Abstract: A method is provided for determining a starting point between entities. The locations of the entities are determined in a map, a circle enclosing all entities is determined and an optimum position of the starting point is determined iteratively. The starting point initially coincides with a center point of the circle enclosing the entities. To find an optimum position of the starting point for each entity, a route is determined between the respective location and the starting point. In order to shift the position of the starting point, a sum of all of the temporal or physical distances of the routes between entities and the starting point falls below a defined maximum distance, and/or a temporal or physical distance difference between a shortest and a longest route falls below a specified maximum difference.

Abstract: An orthotic insert for use within footwear, may include a support shell. The support shell may include a forward portion configured to underlie and support a plantar surface of a metatarsal head area of a foot of a user and a rear portion configured to underlie and support a plantar surface of a heel of the foot of the user. The rear portion may include a heel post to provide frontal plane stabilization to the foot of the user during use. The heel post may define a perimeter structure having a hexagonal or other geometric shape that extends in a downward direction from a bottom surface of the support shell and terminates in a substantially planar footwear engagement surface.

Abstract: A method for determining a starting point between two entities that are configured to determine their location and to communicate using a communication interface. The locations of the entities are determined in map material. A route, composed of at least two route points each connected by a route section, between the two locations of the entities is determined in the map material. In order to iteratively ascertain a position of the starting point on the route, the route sections included in the route are subdivided into route subsections with the result that a section of the route extending from the location of a first entity to the starting point can be covered in the same time and/or has the same length as a section of the route extending from the location of a second entity to the starting point.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining a starting point between entities. The locations of the entities are determined in a map, a circle enclosing all entities is determined and an optimum position of the starting point is determined iteratively. The starting point initially coincides with a center point of the circle enclosing the entities. To find an optimum position of the starting point for each entity, a route is determined between the respective location and the starting point. In order to shift the position of the starting point, a sum of all of the temporal or physical distances of the routes between entities and the starting point falls below a defined maximum distance, and/or a temporal or physical distance difference between a shortest and a longest route falls below a specified maximum difference.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for engine starter control may include determining a current speed band associated with an engine start for a current time increment, determining a previous speed band associated with the engine start for a previous time increment within the engine start, receiving a measured current value, determining a target current value based on the current speed band, the previous speed band, whether an acceleration or deceleration occurred between the current speed band and the previous speed band, and a mode of a system for engine starter control, and adjusting a current for the engine start based on the target current value.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for engine starter control may include determining a current speed band associated with an engine start for a current time increment, determining a previous speed band associated with the engine start for a previous time increment within the engine start, receiving a measured current value, determining a target current value based on the current speed band, the previous speed band, whether an acceleration or deceleration occurred between the current speed band and the previous speed band, and a mode of a system for engine starter control, and adjusting a current for the engine start based on the target current value.

Abstract: Providing an object detection engine, training the object detection engine to identify a weed, training the object detection engine to identify a crop, providing an image from a sensor to the object detection engine, discerning with the object detection engine the weed from the crop, and plotting a path from the weed to a spot spray assembly upon identification of the weed by the object detection engine.

Abstract: Methods that provide stationkeeping maneuvering of a yaw steered spacecraft that orbits around a central body, such as the Earth, and experiences solar radiation pressure produced by the sun. The methods comprise the following steps. A spacecraft having a solar array is launched into orbit at a desired orbital location. Once the spacecraft is in orbit at the desired orbital location, a reflected component of the solar radiation pressure is caused to selectively apply a force to the spacecraft that moves the spacecraft to perform stationkeeping maneuvers. The reflected component of the solar radiation pressure may be caused to selectively apply a force to the spacecraft in two exemplary ways. In one embodiment, the spacecraft is yaw steered to follow a yaw steering profile so that the axis of the solar array is substantially normal to a plane containing the sun vector and nadir vector.