Abstract: A system and method for motor eccentricity fault detection is disclosed. The method includes extraction of fault-related features through topological data analysis (TDA) for motor current signals and apply them to motor eccentricity fault detection. The method further includes the procedure of obtaining topological features from time-domain data and representing them in persistence diagrams and vectorized Betti sequences. The method further includes the extraction of fault-related features from the obtained topological features of the data, which can be distinctively associated with not only fault type but also fault severity level. Further, the method includes use of machine learning models to extract fault-related features from TDA, for the prediction of motor eccentricity fault level, even for data from new eccentricity levels that are not seen in the training data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to T cell receptors (TCR) against cancer/testis antigens NY-ESO-1 and CT83 presented by multiple HLA molecules. The preferred TCRs of the invention deriving from human T cells demonstrates high affinity and antigen specificity in vitro and in vivo. The present invention also relates to the modulation of TCR-T CAR-T cell signaling and functional persistence in cancer immunotherapy.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling a motion of a robot from a starting point to a target point within a bounded space with a floorplan including one or multiple obstacles. The method includes solving for an electric potential in a bounded virtual space formed by scaling the floorplan of the bounded space with the one or multiple obstacles and applying charge to at least one bound of the bounded virtual space while treating the scaled obstacles as metallic surfaces with a constant potential value, wherein the electric potential provides multiple equipotential curves within the bounded virtual space. The method further includes selecting an equipotential curve with a potential value different from a potential value of an obstacle equipotential curve, determining a motion path based on the selected equipotential curve, and controlling the motion of the robot based on the determined motion path.

Abstract: A non-intrusive load monitoring method based on V-I trajectory and neural network includes: collecting the household voltage, current and active power data in real time; determining whether there is a switching event and whether the load operating state has reached a steady state through the change of the active power; obtaining the voltage, current and power data of the load, converting the V-I trajectory into RGB color image containing the phase difference between the voltage and current, power and other information. After obtaining the RGB color image, performing normalization processing and performing load monitoring through pre-trained convolutional neural network. The present disclosure fully extracts the steady-state feature of the load through the convolutional neural network, and the neural network model can directly run on an embedded device, and does not need to rely on the computing support of a server.

Abstract: A motor assembly comprising a mover assembly and a stator. The mover assembly comprising a plurality of mover assembly units, each unit comprising: a non-ferromagnetic core with a profile of an outer surface having at least two flat sections lying on intersecting planes; at least two ferromagnetic laminated structures arranged on the at least two flat sections of the non-ferromagnetic core, each ferromagnetic laminated structure includes a stack of ferromagnetic plates, each plate is covered with a non-conductive coating. Each ferromagnetic laminated structure is arranged on a corresponding flat section of the at least two flat sections of the non-ferromagnetic core such that side of each ferromagnetic plate is adjacent to the non-ferromagnetic core thereby making the ferromagnetic plates of the at least two ferromagnetic laminated structures lie on intersecting planes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for detecting a fault of an operation of a synchronous motor. The method includes collecting an electrical input and measurements associated with the operation of the synchronous motor caused by the electrical input. The method further includes determining sequences of points defining a mutual position between a stator and a rotor of the synchronous motor that results in magnetostatic determined as a weighted summation over real-space basis functions parameterized on pairs of adjoint points in the determined sequence of points and weighted with a surface charge density between corresponding adjoint points, such that the resulted magnetostatic explains the measurements of the operation of the synchronous motor given the electrical input. Further, the method includes determining the fault of the operation of the synchronous motor based on the mutual position between the stator and the rotor of the synchronous motor.

Abstract: An electrical machine that is an outer runner motor having a rotor mounted rotatably about a machine axis, with the rotor rotatively attached to a shaft. A stator assembly having a stator core with a non-ferromagnetic material. An axial-flux yoke with an inner wall rigidly attached on an outer surface of a first edge wall of the stator core, or a radial-flux yoke with a continuous inner wall rigidly attached on a continuous outer wall of the stator core. Wherein the axial-flux yoke or the radial-flux yoke, include laminated sheets and slots. Windings can be positioned in the slots of either the axial-flux stator yoke or the radial-flux stator yoke. Wherein the stator core and the shaft include a spline coupling feature adapted to selectively couple and mate the stator core to the shaft.

