Abstract: A robot control system and a method may be operated in a microservices architecture (MSA)-based control environment. The robot control system includes an application programming interface (API) gateway that connects an authentication server for authenticating a robot, a management server for managing the robot, and an operation server for operating the robot in a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication method and an administrator terminal that communicates with the robot through WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a polyalkylene carbonate resin, and more particularly, to a method for preparing a polyalkylene carbonate resin having the reduced cyclic carbonate content, which is a by-product, and an increased ratio of a repeating unit including carbon dioxide, by increasing catalyst activity.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode, the second electrode and the separator being wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer peripheral surface. The first electrode and the second electrode include a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region along a winding direction, respectively, and an active material layer coating is absent in the first uncoated region and the second uncoated region. The battery further includes a housing receiving the electrode assembly through an opening formed at a bottom, a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed within the housing, a cap covering the opening, a spacer interposed between the cap and the electrode assembly to fix the electrode assembly and seal the housing, and a terminal electrically connected to the second uncoated region.

Abstract: An induction heating system for a silicon steel core with a self-adhesive coating that includes an induction heating device having a columnar induction heating coil with a hollow cavity that carries out induction heating on a silicon steel plate at a medium frequency of 6-20 KHz. By rapid induction heating at a medium frequency, a silicon steel core with a self-adhesive coating can be rapidly cured, thereby greatly shortening the processing time, improving production efficiency, and facilitating automated operation in the production of a silicon steel core with a self-adhesive coating. The system also ensures the quality of the cured core products that can be widely applied in the field of the production of silicon steel cores with a self-adhesive coating.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a furnace comprising: a plurality of groupings, wherein each grouping in the furnace is adjacent to each other and separated by a gap, wherein each grouping comprises: (a) one row of tubes and optionally additional rows of tubes comprising a plurality of tubes containing a catalyst for converting a gaseous feed, wherein each row of tubes is parallel to each other; (b) at least two rows of burners comprising having a first and second row of outer burners and optionally additional rows of burners comprising a plurality of burners, and as described herein, (c) wherein the plurality of burners within each grouping is configured such that the ratio of B/G is greater than 1.3 and the ratio of B/W is less than 1.3, wherein W, B and G are as defined herein.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a waveguide display apparatus. The waveguide waveguide display apparatus of the present disclosure is a waveguide display apparatus for correcting curved surface reflection distortion, the waveguide display apparatus including a waveguide for guiding light inputted from the outside; a first diffractive optical element disposed at the waveguide, and diffracting the light inputted from the outside to the inside of the waveguide; and a second diffractive optical element disposed at the waveguide, and diffracting the light guided by the waveguide to output a plurality of diffracted lights in a direction of a curved surface reflector located outside, wherein the second diffractive optical element has a structure of a diffraction grating corresponding to a curvature of the curved surface reflector such that the diffracted lights are reflected at different locations of the curved surface reflector in directions parallel to each other.

Abstract: An aperture module is provided. The aperture module includes a plurality of blades configured to interlock with each other to form a through-hole, a rotator on which the plurality of blades are disposed, a first base on which the rotator is disposed, a second base connected to the first base, and a driving unit disposed on the second base and configured to provide a driving force to move the rotator in a direction that intersects an optical axis direction. The first base is configured to move in an optical axis direction with respect to the second base.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes an uncoated portion at a long side end thereof and exposed out of the separator along a winding axis direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to form a bending surface region that includes overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and in a partial region of the bending surface region, the number of stacked layers of the uncoated portion is 10 or more in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface, the first electrode including a first uncoated region in which an active material layer is not coated along a winding direction; a housing accommodating the electrode assembly through an open portion at a lower end thereof; a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed in the housing; a cap to cover the open portion; and a spacer between the first current collector and the cap and having a height corresponding to a distance between the first current collector and the cap.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for diagnosing whether or not an error has occurred in battery cells, the apparatus including a voltage measurement circuit for measuring a voltage of a battery cell, a data processing circuit for calculating a target statistical value indicating a state of the battery cell based on a voltage measured by the voltage measurement circuit, and calculates a cumulative statistical value, and a diagnosis circuit that determines whether or not an error has occurred in the battery cell through a cumulative determination operation of comparing the cumulative statistical value with a cumulative reference value, and counts a number of times of cumulative error when it is determined that the error has occurred in the battery cell in the cumulative determination operation.

