consumption priority over other devices. The above arrangement provides an intelligent way to reduce overall energy consumption during a power-loss event. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200177 | GRAPH DISPLAY DEVICE, GRAPH DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A technology for associating and ascertaining the location of device variables which are in a control program and correspond to devices, and the dependency relations between the device variables, when division programming is carried out, is provided. A graph display device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a first directed graph, which comprises a plurality of first nodes respectively representing the device variables, and edges representing the existence of a dependency relation, and a second directed graph, which comprises a plurality of regions corresponding respectively to each subprogram, a plurality of first nodes, and edges, wherein the first nodes are arranged in a region of a subprogram that uses the device variable to be expressed from among the plurality of regions. In response to an instruction from a user the display device switches between displaying the generated first directed graph and displaying the generated second directed graph. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200178 | SECURE NETWORK OF SAFETY PLCS FOR INDUSTRIAL PLANTS - Network of safety PLCs employs multi-PLC verification of a programming application before allowing the application to reprogram any PLC on the safety network. Each PLC on the safety network is equipped with authentication capability that detects attempts to reprogram the PLC and issues an authentication challenge requiring the programming application to process a proof-of-work. The authentication challenge is also sent to other PLCs on the safety network along with the response from the programming application for verification purposes. The other PLCs process the authentication challenge and check the response from the programming application for acceptability. If a majority of the PLCs on the safety network determines the response from the programming application is correct, then the programming application is verified and may proceed with the reprogramming. Such group authentication requires a malicious application to hijack multiple PLCs concurrently on the safety network, a highly unlikely outcome, before reprogramming any PLC. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200179 | SIMULATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE, AND SIMULATION METHOD - To make it possible to evaluate quantitatively whether there is a problem on a machining surface. A simulator includes a memory unit that stores machining position data to be used when a machine tool machines a machining-target object, a machining surface simulation unit that uses the machining position data that is stored to perform a simulation of a machining surface, a surface texture calculation unit that calculates a surface texture of the machining surface that is simulated through the simulation of the machining surface, and a machining surface evaluation unit that evaluates the surface texture on the basis of an evaluation condition. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200180 | Multiaxis Machining Device and Compensation Method Thereof - The present invention provides a planar three-dimensional displacement sensor for a multiaxis machining device. With the measurement of the (planar) three-dimensional displacement sensor in the multiaxis machining device, the multiaxis machining device and a multiaxis machining compensation method are able to eliminate various deformation effects effectively. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200181 | COMPONENTS, CONTROLLER, AND INDUSTRIAL MACHINE - Components are assembled in an industrial machine together with a controller. The components each include a unique identification information memory portion and a component-side configuration history memory portion. The unique identification information memory portion stores, as unique identification information, identification information of the component itself, which is providable to the controller. The component-side configuration history memory portion stores configuration histories that each summarize, in terms of an acquisition timing from the controller, the unique identification information of the component itself, controller identification information of the controller that was used to configure the industrial machine together with the component itself, and unique identification information of other ones, than the controller, of the components, which were also used to configure the industrial machine together with the component itself. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200182 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ADAPT AND OPTIMIZE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION USING MULTIMODAL USER-FEEDBACK - Systems and methods for human-machine interaction. An adaptive behavioral control system of a human-machine interaction system controls an interaction sub-system to perform a plurality of actions for a first action type in accordance with a computer-behavioral policy, each action being a different alternative action for the action type. The adaptive behavioral control system detects a human reaction of an interaction participant to the performance of each action of the first action type from data received from a human reaction detection sub-system. The adaptive behavioral control system stores information indicating each detected human reaction in association with information identifying the associated action. In a case where stored information indicating detected human reactions for the first action type satisfy an update condition, the adaptive behavioral control system updates the computer-behavioral policy for the first action type. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200183 | SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING THE EXECUTION OF PARAMETRIC JOINERY FOR SOLID WOOD PRODUCTS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for optimizing the manufacture of wooden furniture. The system is configured to receive a user selection of a furniture product; receive a user input associated with the one or more variables for each of the one or more components of the furniture product; generate a furniture plan for the one or more components associated with the at least one of the one or more furniture products; and transmit control signals based on the furniture plan to cause a manufacturing equipment to implement the furniture plan, wherein implementing the furniture plan further comprises manufacturing the one or more components. