Abstract: A calibration circuit providing a programmable voltage generator that is selectively connectable to a first capacitor plate of a capacitive structure to supply a voltage thereto. A reference voltage generator is coupled to the output of the programmable voltage generator and generates a reference voltage. A comparator receives the reference voltage and a discharging voltage from the capacitive structure during a discharge period and, based on those inputs, generates a signal that is output to a digital controller. A constant current source is selectively connectable to the capacitive structure to generate a constant current. Based on the output of the comparator, the constant current, and a count representing a time during which the discharging voltage decreases, the digital controller measures capacitance to calibrate a movable mirror of the capacitive structure. During calibration, the digital controller controls the programmable voltage generator and a second capacitor plate of the capacitive structure.

Abstract: An alignment method of a probe card includes a plurality of probe groups provided corresponding to a plurality of chips, comprising: a first mode for calculating a gradient and a center of a probe group based on position information of two or more probes included in the probe group for each of the plurality of chips and calculating a gradient and a center of the probe card based on the calculated gradients and the calculated centers of the plurality of probe groups.

Abstract: A method for generating combined scenarios for testing an object detection unit, wherein the method comprises provision of first sensor data of a first scenario and of second sensor data of a second scenario, wherein the first sensor data and the second sensor data in each case are a point cloud comprising a plurality of points, wherein the method further comprises a classification of the respective points of the first sensor data and of the respective points of the second sensor data into relevant or not relevant and merging of the first sensor data and of the second sensor data for obtaining third sensor data of a combined scenario, wherein only relevant points of the first sensor data and relevant points of the second sensor data are merged to form third sensor data of the combined scenario.

Abstract: An ultrasound test phantom includes a block of human-tissue-mimicking material having a top surface and spaced-apart groups of targets embedded therein. Each group is located at a unique depth region within the block as measured from the top surface. The targets in each group include a first linear target spaced-apart from a second linear target. For each group, the first linear target extends in a first direction at a first depth of the depth region associated therewith, and the second linear target extends in a second direction at a second depth of the depth region associated therewith. When viewed from the block's top surface, a crossing point is defined where the first direction and second direction cross at an angle between 10° and 170°. For each group, the crossing point is located along a line perpendicular to the block's top surface.

Abstract: Food processing monitoring systems and method thereof are provided. A method includes obtaining first temperature data from a first temperature sensor at an inlet of a food processing machine; obtaining second temperature data from a second temperature sensor at an outlet of the food processing machine; obtaining current data from a current sensor that is configured to measure current of a motor of the food processing machine; determining presence of food product at the inlet based on a peak current, of the current data at a time the motor starts, being greater than a first current threshold; and logging a temperature of the first temperature data based on the peak current being greater than the first current threshold.

Abstract: A system obtains an operator that produces a superposition state of a plurality of random variables. The system performs iteration of a first operation and a second operation on an initial quantum state to produce a final quantum state. The first operation produces a second state by performing a computation that inverts a first state with respect to a state obtained by applying a Hermitian conjugate of the operator to a quantum state where the last bit of a bit string is 0. The second operation produces a new first state by performing a computation that inverts the second state with respect to the first state. The system measures the bit string in the final quantum state, records the number of times a quantum state where all bits of the bit string are 0 is observed, and calculate an expectation value of the random variables according to the number.

Abstract: A system for use with a misregistration metrology tool (MMT), the system including a database including a plurality of process variation (PV) categories and a corresponding plurality of parameter sets and a process variation accommodation engine (PVAE) including a measurement site process variation category associator (MSPVCA) operative to associate a measurement site being measured by the MMT, at least partially based on an MMT output relating to the measurement site, with a measurement site process variation category (MSPVC), the MSPVC being one of the plurality of PV categories, a measurement site parameter set retriever (MSPSR) operative to retrieve a measurement site parameter set (MSPS) corresponding to the MSPVC and a measurement site parameter set communicator (MSPSC) operative to communicate the MSPS to the MMT.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to devices and techniques for operating an electronic apparatus that controls a sensor, the devices and techniques including acquiring first sensing data through the sensor, identifying a data variation based on the first sensing data and sensing data for a first time point and a second time point acquired in advance based on a sampling period of the sensor, identifying target data among a plurality of predetermined meaningful data based on the identified data variation and determining a time point at which the target data is to be acquired, and controlling the sampling period based on the determined time point.

Abstract: A lid mounted water sampling system adapted to be fluidly coupled to a water line for obtaining water quality parameters corresponding to a sample of pressurized water from the water line and transmitting information associated with said water quality parameters to a remote location, the system comprising: a pit lid adapted to be positioned to cover a pit box such that during use an outer surface of the pit lid is substantially at ground level and adapted to be positioned upon the pit box located underground; the pit lid further comprising an in-use underside portion coupled to a water sampling apparatus, the water sampling apparatus adapted to be positioned in an internal volume defined by the pit box, the water sampling apparatus being fluidly coupled to the water line for obtaining water quality parameters corresponding to a sample of the pressurized water from the water line; and a data transmitter positioned adjacent said pit lid in electronic communication with the water sampling apparatus for transmitt

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method, system, device and medium for online monitoring of a plane stress field without baseline data based on a piezoelectric transducer array. Since Lamb waves have complex multi-mode characteristics, a suitable excitation frequency needs to be selected according to geometric dimensions of the structure to be measured, and then, only low-order mode Lamb waves are excited inside the measured structure to avoid serious waveform aliasing. For isotropic measured objects, anisotropic characteristics will be generated under the action of pre-stresses, that is, the propagation velocities of ultrasonic waves in all directions are different, but there is a linear relationship between velocity changes in different propagation directions and stresses. Therefore, there is still a linear relationship between the difference of velocity changes in different propagation directions and the stress.

