Abstract: A protection device for an interface between a cable, in particular for a high voltage cable, and a connector element, particularly a high voltage connector, comprising: a first shell element, and a second shell element, wherein the first shell element and the second shell element are connectable by a clip connection, a first axial end area, which is configured to be connected to a connector element, and a second axial end area, which is configured to be connected to a cable.

Abstract: A sensor device includes a housing frame defining a first opening and a second opening; a sensing element having first and second sides is disposed within the housing frame and defines therein a first cavity at its first site and a second cavity at its second site, wherein the sensing element determines a differential pressure between the first and second sides; a first corrugated diaphragm configured to close the first opening to seal the first cavity, and a second corrugated diaphragm configured to close the second opening to seal the second cavity; and an inert hydraulic fluid disposed within the first and second cavities that fluidly couples an external pressure acting on the respective corrugated diaphragm to the respective side of the sensing element, wherein the first corrugated diaphragm and the second corrugated diaphragm is built by a conformal coating process using a substrate with structured surface.

Abstract: A system for transferring heat generated in an electrical enclosure includes run-in buses, a thermally conductive plate, and at least one contact assembly secured to the plate. Each pair of adjacent run-in buses is separated by a space. The plate has at least one opening extending therethrough, and the plate receives the run-in buses through the at least one opening. The at least one contact assembly has spaced apart fingers that partially cover the at least one opening of the plate, and adjacent fingers define a slot. Each of the fingers is located in a space between adjacent run-in buses, and each of the run-in buses is located in a slot when the fingers are located in the spaces between adjacent run-in buses. The run-in buses and contact assembly fingers are oriented in an interleaved pattern.

Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter for monitoring a flow rate of a fluid includes a conduit and an electromagnetic assembly coupled to the conduit to generate a magnetic field inside the conduit. A ring assembly modifies a velocity profile of fluid arranged on an inner liner wall of the conduit. A position of the ring assembly is adjustable along the inner liner wall to varyingly reform the velocity profile of the fluid. A pair of electrodes mounted to the conduit detects induced voltage generated within the reformed fluid due to the magnetic field. The flow rate of the fluid is determined based on the induced voltage.

Abstract: A user interface apparatus for controlling a marine vessel. The apparatus includes concentric positioned mechanical stick, block and ring for setting a control parameter, electric motors, and electric visual elements. The apparatus also includes one or more processors configured to operate the user interface apparatus in a plurality of operation modes, each operation mode with a distinct configuration, retrieve distinct settings for the tactile feedback and/or the visual feedback, and control the tactile feedback given by the one or more electric motors and/or the visual feedback given by the one or more electric visual elements based on the retrieved distinct settings during setting a selected control parameter mapped to the mechanical stick, block or ring.

Abstract: A method includes determining a movement of a robot arm in which a joint while being rotated from a start angle to an end angle, is subject to a constant gravity-induced torque; controlling execution of the movement, and, in the movement, controlling the joint to rotate from the start angle to the end angle at a constant speed; detecting speed fluctuations of the joint while it is being rotated from the start angle to the end angle; and estimating the kinematic error based on the speed fluctuations.

Abstract: A method for reducing kinematic error in a joint includes providing an acceleration sensor; selecting a trajectory to be followed by the acceleration sensor; estimating expected acceleration values the sensor will experience along the trajectory; outputting initial commands for moving the sensor along the trajectory; obtaining corrected commands by adding to a parameter specified in an initial command a kinematic error correction and inputting the corrected commands into a joint controller; recording acceleration values to which the sensor is subject while moving according to the corrected commands; judging whether a deviation between the expected acceleration values and the recorded acceleration values exceeds a predetermined threshold, and when the deviation is judged to exceed the threshold, modifying the kinematic error correction so as to reduce the deviation.

Abstract: A system to detect a status of a switching semiconductor in a switching circuit is provided. The system includes the switching semiconductor, an actuator, wherein the actuator is electrically coupled to a first end of the switching semiconductor, a resistor electrically coupled to a second end of the switching semiconductor, a switching device electrically coupled to the resistor, a detector connected to a collector terminal of the bi-polar junction transistor, and a processor. The processor is configured to provide a trigger voltage to the switching semiconductor, wherein the trigger voltage activates the switching semiconductor and induces current flow from the actuator through the resistor via the switching semiconductor. The processor activates the switching device, based on the activated switching semiconductor and detects a voltage at a collector terminal of the switching device. The processor determines the status of the switching semiconductor based on the detected voltage.

Abstract: A system for controlling carbon sequestration includes at least one emitter, at least one reservoir connected over a pipeline with the at least one emitter and configured to receive and store process fluid; at least one compressor unit configured to control a downstream pressure of the process fluid; at least one valve configured to control a flow of the process fluid; and an optimizer unit configured to: determine emitter output data by continuously logging emitter output levels of the process fluid of the of at least one emitter, determine future emitter output data using the determined emitter output data, and determine optimized control set-points for controlling the sequestration of the process fluid using the determined future emitter output data; wherein the optimized control set-points comprise compressor unit set-points for controlling the at least one compressor, and valve set-points for controlling the at least one valve.

