Abstract: Modem thermal management may include a state machine monitoring a temperature associated with a modem, setting a mode in response to detection of a change in the temperature with respect to a threshold, and applying a set of one or more thermal mitigation actions associated with a current state of the state machine. The state machine may set a timer in response to detection of the change in temperature and then transition from the current state to another state in response to expiration of the timer. The monitored temperature may be a junction temperature or a skin temperature.

Abstract: A method including determining an occupancy state of a building relating to a user, detecting a condition of a component of the security and/or automation system associated with the home, displaying, based at least in part on the determined occupancy state of the user and the detected condition of the component, a message related to the user on a graphical conversational user interface (“G-CUI”). The message include a request for permission from the user to initiate a change associated with the component of the system. The method may include receiving, via the G-CUI, a response from the user including an instruction whether to grant permission to initiate the change based at least in part on the displaying, and generating a rule associated with the component and a future occupancy state of the home relating to the user based at least in part on the received response.

Abstract: A manufacturing system includes a plurality of manufacturing facilities, a remote terminal, and a remote authority controller that controls authority of a remote operation from the remote terminal. When an error is detected in a first manufacturing facility out of the plurality of manufacturing facilities, the remote authority controller grants authority of a remote operation of a second manufacturing facility to the remote terminal. The second manufacturing facility causes the error and is other than the first manufacturing facility.

Abstract: A process control system includes: one or a plurality of field devices configured to be placed in a plant; and a control apparatus configured to perform at least one of input and output on the field device to control the plant; and a change trend calculation device configured to calculate a change trend in time-series data including an observed value at each point in time of the field device.

Abstract: A building control system that includes a post VEE readings data stores, a rules processor, weather stores, and a building controller. The stores provide tagged data sets that are each associated with a corresponding one of energy consumption streams, each of the sets having groups of contiguous interval values tagged as having been validated. The rules processor reads the stores and creates anomalies having different durations using only the groups of contiguous interval values and generates estimates for the anomalies by employing estimation techniques for each of the different durations and selects one of the estimation techniques for subsequent employment.

Abstract: An operator defines a process, such as a process for the manufacturing of a product, using templates that may be edited graphically. Each process includes a set of steps that a user must perform in order to accomplish the process. Each step in the process may be associated with one or more pieces of machinery on the floor to achieve the execution of the process, either in advance or at execution time. Each step may also provide various forms of instruction, monitoring, and feedback to aid the user of the associated machinery in performing the process. Data may be collected regarding the user's performance, analyzed, and used to inform the operator who may in turn edit the process with the goal of improving its execution.

Abstract: A building control system that includes a post VEE readings data stores, a rules processor, and a building controller. The stores provide tagged data sets that are each associated with a corresponding one of energy consumption streams, each of the sets having groups of contiguous interval values tagged as having been validated. The rules processor reads the stores and creates anomalies having different durations using only the groups of contiguous interval values and generates estimates for the anomalies by employing estimation techniques for each of the different durations and selects one of the estimation techniques for subsequent employment. The building controller receives post VEE readings and outside temperatures corresponding to the interval-based streams and determines and controls cumulative energy consumption corresponding to the interval-based streams and manages the cumulative energy consumption by scheduling run times for building elements that are coupled to the building controller.

Abstract: A method for controlling a heating/cooling system located at a home of a user. For a population of users, occurrences of occupancy-related events occurring in the users' homes are detected. Then, occurrences of such occupancy-related events in different timeslots are counted separately for each user of the population. The counts of the various users are then merged and a topic model is applied thereto, to provide probabilities that latent habits give raise to certain sequences of occupancy-related events and proportions of each habit in the home occupancy routine of each user of the population. Thereby, a reliable forecast of the home occupancy routine of each user of the population may be provided. That allows setting the heating/cooling system of each user of the population to fit such reliable forecast, minimizing energy waste and/or maximizing user's comfort.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a chuck table that holds a workpiece, a processing unit that forms a processed groove in the workpiece, an imaging unit that images the workpiece, a display unit that displays a captured image of a processed groove imaged by the imaging unit, and a control unit that executes display control of a display screen of the display unit. The control unit causes a mark that indicates the latest processed groove based on the Y-coordinate of the latest processed groove to be displayed on the display unit while being superimposed on a captured image.

Abstract: A technique is capable of preventing particles from adhering onto a wafer when a lid is attached or detached from a pod. A substrate processing apparatus includes: a placement part whereon a substrate container is placed; a guide part constituting a lid opening/closing space; a gate part separating the lid opening/closing space from a transfer chamber; a lid opening/closing mechanism provided in the lid opening/closing space and configured to attach or detach a lid of the substrate container; a gas introduction mechanism configured to supply a gas into the substrate container; a monitor part configured to monitor and adjust an inner pressure of the substrate container; and a controller configured to: (i) control the lid opening/closing mechanism; and (ii) control the monitor part to maintain the inner pressure of the substrate container higher than an inner pressure of the lid opening/closing space while the lid opening/closing mechanism detaches the lid.

