Abstract: Systems and techniques for determining a sideslip vector for a vehicle that may have a direction that is different from that of a heading vector for the vehicle. The sideslip vector in a current vehicle state and sideslip vectors in predicted vehicles states may be used to determine paths for a vehicle through an environment and trajectories for controlling the vehicle through the environment. The sideslip vector may be based on a vehicle position that is the center point of the wheelbase of the vehicle and may include lateral velocity, facilitating the control of four-wheel steered vehicle while maintaining the ability to control two-wheel steered vehicles.

Abstract: Systems and methods for building images used in software containers are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a host computer, plural commands defined in a build file; determining, by the host computer, one of the plural commands is indicated as a temporal layer; building, by the host computer, an image including respective layers corresponding to respective ones of the plural commands; deleting from the image, by the host computer, one of the respective layers corresponding to the one of the plural commands indicated as the temporal layer; and pushing, by the host computer, the image to a registry.

Abstract: Systems and methods for building images used in software containers are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a host computer, plural commands defined in a build file; determining, by the host computer, one of the plural commands is indicated as a temporal layer; building, by the host computer, an image including respective layers corresponding to respective ones of the plural commands; deleting from the image, by the host computer, one of the respective layers corresponding to the one of the plural commands indicated as the temporal layer; and pushing, by the host computer, the image to a registry.

Abstract: A system and method are presented for the use of natural language processing to automate the disposition of completed interactions in an environment such as a contact center system. Communications may be inbound or outbound. A communication is received or placed by the contact center system and processed through the contact center system. After the interaction of the communication and the contact center is completed, data from the completed interaction may be processed through an automated customer interaction disposition system. Transcript data from the interaction may be processed through an NLP engine to generate data from the interaction. The data may then be automatically matched with a disposition/wrap-up code for the interaction.

Abstract: A system and method are presented for the use of natural language processing to automate the disposition of completed interactions in an environment such as a contact center system. Communications may be inbound or outbound. A communication is received or placed by the contact center system and processed through the contact center system. After the interaction of the communication and the contact center is completed, data from the completed interaction may be processed through an automated customer interaction disposition system. Transcript data from the interaction may be processed through an NLP engine to generate data from the interaction. The data may then be automatically matched with a disposition/wrap-up code for the interaction.

Abstract: A system and method are presented for the use of natural language processing to automate the disposition of completed interactions in an environment such as a contact center system. Communications may be inbound or outbound. A communication is received or placed by the contact center system and processed through the contact center system. After the interaction of the communication and the contact center is completed, data from the completed interaction may be processed through an automated customer interaction disposition system. Transcript data from the interaction may be processed through an NLP engine to generate data from the interaction. The data may then be automatically matched with a disposition/wrap-up code for the interaction.

Abstract: A visual recognition system is disclosed for detecting a target within a scene. A LADAR system and method is employed for scanning laser light signals across a scene having a target to be characterized. Laser light reflected from the target is detected and processed into a three-dimensional image. The three-dimensional image is segmented to separate the target from the overall scene. Substantially, only the segmented target data is either displayed locally or transmitted via a narrow bandwidth transmission medium to a remote site for display. The invention finds particular application in military situations where enemy armor is detected and the segmented version of the armor is transmitted via SINCGARS.

Abstract: The unitary cellular telephone antenna includes a junction box to which is mounted both the antenna element, preferably a 5/8 wavelength antenna, and two 1/4 wavelength downwardly oriented radials to establish the antenna's ground plane. Electrical elements are included within the junction box to match the impedance of the antenna system to the cellular telephone transceiver and to maximize the radiated signal.

Abstract: A ratchet nut runner is energized either manually or by a non-manual power source such as a battery, on-line electrical power or a pneumatic supply. A tubular body or housing, which contains speed-reducing and power-amplifying structures, serves also as the handle or hand grip for the device. A driven drive shaft which extends coaxially from the housing is connected to a head of the device through a pivot joint assembly. An important feature of the drive device is that the housing-enclosed drive shaft is pivotable from a non-manual power drive mode in which the drive shaft is coaxial with a tool-engaging stud or coupler, to a configuration in which the drive shaft extends normally of the coupler for rotation of the drive head manually. A switch which connects non-manual power to the drive shaft operates to cut off power when the device is disposed in a manual mode of operation.

Abstract: The snap release system consists of interfitting base and top members, the base member including a catch plate, the top plate having a T-shaped stud that is captured in aligned openings in the base plate and catch plate. The catch plate includes a bar portion lying alongside the base plate, which bar may be pressed to release the head of the T-shaped stud and to permit the plates to be separated.

Abstract: The improved U-shaped antenna mounting assembly consists of a U-shaped clip and a U-shaped bracket, the bracket overfitting the clip, the base of the clip being notched to receive in that notch the base portion of the bracket. Preferably indentations are provided in the clip and the bracket to assist in interlocking them with one another.

Abstract: A vibration free fluid compressor particularly adapted for Stirling cycle cryogenic refrigeration apparatus comprising a pair of identical opposing ferromagnetic pistons (10, 12) located in a housing (22) and between a gas spring including a sealed volume (52, 54, 60) of a working fluid such as gas under pressure. The gas compresses and expands in accordance with movement of the pistons (10, 12) to generate a compression wave which can be vented out to other apparatus, for example, a displacer unit in a Stirling cycle engine. The pistons (10, 12) are urged outwardly due to the pressure of the gas; however, a fixed electromagnetic coil assembly (56), located in the housing adjacent the pistons, is periodically energized to produce a magnetic field which interlinks the pistons (10, 12) in such a fashion that the pistons are mutually attracted to one another.