Abstract: A motor comprising a shaft, an array of stator assemblies rigidly attached to the shaft, each stator assembly includes a stator yoke having a toroid shape fixed around the shaft and having a number of slots at radial and axis directional faces with windings within the slots of the stator yoke, and a rotor assembly rotatively attached to the shaft to enclose the array of stator assemblies, the rotor assembly has a rotor drum with sections, each section embraces one stator assembly, each section has two axial-flux permanent magnet arrays attached on axial-directional inner surfaces of the section and has one radial-flux permanent magnet array attached on a radial-directional inner surface of the section furthest from the shaft, wherein the axial-flux and the radial-flux permanent magnet arrays with the number of pole pairs equals the number of the stator slots plus or minus the number of stator winding pole pair.

Abstract: An axial-flux and radial-flux motor including a rotor mounted rotatably about a machine axis, with the rotor rotatively attached to a shaft. A stator assembly having a core with a non-ferromagnetic material and including a first axial-flux stator yoke with an inner wall rigidly attached on an outer surface of a first edge wall of the core. A second axial-flux stator yoke having an inner wall rigidly attached on an outer surface of a second edge wall of the core. The first and the second axial-flux stator yokes each include an outer wall with slots. A radial-flux stator yoke with slots includes an inner wall rigidly attached on a continuous outer wall of the core. The radial-flux stator yoke and the first and the second axial-flux stator yokes include laminated sheets. Windings positioned in the slots of the first and the second axial-flux stator yokes and the radial-flux stator yoke.

Abstract: A system for controlling an operation of an induction motor (IM). A controller processor detects a spectrum of a current signal from received sensor data using a module. Obtain a number of rotor bars and a number of pole pairs of the IM to identify a principle slot harmonics (PSH) type IM from stored IM data. Use the PSH-type IM to identify a static eccentricity (SE) fault signature signal located at a secondary PSH frequency of the PSH-type IM. Determine a level of signal strength in the spectrum of the current signal at a location of the secondary PSH frequency, and compare to a SE fault table database to obtain a SE fault level of the PSH-type IM. Compare the SE fault level to a database to obtain a SE fault threshold, and if the SE fault level is outside the SE threshold, generate an interrupt command to the controller.

Abstract: A system for evaluating an electromagnetic performance of a permanent magnet (PM) motor. Parameters update an electromagnetic analytical (EA) model. Each component of the PM motor is associated with regions, and assumptions of the EA model include a relative permeability of regions associated with a rotor core modeled as finite. Calculate a general solution to a governing equation to each region which include unknown coefficients to be determined. Define a set of boundary and interface (B&I) conditions for two neighboring regions, each B&I condition is defined through a set of Maxwell equations using the two neighboring regions sets of assumptions, geometries of the PM motor and electrical and magnetic properties associated with the two neighboring regions. All the unknown coefficients in the general solutions in all regions are solved with a linear system of equations obtained from the B&I conditions between the regions, to solve for a magnetic vector potential.

Abstract: An electrical machine that is an outer runner motor having a rotor mounted rotatably about a machine axis, with the rotor rotatively attached to a shaft. A stator assembly having a stator core with a non-ferromagnetic material. An axial-flux yoke with an inner wall rigidly attached on an outer surface of a first edge wall of the stator core, or a radial-flux yoke with a continuous inner wall rigidly attached on a continuous outer wall of the stator core. Wherein the axial-flux yoke or the radial-flux yoke, include laminated sheets and slots. Windings can be positioned in the slots of either the axial-flux stator yoke or the radial-flux stator yoke. Wherein the stator core and the shaft include a spline coupling feature adapted to selectively couple and mate the stator core to the shaft.

Abstract: A system for controlling an operation of an induction motor (IM). A controller processor detects a spectrum of a current signal from received sensor data using a module. Obtain a number of rotor bars and a number of pole pairs of the IM to identify a principle slot harmonics (PSH) type IM from stored IM data. Use the PSH-type IM to identify a static eccentricity (SE) fault signature signal located at a secondary PSH frequency of the PSH-type IM. Determine a level of signal strength in the spectrum of the current signal at a location of the secondary PSH frequency, and compare to a SE fault table database to obtain a SE fault level of the PSH-type IM. Compare the SE fault level to a database to obtain a SE fault threshold, and if the SE fault level is outside the SE threshold, generate an interrupt command to the controller.

