Abstract: A method for creating metadevices includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more boundary conditions for a metadevice. The method also includes processing, with an inverse-design algorithm stored in a memory of the computing device, the one or more boundary conditions to generate a metadevice structure design that satisfies the one or more boundary conditions. The method also includes converting, by a processor of the computing device, the metadevice structure design into a file that is compatible with an additive manufacturing device. The method further includes providing the file of the metadevice structure design to the additive manufacturing device.

Abstract: An in situ cure monitoring control system for use with a volumetric three dimensional (3D) printing system, wherein the volumetric 3D system includes a container defining a build volume, the container includes a photocurable resist used for making a 3D part, and the resist is responsive to an optical curing beam from a light source, which is controlled by a controller, and which is passed through the resist. The cure monitoring control system includes an optical signal source which generates optical signals having a wavelength selected in relation to a characteristic of the resist, and directed to pass through the build volume. A detector detects the optical signals and generates output signals in accordance therewith. Software monitors the output signals and uses the output signals to modify the curing beam to help optimize curing of the resist.

Abstract: An interactive autonomous robot is configured for deployment within a social environment. The disclosed robot includes a show subsystem configured to select between different in-character behaviors depending on robot status, thereby allowing the robot to appear in-character despite technical failures. The disclosed robot further includes a safety subsystem configured to intervene with in-character behavior when necessary to enforce safety protocols. The disclosed robot is also configured with a social subsystem that interprets social behaviors of humans and then initiates specific behavior sequences in response.

Abstract: A method of machining a surface of a component. The method comprises scanning the surface of the component to obtain scanned electronic 3D data representing the scanned surface of the component locating a surface defect of the scanned surface and identifying a defect region that surrounds and includes the surface defect, and providing electronic 3D data representing a patch having the desired shape of the defect region. The method also comprises transforming the patch to generate a tooling path for repairing the surface defect. The transformation comprising translating a plurality of nodes of the patch. The translation distance of each node based on the distance of that node from an origin node of the patch. The method further comprises machining the surface of the component according to the generated tooling path.

Abstract: An automatic testing method includes obtaining a positioning image, analyzing position of a plurality of slots of the test motherboard in the positioning image to generate route information for insertion and testing of components; wherein photographing test motherboard and obtaining positioning image focused on the test motherboard, controlling the clamping device to insert a plurality of the components into the slots according to the route information, controlling the test motherboard to test the components, determining if there is a faulty component, controlling the clamping device to withdraw and insert the components into other slots according to the route information and controlling the test motherboard to retest the components again if there is no faulty component. An automatic testing device and a non-volatile storage medium performing the above-described method are also disclosed.

Abstract: A computer device includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one processor is programmed to store, in the at least one memory device, a model for simulating a portion of an assembly line and receive scan data of a first inspection of a product being assembled, execute the model using the scan data as inputs to generate a final profile of the product, compare the final profile to one or more thresholds, determine if the final profile exceeds at least one of the one or more thresholds, and adjust the first device if the determination is that the final profile exceeds at least one of the one or more thresholds.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for use in additively manufacturing a composite structure from reinforcements wetted with a matrix. The method may include slicing a virtual model of the composite structure into multiple slices that are adjacent to each other along a length direction of the composite structure and determining points of the reinforcements passing through each of the multiple slices. The method may further include clocking the points differently around each of the multiple slices and generating at least one tool path including a sequenced subset of the points. The method may additionally include causing an additive manufacturing machine to discharge the reinforcements along the at least one tool path.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for predicting an occurrence of a tool processing event, thereby determining whether to activate a virtual metrology. In a model-building stage, plural sets of model-building data are used to create at least one classification model in accordance with at least one classification algorithm, in which each classification model includes plural decision trees. Then, probabilities of the decision trees are used to create at least one reliance index model, and the sets of model-building data are used to create at least one similarity index model in accordance with a statistical distance algorithm. In a conjecture stage, a set of processing data of a workpiece is inputted into each classification model, each reliance index model and each similarity index model to determine whether to activate (start) virtual metrology.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and method for managing material balance between incoming and outgoing streams of material in an industrial system. A method may include providing a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables a system administrator to generate a visual model of the industrial system that includes (1) elements that are interconnected in the industrial system, and (2) streams including at least one incoming stream of material to each element and at least one outgoing stream of material from each element. The method may include receiving, via the GUI, a plurality of parameters of the elements and the streams such as material chemistry, user demand of each user element of the user elements, and flowrate for each stream of the streams. The method may include determining a category of each stream and automatically balancing, by a processor, incoming and outgoing streams for each element.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for integrating control and operation of multi-tooltip processes with computer-aided manufacturing and/or design software and systems include method(s) including: obtaining toolpaths for manufacturing a physical structure and process control constraints, each of the toolpaths corresponding to a respective tooltip of a computer-controlled tool of a manufacturing system, each of the toolpaths designates a respective path for the respective tooltip within a workspace, and the process control constraints define capabilities of each of the respective tooltips within the workspace; defining a main toolpath and metadata defining operational parameters for the toolpaths based on the process control constraints; simulating manufacturing of the physical structure using the main toolpath and the metadata; and providing at least the main toolpath and the metadata for use in manufacturing the physical structure by the computer-controlled

Abstract: A method and a device for planning a specific process system, wherein during the planning of a specific process system, which consists of primary technology formed as components of the system that are interconnected with respect to process and at least one secondary technology that depends on the primary technology and enables operation of the system together with the primary technology, the primary technology is planned as a flow diagram of the system via a system planning tool, where configuration data formed as requirements, guidelines for operation of the system, system-specific basic conditions and/or specifications are added to the flow diagram, and where a data-processing device evaluates the flow diagram to which the configuration data have been added and automatically creates, optionally by accessing an archive having standard planning solutions, a specific planning solution for a secondary technology that meets the various requirements together with the planned primary technology.