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED OBJECT MEASUREMENT - A method for automated part probing using a physical machine defining a physical working volume, the method including: generating a virtual model based on a virtual part design received from a user account, the virtual model comprising a virtual part model, based on the virtual part design, virtually fixed to a virtual fixture plate arranged within a virtual working volume representative of the physical working volume; generating a probing routine based on the virtual model; sending the probing routine to the machine; receiving probe outputs from the machine; and validating the virtual model based on the probe outputs. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200185 | DETERMINING OBJECT VOLUMES IN VIRTUAL OBJECT SPACE - In an example, a method includes acquiring, at a processor, object model data for an object to be generated in additive manufacturing, the object model data representing the object as a plurality of polygons. A virtual object space enclosing the object may be inspected from a plurality of discrete source points in a plane. For each of a plurality of distances from each source point, it may be determined if a polygon face is encountered, and if so, a counter may be set based on whether the polygon face is oriented towards the source point or away from the source point. Based on a content of the counter, it may be determined if a volume enclosed between two distances from a source point is a volume of the object. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200186 | INFERRING OBJECT ATTRIBUTES - In an example, a method includes receiving object model data describing at least a portion of an object to be generated by additive manufacturing. Object generation instructions for generating the object in its entirety may be derived based on the object model data. Where it is determined that the object model data comprises a data deficiency for deriving the object generation instructions, at least one attribute for the object may be inferred and object generation instructions may be derived based on the object model data and the inferred attribute. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200187 | THERMAL BEHAVIOR PREDICTION FROM A CONTONE MAP - Examples of a thermal behavior prediction method are described herein. In some examples of the thermal behavior prediction method, a predicted heat map of a layer corresponding to a three-dimensional (3D) model is computed using at least one neural network. The predicted heat map is computed based on a contone map corresponding to the 3D model. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200188 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DESIGNING AND MANUFACTURING AN ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE - Systems and methods of defining a trimline in relation to modeled teeth including a three-dimensional model of one or more intraoral surfaces of the patient. The trimline is for use to manufacture an aligner. For one or more pairs of adjacent teeth, a scallop plane is defined based on a scallop factor. The scallop plane is used to determine the position of scallop points on a line around each tooth adjacent to an interproximal region of the pair of teeth. Transition points are then defined on the line around each tooth apically of the scallop points, and the points connected to form an initial connector curve. The initial connector curve is projected on to a mesh of the three-dimensional model, and smoothing applied to the resulting segmented connector curve. The smoothed connector curves are then joined by teeth curves to form the trimline. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200189 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MOVEMENT OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SAME - An electronic device is disclosed. According to an embodiment of this disclosure, an electronic device may include a communication circuit receiving data from at least one external device or to transmit data to the at least one external device, a driving unit, a camera, a memory, a display, and a processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain an image of an object through the camera, identify a type of the object, based on the image of the object, obtain customer data including movement information of the object and a head direction of the object through the camera based on the type of the object, determine a movement of the electronic device based on the customer data, and control the driving unit to move the electronic device depending on the determined movement of the electronic device. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200190 | ACTION IMITATION METHOD AND ROBOT AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM USING THE SAME - The present disclosure provides action imitation method as well as a robot and a computer readable storage medium using the same. The method includes: collecting at least a two-dimensional image of a to-be-imitated object; obtaining two-dimensional coordinates of each key point of the to-be-imitated object in the two-dimensional image and a pairing relationship between the key points of the to-be-imitated object; converting the two-dimensional coordinates of the key points of the to-be-imitated object in the two-dimensional image into space three-dimensional coordinates corresponding to the key points of the to-be-imitated object through a pre-trained first neural network model, and generating an action control instruction of a robot based on the space three-dimensional coordinates corresponding to the key points of the to-be-imitated object and the pairing relationship between the key points, where the action control instruction is for controlling the robot to imitate an action of the to-be-imitated object. