Abstract: A load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in a storage system having a grid framework structure supporting a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern, the load handling device including: a wheel assembly driven by a drive mechanism; a lifting device for lifting a storage container; a position detection detector; and a controller configured to control movement of the load handling device by: a) determining a feedforward torque demand on the wheel assembly at a given time from a predetermined motion control profile; and b) compensating the feedforward torque demand from a measured position of the load handling device on the grid structure at the given time to calculate a torque demand on the wheel assembly.

Abstract: A method for generating a motion control profile having an acceleration and a deceleration phase to control motion of a load handling device on a grid structure including a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern. The motion control profile is generated by receiving a plurality of constraints for the motion control profile, including a plurality of jerk constraints; selectively applying the jerk constraints for controlling an acceleration reference and a velocity reference in the acceleration phase; and selectively applying the jerk constraints for controlling a deceleration reference and a velocity reference in the deceleration phase, such that a magnitude of the acceleration reference and the velocity reference is substantially zero at a second position of the load handling device.

Abstract: A charge unit for charging a robotic load handling device operative on a grid framework structure including a plurality of grid members arranged in a grid pattern is provided. The charge unit including a charge providing head for coupling with a charge receiving head of the robotic load handling device, a plurality of profiled sections, and a cartridge for interfacing with a hoist element of the robotic load handling device. The cartridge is moveable along the plurality of profiled sections so as to effect vertical movement of the charge providing head relative to the charge receiving head of the robotic load handling device.

Abstract: A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.

Abstract: A method at a network element for processing a first message destined for an intelligent transportation system station, the method including receiving from a sending entity, or generating, the first message at the network element; based on a source or contents of the first message, performing one of: discarding the first message; or modifying the first message to provide an indication to the intelligent transportation system station of checks the intelligent transportation system does not need to perform, thereby creating a second message; and forwarding the second message to the intelligent transportation system station.

Abstract: The present specification provides, amongst other things, a method and system for network interaction between computing devices. In one embodiment a wireless client machine is provided that includes a mini web-browser that is configured to access a secure web-page from a web-server. The secure web-page includes an interactive form. The wireless client machine is also configured to access a schema that corresponds to the secure web-page. The wireless client machine is configured to render the secure web-page using the contents of the schema.

Abstract: Described herein is a system and method in a user equipment (UE) supporting registration using third generation partnership project (3GPP) access and using non-3GPP access, the method comprising storing, in a memory of the UE, first emergency information received using first registration procedures; receiving, by the UE, a REGISTRATION ACCEPT message using second registration procedures via non-3GPP access; and keeping, in the memory, the first emergency information after receiving the REGISTRATION ACCEPT message.

Abstract: A control device is provided to more quickly and efficiently verify which item has been grasped by a robot system whilst also providing a solution which is scalable. Verification of the item which has been grasped is achieved by measuring a dynamics property of the item. A control unit for operation with a robot system a sensor unit, the robot system arranged to grasp an item from a container. The control unit includes a verification unit arranged to receive identifying information of an item expected to be in the container, receive information from the sensor unit indicative of a dynamics property of the item grasped by the robot system and verify that the item grasped by the robot system matches the item expected to be in the container based on the received identifying information and the received dynamics property information.

Abstract: The described invention relates to tick chemokine binding polypeptides (tick CKBPs, typically tick Evasins) including hybrid CKBPs based on sequences from two or more tick CKBPs, and the uses of such polypeptides in inhibition of chemokines or detection of chemokine expression and inflammation.

Abstract: A gripping device for being suspended from a load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in stacks in a grid storage structure including a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern above the stacks of containers. The gripping device includes a frame; a gripping mechanism mounted on the frame configured to releasably grip a container from below the frame; a fixing device mounted on the frame configured to fix a free end of a reeled cable; and a cable tensioner configured to put the cable under tension in use. The cable tensioner includes a track; a carriage slidably mounted on the track; and a biasing device configured to bias the carriage.

Abstract: A microvalve comprising a hard base 14, a clamping plate 12, an inlet port 96, 98, an outlet port 96, 98, a membrane 16, a ball bearing 18 and a drive head 20; wherein the hard base comprises a recess over which the membrane is clamped by the clamping plate, the recess defining a cup with a generally spherical cap shaped surface and a perimeter, both of the inlet and outlet ports being in the recess, and at least one of them being in the generally spherical cap shaped surface; wherein the membrane extends across the recess and is clamped thereover, and it is flexible for enabling the unclamped part of it to be flexed into the recess by the ball bearing in the clamping plate on the other side of the membrane to the recess upon actuation by the drive head behind the ball bearing for selective driving of the ball bearing against the membrane to flex the membrane into the recess as the membrane flexes around part of the ball bearing to move the membrane from a condition in which both ports are open to a port clo

