Abstract: A horizontally arranged six-degree-of-freedom constant-stiffness mechanism is provided, and includes an upper platform, a bottom plate, three composite spherical hinges, spherical hinges, support rods, guide rail slider assemblies, and six electromagnetic adjustable stiffness units. Two ends of a shaft on which a permanent magnet is fixed in each electromagnetic adjustable stiffness unit are fixed to the bottom plate via shaft supports. Axially moving housings of electromagnetic adjustable stiffness units are fixed on sliders of the guide rail slider assemblies via slider backing plates respectively. Guide rail slider assembles are fixed on the bottom plate. Tops of the housings are mounted with the spherical hinges respectively. A bottom of the upper platform is uniformly mounted with the composite spherical hinges. One end of each support rod is threadedly connected to a corresponding one of the spherical hinges, and another end is connected with a corresponding one of composite spherical hinges.

Abstract: A squeeze mode giant electrorheological fluid damper is disclosed. The squeeze mode giant electrorheological fluid damper comprises a support, a container and a connecting structure, wherein the support comprises a bottom plate, guide shafts and a top plate, the guide shaft is vertically fixed on the bottom plate, and the top plate is slidably arranged on the guide shaft; the container comprises a container body and two spiral spring pieces coaxially arranged in the container body, the container body is fixed on the bottom plate, the bottoms of the two spiral spring pieces are fixed to the bottom of the container, the two spiral spring pieces are not in contact with each other and are spaced by 180°; the top of the connecting structure is fixedly connected with the top plate, and the bottom of the connecting structure is fixedly connected with the tops of the two spiral spring pieces.

Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example communication method includes receiving first indication information by a first communications device from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first resource for sidelink communication. The first communications device sends the first data to a second communications device. The first communications device receives second indication information from the network device, where the second indication information is used to determine a second resource for transmitting feedback information. The first communications device receives feedback information of the first data from the second communications device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for path planning of an unmanned vehicle in a three-dimensional terrain and relates to the technical field of path planning. The method includes building a random tree with an initial point of a to-be-planned path as a node; generating a random node based on a goal bias strategy and a multi-sampling strategy; determining a node in the random tree and with a minimum two-dimensional distance from the random node as a nearest node; determining a direction from the nearest node to the random node as an extension direction; determining a point corresponding to a preset step length as a to-be-determined node in the extension direction with the nearest node as a starting point; and updating the random tree or determining a path cut-off random tree through elevation detection and path search cut-off detection, so as to determine the to-be-planned path.

Abstract: Methods, computer readable media and systems for acoustic sensing are provided. The system for acoustic sensing includes an acoustic sensing controller configured to receive signals from an active noise cancellation earphone device. The acoustic sensing controller is further configured to process the signals to determine device wearing status acoustic characteristics and actively correct the signals in response to the device wearing status acoustic characteristics, the device wearing status acoustic characteristics including ear canal occlusion.

Abstract: Disclosed is an active control Stewart vibration damping platform, including a load-bearing platform, a base, and six telescopic rods. Each telescopic rod includes a driving motor, a rotating shall, a sleeve, and a moving rod. One end, away from the driving motor, of the rotating shaft is provided with a cylindrical cavity, one end of the moving rod penetrates through the cylindrical cavity, and the sleeve is sleeved outside the rotating shall. The rotating shaft is in running lit with the sleeve through a first bearing, and the moving rod is in sliding fit with the sleeve through a second bearing. The moving rod and the rotating shaft are respectively provided with a spiral permanent magnet. The spiral permanent magnet on the rotating shaft can drive the moving rod to move in an axial direction of the rotating shaft through the spiral permanent magnet on the moving rod when rotating.

Abstract: A broadcast signaling method performed by a network device having a protocol stack of with first and second protocol layers where the second protocol layer is below the first protocol layer, the method including generating, by the network device, first information at the first protocol layer, generating, by the network device, second information at the second protocol layer, where the second information is used to determine a time-frequency resource corresponding to one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), processing, by the network device, the first information and the second information at the second protocol layer, and sending, by the network device to a terminal device by using a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in the one or more SSBs, data obtained after second protocol layer processing.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes: a first gate-all-around (GAA) transistor disposed in the first region, including a first nanowire or nanosheet of at least one first layer, the at least one first layer and the substrate form a first group, among which all pairs of adjacent layers are separated by first distances, respectively; and a second GAA transistor disposed in the second region, including a second nanowire or nanosheet of at least two second layers, the at least two second layers and the substrate form a second group, among which the second layers are separated by second distances, respectively; where a minimum first distance is greater than a maximum second distance, and a quantity of the at least one first layer is less than a quantity of the at least two second layers.

Abstract: This application discloses a beam training method, a communication device, a chip system, and a storage medium. The method includes: performing, by a transmit device, clear channel assessment on sectors corresponding to an antenna of the transmit device; and sending, by the transmit device in a sector whose result of clear channel assessment is idle, a training signal to a receive device, where the training signal is used to perform beamforming training on the antenna. With this solution, beamforming training efficiency can be improved and resource utilization can be increased.

Abstract: A data transmission method and a related device. The method includes an OLT obtains a first uplink transmission parameter of a first terminal corresponding to a first ONU. Then the OLT determines, based on the first uplink transmission parameter, a cycle period for performing data transmission with the first ONU, where each cycle period includes an uplink time window and a downlink time window, the uplink time window includes a first uplink transmission timeslot used by the first ONU to send uplink data, and the downlink time window is used by the OLT to send downlink data. Then the OLT sends an uplink grant message to the first ONU.