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200191 | SENSOR CONTROL ASSEMBLY AND MANUFACTURING DEVICE - A sensor control assembly and method providing a secured sensor data and an optimized handling of the sensor including a sensor, a first processing unit adapted to provide a cryptographic checksum of sensor data, a distributed database, a second processing unit adapted to verify the sensor data, and a third processing unit adapted to determine the demand for calibration. A manufacturing device contains at least a part of the sensor control assembly. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200192 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING A 3D MODEL - The disclosure relates to a method for displaying a 3D model of an object, wherein the object includes a plurality of parts arranged in original positions. The method includes: actuating a control device by a user to select a selected region of the 3D model, wherein the parts of the object that are located in the selected region form the selected parts; and displaying the 3D model such that the selected parts are displayed in end positions in which they are moved away from their original positions such that distances between the selected parts increase. The selected parts are displayed such that a user may see the selected parts better. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200193 | Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Process Line Clearance - A computer-implemented process and computer apparatus for generating a quality control, QC, record to document line clearance of a pharmaceutical production line. The computer apparatus comprises a process data structure defining a sequence of operator actions and a line clearance protocol comprising content items and associated fields; and a mapping data structure that links operator actions to content items and fields. The operator populates the fields while progressing through the operator actions supported by an augmented reality, AR, headset which receives overlay image data of the content items and fields and transmits user input populating the fields. An automated QC check of the line clearance is performed based on an automated analysis of the field entries and outputs a QC check outcome. The QC record and QC check outcome are then transmitted to a workstation for review by a supervisor who makes a line clearance decision on that basis. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200194 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING DISPLAY PROGRAM - A display system provided in production equipment having driving means and monitoring means with controllable features includes a control unit, a display unit, and a storage unit. The control unit obtains a feature output over time from at least one among the driving means and the monitoring means, and causes the storage unit to store the feature; constructs, in each prescribed time, a causal relationship model that indicates a causal factor selected from among the driving means and the monitoring means for at least one abnormality that can occur in the production equipment and that also indicates the relationship between causal factors on the basis of the obtained feature; and displays, on the display unit, a plurality of causal relationship models constructed in a plurality of times. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200195 | REAL-TIME PLANT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANT PROCESS CONTROL AND ANALYSIS - A plant diagnostic system and method for plant process control and analysis comprising one or more sensors configured to collect and report compositional operation information of the equipment in the plant or refinery in real-time. At least one of the one or more sensors may be selected from a group of GC, GCxGC, micro GC, micro GCxGC, or combinations thereof The diagnostic system may comprise a detection platform, an analysis platform, a visualization platform, and/or an alert platform. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200196 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data processing system, including a cyclic correlation establishing module, a data pattern establishing module, and a data pattern alignment module, is provided. The cyclic correlation establishing module receives a plurality of first sensor data, obtained from a first sensor operation performed on processing devices, and receives a table of processing steps and cyclic procedures. The cyclic correlation establishing module obtains a data correlation of the first sensor data according to the number of sample points in a data cycle of the first sensor data and the table to correct the first sensor data. The data pattern establishing module obtains a plurality of first data pattern features from the first sensor data. The data pattern alignment module aligns a plurality of second sensor data obtained from a second sensor operation performed on the processing devices with the first sensor data according to the first data pattern features. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200197 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND REPORTING ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE AND MAKING PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS - Systems and methods for measuring, reporting, controlling, and improving enterprise performance are described. A system receives objective statements for an enterprise, which can be an IEE value chain of the enterprise, and enterprise-specific measurable metrics through an interactive user interface with their associated processes. The system collects historical data and real-time data (e.g., daily) associated with enterprise-specific measurable metrics from a plurality of infield resources and analyses the historical data and the real-time data using a statistical model to provide information that teams can use to determine the strengths and shortcomings of the enterprise. Based on the determined strength and shortcomings, the system provides, using a knowledge database, information so that leadership and teams can determine where to focus process-output metric improvement efforts via process improvement efforts so that the enterprise-as-a-whole financially benefits. Process output response measurements are reported, so there is alignment to the processes that created the output response. The system automatically assesses process-output responses in the IEE value chain for stability, using a statistical technique. If a process-output response is stable, a prediction statement is provided for the metric in the chart's report. If a prediction statement is undesirable, there is a “pull” for a process improvement effort that is to enhance the metric's response. