Abstract: First shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a sample unit including a sample is generated based on a result of three-dimensional shape measurement of the sample. Second shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a structure which exists in a sample chamber is generated. Movement of the sample unit is controlled based on the first shape data and the second shape data such that collision of the sample unit with the structure does not occur.

Abstract: First shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a sample unit including a sample is generated based on a result of three-dimensional shape measurement of the sample. Second shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of a structure which exists in a sample chamber is generated. Movement of the sample unit is controlled based on the first shape data and the second shape data such that collision of the sample unit with the structure does not occur.

Abstract: A power supply controller includes a first port, a second port, and a controller. The first port is connected to a power supply device. The second port is connected to a first relay node device via a wired path. The controller performs control to supply power received from the power supply device from the second port to the first relay node device. The controller performs control to generate a power-on instruction frame for instructing the first relay node device started by receiving power supply to start power supply from a port included in the first relay node device to a second relay node device connected to the first relay node device via a wired path. The controller performs control to transmit the generated power-on instruction frame from the second port.

Abstract: A routing method performed by node equipment includes: receiving a first frame including a wait number, incrementing the wait number, and storing the incremented wait number as a local wait number; receiving a second frame including a wait number of a destination node equipment, and comparing the wait number in the second frame and the local wait number; transmitting the second frame to an adjacent node equipment having a larger wait number than the local wait number, when the wait number in the second frame is larger than the local wait number; and returning the second frame to a source node equipment of the second frame, when the wait number in the second frame is larger than the local wait number but there is no adjacent node equipment having a larger wait number than the local wait number.

Abstract: A power supply controller includes a first port, a second port, and a controller. The first port is connected to a power supply device. The second port is connected to a first relay node device via a wired path. The controller performs control to supply power received from the power supply device from the second port to the first relay node device. The controller performs control to generate a power-on instruction frame for instructing the first relay node device started by receiving power supply to start power supply from a port included in the first relay node device to a second relay node device connected to the first relay node device via a wired path. The controller performs control to transmit the generated power-on instruction frame from the second port.

Abstract: In a multiprocessor system in which a plurality of processors are managed by a management processor, and an access to a shared memory is controlled by a bus control device, the management processor or the bus control device provides to the processors time information synchronized at a time of a system start-up, and each of the processors collects its own running history information associated with the time information. Also, when detecting a fault, each of the processors stops a collection of its own running history information, and stops a collection of running history information of other processors by notifying the fault detection to the other processors. Each of the processors, after having stopped the collection of its own running history information, stores the running history information in a nonvolatile memory provided other than the shared memory.

Abstract: A data signal transmission control apparatus includes a connection unit for connecting a plurality of first lines and any one of at least one second line that are accommodated in a switching unit between the first lines and the second lines for transmitting a speech signal; a control unit for controlling the connection operation of the connection unit; and an isolation/insertion unit for isolating a data signal, flowing on one of the first and second lines connected by the connection unit, from the one line and inserting the data signal isolated from the one line onto the other line.