Abstract: A servo system is used. The servo system includes: a safety driver including a drive signal generation circuit which generates a drive signal driving the drive device based on an action command from a standard PLC via a communication line and a feedback signal from the drive device, a drive signal path through which the drive signal is transmitted from the drive signal generation circuit to the drive device, and a safety stop circuit which cuts off the drive signal path when a stop instruction signal is input; a safety controller, connected with the safety driver by a control signal line and generating the stop instruction signal in response to an input of an operator and outputting the stop instruction signal; and a safety communication unit generating the stop instruction signal in response to an instruction from a safety PLC via the communication line and outputting the stop instruction signal.

Abstract: A sensor management unit receives, from at least one sensor device installed external to the sensor management unit, sensing data generated by the sensor device monitoring a target. The sensing data includes background noise data representing noise from a cause other than the target. The sensor management unit includes a background noise data obtaining unit that obtains the background noise data, a reliability determination unit that determines a reliability of the sensing data based on the background noise data, and a determination result output unit that outputs a result of the determination by the reliability determination unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the invention is configured to: determine whether or not first biological information of a measurement subject meets a first condition, the first biological information being measured in a first period; determine, when the first biological information meets the first condition, whether or not a number of times, by which the first biological information meets the first condition with respect to the measurement subject, exceeds a first value; select a first message when the first value is not exceeded; select a second message when the first value is exceeded.

Abstract: A communication system includes first transmission means for transmitting first data to be used for control of a manufacturing apparatus or a production facility every predetermined cycle and second transmission means for transmitting, during a period in which the first data is not being transmitted, second data which should he delivered to a destination within a designated time period. The second transmission means includes determination means for determining whether or not the second data can be delivered to the destination through a first transmission path over a network within the designated time period and path changing means for changing, when it is determined that the second data cannot he delivered to the destination within the designated time period, a path to transmit at least a part of the second data to the destination through a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over the network.

Abstract: A sensor device transmits, to an external device installed external to the sensor device, sensing data generated from monitoring a target, and includes a sensor unit that generates sensing data including background noise data. The background noise data represents noise from a cause other than the target. The sensor device further includes an extraction unit that extracts the background noise data from the sensing data, and a transmission unit that transmits the background noise data extracted by the extraction unit to the external device.

Abstract: A method for initializing a computerized system by executing a boot-script having an associated private security key, wherein the computerized system comprises a first secure storage device for storing a plurality of public keys each having a public key index assigned thereto and a second secure storage device for storing a current key index, wherein the boot-script is only executed if a public key selected from the plurality of public keys is uniquely related to the private security key such as to form a unique key pair with the private security key and has a booting key index having a predetermined relationship with the current key index.

Abstract: A program is simply stored in a storage unit of a programmable controller. A substrate of the programmable controller includes an interface unit to which an external device having input and output terminals is detachably attached and a first storage unit. The interface unit includes a processor circuit and connector terminals to which the input and output terminals of the external device are able to be connected. The method includes: forming a predetermined circuit by connecting the input and output terminals of the external device to the connector terminals; reading a program or data of the programmable controller from a second storage unit in which the program or data is stored and storing the read program or data in the first storage unit; and causing the processor circuit to start the step of reading and storing the program or data when the predetermined circuit has been formed.

Abstract: A control device, a control program and a control system are provided. The control device includes: a first identification device for giving a first command as a command value to a drive device and determining a torque required for the controlled object to execute the first command; a second identification device for giving a second command as the command value and a third command as a compensation command to the drive device and determining a preceding switching time based on a response from the controlled object; a command value updating device for sequentially updating the command value based on a predetermined target trajectory; and a compensation command updating device for sequentially updating the compensation command based on the command value. The compensation command updating device updates the compensation command according to a moving direction after a reversal of the moving direction of the controlled object in the target trajectory.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic component having electrodes, a resin molded body embedding the electronic component such that the electrodes are exposed, a resin member interposed between the resin molded body and the electronic component and exposed from the resin molded body, and wires formed on the resin molded body and the resin member and respectively connected to the electrodes. A thermal expansion coefficient of the resin member is lower than a thermal expansion coefficient of the resin molded body and is higher than a thermal expansion coefficient of the electrodes.

Abstract: An image processing system includes a central processing unit (CPU), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a storage in which a library including plural pieces of image processing executed by the CPU or the FPGA is stored, an operation unit configured to receive an operation to select at least one pieces of image processing from the library and an operation to designate execution order for each piece of selection target image processing selected by the selection operation; and a display configured to display each piece of selection target image processing in the execution order. The operation unit further receives an operation to designate one of the CPU and the FPGA as an execution subject for each piece of selection target image processing displayed on the display.

