Abstract: Systems and processes are provided to detect an improper external power supply. An example includes a processor in communication with an internal battery. The processor receives an indication that the internal battery is receiving power from an external power supply. The processor determines a first output current of the internal battery. An error is generated indicating the internal battery receives insufficient power from the external power supply. The error indicates the external power supply is faulty in response to the internal battery intermittently discharging while receiving a power from the external power supply.

Abstract: A method is provided for finding events that predict failure of an electronic component of a data processing system. The method includes extracting EDSs from a data stream including an output of the electronic component as a function of time, each EDS satisfying an extraction protocol and being characterized by a time stamp indicating a time at which the EDS was present; transforming the EDSs to corresponding CSVs; clustering the CSVs into clusters, each cluster being characterized by a number of CSVs in the cluster and a range of time stamps for the CSVs in the cluster, where the clustering is determined by a similarity protocol; and identifying a predictor cluster from the clusters having CSVs with time stamps during a period that is nearer a point of failure of the electronic component than other clusters having CSVs, where the predictor cluster has more than a predetermined number of CSVs.

Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and a storage. The processor functions as a current-value acquirer that acquires a current value of a battery mounted on the vehicle, a current-value frequency distribution deriver that increments an acquisition count for one of classes, to which the current value belongs, and derives a current-value frequency distribution representing acquisition counts for the respective classes, and a current-value rate distribution deriver that transforms the acquisition counts to acquisition rates each indicating a rate of the each of the acquisition counts to a total of the acquisition counts and derives a current-value rate distribution representing the acquisition rates.

Abstract: A system and method of determining a target gas concentrations in a fluid environment using a gas sensor that improves the efficiency and accuracy of the gas sensor's measurements by taking measurements of electrical characteristics of the gas sensor at different temperatures, taking measurements during a transition between a first temperature and a second temperature, taking more frequent measurements, detecting when the gas sensor has reached equilibrium, using multiple sensors, accounting for offsets and drifts, reducing the time the sensor is not live, using various algorithms, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: A method can include receiving data for a bottom hole assembly of a drillstring and a drill plan; generating candidate trajectories using at least a portion of the data; generating drill command schedules for the candidate trajectories; ranking the candidate trajectories based at least in part on the drill command schedules; and outputting at least a top ranked candidate trajectory and its corresponding drill command schedule.

Abstract: Provided is a gap measuring method capable of accurately measuring a gap between adjacent members.

Abstract: The temperature threshold determining device includes a temperature data storage unit, a representative temperature value determining unit, and a temperature threshold determining unit. The temperature data storage unit stores temperature data that indicates the temperature of a target apparatus during past operation. The representative temperature value determining unit determines a representative temperature value of the target apparatus during the past operation, which is derived using the temperature data stored in the temperature data storage unit. The temperature threshold determining unit determines at least one temperature threshold by using the representative temperature value during the past operation and a reference temperature value that is preset and configured to prevent the temperature abnormality.

Abstract: A method may include obtaining first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data and acquired permeability data regarding a geological region of interest. The method may further include determining, using a neural network and second NMR data, predicted permeability data regarding a predetermined formation within the geological region of interest. The neural network may be trained using the first NMR data and the acquired permeability data. The method may further include determining a predetermined fracture size within the predetermined formation based on the predicted permeability data. The method may further include determining a predetermined type of lost circulation material (LCM) based on the predetermined fracture size. The method may further include transmitting a command to a well system that triggers a well operation using the predetermined type of LCM.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for determining the remaining capacity of a lithium-sulfur battery using a voltage drop value obtained by applying a constant current in an open-circuit state and a battery pack implementing the method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining locations of wells in a field containing a hydrocarbon reservoir, said method comprising: ?receiving a first set of geological gridded models; ?receiving a set of criteria for positioning wells; ?receiving a plurality of reference well patterns associated to the first set of geological gridded models; ?estimating a plurality of weights, each weight being associated to a respective criterion among the plurality of criteria, based on the plurality of reference well patterns and the received set of criteria; ?receiving a second geological gridded model of the field; and ?determining locations of wells in the second geological gridded model based on the received set of criteria and the plurality of estimated weights.

Abstract: A vibration data collection device monitors vibration of a machine, generates original machine vibration waveform data based on the monitored vibration, and removes portions of the original machine vibration waveform data that do not indicate an occurrence of a vibration event related to a potential fault in the machine. The vibration data collection device then stores thinned waveform data that includes blocks of the original machine vibration waveform data and excludes the portions that have been removed. A data analysis computer generates a thinned waveform plot based on the thinned waveform data. In some embodiments, the thinned waveform plot includes the blocks of original machine vibration waveform data separated in time by gaps representing the portions that have been removed.

