Abstract: An analyzer that analyzes a measurement sample on the basis of spectrum data obtained by irradiating the measurement sample with light and includes a total analysis value calculation part that, on the basis of the total analysis value of a reference sample of which the total analysis value of multiple predetermined components are preliminarily obtained, calculates the total analysis value of the multiple components in the measurement sample from the spectrum data of the measurement sample.

Abstract: A system and a method for calculating insulation resistance, and more particularly for calculating insulation resistance between a positive terminal and a negative terminal of a battery and a chassis based on voltages of the battery applied to a resistor that connects the positive terminal of the battery and the chassis and a resistor that connects the negative terminal of the battery and the chassis.

Abstract: To give reliability to statistical data on samples as discrete materials, a required sample-number determination device includes: a required sample number for each class acquisition unit configured to acquire a required sample number for each class Ni by the following Equation (1) based on a proportion P{circumflex over (?)}i, that is a ratio of the number of samples in each class to the number of the samples in the population; a temporary required sample number acquisition unit configured to acquire a temporary required sample number Nr, which may be a maximum value among the required sample numbers for each class Ni; and a required sample number determination unit configured to determine the temporary required sample number Nr as a true required sample number when the sample number reaches the temporary required sample number Nr or more, [ Mathematical ? ? 1 ] ? N i = ( K P ? i ) 2 ? P ^ i ? ( 1 - P ^ i ) ( 1 ) in Equation (1), ?i denotes a

Abstract: One variation of a method for testing contact quality of electrical-biosignal electrodes includes: outputting a drive signal through a driven electrode, the drive signal comprising an alternating-current component oscillating at a reference frequency and a direct-current component; reading a set of sense signals from a set of sense electrodes at a first time; calculating a first combination of the set of sense signals; calculating a first direct-current value comprising a combination of the first combination and the direct-current component of the drive signal at approximately the first time; and at a second time succeeding the first time, shifting the direct-current component of the drive signal output by the driven electrode to the first direct-current value.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a wireless control system, a wireless connection method, and a battery pack. The wireless control system includes a master and a plurality of slaves. Each slave wirelessly transmits a response packet including an ID of each slave when it receives a first command packet wirelessly transmitted from the master. The master sets, as a first group, each slave to which is allocated the ID included in each response packet wirelessly received within a predetermined period of time from a time point at which the first command packet was transmitted, and sets, as a second group, each slave not set as the first group. The master wirelessly transmits a second command packet including the ID of each slave belonging to the second group.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, via a processor, input data based upon received seismic data, migrating, via the processor, the input data via a pre-stack depth migration technique to generate migrated input data, encoding, via the processor, the input data via an encoding function as a migration attribute to generate encoded input data having a migration function that is non-monotonic versus an attribute related to the input data, migrating, via the processor, the encoded input data via the pre-stack depth migration technique to generate migrated encoded input data, and generating an estimated common image gather based upon the migrated input data and the migrated encoded input data. The method also includes generating a seismic image utilizing the estimated common image gather, wherein the seismic image represents hydrocarbons in a subsurface region of the Earth or subsurface drilling hazards.

Abstract: Systems and methods for data collection for an industrial heating process are disclosed. The system according to one embodiment can include a plurality of data collectors, including a swarm of self-organized data collector members, wherein the swarm of self-organized data collector members organize to enhance data collection based on at least one of capabilities and conditions of the data collector members of the swarm, and wherein the plurality of data collectors is coupled to a plurality of input channels for acquiring collected data relating to the industrial heating process, and a data acquisition and analysis circuit for receiving the collected data via the plurality of input channels and structured to analyze the received collected data using a neural network to monitor a plurality of conditions relating to the industrial heating process.

Abstract: Provided herein is a system and method for determining whether a sensor is calibrated and error handling of an uncalibrated sensor. The system comprises a sensor system comprising a sensor and an analysis engine configured to determine whether the sensor is uncalibrated. The system further comprises an error handling system configured to perform an error handling in response to the sensor system determining that the sensor is uncalibrated. The method comprises determining, by a sensor system, whether the sensor is uncalibrated, and performing, by an error handling system, an error handling in response to the sensor system determining that the sensor is uncalibrated.

Abstract: An array of sensors may be used to perform touchless registration of landmarks of a patient's face before an ENT procedure in order to associate those landmarks with pre-operative images in three-dimensional space, which is required for image guided surgery features such as navigation. Touchless or light-touch registration may improve accuracy by avoiding the need for substantial pressing against a patient's skin, which may deform and thereby introduce erroneous registration data. A sensor may also be implemented in forms other than an array such as handheld probe having a single sensor as opposed to an array.

Abstract: Provided herein is a system and method for calibrating sensors. The system comprises a sensor to capture first data, an analysis engine to determine whether the sensor is to be calibrated, and a communication engine to transmit the first data from the sensor to the analysis engine and transmit information to an error handling module that the sensor is to be calibrated, in response to a determination that the sensor is to be calibrated. The determining is based on a result from a first validation of the first data, which is based on a known parameter of the sensor or historical data.