Abstract: An imaging system capable of stably focusing on a desired location on a subject is provided. An imaging system includes a setting part that sets a search range of an autofocus part in a predetermined range according to an input to an input device. The setting part causes a display device to display a figure indicating a relationship between a focal position of an optical system and an evaluation value indicating an in-focus degree, and an image indicated by an image signal when the optical system has been adjusted to a focal position designated on a figure to support an input of the search range to the input device.

Abstract: This control system is provided with a controller, a controller which is a loopback communication device, a first communication route, and a second communication route. The controller generates and transmits control frames to slave devices. The controller performs loopback communication of the control frames. In the first communication route, multiple slave devices are connected between the controller and the controller using communication cables. In the second communication route, the first controller and the second controller are connected over a communication cable.

Abstract: Provided is a display device that prevents generation of stray light and has excellent visibility. In a display device (1) that makes an image light ray enter from an end face of a light guide plate (14) and emits the image light ray, reflected or refracted by each of a plurality of emission structures (prisms 141) provided on the light guide plate, from a light exit surface (14c) of the light guide plate, a light reflection layer or a light absorption layer is formed on at least one optical surface among optical surfaces provided on the emission structure (the prism 141) except for an optical surface that reflects or refracts the image light ray.

Abstract: Power consumption of a seismic sensor is suppressed. The seismic sensor is operated in a power-saving mode and a measuring mode in which the power consumption is larger than that of the power-saving mode. The seismic sensor includes: a measuring part configured to measure an acceleration; an index calculator configured to transition from the power-saving mode to the measuring mode to calculate an index value indicating a size of an earthquake when the acceleration measured with the measuring part exceeds a first threshold; and a threshold adjuster configured to change the first threshold so as to increase the first threshold relative to a predetermined reference value when a tendency of the acceleration measured with the measuring part satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An exercise information measurement apparatus including: an exercise information generation unit that generates exercise information based on an output of a bodily motion detection unit that detects a bodily motion; a storage unit that stores exercise model data in which an increment of the exercise information is associated with each time segment obtained by dividing a pre-set time period (24 hours); an integration value calculation unit that calculates an integration value of the increment of the exercise information corresponding to a period of time from a particular time to a current time in the exercise model data; and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the exercise information generated by the exercise information generation unit during the period of time from the particular time to the current time and the integration value.

Abstract: In order to control driving a moving body back and forth a driving-device control apparatus including a communication unit and a control unit receives a control command from a host controller and controls a driving device to drive a moving body back and forth based on the control command. The communication unit receives the control command including a round-trip instruction for causing the moving body to operate back and forth from the host controller. The control unit controls the driving device to operate the moving body back and forth based on instructions in the control command when the control command includes the round-trip instruction.

Abstract: A new configuration for transmitting and receiving multiple types of data having different characteristics using a common communication line is provided. An arithmetic operation device configuring a control apparatus includes: a communication circuit exchanging data with one or multiple functional units through a communication line; a processor that executes a first process used for issuing a first request for transmitting or receiving data through the communication line in every period set in advance and a second process of issuing a second request for transmitting data through the communication line when a condition set in advance is satisfied; and a control circuit that starts to operate the communication circuit in response to the first request and the second request issued by the processor. The control circuit includes a unit that sets a prohibition period in which the second request is invalidated in association with an execution period of the first process.

Abstract: A control parameter is adjusted without the need to operate a driver of a control target. A control device (10) includes a model identification unit (12), a parameter determination unit (132), a data evaluation unit (131) and an operation data calculation unit (133). The model identification unit (12) identifies a physical model of an operation of the control target. The operation data calculation unit (133) calculates operation data by using the physical model and the control parameter. The data evaluation unit (131) calculates an evaluation value by using normative data of the operation of the control target and the operation data. The parameter determination unit (132) determines the control parameter by using the evaluation value.

Abstract: In a control device which can execute a first program entirely scanned in each control cycle to update a command value, and a sequentially interpreted second program, an environment for realizing higher control performance is provided. The control device includes a first program execution part scanning the entire first program in each control cycle to update a command value and a second program execution part updating the command value in each control cycle according to a sequentially interpreted second program. The second program execution part includes an interpreter generating an intermediate code and a command value operation part calculating the command value in each control cycle according to the intermediate code. The command value operation part outputs the command value in each control cycle so that the command value can be used in other processes.

Abstract: An ultrasonic vibrator driving apparatus applies a sine-waveform alternating voltage as a drive voltage via a conversion circuit to an ultrasonic vibrator that has a unique resonance frequency. A first current detector that detects a first current that flows from the drive voltage generator to the conversion circuit and a second current detector that detects a second current that flows from the conversion circuit to the ultrasonic vibrator are included. A frequency controller performs control on the drive voltage generator to change the frequency of a square-waveform alternating voltage so that the difference between the first current and the second current is reduced or approaches a minimum.