Abstract: Systems and methods for simultaneously recovering and separate sounds from multiple sources using Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) signals are described. In one embodiment, a device can be configured for generating an audio signal based on audio source ranging using ultrawideband signals. In an embodiment the device includes, a transmitter circuitry, a receiver circuitry, memory and a processor. The processor configured to generate a radio signal. The radio signal including an ultra-wideband Gaussian pulse modulated on a radio-frequency carrier. The processor further configured to transmit the radio signal using the transmitter circuitry, receive one or more backscattered signals at the receiver circuitry, demodulate the one or more backscattered signals to generate one or more baseband signals, and generate a set of data frames based on the one or more baseband signals.

Abstract: A wheel-legged amphibious mobile robot with a variable attack angle, which belongs to the technical field of robot structure technology. The robot includes three parts: motion unit, body trunk and power unit. As a key structure, the motion unit mainly includes a moving mechanism, a wheel assembly, a telescopic mechanism and a transmission device. The robot drives the telescopic mechanism to reciprocate linearly through a gear and rack set, and pushes “legs” to expand and retract, so as to realize a mutual switching between a wheeled mode and a gait mode. Under transmission of bevel gear set, the blades can rotate at any same angle at the same time, to change the attack angle and realize the steering. The robot provided by the present disclosure can effectively adapt to a complex and harsh amphibious environment, and meet a series of operation requirements such as rapid movement, obstacle climbing, underwater steering.

Abstract: The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to an optical transceiver, employing a first optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) module configured to generate a first OTDR signal, and a second OTDR signal, the second OTDR signal being a delayed version of the first OTDR signal, a first optical supervisory channel (OSC) transmitter configured to generate a first OSC signal, and a second OSC signal, the second OSC signal being a delayed version of the first OSC signal, a first wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) configured to transmit the first OSC signal interleaved with the first OTDR signal on a first optical fiber and a second WDM configured to transmit the second OSC signal interleaved with the second OTDR signal on a second optical fiber.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for spatiotemporal graph modelling of road users in observed frames of an environment in which an autonomous vehicle operates (i.e. a traffic scene), clustering of the road users into categories, and providing the spatiotemporal graph to a trained graphical convolutional neural network (GNN) to predict a future pedestrian action. The future pedestrian action can be: one of the pedestrian will cross a road and the pedestrian will not cross the road. The spatiotemporal graph includes a better understanding of the observed frames (i.e. traffic scene).

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate and a channel portion. The channel portion includes a first portion including a fin-shaped structure protruding with respect to the substrate and a second portion located above the first portion and spaced apart from the first portion. The second portion includes one or more nanowires or nanosheets spaced apart from each other. Source/drain portions are arranged on two opposite sides of the channel portion in a first direction and in contact with the channel portion. A gate stack extends on the substrate in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, so as to intersect with the channel portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal conditioning system for improving low-frequency measurement performance of an acceleration sensor. The signal conditioning system includes: a charge integration circuit, a high-pass filter circuit, a lead-lag network, an anti-aliasing filter circuit, and a gain adjustment circuit. An input terminal of the charge integration circuit is connected to the acceleration sensor, an output terminal of the charge integration circuit is connected to an input terminal of the high-pass filter circuit, an output terminal of the high-pass filter circuit is connected to an input terminal of the lead-lag network, an output terminal of the lead-lag network is connected to an input terminal of the anti-aliasing filter circuit, and an output terminal of the anti-aliasing filter circuit is connected to an input terminal of the gain adjustment circuit.

Abstract: A real-time service playback method includes, during running a real-time service, in response to receiving an input instruction, obtaining a playback speed and a time coordinate of a first anchor point, the time coordinate of the first anchor point being a start point of playback, and in response to the input instruction, stopping playing a real-time content of the real-time service, based on the time coordinate of the first anchor point, calculating a time coordinate of a second anchor point in future, and reading and storing a real-time content between a time coordinate value of the first anchor point and a time coordinate value of the second anchor point to play according to the playback speed until the playback reaches the time coordinate value of the second anchor point to resume the real-time service. The time coordinate of the second anchor point is an end point of the playback.

Abstract: A multi-bit resolution sub-pipeline structure for measuring a jump magnitude of a transmission curve, comprising: a sub-analog-to-digital converter having n-bit resolution configured to quantize input analog voltage signals and output digital voltage signals; a sub-digital-to-analog converter having n-bit resolution configured to convert the digital voltage signals output by the sub-analog-to-digital converter into corresponding analog voltage signals; a decoder having n-bit resolution configured to decode an n-bit binary input signal; and a switched-capacitor amplification unit configured to, when in a normal mode, perform sampling and residue amplification on the input analog voltage signals; and when in a test mode, measure the jump magnitude of the transmission curve corresponding to each decision level. Magnitude measurement of a transmission curve is performed within 2n clock periods, th and a measurement result is sent to a back-end digital domain of the A/D converter for correction.

Abstract: This application discloses an optical signal control method and apparatus, and belongs to the optical communication field. The apparatus includes: a light source, configured to output a first optical signal; an optical switch module, configured to receive the first optical signal and an external second optical signal, and output a third optical signal; and a detection module, configured to detect whether a power change of the second optical signal on at least one wavelength channel is greater than a preset power change threshold, if so, the optical switch module adjusts on/off states of at least one wavelength channel of the received first optical signal and the at least one wavelength channel of the received second optical signal, so that an adjusted first optical signal and an adjusted second optical signal are combined to obtain the third optical signal.

Abstract: As described herein, a N-Gram index may be created and the search may be conducted using the index, which will lead to faster search results. The N-Gram index may also include partial N-Gram components to capture more relevant data. Moreover, as described herein, the search may also take into account recent log data that has not yet been indexed. Techniques for building an index store using log data and efficiently searching the index store and log data to process search requests are described herein.