Abstract: A metrology apparatus includes an indexed articulated joint including: first and second relatively reorientable bodies, respectively having mutually engageable engagement elements, which can be locked together in different angular orientations about a first axis to provide a plurality of angularly indexed positions of the bodies; at least one verification sensor configured to provide a measure of the relative spatial configuration of bodies when in their locked state; and wherein the apparatus is configured such that when the bodies lock together at an indexed position, the sensor measures the relative spatial configuration of the bodies, and wherein information obtained from the measure is compared to calibration information obtained from at least one other measure of the relative spatial configuration of the bodies when the bodies were locked at said indexed position at an earlier point in time, in order to establish information about the state of engagement of the bodies.

Abstract: A plasma chamber includes a chamber body having a processing region therewithin, a liner disposed on the chamber body, the liner surrounding the processing region, a substrate support disposed within the liner, a magnet assembly comprising a plurality of magnets disposed around the liner, and a magnetic-material shield disposed around the liner, the magnetic-material shield encapsulating the processing region near the substrate support.

Abstract: A robotic vehicle, such as an autonomous mobile robot (AMR), is provided, comprising a chassis, a navigation system, and a load engagement portion, a plurality of sensors, including an object detection sensor, and a load interaction system. The AMR is configured to perform a load drop and a load pickup within a zone without using predetermined load pick up and drop off locations within the zone. The AMR can determine where to place a load within the zone based on proximity to another object or physical structure within the zone. A location of the zone on the AMR's route can be trained, but pickup and drop locations within the zone can be untrained and undefined in advance.

Abstract: Cell assemblies and methods for assembling cell assemblies include installing a plurality of cells within a cell housing and electrically connecting each cell to each other cell through at least one wire bond, wherein each wire bond is selected to conduct current from a respective cell during normal operation and to sever such electrical connection through the wire bond when a predetermined current exceeds a threshold value for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of transmitting, via a virtual network, a message to a home network informing the home network that a home network subscriber device is roaming on the virtual network, activating, via the virtual network, a mobile subscription for the home network subscriber device on the virtual network, receiving, via the virtual network, a call for the home network subscriber device that is routed from the home network, routing the call from the virtual network to the home network subscriber device with the activated mobile subscription, wherein the routing further comprises executing, via the virtual network, value added services while routing the call from the virtual network to the home network subscriber device, generating, via the virtual network, a record of the executed value added services, and submitting, via the virtual network, the generated record to the home network.

Abstract: An optical sensing module suitable for wearable devices, the optical sensing module comprising: a silicon or silicon nitride transmitter photonic integrated circuit (PIC), the transmitter PIC comprising: a plurality of lasers, each laser of the plurality of lasers operating at a wavelength that is different from the wavelength of the others; an optical manipulation region, the optical manipulation region comprising one or more of: an optical modulator, optical multiplexer (MUX); and additional optical manipulation elements; and one or more optical outputs for light originating from the plurality of lasers.

Abstract: A metrology apparatus including an articulated joint having: first and second bodies which can be locked together in a plurality of different angular orientations about a first axis; the first body including a prop which is actuatable by a motor between a retracted configuration at which the first and second bodies are in their locked state, and an extended configuration at which the first and second bodies are held apart by the prop along the first axis such that the first and second bodies are unlocked thereby permitting relative rotation of the first and second bodies, the prop and the second body being magnetically biased toward each other so as to magnetically retain the first and second bodies; and further including at least one supplemental bias member configured to bias the prop towards its retracted configuration.

Abstract: Yarns include one or more strands, each strand including an outer twisted with a continuous or substantially continuous core, the outer including coarse wool fibres. The coarse wool has average fibre diameter greater than 26 microns. The yarn may be worsted or semi-worsted. Fabrics and/or garments may be produced from the yarn.

Abstract: A multi-module wearable device. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a system, including: a first wearable instrument; a second wearable instrument including a biometric sensor; an electrical connection between the first wearable instrument and the second wearable instrument; and a strap, sized and dimensioned to be disposed about a wrist. The electrical connection may be capable of connecting the first wearable instrument to the second wearable instrument when the second wearable instrument is at a first position on the strap relative to the first wearable instrument, and of connecting the first wearable instrument to the second wearable instrument when the second wearable instrument is at a second position on the strap relative to the first wearable instrument.

Abstract: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other computer-implemented methods are used to identify various semantically important chunks in documents, automatically label them with appropriate datatypes and semantic roles, and use this enhanced information to assist authors and to support downstream processes. Chunk locations, datatypes, and semantic roles can often be automatically determined from what is here called “context”, to wit, the combination of their formatting, structure, and content; those of adjacent or nearby content; overall patterns of occurrence in a document, and similarities of all these things across documents (mainly but not exclusively among documents in the same document set).

Abstract: A radar device is provided. The radar device includes an antenna and a housing having an exterior wall. The radar device also includes an electronics module having a heat source contained within the housing. Additionally, the radar device includes a heat pipe having a first end and a second end. The first end is positioned proximate to the heat source, and the heat pipe is configured to transfer heat from the first end of the heat pipe to the second end of the heat pipe to reduce an amount of heat at the heat source. The heat pipe may be an evaporator-condenser heat pipe. The second end of the heat pipe may be positioned proximate to a first dissipating feature. The heat source may be a power amplifier, waveguide assembly, printed circuit board, or other electronics, and the first dissipating feature may be the exterior wall of the housing.