Abstract: An axial-flux and radial-flux motor including a rotor mounted rotatably about a machine axis, with the rotor rotatively attached to a shaft. A stator assembly having a core with a non-ferromagnetic material and including a first axial-flux stator yoke with an inner wall rigidly attached on an outer surface of a first edge wall of the core. A second axial-flux stator yoke having an inner wall rigidly attached on an outer surface of a second edge wall of the core. The first and the second axial-flux stator yokes each include an outer wall with slots. A radial-flux stator yoke with slots includes an inner wall rigidly attached on a continuous outer wall of the core. The radial-flux stator yoke and the first and the second axial-flux stator yokes include laminated sheets. Windings positioned in the slots of the first and the second axial-flux stator yokes and the radial-flux stator yoke.

Abstract: A system for thermal management of an electric motor, uses an augmented thermal circuit model of the electric motor, which relates temperatures of a set of nodes of the thermal circuit model with the temperature measurements at a first subset of nodes and heat losses of heat sources at a second subset of nodes, for joint estimation of the temperatures at the entire set of nodes and values of the heat losses in the second subset of nodes. The system solves the joint estimation using an estimator/observer. The system outputs one or combination of the values of the temperatures of the set of nodes and the values of the heat losses.

Abstract: A system for evaluating an electromagnetic performance of a permanent magnet (PM) motor. Parameters update an electromagnetic analytical (EA) model. Each component of the PM motor is associated with regions, and assumptions of the EA model include a relative permeability of regions associated with a rotor core modeled as finite. Calculate a general solution to a governing equation to each region which include unknown coefficients to be determined. Define a set of boundary and interface (B&I) conditions for two neighboring regions, each B&I condition is defined through a set of Maxwell equations using the two neighboring regions sets of assumptions, geometries of the PM motor and electrical and magnetic properties associated with the two neighboring regions. All the unknown coefficients in the general solutions in all regions are solved with a linear system of equations obtained from the B&I conditions between the regions, to solve for a magnetic vector potential.

Abstract: A motor comprising a shaft, an array of stator assemblies rigidly attached to the shaft, each stator assembly includes a stator yoke having a toroid shape fixed around the shaft and having a number of slots at radial and axis directional faces with windings within the slots of the stator yoke, and a rotor assembly rotatively attached to the shaft to enclose the array of stator assemblies, the rotor assembly has a rotor drum with sections, each section embraces one stator assembly, each section has two axial-flux permanent magnet arrays attached on axial-directional inner surfaces of the section and has one radial-flux permanent magnet array attached on a radial-directional inner surface of the section furthest from the shaft, wherein the axial-flux and the radial-flux permanent magnet arrays with the number of pole pairs equals the number of the stator slots plus or minus the number of stator winding pole pair.

Abstract: A system for estimating a severity of a bearing fault in an induction motor, uses a set of filters and a set of quantitative models designed for a set of fault frequencies. The system, upon receiving the measurements of the stator current, extracts the first fault current from the stator current using the first filter, determine the first mutual inductance variation from the first fault current using the first quantitative model, and classify the first mutual inductance variation with the fault severity classifier to determine the severity of a first type of fault in the induction motor. Similarly, the system classifies a second type of fault using the second filter and the second quantitative model. The system outputs one or combination of the severity of the first type of fault in the induction motor and the severity of the second type of fault in the induction motor.

Abstract: A rail state monitoring apparatus (1) includes: first and second transmission antennas (101, 102) to transmit first and second electric signals to rails (5, 6), respectively; first reception antenna (201) to receive a surface wave (21) of the first electric signal propagated through rail (5) and guided wave (32) of the second electric signal propagated through loop coil (10); second reception antenna (202) to receive surface wave (22) of the second electric signal propagated through rail (6) and guided wave (31) of the first electric signal propagated through loop coil (10); and a processor. The processor obtains received powers of the respective electric signals received by first and second reception antennas (201, 202), determines a rail state from “good”, “rail broken”, “rail crack”, or “rail surface anomaly” based on the received powers, and outputs the rail state as rail state information.

Abstract: An optical waveguide interferometer that includes a first optical section, a second optical section, and a set of optical waveguides configured to connect the first and second optical sections, such that light propagating between the first optical section and the second optical section passes through each optical waveguide in the set, wherein the set of optical waveguides includes a first optical waveguide having a first length and a first width and a second optical waveguide having a second length and a second width, wherein the second length is greater than the first length, and the second width is greater than the first width.