Abstract: There is provided a configuration that includes: a main controller configured to, when executing a process recipe including a specific step of executing a sub-recipe, control a process controller to execute the sub-recipe a predetermined number of times to perform a predetermined process to a substrate: and a device management controller configured to collect device data during an execution of the process, recipe and store the device data in a storage part. The device management controller is further configured to: search the storage part; acquire the device data in a designated step among respective steps constituting the sub-recipe for a number of times of execution of the sub-recipe; calculate a first standard deviation of the device data acquired for the number of times of execution; and compare the first standard deviation with a threshold value and generate an alarm when the first standard deviation exceeds the threshold value.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using toolpaths generated by reinforcement learning for use with subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining, in a computer aided design or manufacturing program, a three dimensional model of a manufacturable object; generating toolpaths that are usable by a computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at least a portion of the manufacturable object by providing at least a portion of the three dimensional model to a machine learning algorithm that employs reinforcement learning, wherein the machine learning algorithm includes one or more scoring functions that include rewards that correlate with desired toolpath characteristics comprising toolpath smoothness, toolpath length, and avoiding collision with the three dimensional model; and providing the toolpaths to the computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at le

Abstract: Load control device, system and method for controlling a state of operation of at least one electrical load by receiving remote load control commands from at least one remote command centre with at least one receiving means of the load control device; and/or generating local load control commands with at least one local control unit of the load control device; and processing a stack of the remote load control commands and/or the local load control commands with at least one command processing unit of the load control device; and implementing an effective load control command containing at least one instruction for the effecting of the load control operations based on the stack for effecting load changing operations influencing the state of operation of the at least one electric load with at least one load interface unit of the load control device based on the at least one instruction.

Abstract: A dental abutment system including an abutment, an inlay and screw, wherein the screw at least partially occupies the interior channel of the inlay. A method of manufacturing a dental abutment system and to a control data set including a plurality of control instructions that are configured to, when implemented in an additive manufacturing system, to cause the system to execute at least the step of forming an abutment at the distal end of an inlay using an additive manufacturing process. The screw is a captive screw. The interior channel of the abutment is variable in diameter and the smallest diameter is ?102% and ?110% of the width of the screw head and the longitudinal axis of the interior channel of the abutment and the longitudinal axis of the interior channel of the inlay are angled with respect to each other at an angle of ?5 degrees.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental milling machine which has a closed milling chamber (12). Said milling chamber has an air inlet opening and an outlet which are substantially opposite each other relative to the milling chamber and generate an air stream. Said air stream sweeps over a machining area in which a milling tool subjects the workpiece to a milling machining step. One end of the milling chamber (12), in particular the front end, has a door that can be opened. The base (42) of the milling space (12) runs at least partially at an angle and in particular is rounded off and the outlet (40) is connected to the lowest region of the base (42).

Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor are to cause the processor to access a reduced resolution three-dimensional (3D) model file of an object to be built in a build bed of a 3D printing system, the reduced resolution 3D model file comprising a reduced resolution file of a first resolution 3D model file of the object. The instructions may also cause the processor to determine a packing arrangement for the object and a plurality of other objects to be built in the build bed through use of the reduced resolution 3D model file and output the determined packing arrangement for the 3D printing system to print the object and the other objects.

Abstract: A computer product for generating a digital 3D model for use in a dental component based on a digital 3D model of the dental component showing a shape of the teeth and a digital 3D representation of a pre-prepared set of teeth showing the region for which the dental component is intended, the product causing a system to generate a digital 3D combined model representing a target dental situation when the dental component is arranged at the teeth, where the instructions are configured for digitally replacing one or more teeth of the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth with the digital 3D model of the dental component by digitally removing the one or more teeth of the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth and adding the digital 3D model of the dental component to the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth.

Abstract: This invention relates to systems and methods for redundant data center cooling and electrical systems.

Abstract: An optimum combination of a loop unrolling number and a circuit parallel number in a high-level synthesis is determined. A circuit synthesis information generation unit sets, as parameter candidates, a plurality of combinations of a loop unrolling number and a circuit parallel number to generate circuit synthesis information indicating a synthesis circuit obtained by high-level synthesis processing for each of the combinations. An optimum parameter determination unit calculates, for each piece of the generated circuit synthesis information, an estimation processing performance related to the synthesis circuit indicated by the circuit synthesis information, and determines an optimum combination of the loop unrolling number and the circuit parallel number based on the circuit synthesis information based on which a maximum estimation processing performance is obtained.