Abstract: Conventional gesture detection approaches demand large memory and computation power to run efficiently, thus limiting their use in power and memory constrained edge devices. Present application/disclosure provides a Spiking Neural Network based system which is a robust low power edge compatible ultrasound-based gesture detection system. The system uses a plurality of speakers and microphones that mimics a Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) setup thus providing requisite diversity to effectively address fading. The system also makes use of distinctive Channel Impulse Response (CIR) estimated by imposing sparsity prior for robust gesture detection. A multi-layer Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been trained on these distinctive CIR images and the trained CNN model is converted into an equivalent Spiking Neural Network (SNN) via an ANN (Artificial Neural Network)-to-SNN conversion mechanism. The SNN is further configured to detect/classify gestures performed by user(s).

Abstract: In some examples, novel nanogel particles are described having dual functionality, temperature responsiveness and pH responsiveness. For nucleic acid sequencing, amplification primers are grafted to nanogel particles to form primer-grafted nanogel particles, and the primer-grafted nanogel particles are captured onto surfaces within a flow cell. Within flow cells such as used in SBS nucleic acid sequencing, each primer-grafted nanogel particle functions as a nano-well in the flow cell, thus eliminating the need for nano-wells in some examples.

Abstract: A humidification system can include a heater base, a humidification chamber, and a breathing circuit. A cartridge can be removably coupled to the heater base. The cartridge can include various sensors, probes, sensor wire connectors, heater wire connectors, and/or other features. The cartridge can include features configured to mate with corresponding features on the humidification chamber and the heater base. The cartridge includes a memory, such as an EEPROM, or other suitable storage device. When the cartridge is installed on the heater base, the memory is electrically connected to a processor and/or memory of the heater base. Various models of cartridges can be produced for use with different humidification chambers, breathing circuits, and/or therapies. A connector can be configured to couple an inspiratory conduit to an outlet port of the humidification chamber. The connector can provide a pneumatic connection to the outlet port and an electrical connection to the cartridge.

Abstract: Provided are a resource management system and method, which can be implemented in the context of autonomously navigating vehicles, such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). A route and a graph network are provided, wherein the graph network comprises interconnected nodes representing resources in an environment. The resources include shared spaces and non-shared spaces accessible by the vehicle navigating the route. A resource manager module analyzes the route based on the graph network to determine one or more sets of related shared spaces on the route; applies an ordering algorithm to generate a hierarchy associated with each set of related shared spaces; and, for each set of related shared spaces, generates a set of behaviors to be executed by the vehicle to request access to the set of related shared spaces based on the associated hierarchy.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, when executed by data processing hardware of a robot having an articulated arm and a base, causes data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include determining a first location of a workspace of the articulated arm associated with a current base configuration of the base of the robot. The operations also include receiving a task request defining a task for the robot to perform outside of the workspace of the articulated arm at the first location. The operations also include generating base parameters associated with the task request. The operations further include instructing, using the generated base parameters, the base of the robot to move from the current base configuration to an anticipatory base configuration.

Abstract: A system comprises a storage system comprising one or more storage devices and a storage controller operatively coupled to the storage system, the storage controller comprising a processing device, the processing device to receive first raw data from a first tenant of the storage system to a first non-volatile memory express (NVMe) input/output (I/O) queue of the storage system. The processing device further to determine that the first NVMe I/O queue corresponds to a first key, wherein the first key corresponds to the first tenant. The processing device further to encrypt the first raw data using the first key to generate first encrypted data. The processing device further to store the first encrypted data on the storage system.

Abstract: A wheelchair assembly is provided for easy assembly, disassembly, and transport. The wheelchair assembly includes a plurality of subassemblies, including a first subassembly having a first frame and a second subassembly having a second frame. The wheelchair assembly includes at least one motor and a plurality of wheels. The plurality of subassemblies are configured to be selectively attached with each other to form the wheelchair assembly, and the wheelchair assembly is configured to be easily assembled and disassembled. The subassemblies are configured to be disassembled from each other so that each of the plurality of subassemblies can be separately carried by a single person. The wheelchair assembly is an all-terrain wheelchair assembly.

Abstract: A motorized wheel assembly is provided herein. The motorized wheel assembly comprises an in-hub motor comprising a stator and a rotor. A shaft is connected to the stator of the in-hub motor. The motorized wheel assembly further comprises a hub, attached to and configured to rotate with the rotor. The hub is disposed about the shaft and the in-hub brake system. The wheel assembly further includes a tire disposed about the hub. The motorized wheel assembly further comprise an in-hub brake system positioned about the shaft. The in-hub brake system comprises a biasing system, an actuator plate, a brake plate, and a brake pad system. The biasing system is configured to bias the actuator plate to the engaged position to cause the brake pad system to apply a force to the brake plate to prevent rotation of the hub and the tire.

Abstract: An interactive toy comprising a function device for performing user-perceptible, controllable functions. The interactive toy also includes a rechargeable power source and a charging circuit for contactless receipt of electrical energy and for charging the rechargeable power source when the interactive toy is positioned in a charging zone of a contactless charging device. The interactive toy is adapted to determine a charging rate at respective positions relative to the charging device and to generate a user-perceptible output indicative of the determined charging rate.