Abstract: A method for determining the trajectory of at least one mobile element from position data, includes an initial step consisting in classifying a set of positions relating to at least one detected mobile element by applying a first data classification algorithm to the set of positions, which provides an initial trajectory relating to each detected mobile element. The method comprises the following steps, implemented on each current observation window: classifying each new position detected in at least one trajectory by applying a second data classification algorithm; identifying, for each detected mobile element, the positions relating to the detected mobile element; determining an intermediate complete trajectory for each detected mobile element; determining a final complete trajectory for each detected mobile element.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for estimating properties of a mixture of two or more surfactant species are provided. Multiple molecular dynamics simulations of the mixture are performed, each simulation using a particular total concentration of the surfactant species and a particular ratio of the surfactant species, such that the multiple simulations cover a plurality of such total concentrations and a plurality of such ratios, each simulation being carried out above the critical micelle concentration of the simulated mixture. For each simulation, and from the results of each simulation, a distribution of each surfactant species between at least a micellar pseudo-phase and a non-micellar pseudo-phase of the mixture at the particular total concentration and particular ratio for that simulation is determined.

Abstract: A method for calibrating an inertial angular sensor includes: for at least two electrical angles of the vibration wave, applying, via each of the three trim controls, a sinusoidal stiffness disturbance having a disturbance frequency, and for each applied disturbance, determining and storing an estimated excitation force to be applied to the resonator in the presence of the stiffness disturbance, on the basis of excitation controls determined by the servo controls; determining, on the basis of the three estimated excitation forces, three 2×2 matrices, being representative of the response of the gyrometer to the stiffness disturbance; determining and storing an estimated inverse excitation matrix and an estimated inverse detection matrix on the basis of the three matrices, an excitation matrix and a detection matrix being respectively representative of effects of the excitation chain and of effect of the detection chain of the sensor.

Abstract: Configurable application, for scoring an object including: configuration interface to: receive configuration parameters for each object including: a. a list of attributes to be associated with an object; b. a maximum total score; c. for each attribute in the attributes list: minimum value, maximum value, and weight; and d. configuration type; and a processing unit to calculate scoring for the object according to the received configuration parameters, by: receiving a value for each attribute in the object's attributes list; comparing each attribute value against a predefined minimum and maximum; calculating total score according to a predefined formula, when the attribute value is within the range of the minimum and maximum; calculating total score based on configuration type, when the attribute value is outside the minimum and maximum range; displaying the total score to a user via a display unit. The calculating is performed only when all attributes have values.

Abstract: An active noise isolation apparatus and method for cancelling vibration noise from the probe signal of a scanning tunneling microscope by generating a correction signal by convolution based on the probe signal and the sensor signal, which is based on the ambient vibration that adds noise to the probe signal.

Abstract: A method for estimating a battery state of an energy storage system of a vehicle using a dual estimator. The energy storage system comprises a battery unit, and the dual estimator comprises a first estimator configured to estimate said battery state, the first estimator having first tuning parameters, a second estimator configured to track changes around nominal values of a set of battery parameters, the second estimator having second tuning parameters. The method comprises obtaining operational data of the energy storage system, feeding the operational data to the estimators, using the first estimator, estimating the battery state, using the second estimator, estimating changes around the nominal values of the set of battery parameters, and at least one of adaptively adjusting the first and/or second tuning parameters and adaptively adjusting the nominal values of the set of battery parameters to account for slow timescale variations arising due to ageing.

Abstract: A method for inversing a depth of a subsurface chlorophyll-a maxima (SCM) of an oceanic water body based on remote sensing reflectance is provided. The method includes: band selection, R value calculation, data collection, model construction, and ZSCM calculation. This method can not only reduce the dependence of machine learning on sea surface chlorophyll-a concentrations, sea surface temperature data and sea surface height data, and reduce the calculation resource consumption of running machine learning, but also effectively improve the inversion accuracy, and effectively reduce the calculation resource consumption and inversion difficulty of inversing the SCM.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method comprising receiving instruction data relating to a sample in a sample container. The method includes generating, by at least one processor using a workflow management layer, a process plan for the sample, and providing the process plan to a process control layer. The process plan comprises a plurality of possible routes. The method also comprises selecting, by the at least one processor using the process control layer, an optimized route within the plurality of possible routes in the process plan, and providing the optimized route to a middleware control layer. The at least one processor and middleware control layer are operable to cause a transport system to proceed along the selected route.

Abstract: Systems and methods include a method and system used to predict and monitor lean mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) concentrations after a regeneration process. Process simulations are executed in a MEG regeneration system to generate intermediate parameters and a model correlating MEG concentrations and inorganic salt concentrations. A model for estimating a salt concentration build-up rate from spot samples is generated based on the process simulations. A lean MEG concentration with presence of inorganic salts is predicted in the MEG regeneration system using hybrid artificial intelligence and leveraging physics-guided machine learning.

Abstract: A rapid rise in the temperature of a liquid level sensor is prevented even at close to a vacuum atmosphere. In a material supply system that is equipped with a tank containing a liquid material and with the liquid level sensor that is provided inside the tank, and in which the liquid level sensor is a self-heating type of sensor that, when the liquid level sensor is generating heat as a result of being supplied with a predetermined normal energy, detects a liquid surface, there are provided a monitoring portion that monitors a detection value from an output signal from the liquid level sensor, and an energy control portion that, when the monitored detection value reaches a predetermined upper limit value, performs control in such a way that the energy supplied to the liquid level sensor is low-level energy that is lower than the normal energy.