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200198 | QUALITY CONTROL DEVICE, QUALITY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A quality control device that controls quality of a product manufactured through a plurality of processes, includes a prediction model generation unit that generates a prediction model to predict quality of a product with respect to unknown process data by performing learning using known process data obtained from the plurality of processes and a measured value of quality of the product with respect to the known process data as learning data; a quality prediction unit that derives a predictive value of quality of each of a plurality of products, which are manufactured after the prediction model is generated, on the basis of the prediction model using process data of the plurality of products as input data; and an inspection target decision unit that decides the product for which the predictive value having the smallest margin with respect to a preset standard is obtained as an inspection target, among the plurality of predictive values of quality obtained by the quality prediction unit. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200199 | FRAUDULENT DIAGNOSTIC MACHINE DETECTION APPARATUS - A fraudulent diagnostic machine detection apparatus capable of preventing the occurrence of fraudulent processing due to a fraudulent diagnostic machine being connected in parallel with a legitimate diagnostic machine is a fraudulent diagnostic machine detection apparatus comprising node ECUs of a diagnosis target connected to a communication line and a gateway connected between the communication line and a diagnostic machine connection coupler, wherein the gateway detects an electrical circuit change caused by a pin connection of the diagnostic machine connection coupler being branched and the plurality of diagnostic machines being connected in parallel. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200200 | LONG-TERM PREDICTIONS FOR MAINTENANCE - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with providing long-term predictions for specific maintenance are described. In general, the system or method will: Retrieve a current amount of usage for a component part of a device, a failure probability curve for the component part, and a planned maintenance schedule for the device. Update the failure probability curve based on trends of data obtained from sensors associated with the component part, and causal factors associated with the device. Determine that the likelihood of failure for the component part after a first upcoming planned maintenance and before a second upcoming planned maintenance exceeds a threshold. Generate a work order for specific maintenance on the component part to be performed during the first upcoming planned maintenance. Transmit the work order to cause resources to be timely obtained and labor allocated to perform the specific maintenance during the first upcoming planned maintenance. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200201 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An unmanned aerial vehicle includes: a sensor including at least a microphone that generates sound data; and a processor. The processor determines a quality of a target sound by using the sound data generated by the microphone, acquires a positional relationship between the unmanned aerial vehicle and a sound source of the target sound by using data generated by the sensor, determines a destination to which the sound source is to move based on the quality of the target sound and the positional relationship, and presents target movement information that prompts the sound source to move toward the destination. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200202 | REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A remote control device includes: a display configured to receive a driving image and a monitoring image from each of N mobile robots, such that N driving images and M monitoring images are received, and to display the received N driving images and M monitoring images; a sensor configured to track a gaze of a user; and a controller configured to provide a control right to the user for a first robot of the N mobile robots as a master mobile robot based on the gaze of the user being tracked by the sensor as staying on the driving image or the monitoring image of the first robot displayed on the display. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200203 | METHOD OF OPERATING REMOTE CONTROLLER, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND REMOTE CONTROLLER - A method of operating a remote controller for controlling one or more vehicles that are remotely controllable includes performing communication connection between a main controller of the remote controller and each of the one or more vehicles, the main controller including at least one processor; checking setting information of one or more secondary controllers connected to the main controller; and transmitting an input obtained by each of the one or more secondary controllers to a respective at least one vehicle of the one or more vehicles by referring to the; setting information. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200204 | DELIVERING CONNECTIVITY TO A SERVICE AREA BY AERIAL VEHICLES USING PROBABILISTIC METHODS - Methods and systems for controlling a group of aerial vehicles to meet a connectivity service objective are provided. A method may include causing aerial vehicles in the group to arrive at a target service area during a given arrival time window associated with the connectivity service objective, which may indicate a desired probability of service coverage of the target service area. The method further includes calculating a probability of service coverage of the target service area for the vehicles for a time period after the vehicles are expected to arrive at the target service area, determining whether the probability of service coverage meets a threshold, and causing the vehicles to operate according to a station seeking flight policy during the time period. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200205 | MOVING CONTROL METHOD, MOVING CONTROL DEVICE, MOVING CONTROL SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MULTI-VEHICLE - A movement control method for multi-vehicle for moving multiple vehicles to target positions individually set for the vehicles includes the steps of: acquiring positions of the vehicles; determining control input for moving the vehicles from the acquired positions to positions away from the target positions by a first distance or more while the vehicles satisfy a predetermined condition; and updating the first distance to a shorter distance when a distance between the position and the target position of each of the vehicles becomes equal to or more than the first distance and within an updating distance. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200206 | SENSORS FOR DETERMINING OBJECT LOCATION - A method includes recording a first timestamp of a detection with a first sensor array of a first physical property of an event; determining a direction of the event, based on the detection with the first sensor array; recording a second timestamp of a detection with a second sensor array of a second physical property of the event; determining a distance of the event from the first and second sensor arrays, based on the first timestamp and the second timestamp; determining the event, based on the first physical property and the second physical property; and taking an action based on the event. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200207 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SENSOR SECURITY SYSTEM - Example methods and systems are disclosed to provide autonomous vehicle sensor security. An example method may include generating, by a first autonomous vehicle, a first map instance of a physical environment using first environmental information generated by a first sensor of a first autonomous vehicle. A second map instance from at least one of a second autonomous vehicle located in the physical environment is received. The first map instance may be correlated with the second map instance. In response to a discrepancy between the first map instance and the second map instance, a secure sensor may be activated to generate a third map instance. In response to the third map instance verifying that the discrepancy accurately describes the physical environment, the first environmental information including the discrepancy is used to navigate the first autonomous vehicle. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200208 | Multiple Objective Explanation and Control Interface Design - A vehicle traversing a vehicle transportation network may use a scenario-specific operational control evaluation model instance. A multi-objective policy for the model is received, wherein the policy includes at least a first objective, a second objective, and a priority of the first objective relative to the second objective. A representation of the policy (e.g., the first objective, the second objective, and the priority) is generated using a user interface. Based on feedback to the user interface, a change to the multi-objective policy for the scenario-specific operational control evaluation model is received. The change is to the first objective, the second objective, the priority, of some combination thereof. Then, for determining a vehicle control action for traversing the vehicle transportation network, an updated multi-objective policy for the scenario-specific operational control evaluation model is generated to include the change to the policy. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200209 | SEQUENTIAL CLUSTERING - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a set of data points captured using a radar system of the vehicle. Each data point is associated with at least three measurements include a Doppler measurement, a range measurement, and an azimuth measurement in reference to the radar system. The method also includes clustering the set of data points into one or more first clusters based on a first pair of the three measurements associated with each of the data points; and clustering the set of data points into one or more second clusters based on a second pair of the three measurements associated with each of the data points. The second pair being different from the first pair of the three measurements. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200210 | Asset Delivery System - An apparatus may automatically move one or more assets to or from one or more storage units to or from a delivery bot. The apparatus and the one or more storage units and the delivery bot may be stored in a logistics vehicle. The delivery bot may be configured to deliver or pick up the one or more assets to or from one or more delivery or pickup locations that are outside of the logistics vehicle. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200211 | METHOD OF GENERATING BACK-UP TRAJECTORIES FOR SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES DURING EMERGENCY - According to various embodiments, described herein are systems and methods for using backup trajectories to ensure the safety of the ADV. The ADV can implement an algorithm that stores a trajectory generated for each planning cycle. Once a new planning cycle begins, the ADV can first attempt to generate a trajectory; if a trajectory is successfully generated, the ADV can replace the stored trajectory with this newly generated trajectory. If a trajectory is not successfully generated during the new planning cycle due to software failures, the ADV can immediately restore the previously stored trajectory, and project the ADV onto this trajectory. As a result, the ADV can still have a functional trajectory that has been proved to be safe during the previous planning cycle. In one embodiment, the trajectory is a reference line, and can be generated when a corresponding planning cycle starts or any time during the planning cycle. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200212 | Jointly Learnable Behavior and Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles - Systems and methods for generating motion plans for autonomous vehicles are provided. An autonomous vehicle can include a machine-learned motion planning system including one or more machine-learned models configured to generate target trajectories for the autonomous vehicle. The model(s) include a behavioral planning stage configured to receive situational data based at least in part on the one or more outputs of the set of sensors and to generate behavioral planning data based at least in part on the situational data and a unified cost function. The model(s) includes a trajectory planning stage configured to receive the behavioral planning data from the behavioral planning stage and to generate target trajectory data for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the behavioral planning data and the unified cost function. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200213 | Modular robotic vehicle - A modular robotic vehicle (MRV) having a modular chassis configured for a vehicle utilizing two-wheel steering, four-wheel steering, six-wheel steering, eight-wheel steering controlled by a semiautonomous system or an autonomous driving system, either system is associated with operating modes which may include a two-wheel steering mode, an all-wheel steering mode, a traverse steering mode, a park mode, or an omni-directional mode utilized for steering sideways, driving diagonally or move crab like. Accordingly, during semiautonomous control a driver of the modular robotic vehicle may utilize smart I/O devices including a smartphone, tablet like devices, or a control panel to select a preferred driving mode. The driver may communicate navigation instructions via smart I/O devices to control steering, speed and placement of the MRV in respect to the operating mode. Accordingly, GPS and a wireless network provides navigation instructions during an autonomous operation involving driving, parking, docking or connecting to another MRV. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200214 | MULTI-PERSPECTIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BEHAVIORAL POLICY SELECTION BY AN AUTONOMOUS AGENT - A system and a method for autonomous decisioning and operation by an autonomous agent includes: collecting decisioning data including: collecting a first stream of data includes observation data obtained by onboard sensors of the autonomous agent, wherein each of the onboard sensors is physically arranged on the autonomous agent; collecting a second stream of data includes observation data obtained by offboard infrastructure devices, the offboard infrastructure devices being arranged geographically remote from and in an operating environment of the autonomous agent; implementing a decisioning data buffer that includes the first stream of data from the onboard sensors and the second stream of data from the offboard sensors; generating current state data; generating/estimating intent data for each of one or more agents within the operating environment of the autonomous agent; identifying a plurality of candidate behavioral policies; and selecting and executing at least one of the plurality of candidate behavioral policies. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200215 | MULTI-PERSPECTIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BEHAVIORAL POLICY SELECTION BY AN AUTONOMOUS AGENT - A system and a method for autonomous decisioning and operation by an autonomous agent includes: collecting decisioning data including: collecting a first stream of data includes observation data obtained by onboard sensors of the autonomous agent, wherein each of the onboard sensors is physically arranged on the autonomous agent; collecting a second stream of data includes observation data obtained by offboard infrastructure devices, the offboard infrastructure devices being arranged geographically remote from and in an operating environment of the autonomous agent; implementing a decisioning data buffer that includes the first stream of data from the onboard sensors and the second stream of data from the offboard sensors; generating current state data; generating/estimating intent data for each of one or more agents within the operating environment of the autonomous agent; identifying a plurality of candidate behavioral policies; and selecting and executing at least one of the plurality of candidate behavioral policies. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200216 | AUTONOMOUS DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A driving assistance device performs autonomous driving based on an output from a sensor unit that acquires information on surroundings of a vehicle or information on the state of the vehicle. The driving assistance device stores an autonomous driving determination table based on autonomous driving compatibility information. By referring to the autonomous driving determination table based on sensor information on the sensor unit and road element information on a predetermined road section, the driving assistance device | 2021-07-01 |
20210200217 | Systems and Methods for Matching an Autonomous Vehicle to a Rider - Systems and methods are directed to matching an available vehicle to a rider requesting a service. In one example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a service request from a rider. The method further includes obtaining, by the computing system, data indicative of a current location of the rider; and determining that the current location of the rider is within proximity of an autonomous vehicle queuing location. The method further includes providing, by the computing system, data to the rider to provide for selection of an available autonomous vehicle at the autonomous vehicle queuing location. The method further includes obtaining, by the computing system, rider authentication data upon a selection of an autonomous vehicle by the rider; and, in response to obtaining rider authentication data, matching an autonomous vehicle selected by the rider to provide for performance of the service request. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200218 | DISTRUBUTED VECTOR-RASTER FUSION - In some examples, a method of vector-raster data fusion includes receiving vector data for a geographical location, and statistically analyzing the vector data to obtain vector statistics. In some examples the method further includes rasterizing the vector statistics, and storing at least one of the vector data and the rasterized vector statistics together in a key-value store together with previously stored raster data for the geographical location. In some examples, the vector data further includes metadata, and the method further includes storing the metadata in at least one of the key-value store or a separate vector database. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200219 | ROBOT PLAN ONLINE ADJUSTMENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing robot plan online adjustment. A method includes receiving an initial plan for performing a particular task with a robot having a sensor. The initial plan defines an initial path having a plurality of waypoints. Each waypoint is associated with a target position and a target velocity. The method includes generating an alternative path from the initial path. Generating an alternative path includes generating a plurality of alternative paths including performing respective modifications to one or more waypoints in the initial plan, evaluating each alternative path according to a simulated total time duration required for the robot to traverse the alternative path, and selecting an alternative path having a total time duration that is less than a total time duration of the initial plan. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200220 | MULTI-LAYER GRID BASED OPEN SPACE PLANNER - Path planning is performed using a multi-layer grid searching algorithm to position an ADV in a target position. A first layer grid including a first set of nodes is defined. A second layer grid is defined. The second layer grid includes a second set of nodes corresponding to at least a portion of the first set of nodes. From a start node until a goal node, following operations are iteratively performed. A set of next node candidates are identified by searching in the first set of nodes and the second set of nodes. For each next node candidate of the set of next node candidates, a cost is determined using a cost function. A next node having a lowest cost is selected from the set of next node candidates based on their respective costs. A path trajectory of the ADV is generated to position the ADV at the target position. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200221 | RESOURCE PRIORITIZATION BASED ON TRAVEL PATH RELEVANCE - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing sensor data associated with an environment of the vehicle; identifying agents in the environment based on the sensor data; determining a probability distribution indicative of whether a preliminary trajectory of each of the agents intersects a potential travel space of the vehicle; generating a prioritization of the agents based on the probability distribution; allocating an amount of computing resources of the vehicle for analyzing each of one or more of the agents based on the prioritization and characteristics of the respective one or more agents; and predicting a trajectory of one or more of the agents according to the allocated computing resources. An accuracy of the prediction is proportional to the amount of allocated computing resources. The method also includes determining, based on the analysis of the agents, one or more operations for the vehicle to perform. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200222 | FASTEST LANE DETERMINATION ALGORITHM UNDER TRAFFIC JAM - A method, apparatus, and system for determining average lane travel speeds is disclosed. A plurality of vehicles traveling in a same direction as the ADV in a plurality of lanes are identified. Over a first time period, the plurality of vehicles is tracked. At least a first quantity of representative vehicles within the plurality of vehicles that are representative of vehicles traveling in the lane over the first time period are identified. For each of the plurality of lanes, an average speed over the first time period of the representative vehicles associated with the lane is determined. A trajectory is planned for the ADV, wherein the planned trajectory moves toward a lane whose representative vehicles have a fastest average speed. Thereafter, control signals are generated to control operations of the ADV based on the planned trajectory. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200223 | ROBOTIC MOTION CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS AND ROBOT USING THE SAME - A robotic motion control method provided by the present disclosure includes: obtaining a position and orientation of a starting point where the robot is currently located through a positioning sensor, and obtaining a position and orientation of a preset target point where the robot is moved to; determining an arc path and a straight path of the robot according to the position and orientation of the starting point, the position and orientation of the preset target point, and a preset arc radius; and moving the robot to the preset target point according to the determined arc path and straight path. Because there are only pure circular motion and pure linear motion which are simple during the movement of the robot, it is beneficial to improve the precision of the motion control of the robot and enable the robot to reach the target position in a reliable manner. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200224 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOT AND ITS END-PORTIONS AND DEVICE THEREOF - The present disclosure provides a method for controlling end-portions of a robot. The method includes obtaining joint information of a robot by at least one sensor and determining a first posture of an end-portion of the robot in accordance with the joint information, obtaining end-portion information of the robot by the sensor and obtaining the second posture of the end-portion of the robot including the interference information in accordance with the end-portion information of the robot and the first posture of the end-portion of the robot, and conducting a closed-loop control on the robot in accordance with an error between the second posture of the end-portion of the robot and a predetermined expected posture of the end-portion of the robot. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200225 | SYSTEM, ON-VEHICLE DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A system includes: an on-vehicle device that is provided on a vehicle which autonomously travels based on map information and which is used for parcel collection and delivery; and a first information processing device that provides the on-vehicle device with first map information that is map information of an inside of a building. The first information processing device transmits, when the vehicle exists within a predetermined range from the building, the first map information to the on-vehicle device. The on-vehicle device stores the first map information received from the first information processing device, in a storage; supplies, when the vehicle autonomously travels within the building, the first map information stored in the storage to a controller comprising at least one processor that controls the autonomous traveling of the vehicle; and erases, after the vehicle leaves the building, the first map information from the storage. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200226 | SELF-PROPELLED DEVICE SYSTEM AND BOUNDARY WIRE BREAK DETECTION METHOD THEREOF - A self-propelled device system includes a self-propelled device, a boundary wire configured to define a work area of the self-propelled device and a signal transmitting unit electrically connected with the boundary wire configured to generate and send a boundary signal to the boundary wire that generates a magnetic field when flowing through the boundary wire. The self-propelled device has a signal receiving module and a control module. The signal receiving module uses the magnetic field caused by the boundary signal to generate a boundary wire inductive signal and the control module determines that the boundary wire has a wire break when a relevant parameter of the boundary wire inductive signal is less than or equal to a predefined threshold. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200227 | CARGO SORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed are a goods sorting system and method. The system includes a control server, a delivery robot, and a first carrying robot. The control server is configured to determine a delivery port according to a road direction of goods to be delivered, allocate the delivery robot, plan a traveling route for the delivery robot, generate a delivery instruction and send the delivery instruction to the delivery robot. The delivery robot is configured to travel to the delivery port, deliver the goods to be delivered to the delivery port. The control server is further configured to: when the number of goods collected in a target goods collection container below the delivery port is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, allocated the first carrying robot, plan a traveling route for the first carrying robot, generate a carrying instruction and send the carrying instruction to the first carrying robot. The first carrying robot is configured to travel to the target goods collection container according to the traveling route, carry the target goods collection container to a goods collection station. Further disclosed is a server and a storage medium. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200228 | Robotic Work Tool System and Method for Defining a Working Area - A robotic work tool system ( | 2021-07-01 |
20210200229 | GENERATING TRAJECTORY LABELS FROM SHORT-TERM INTENTION AND LONG-TERM RESULT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating training data for training a machine learning model to perform trajectory prediction. One of the methods includes: obtaining a training input, the training input including (i) data characterizing an agent in an environment as of a first time and (ii) data characterizing a candidate trajectory of the agent in the environment for a first time period that is after the first time. A long-term label for the candidate trajectory that indicates whether the agent actually followed the candidate trajectory for the first time period is determined. A short-term label for the candidate trajectory that indicates whether the agent intended to follow the candidate trajectory is determined. A ground-truth probability for the candidate trajectory is determined. The training input is associated with the ground-truth probability for the candidate trajectory in the training data. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200230 | CONDITIONAL BEHAVIOR PREDICTION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for conditional behavior prediction for agents in an environment. Conditional behavior predictions are made for agents navigating through the same environment as an autonomous vehicle that are conditioned on a planned future trajectory for the autonomous vehicle, e.g., as generated by a planning system of the autonomous vehicle. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200231 | SPEED PLANNING GUIDANCE LINE FOR MILD SLOW DOWN - A method, apparatus, and system for planning a deceleration trajectory based on a natural deceleration profile for an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) is disclosed. In one embodiment, in response to a request for driving in a natural deceleration mode, a current speed of the ADV is determined. A speed guideline is generated based on a predetermined natural deceleration profile associated with the ADV in view of the current speed of the ADV. A speed planning operation is performed by optimizing a total cost function based on the speed guideline to determine speeds of a plurality of trajectory points along a trajectory planned to drive the ADV. A number of control commands are generated based on the speed planning operation to control the ADV with the planned speeds along the trajectory, such that the ADV naturally slows down according to the predetermined natural deceleration profile. | 2021-07-01 |
20210200232 | METHOD OF GENERATING SCAN PATH OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT AND COMPUTING DEVICE - A method is performed by a computing device including one or more processors and a memory that stores one or more programs executed by the one or more processors and includes acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) map of an interior, generating an occupancy height map by stacking spatial value histograms in a height direction while projecting the 3D map of the interior on a two-dimensional (2D) plane, and removing noise caused by a mobile object which moves in the interior from the occupancy height map. | 2021-07-01 |