Abstract: A head unit system for controlling motion of an object includes a secondary object sensor, shear thickening fluid (STF), and a chamber configured to contain a portion of the STF. The chamber further includes a front channel and a back channel. The head unit system further includes a piston housed at least partially radially within the piston compartment and separating the back channel and the front channel. The piston includes a first piston bypass and a second piston bypasses to control flow of the STF between opposite sides of the piston. The chamber further includes a set of fluid manipulation emitters to control the flow of the STF to cause selection of one of a variety of shear rates for the STF within the chamber.

Abstract: A system includes a sensor platform, a motor capable of moving the sensor platform, a set of interfaces to receive messages from a set of mobile computing devices attached to the sensor platform, and a circuitry attached to the sensor platform in communication with the motor. A method may include obtaining a path that traverses a region that receives wireless signals from at least one access point of a plurality of access points and controlling the motor to move the sensor platform along the path. The method may include collecting a set of wireless signal values and determining whether the set of wireless signal values satisfy a set of anomaly criteria at a location of the sensor platform. The method may include stopping the motor at a location associated with the satisfaction of the set of anomaly criteria and storing the location in a set of locations.

Abstract: Composite backplate architectures for backside power delivery and associated methods are disclosed. An example backplate includes a first layer including a first material, and a second layer attached to the first layer. The second layer includes a second material different from the first material. The example backplate further includes a bus bar attached to the first layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a personal care device having a conditioning layer comprising a porous matrix comprising pores and having a hydrophobic conditioning agent fluid dispersed in the pores so that the conditioning agent can migrate to an exposed surface of the conditioning layer and then may be transferred to hair or skin surfaces. The conditioning layer may be prepared by preparing an immiscible conditioning composition comprising a hydrophilic material that is capable of being cured, and a hydrophobic conditioning agent. The immiscible composition is cured to form a conditioning layer that is a porous matrix formed from the hydrophilic material, the porous matrix having the hydrophobic conditioning agent fluid dispersed in the pores thereof.

Abstract: A method for execution by a computing entity includes interpreting a fluid flow response from fluid flow sensors to produce a piston position of a piston associated with a head unit device. The head unit device includes a chamber filled with a shear thickening fluid (STF). The method further includes determining a door position based on the piston position. The method further includes determining parameters for wireless signals based on the door position. The method further includes facilitating utilization of the parameters for the wireless signals to promote successful communication of status and/or control of the door via the wireless signals.

Abstract: User Equipment-to-User Equipment relaying resource management is performed between communication subscribers, which can each communicate with at least one base station via at least one communication interface for communication. The following steps are carried out on the part of the base station for establishing communication: determining local and thematic information for determining communication subscribers; determining a group of communication subscribers based on the local and thematic information, wherein a local area is defined for local restriction of the communication subscribers, and wherein at least one of a technological aspect and an interest-related aspect is used for thematic restriction on the part of the base station. Granting permission to communicate data from a group of communication subscribers to the at least one base station is established via further communication subscribers by using discovery mechanisms between them.

Abstract: A method for cutting an elongated food product that includes providing a first conveyor belt portion and a second conveyor belt portion for forming opposed first and second sides of a passageway. A third conveyor belt portion can be disposed adjacent the first conveyor belt portion and the second conveyor belt portion for forming a third side of the passageway. The elongated food product can be delivered to an entrance of the passageway and transported through the passageway to an outlet of the passageway. The elongated food product from the outlet can be cut to provide cut food product. An apparatus of cutting an elongated food product is provided.

Abstract: Congestion reducing method performed by a user equipment (UE) in communication systems, characterized by, that the user equipment (UE) is prepared for transmitting uplink data (UL) and is in a passive status and after initiating a Random Access Channel procedure (RACH) the user equipment (UE) receives back off index from the base-station (gNB) and user equipment (UE) selects back off Index based on user equipment (UE) criteria related to at least one communication systems relevant criterion.

Abstract: A system includes a feedthrough cap having a guide funnel configured to extend about a tree body of a well system. The feedthrough cap includes a landing body configured to extend into the tree body and land on a hanger. The feedthrough cap includes a feedthrough line configured to extend through the feedthrough cap to the hanger.

Abstract: A catheter includes proximal and distal sections, a shaft coupled between the proximal and distal sections, and optical fibers extending through the shaft and to the distal section of the catheter. The distal section includes a support structure that includes a proximal end, a distal end, reflective elements, and a cap disposed over a portion of the distal end of the support structure. The proximal end includes alignment receptacles. Each of the optical fibers is inserted into corresponding ones of the alignment receptacles and the alignment receptacles are shaped to maintain the optical fibers straight in the support structure. The distal end includes orifices facing different directions. Each of the optical fibers is optically aligned with corresponding ones of the lenses, reflective elements, and orifices such that the optical fibers in the support structure are straight. The cap includes optical ports aligned with the orifices.