Abstract: Anomaly detection and remedial recommendation techniques for improving the quality and yield of microelectronic products are provided. In one aspect, a method for quality and yield improvement via anomaly detection includes: collecting time series sensor data during individual steps of a semiconductor manufacturing process; calculating anomaly scores for each of the individual steps using a predictive model; and implementing changes to the semiconductor manufacturing process based on the anomaly scores. A system for quality and yield improvement via anomaly detection is also provided.

Abstract: A device for determining whether a defect of a component is determinable based on results of predefined diagnostic options, including: storing, in a matrix, parameters which, for each combination of one component defect and one diagnosis result, provide a measure of whether the respective defect is possible for the respective diagnosis result, the matrix rows being assigned to one of the diagnosis results, the matrix columns being assigned to one of the defects; selecting at least two matrix rows which, for a diagnosis result consistent with the defect to be identified, include a parameter greater than a predefined first limiting value; calculating a result vector by the element-wise multiplication of the selected matrix rows; and determining whether the result vector includes at least one element not smaller than a predefined second limiting value, the result vector elements, which are smaller, not being greater than a predefined third limiting value.

Abstract: Systems and methods for data collection in an industrial production line are disclosed. A systems may include a plurality of data collectors, including a swarm of self-organized data collector members, wherein the swarm of self-organized data collector members organize to enhance data collection based on at least one of capabilities and conditions of the data collector members of the swarm, and a data acquisition and analysis circuit for receiving the collected data and analyzing the received collected data using a neural network to determine an occurrence of an anomalous condition of at least one component.

Abstract: A method for use in performing localisation in a three-dimensional (3D) environment, the method including in one or more electronic processing devices: determining from a local scan performed by at least one laser sensor, intensity data based at least in part on a power of radiation returned to the at least one laser sensor from points in a local point cloud obtained from the local scan; calculating a first intensity descriptor for the local point cloud using the intensity data; retrieving a plurality of previously calculated second intensity descriptors that are each associated with a respective portion of a map of the 3D environment; comparing the first intensity descriptor with at least some of the second intensity descriptors; and, determining a location with respect to the map at least in part in accordance with results of the comparison.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium (CRM) storing computer readable program code for monitoring a state of a chromatography apparatus embodied therein that: receives one or more monitoring conditions that each include a determination condition for parameters related to measurements taken using the chromatography apparatus; and displays, in parallel and using a combination operational expression: a first conditional expression based on at least one of the monitoring conditions that make up a first combined conditional expression, wherein the first combined conditional expression is based on a first combined monitoring condition that combines all of the received monitoring conditions, and a second conditional expression based on at least one of the monitoring conditions associated with the first conditional expression.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a storage which stores a plurality of operators, in association with current operations and work histories; a detection unit which detects an anomaly; an anomaly responder determination unit which determines a first operator who is intended to respond to the anomaly, from among the plurality of operators who are stored in the storage, on the basis of the work histories; an operation assignment unit which carries out an assignment of a new operation cluster upon a second operator, an unfulfilled operation identification unit which identifies an unfulfilled operation which has arisen due to the first operator responding to the anomaly; and an operator determination unit which determines an operator who is intended to respond to the unfulfilled operation on the basis of the current operations of each of the operators which are stored in the storage.

Abstract: A surroundings detection system for motor vehicles, including multiple sensors which are sensitive to electromagnetic radiation in different ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, and including associated evaluation modules for locating and/or classifying objects present in the surroundings based on the data supplied by the sensors, including a model module in which a surroundings model is stored which, in addition to the 3D position data of the objects, also contains data about the spectral reflection properties of surfaces of the objects, the model module being capable of providing these data to the evaluation modules.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus for enabling a remotely-located expert to monitor an inspection by a non-expert, the apparatus comprising an inspection device capable of being operated by the non-expert, which is configured to generate inspection data indicative of a condition of a test object, and a communication unit configured to: divide the inspection data into first and second data; transfer the first data for being presented to the remotely-located expert at a first time, to facilitate substantially real-time monitoring of the inspection by the expert; and transfer the second data for being presented to the remotely-located expert at a second time, which is later than the first time, to facilitate non-real time monitoring of the inspection by the expert.

Abstract: A method for perceiving physical bodies comprises the following steps: a) acquisition of a plurality of distance measurements of the physical bodies, arising from one or more sensor; b) application of an inverse sensor model on an occupancy grid to determine a probability of occupancy of a set of cells of the grid; and c) construction of a consolidated occupancy grid by fusion of the occupancy probabilities estimated during step b); wherein the inverse sensor model is a discrete model, associating with each cell of the corresponding occupancy grid, and for each distance measurement, a probability class chosen inside one and the same set of finite cardinality and identified by an integer index; and wherein step c) is implemented by means of integer computations performed on the indices of the probability classes determined during said step b). A system for perceiving physical bodies is also provided.

Abstract: A point data acquisition unit acquires a set of point data indicating reflection points obtained by an optical sensor that receives reflected light of an emitted light beam reflected at the reflection points. Point data is a pair of first point data indicating a first reflection point, which is a reflection point of a given light beam, and second point data indicating a second reflection point, which is a reflection point at which the intensity of reflected light of the given light beam is lower than that at the first reflection point. A fog determination unit determines the density of fog based on a distribution of a distance between the first reflection point and the second reflection point concerning the point data included in the acquired set.