Abstract: An industrial automation system comprises multiple process components, each categorizable into a cohort corresponding to a cohorting criterion. Some process components are configured to perform a machine learning (ML) process. A process component hosts at least a part of an ML model per cohort and communicates the ML model parameters among the multiple process components. The system assigns one or more of the process components to one of the cohorts according to the cohorting criterion; attributes the ML model parameters of a process component in a selected one of the cohorts to the ML model belonging to the selected cohort; determines a proximity value of each pair of cohorts; assigns a pair of cohorts to a respective neighboring cohort group when the proximity value meets a predetermined proximity criterion; and shares the ML model related data between process components belonging to the same neighboring cohort group.

Abstract: A system for calibrating ground fault threshold using auto-monitoring circuit, the system is provided. The system includes a circuit board comprising a self-injection circuit, a rectified voltage detection circuit, and a controller. The controller is configured to provide, using the self-injection circuit, a trigger pulse as input to the self-injection circuit. The rectified voltage detection circuit is used to measure a rectified voltage from the current transformer, where the rectified voltage is based on an AC voltage powering the circuit board. Based on the rectified voltage a series resistor in a current path, an expected current through the current transformer is determined. The expected current is converted to a digital value using an analog to digital converter. A tolerance level of the current transformer is determined based on the digital value.

Abstract: A method for controlling a triode for alternating current (TRIAC), applied to a device, is provided. A voltage is connected to an anode of the TRIAC, and a scaled down voltage is fed into an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) pin of the device. The method includes (1) tracking the voltage at the anode of the TRIAC; (2) applying a trigger pulse to a gate of the TRIAC for a preset time based on the voltage at the anode of the TRIAC reaching a threshold; and (3) detecting whether there is a dip that corresponds to the preset time in the scaled down voltage at the ADC pin of the device. The method further includes, in response to not detecting a dip corresponding to the preset time in the scaled down voltage at the ADC pin, (4) waiting an amount of time; and (5) repeating the steps (1)-(3).

Abstract: A method includes providing a kinematic correction, outputting a first drive control signal specifying a motor speed having a first kinematic correction output based on a first parameter vector; extracting a frequency component and determining a first feedback vector; outputting to the motor a second drive control signal specifying a motor speed as a sum of the standard speed and a second kinematic correction output based on a second parameter vector; extracting a frequency component and determining a second feedback vector defining a second feedback amplitude and a second feedback phase; subtracting the first feedback vector from the second feedback vector to obtain a feedback difference vector; transforming the feedback difference vector into a difference; applying the transformation to the second feedback vector to obtain a third parameter vector; and programming the kinematic correction generator using the third parameter vector.

Abstract: A computer-implemented resource management method for modular plants may include: receiving data identifying a required module type to be assembled into the modular plant as part of a module pipeline including one or more modules; and executing an optimization algorithm to select, from a plurality of modules having the required module type, a module for inclusion in the module pipeline on the basis of one or more predetermined optimization criteria.

Abstract: Described herein is method for controlling an electrical converter, the electrical converter converting an input voltage (vin) into a multi-level output voltage (vout), the method incudes: determining an optimized pule pattern (u(x)); and determining switching states from the optimized pulse pattern (u(x)) and applying the switching states to semiconductor switches of the electrical converter, such that the multi-level output voltage (vout) is generated, where the optimized pulse pattern (u(x)) includes a plurality of switching transitions (?u), each switching transition (?ui) encoding a transition between two different levels of the multi-level output voltage (vout), at a switching angle (xi), where the optimized pulse pattern (u(x)) is determined by optimizing a cost function, where the cost function J(x)=?uTA(x)?u is a cost matrix A(x), and where each entry of the cost matrix A(x) depends on polynomials into which the switching angles (xi) are input.

Abstract: A device for positioning a shadow mask includes a mask application tool, the mask application tool comprising an inner body comprising, at an end surface of the inner body, one or more magnets. The mask application tool further comprises a hollow outer body for receiving the inner body, the outer body comprising, at an end surface of the outer body, a mask socket and one or more guide elements for positioning the mask application tool on a substrate tray.

Abstract: A method of handling one or more errors in a microgrid includes measuring an attribute of a device within the microgrid for a measurement cycle and comparing the measured attribute of the device with a predetermined threshold attribute value. The presence of an error associated with the device is detected based on the comparison of the measured attribute with the predetermined threshold attribute value. An error signal is created that includes a numerical sequence having at least three digits, the numerical sequence identifying the measured attribute and the device within the microgrid.

Abstract: A computer system for interoperable data exchange between a plurality of information systems via a digital representation service associated with a digital representation of a physical device with each information system being at least one of an information source and an information consumer regarding data associated with the physical device, the digital representation being a virtual entity replicating data of the physical device and data associated with the device life cycle, includes: at least one digital representation service for the physical device, the at least one digital representation service having: an interface for receiving a request for device related data; a management module for generating and updating the digital representation of the device, the digital representation storing a plurality of data models with each stored data model being associated with a particular information system; and a semantic relations library storing semantic relations between model element types from stored data mode