Abstract: Systems and methods for using stencils for multitouch interactive exploration are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include: (1) receiving, by a computer program executed ay an electronic device, an identification of a stencil being used over a touch-sensitive interface associated with the electronic device, the stencil comprising a plurality of physical markers; (2) graphically presenting, by the computer program, a graphical representation of data on the touch-sensitive interface; (3) receiving, by the computer program, a user touch interaction with the touch-sensitive interface; (4) providing, by the computer program, feedback for the user touch interaction; (5) determining, by the computer program, a location of the user touch interaction on the stencil; (6) identifying, by the computer program, an element at the location; and (7) audibly providing, by the computer program, information on the element.

Abstract: A near-optimal Karhunen-Loeve basis expansion modeling (KL-BEM) orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) receiver with superimposed pilots has been proposed for high-mobility communications with Doppler spread channel. First, an initial KL-BEM channel estimation is conducted by superimposed pilots, followed by the removal of superimposed pilots from the received OTFS signal and equalisation by message passing (MP) algorithm. After that, the detected data symbols are utilized as pseudo pilots along with the superimposed pilots to refine both KL-BEM channel estimation and equalisation in an iterative manner. Simulation results confirm the superior performance of the proposed KL-BEM OTFS receiver over the prior art in terms of the mean-square-error (MSE) of channel estimation and bit error rate (BER). It also has a close BER performance to the BER lower bound obtained by assuming perfect channel estimation. It contributes to high spectral efficiency and fast convergence performance.

Abstract: A fiducial is generated on an internal anatomical structure of the eye of a patient with a surgical laser. A toric artificial intraocular lens (IOL) is positioned so that a marker of the toric IOL is in a predetermined positional relationship relative to the fiducial. This positioning aligns the toric IOL with the astigmatic or other axis of the eye. The toric IOL is then implanted in the eye of the patient with high accuracy.

Abstract: A system receives a vehicle transport instruction for transporting a vehicle. The system instructs display of an indicator related to the transport instruction, using a first vehicle output. Further, the system determines whether a vehicle is in a state designated for alert notification based on at least a transportation error detected by the vehicle and changes at least one of the first vehicle output or a second vehicle output to indicate the transportation error responsive to detection of the transportation error by the vehicle.

Abstract: A Computer Vision enabled Smart Tray (CVST) is designed for use in medical training, such as for Central Venous Catheterization (CVC). The tray is configured to hold a plurality of medical instruments. A support surface supports the tray with areas that are selectively illuminable, and a sensing system is operable to sense the presence of instruments or supplies in at least some areas of the tray. Background color is used by the computer vision algorithm to distinguish between tools and the tray. In addition, the computer vision algorithm is evaluated for accuracy in tool detection.

Abstract: A computer-implemented reconstruction method of discrete digital signals in noisy overloaded wireless communication systems that is characterized by a channel matrix of complex coefficients, the method including, receiving the signal from channel by a signal detector, measuring the noise power by a noise power estimator at the receiver, forwarding the detected signal and noise power estimation to a decoder that estimates the transmitted symbol, wherein the estimation of the decoder produces a symbol that could probably have been transmitted it is forwarded to a de-mapper, which outputs the bit estimates corresponding to the estimated transmit signal and the corresponding estimated symbol to a microprocessor for further processing.

Abstract: A robotic system, including: a robot having an arm with a multi-fingered soft gripper that is formed of a compliant material; an image sensor fixedly mounted on the arm to move with the multi-fingered soft gripper, and operable to capture image data of the multi-fingered soft gripper composed of a compliant material; and processor circuitry operable to generate a model of a state of the multi-fingered soft gripper by: controlling the arm to move in a predefined motion pattern while the image sensor captures the image data; deriving an optical flow based on the image data and consecutive arm kinematic and velocity frame states; and segmenting between a multi-fingered soft gripper portion and a background portion of the image data based on the optical flow, wherein static regions of the optical flow represent the multi-fingered soft gripper portion, dynamic regions of the optical flow represent the background portion, and non-coherent regions of the optical flow represent contour between the multi-fingered soft

Abstract: A component of an edge server, including: processor circuitry; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the processor circuitry, cause the processor circuitry to: distribute, to a client device, tokens that enable its end device to execute respective asynchronous adaptive motion primitives (A2MPs) of a task graph of a task, wherein an A2MP is a motion primitive of encoded motion factoring in motion updates from the end device; receive A2MP task execution status messages during execution of the A2MPs; and dynamically update the distribution of the token or the task graph based on the A2MP task execution status messages to modify a trajectory of the end device.