Abstract: A pressure-type flow rate control device 1, while maintaining an upstream pressure P1 of an orifice 5 at approximately at least twice a downstream pressure P2, calculates a flow factor FF of a mixed gas consisting of two types of gases mixed at a mixture ratio of X:(1?X) by FF=(k/?){2/(?+1)}1/(??1)[?/{(?+1)R}]1/2 using an average density ?, an average specific heat ratio ?, and an average gas constant R of the mixed gas that are calculated by weighting the densities, specific heat ratios, and gas constants of the two types of gases at the mixture ratio, and calculates a flow rate Q of the mixed gas passing through the orifice by Q=FF·S·P1(1/T1)1/2, where S is the orifice cross section, and P1 and T1 are respectively the pressure and temperature of the mixed gas on the upstream side of the orifice.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for ranking one or more control schemes for controlling peak loading conditions and abrupt changes in energy pricing of one or more built environments associated with renewable energy sources. The computer-implemented method includes analysis of a first set of statistical data, a second set of statistical data, a third set of statistical data, a fourth set of statistical data and a fifth set of statistical data. Further, the computer-implemented method includes identification and execution of the one or more control schemes. In addition, the computer-implemented method includes scoring the one or more control schemes by evaluating a probabilistic score. Further, the computer-implemented method includes ranking the one or more control schemes to determine relevant control schemes for controlling real time peak loading conditions and abrupt changes in energy pricing associated with the one or more built environments.

Abstract: In a trajectory determination device (40); a CAD data acquisition unit (41) acquires shape data representing the shape of a three-dimensional structure; a trajectory data generating unit (43) and layering conditions adjusting unit (44) generate, on the basis of the shape data acquired by the CAD data acquisition unit (41), control information which is information for controlling a layering device for layering molten metal for forming the structure and which indicates the trajectory for the layering device and/or layering conditions when the layering device layers molten metal such that the upper surface of one layer of a plurality of layers of molten metal layered is flat; and a control program output unit (45) outputs the control information generated by the trajectory data generating unit (43) and the layering conditions adjusting unit (44).

Abstract: Techniques are described for implementing automated control systems that repeatedly perform automated modifications to control system actuator components' ongoing operations to improve functionality for electrical devices in target systems, such as to reduce power dissipation while using the electrical devices. The described techniques further include synchronizing a particular control system's state improvements with corresponding control system state improvements being performed for one or more other control systems that are each controlling one or more distinct electrical devices in the target system(s), so as to improve the collective control system functionality according to one or more criteria (e.g., to reduce power dissipation)—such synchronizing may include, for example, generating a mean field representation of the overall control system state for the target system(s) and using the mean field representation to improve the overall control system state.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle circuit which includes a plurality of load-side heat exchangers; a plurality of indoor units which accommodate the plurality of load-side heat exchangers, respectively; and a controller which controls the plurality of indoor units. Each of the plurality of indoor units includes an air-sending fan. At least one of the plurality of indoor units includes a refrigerant detection unit. The controller divides the plurality of indoor units into one or more groups. The controller is set such that when refrigerant is detected by the refrigerant detection unit included in any of the plurality of indoor units, the controller causes the air-sending fans included in all the indoor units which belong to a same group as the indoor unit which includes the refrigerant detection unit which detects the refrigerant to be operated.

Abstract: Provided is a method for processing containers, wherein the containers are processed by. a first processing device in a first predetermined manner and are transported by. a transport device to a second processing device and are processed by this second processing device in a second predetermined manner, and wherein the processing devices are in each case controlled by at least control devices, wherein for the control parameters are used which are characteristic of the containers and/or the processing of the containers. According to the embodiment, predetermination parameters are output on at least one and preferably on several control devices, and said output predetermination parameters are compared with parameters required by at least one processing device, and it is checked whether the parameters required by the at least one processing device can be derived at least from the predetermination parameters.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle circuit that includes a plurality of load-side heat exchangers and a plurality of indoor units that accommodate the plurality of load-side heat exchangers. Each of the plurality of indoor units includes an air-sending fan. At least one of the plurality of indoor units includes a refrigerant detection unit. When refrigerant is detected by the refrigerant detection unit included in any one of the plurality of indoor units, the air-sending fans included in all of the plurality of indoor units operate.

Abstract: Provided is a ventilation control apparatus (2) comprising: an in-home communication module configured to communicate with ventilators via an in-home network; an external communication module configured to communicate with an external server provided outside a building via an external network; a determination unit (77) configured to determine whether or not communication with the external server via the external communication module is available; a control determination unit (78) configured to determine a control method for the ventilators, based on a result of determination by the determination unit (77); and a ventilation operation control unit (76) configured to control the ventilators, based on the control method determined by the control determination unit (78).

Abstract: A method for controlling a power supply includes: acquiring working state information of the power supply in a current operation; determining whether a state value of the power supply in the current operation satisfies a preset condition according to the working state information; setting a first control strategy for controlling the current operation of the power supply as a second control strategy when the preset condition is satisfied; storing the state value in the current operation and the first control strategy of the power supply in the current operation when the preset condition is not satisfied, and modifying the first control strategy to obtain the second control strategy according to an adjustment strategy; and loading the second control strategy from the machine-learning control circuitry in next operation, and controlling the next operation of the power supply according to the second control strategy.

Abstract: A method of thermal management in a computing device using a management controller is provided. The method includes obtaining, via a virtual management controller, monitoring information of a thermally sensitive component untethered to the management controller. The monitoring information can include temperature information of the thermally sensitive component. The method also includes transmitting, via the virtual management controller, the monitoring information to the management controller via a system interface of the management controller. Finally, the method includes adjusting, via the management controller, operation of a thermal management component of the computing device tethered to the management controller.