Abstract: A method of detecting a membrane protein by mass spectrometry comprises: (a) providing a solution comprising a native membrane vesicle having a lipid bilayer to which said membrane protein is attached; (b) sonicating the vesicle in the presence of a mass spectrometry-compatible buffer; (c) providing a mass spectrometer comprising a nanoelectrospray ionisation source, a mass analyser and a detector; (d) vaporising the sonicated solution using the nanoelectrospray ionisation source under conditions such that the membrane protein is released from the vesicle; (e) ionising the membrane protein; (f) resolving the ionised membrane protein using the mass analyser; and (g) detecting the resolved membrane protein using the detector. Also provided are solutions comprising sonicated vesicles for use in mass spectrometry methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transporting device for a storage system which maximises storage capacity of the storage system whilst remaining scalable and avoiding overheads. The transporting device includes a frame having a Z-direction track and a tray for supporting the container. The tray includes an X-direction movement unit arranged to move the container in an X-direction, a Y-direction movement unit arranged to move the container in a Y-direction and a Z-direction movement unit arranged to move the tray in a Z-direction by way of interaction with the Z-direction track. The transporting device can include a frame having a Z-direction track and a first movement unit arranged to move the container in an X-direction and/or a Z-direction by with the Z-direction track. A second movement unit is arranged to move the container in a Y-direction and/or a Z-direction.

Abstract: A control device is provided to reliably locate objects and calculate appropriate grasp points for each object to thereby effectively control a robot system. grasp point calculation is based on, at least, properties of a surface of the object to be grasped by the robot system to more effectively calculate a grasp point for the surface of the object An organised point cloud generator and a robot system having a suction cup end are to generate an organised point cloud of a storage The robot system can grasp the object from the storage means. Normals of the organised point cloud and principal curvatures of the organised point cloud can be calculated. A grasp point can be calculated for the suction cup end effector of the robot system to grasp an object based on the organised point cloud, the calculated normal, the calculated principal curvatures, and a normal of a lower surface of the storage.

Abstract: A load handling device is disclosed for lifting and moving containers stacked in a storage system having a grid structure. The load handling device includes a container receiving space; a lifting mechanism arranged to lift a container; a vehicle body; a wheel assembly arranged to support the vehicle body, the wheel assembly having a first set of wheels and a second set of wheels; and a drive mechanism for selectively driving rotation of the first set of wheels and the second set of wheels. Each wheel includes a wheel positioning mechanism configured to rotate the wheel about a respective second axis of rotation to selectively lower or raise the first set of wheels or the second set of wheels to selectively engage or disengage the first set of wheels with a first set of grid members or the second set of wheels with a second set of grid members.

Abstract: Methods and devices for encoding a point cloud. A current node associated with a sub-volume is split into further sub-volumes, each further sub-volume corresponding to a child node of the current node, and, at the encoder, an occupancy pattern is determined for the current node based on occupancy status of the child nodes. A probability distribution is selected from among a plurality of probability distributions based on occupancy data for a plurality of nodes neighbouring the current node. The encoder entropy encodes the occupancy pattern based on the selected probability distribution to produce encoded data for the bitstream and updates the selected probability distribution. The decoder makes the same selection based on occupancy data for neighbouring nodes and entropy decodes the bitstream to reconstruct the occupancy pattern.

Abstract: The present invention describes a new functional biomarker of vascular inflammation and its use in predicting all-cause or cardiac mortality. The invention also provides a method for stratifying patients according to their risk of all-cause or cardiac mortality using data gathered from a computer tomography scans of a blood vessel to determine a specific combination of structural and functional biomarkers of vascular inflammation and disease.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, BPPV, comprises at least a processing unit and a feedback mechanism. The processing unit is configured to receive data indicative of a manoeuvre carried out by a user and to compare the received data to data indicative of a predefined manoeuvre for treating BPPV, and the feedback mechanism is configured to provide feedback to the user in accordance with the result of the comparison between the received data and the predefined manoeuvre. In some embodiments the feedback may be provided as audio output, for example in the form of intelligible speech descriptive of a similarity and/or a difference between the manoeuvre carried out by the user and the predefined manoeuvre. A corresponding method and computer program for performing the method are also disclosed.

Abstract: A gripping device for being suspended from a load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in stacks in a grid storage structure including a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern above the stacks of containers. The gripping device including a frame having a top side and a bottom side. The frame has a substantially downwardly extending peripheral wall defining at least one opening through the top side and bottom side of the frame. A gripping mechanism is mounted to the peripheral wall and is configured to releasably grip a container from below the frame.

Abstract: Certain examples described herein enable a robotic device to accurate map a surrounding environment. The robotic device uses an image capture device and at least one of the image capture device and the robotic device move within the environment. Measurements associated with movement of at least one of the image capture device and the robotic device are used to determine a state of the robotic device. The state of the robotic device models the image capture device and the robotic device with respect to a model of the environment that is constructed by a mapping engine. By comparing the state of the robotic device with a measured change in the robotic device, an accurate representation of the state of the robotic device may be constructed. This state is used by the mapping engine to update the model of the environment.