Abstract: In an example method a system obtains first data regarding a first oil well, including one or more first thermal images of the oil well generated by one or more first thermal cameras. The system determines, using computerized neural network, a presence of a gas leak at one or more locations on the first oil well based on the first data. The one or more locations include at least one of a first location along a pipeline configured to convey gas to a flare area of the first oil well, or a second location at a rig floor of the first oil well. In response to determining the presence of the gas leak at the one or more locations, the system generates a notification indicating the presence of the gas leak at the one or more locations.

Abstract: A battery management system and method for performing a battery state and, optionally, health parameter observation is disclosed, in particular, cell state-of-charge (SOC) observation, with two redundant, independent and dissimilar lanes. Specifically, a SOC determination in a first one of the lanes is based on Coulomb Counting. The other lane employs a different algorithm than Coulomb Counting. In some embodiments, a battery health observation is further performed independently by the two lanes, wherein the first lane employs an aging model and the other lane a different (dissimilar) algorithm. On the basis of state and health observation, state (state of function) of the battery system can be predicted to determine a range of flight in accordance with a predetermined flight profile.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor control system including: a motor control device, including a semiconductor integrated circuit having a memory and forming a control loop for a motor so as to control a drive of the motor; and an external debug device, externally connected to the motor control device and accessible to the memory in the motor control device. The external debug device includes a disturbance signal superimposer and a frequency characteristics deriver. The interference signal superimposer generates a disturbance signal for the control loop and superimposes the disturbance signal on a signal generated in the control loop. The frequency characteristics deriver derives frequency characteristics of the control loop based on the signal generated in the control loop by superimposition.

Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a battery may include a voltage measurement unit that measures a voltage of a battery cell, a fitting equation calculation unit that calculates a fitting equation for the voltage of the battery cell, and a diagnostic unit that diagnoses whether or not the battery cell is abnormal based on the fitting equation for the voltage of the battery cell.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining safety of a battery are disclosed, where the method includes identifying a charge state or a discharge state of the battery, activating pulse probe currents at different depths of charge or discharge (charge/discharge) of the battery, in response to identifying the charge or discharge state of the battery, and detecting and differentiating between a state of short (SOS) and a state of health (SOH) of the battery based on variations of the pulse probe currents as a function of the depths of charge/discharge.

Abstract: A non-contact temperature measurement system for calculating estimated core body temperature is disclosed. The temperature measurement system can include a sensor that can detect the temperature of a patient and the temperature of ambient surrounding. The temperature of the patient and the ambient temperature can then be used to determine a core body temperature. The temperature measurement system includes an optical module having a light emitter and a light detector. The light emitter emits a beam of light towards the patient and the light detector detects a beam of light reflected by the patient. The reflected beam is analyzed to determine a distance between the temperature measurement system and the patient.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining an approximation and/or a prognosis for the true degradation state of a rechargeable battery. The method includes: providing a time sequence of values of the degradation state ascertained using measuring technology for past points in time; providing a trained HMM, which indicates, as a function of the true degradation state, at which probability during the ascertainment using measuring technology which particular value of the degradation state is monitored, and at which probability the true degradation state is maintained for what length of time, and/or at which probability this true degradation state transitions to which worse degradation state in the next time step; from the monitored time sequence and the HMM, the most probable characteristic of the true degradation state in the past that is in agreement with the monitored time sequence is ascertained; the desired approximation and/or prognosis is evaluated based on the most probable characteristic.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a battery of a vehicle includes a processor and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor configure the processor to receive first features including statistics of internal resistances of a plurality of cell groups in a battery pack of the battery, compute second features for the battery pack based on the first features, determine whether the battery pack is faulty based on one or more of the second features, and determine, in response to the battery pack being faulty, whether one or more of the cell groups is faulty based on one or more of the first features.

Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of geologic survey, and particularly relates to a real-time calibration method and system of acoustic logging data while drilling for precise navigation of deep oil and gas, aiming to solve a problem of inability to automatically identify stratum boundaries to adapt to geology at various different depths in an existing drilling process. The method of the present invention includes: acquiring standardized acoustic parameter data while drilling; acquiring time-depth relationship of historical acoustic curve data of drilled wells, and current actual drilling time-depth relationship; performing interpolation based on the current actual drilling time-depth relationship, to acquire interpolated current actual drilling time-depth relationship; correcting the interpolated current actual drilling time-depth relationship; and completing current precise depth correction based on the current actual drilling acoustic curve.