Abstract: A photovoltaic cell is provided, including a substrate, a doped layer, a tunneling dielectric layer, doped conductive layers, first electrodes, and conductive transport layers. A doping concentration of the doped layer is greater than that of the substrate. The doped layer includes first doped regions, second doped regions and third doped regions. A doping concentration of each first doped region is less than that of each second doped region and that of each third doped region. The tunneling dielectric layer is disposed on the first and second doped regions. Each doped conductive layer is aligned with a first doped region and is disposed on a tunneling dielectric layer. Each first electrode is disposed on and electrically connected to the doped conductive layer. Each conductive transport layer is aligned with a second doped region and is disposed on the tunneling dielectric layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel biphenyl derivative compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The biphenyl derivative compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof according to the present disclosure is a compound that increases Nm23-H1/NDPK activity and can inhibit cancer metastasis and growth. Thus, it exhibits excellent effects not only on the prevention, alleviation and treatment of cancer, but also on the suppression of cancer metastasis.

Abstract: A weeding device for crops having a seedling avoidance function includes a rack connected to a weeding machine. A hydraulic pump and two hydraulic cylinders are mounted to the rack. Bottom ends of each of the two hydraulic cylinders are provided with a vertically arranged support rod. An inter-row weeder is mounted to a bottom end of each of the two support rods. A slider configured to reciprocate in a horizontal direction is positioned on two slide rails that are mounted to the rack. An inter-plant weeder is mounted to a bottom side of the slider. A plurality of weeder blades are arranged side by side on the inter-plant weeder. At the weeding position, an arrangement direction of weeder blades is perpendicular to an advancing direction, and at the weed avoidance position, the arrangement direction of the weeder blades is parallel to the advancing direction, thereby avoiding crops.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing a graphical user interface (“GUI”) for graph-based visualizations of network flows using entity clustering. In an example, an application service can periodically execute a job for assigning network entities to clusters according to a clustering type. The job can also include creating metadata about each cluster. The application service can store the assignments in a cache. A user can select to display a visualization of the network in the GUI based on the clustering type. The application service can detect any entities without cluster assignments and create a best guess assignment for them. The GUI can then display a visualization of the network according to the selected clustering type.

Abstract: An example method of analyzing workloads executing in a network managed virtualized computing system includes: presenting, by a network analyzer, a first view of the workloads on a canvas to a first user; receiving, at the network analyzer, first user input to create a first label, the first label initially disassociated with security policies of a network manager managing a software defined network used by the workloads; receiving, at the network analyzer, second user input to assign the first label to at least one of the workloads; and presenting, by the network analyzer, a second view of the workloads on the canvas to the first user having a first group of the at least one workload and a second group having workloads other than the at least one workload.

Abstract: A service deployment method determining an execution path of a to-be-deployed service, the execution path includes a first execution device and a second execution device; obtaining a first quality of service (QoS) of the first execution device; obtaining a second QoS of the second execution device; calculating a third QoS of the execution path based on the first QoS and the second QoS; obtaining a preset QoS of the to-be-deployed service; making a first determination that a first relationship between the third QoS and the preset QoS meets a preset rule; and deploying, in response to the first determination, the to-be-deployed service on the execution path.

Abstract: A simple and efficient single mixed refrigerant process for cooling and liquefying a hydrocarbon feed stream, such as natural gas. The process employs a closed-loop single mixed refrigerant process for refrigeration duty. The refrigerant compressed to a high pressure using at least three stages of compression and two intercoolers (both producing liquid). A hydraulic turbine is used to expand the high pressure refrigerant before it flows into the main heat exchanger.