Abstract: Techniques, including systems and methods, for testing systems utilize a decoupled architecture. A device for administering a test on a system is decoupled from one or more other devices that apply a load on the system as part of the test. The one or more devices that apply the load on the system and the system itself may be located in a common facility. The one or more devices that apply the load on the system may apply the load in a manner specific to one or more applications executing on the system.

Abstract: Tight spots in movements of a drill string in an oil well are identified by comparing a large interval hookload moving average to a short interval hookload moving average, comparing a large interval bit depth moving average to a short interval bit depth moving average, and DBSCANing the tight spots to identify a fully-stuck event.

Abstract: A diagnostic method executed by a processor included in an information processing device, the information processing device including an acceleration sensor and a plurality of devices and having a function of executing a diagnosis of each of the plurality of devices, the diagnostic method includes storing threshold information that is set regarding each of the plurality of devices and includes a plurality of directions and thresholds of acceleration components each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of directions; receiving acceleration information from the acceleration sensor; calculating acceleration components each corresponding to the respective one of the plurality of directions by using the acceleration information when shock is detected from the acceleration information; extracting one or more devices having a possibility of a breakdown from the plurality of devices by comparing the acceleration components and the threshold information; and executing a diagnosis regarding the one or mor

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve defining and executing predictive models for outputting health metrics that estimate the operating health of an asset or a part thereof, analyzing health metrics to determine variables that are associated with high health metrics, and modifying the handling of abnormal-condition indicators in accordance with a prediction of a likely response to such abnormal-condition indicators, among other examples.

Abstract: A pulse running time filling level sensor includes a sampling device for sampling an IF signal at discrete instants and for converting the sampling values into digital sampling values, and a digital signal processing device for subsequent processing of the digital sampling values by calculating at least one new value characterizing the IF curve from respectively exactly two digital sampling values.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for current for fault identification in a transmission line and an apparatus thereof. The method comprises the following steps: measuring the real-time values of the currents and the voltages of the other unbroken healthy phase conductors when a single-phase fault occurs; calculating the inductive voltage and the capacitive coupling voltage according to the measured currents and voltages respectively; comparing the capacitive coupling voltage with the inductive voltage multiplied by a factor, in which the multiplication result is used as a self-adjusted threshold based on the real time load condition of the transmission line; and identifying the fault type based on the maximum of the capacitive coupling voltage and the multiplication.

Abstract: An encoder (1) having a body to be measured (30) and a measuring body (10) includes an analog-digital converter (21) converting, to a digital signal, a sinusoidal analog signal generated by a detection unit (11) and has different phases, a storage unit (22) storing correction data for aperiodic error components among periodic and aperiodic error components included in errors of position data, an aperiodic error correction unit (23) correcting the aperiodic error components among errors in the position data by using the correction data, and a periodic error correction unit (24) correcting the periodic error components among the errors in the position data.

Abstract: Systems and methods for prediction and measurement of overlay errors are disclosed. Process-induced overlay errors may be predicted or measured utilizing film force based computational mechanics models. More specifically, information with respect to the distribution of film force is provided to a finite element (FE) model to provide more accurate point-by-point predictions in cases where complex stress patterns are present. Enhanced prediction and measurement of wafer geometry induced overlay errors are also disclosed.

Abstract: Evaluation of formation and fracture characteristics based on multicomponent induction (MCI) log data includes automated calculation of inverted biaxial anisotropy (BA) parameters for the formation by performing an iterative BA inversion operation based on the MCI log data and using a BA formation model that accounts for transfers by axial formation anisotropy to resistivity. The BA inversion operation can be combined with a transversely anisotropic (TI) inversion based on the MCI log data and using a TI formation model, to calculate inverted TI parameters for the formation. The inverted BA parameters and the inverted TI parameters can be used, in combination, to calculate a quantified value for an identification function, to indicate estimated presence or absence of a fracture in the formation.

Abstract: A method for testing a circuit for a transponder, and transponder circuit, is provided, in which the circuit is operated in a passive mode in that the circuit is supplied with energy from a field, in which, during the passive mode, the circuit receives a command via the field to activate a test routine, in which memory content is stored by the test routine as test data in a memory area of a memory of the circuit predetermined by the test routine, in which, during the passive mode, the test data are transmitted via the field.

Abstract: A device, medium and method for deblending seismic data associated with a subsurface of the earth. The method includes a step of receiving seismic data S recorded with one or more seismic receivers, wherein the seismic data S includes shot recordings generated by first and second source arrays that are simultaneously actuated; a step of detecting incoherent energy of the seismic data S using a median filter; a step of replacing incoherent parts of the seismic data with a projection filter to obtain deblended data for one of the two or more source arrays; and a step of generating in a computing device an image of the subsurface based on the deblended data.

Abstract: A data processing system for a chromatograph has an impurity detector including a differential chromatogram creator and a determining section. The differential chromatogram creator calculates a wavelength differential coefficient by differentiating an absorbance spectrum with respect to the wavelength at each point in time of the measurement and creates a differential chromatogram which shows a temporal change in the wavelength differential coefficient. Based on a shape of the thus created differential chromatogram, the determining section determines whether or not a peak of a target component contains an impurity. By this method, whether or not the peak of the target component contains an impurity can be determined with high accuracy, without requiring complex calculations.

Abstract: A surface-consistent refraction analysis automatically derives near surface corrections during seismic data processing. Residual time lags are evaluated in multiple CMP-offset-azimuth bins by similarity analysis with a pilot trace where a correlation window is centered at the refracted arrival. The similarity analysis may take the form of computerized cross-correlation, or other criteria such as semblance. The residuals are then used to build a system of linear equations that is simultaneously inverted for surface-consistent shot and receiver time shift corrections plus a possible subsurface residual term. The refraction analysis steps are completely automated and require a fraction of the time needed for conventional near surface analysis.

Abstract: An energy charging apparatus includes an energy charging unit charging green energy in an energy saving apparatus, a measured amount information acquisition unit acquiring measured amount information that indicates a charged amount of green energy measured by the energy saving apparatus from the corresponding energy saving apparatus, and a certificate issuance unit issuing a certificate for certifying an amount of green energy charged in the energy saving apparatus when a charged amount of green energy charged by the energy charging unit coincides with the charged amount of green energy shown in the measured amount information, wherein the certificate is managed in association with the energy saving apparatus and is discarded if the amount of green energy that is certified by the corresponding certificate is output from the energy saving apparatus.

Abstract: A fully automated method for testing functionality of a spacecraft or aircraft unit under testing (UUT) includes selecting a test station at which to conduct a first functionality test on the UUT. The method also includes coupling a program specific module (PSM) to the UUT. Each PSM is configured to couple to a specific type of UUT to provide power and telemetry to the specific type of UUT. The method further includes a robot arm moving the UUT to the selected test station. The method still further includes conducting the first functionality test on the UUT at the selected test station.

Abstract: Power outages and restorations at customer premises can be automatically detected and reported. A method includes receiving, from a network terminal, a first notification associated with a power outage; retrieving location information associated with the network terminal; sending a second notification indicating that the outage has occurred and that includes the location information associated with the network terminal; retrieving prior outage information that corresponds to a set of network terminals associated with a group of set top boxes; determining that an outage event is triggered, when a quantity of outages is greater than a threshold, where the quantity of outages is based on the outage and other outages obtained from the prior outage information; and sending a third notification based on the determination that the outage event is triggered, where the third notification includes information associated with the quantity of outages that enables a server to remedy the outage event.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a surgical device is provided. The method includes acquiring first data including a position and/or an orientation of a first object disposed on the surgical device at a first location; acquiring second data including a position and/or an orientation of a second object disposed on the surgical device at a second location; determining third data including a position and/or an orientation of the first object relative to the second location; and determining a position and/or an orientation of the second object relative to the second location based at least in part on the first data, the second data, and the third data.

Abstract: A contact's interaction with a sensing array is subject to several external and internal stimuli which may impact a processing unit's confidence in the characteristics of that interaction or the presence of the interaction itself. Fidelity of user action is greatly improved with a step-wise and holistic analysis of a contact on an array of capacitance sensors, which allows for repetition of certain steps of processing or the entire operation if threshold confidence levels are not achieved.

Abstract: Engine health monitoring is used to assess the health of an engine, such as a gas turbine engine. Blades mounted on a shaft produce a modal response when excited. The shaft has an order related component that varies with the rotational velocity of the shaft. Modal responses are increased when the natural frequency range of the selected blade mode intersects with one of the order related components. By applying a short time chirp-Fourier transform with a frequency speed that is a function of a rate of change in the rotational velocity of the shaft a selected signal can be isolated. Cracks in the blades can be detected from the isolated signal.

Abstract: A method and a device for detection of initiating failures in a mechanical system. The device includes an acquisition circuit to acquire packets of endogenic and exogenic time signals corresponding to measurements of endogenic and exogenic parameters specific to the mechanical system respectively, at successive instants, and a chopping circuit to chop a passband of the endogenic signal packets into a determined set of frequency sub-bands, at each instant in the successive instants. The device further includes a calculation circuit to determine a corresponding estimating signal for each frequency sub-band at each instant in the successive instants; and a detection circuit to receive each estimating signal and the corresponding exogenic signal packets during the successive instants, and to detect any deviation in each estimating signal representing initiating failures of the machine in iso-context.