Abstract: A method of checking the accuracy of a robot is disclosed providing a component; fitting a tool jig to the component; using the tool jig to guide a stamp tool against the component to create a first mark on the component representative of a calibrated drilling location; removing the tool jig; providing a robot, the robot including an end effector holding a marking tool; operating the robot according to a program to manoeuvre the marking tool against the component to create a second mark representative of a robot drilling location; and comparing the position of the first mark to the position of the second mark to measure a distance between the first mark and the second mark.

Abstract: A method of checking the accuracy of a robot is disclosed providing a component; fitting a tool jig to the component; using the tool jig to guide a stamp tool against the component to create a first mark on the component representative of a calibrated drilling location; removing the tool jig; providing a robot, the robot including an end effector holding a marking tool; operating the robot according to a program to manoeuvre the marking tool against the component to create a second mark representative of a robot drilling location; and comparing the position of the first mark to the position of the second mark to measure a distance between the first mark and the second mark.

Abstract: An automated clamp for clamping a rib web to a rib post or rib foot of an aircraft wing box is disclosed including a clamp frame having a first arm and a second arm extending from the base of the clamp frame. The second arm is moveable towards and away from the first arm; a robot end effector connector coupled to the clamp frame; clamp jaws including a first jaw fixed at a distal end of the first arm, and a second jaw fixed at a distal end of the second arm, the clamp jaws configured to clamp a rib web to a rib post or clamp a rib web to a rib foot. The first jaw and/or second jaw includes a contact normalisation system, the contact normalisation system including: a jaw body fixed relative to the respective arm.

Abstract: An automated clamp for clamping a rib web to a rib post or rib foot of an aircraft wing box is disclosed including a clamp frame, a first arm and a second arm extending from the base of the clamp frame, the second arm is moveably mounted to the base of the clamp so as to be moveable towards and away from the first arm; a robot end effector connector coupled to the clamp frame. The clamp jaws include a first jaw fixed at a distal end of the first arm, and a second jaw fixed at a distal end of the second arm, the clamp jaws configured to clamp the rib web to the rib post or rib foot. One of the clamp jaws defines a tool module docking aperture configured to receive a tool module for providing access to the rib web and rib post or rib foot clamped between the clamp jaws.

Abstract: An automated clamp for clamping a rib web to a rib post or rib foot of an aircraft wing box is disclosed including a clamp frame having a first arm and a second arm extending from the base of the clamp frame. The second arm is moveable towards and away from the first arm; a robot end effector connector coupled to the clamp frame; clamp jaws including a first jaw fixed at a distal end of the first arm, and a second jaw fixed at a distal end of the second arm, the clamp jaws configured to clamp an aircraft assembly. One of the jaws includes a tool module docking aperture into which a tool module is insertable for accessing the aircraft assembly; and a swarf channel extending into the tool module docking aperture, the swarf channel fluidically connected to a vacuum source and configured to extract waste material adjacent the aircraft assembly.

Abstract: An automated self-aligning system is disclosed including a first robot arm attached to a clamping end effector including clamp jaws for clamping either side of a workpiece and with an aperture in one of the clamp jaws. A second robot arm is attached to a tooling end effector including a tool module carrying a tool. The tool module is insertable into the aperture and the tool is adapted to perform an operation on the workpiece. The second robot arm is arranged to move the tool module so as to move the tool module in a direction of insertion so as to insert the tool module into the aperture. A load sensor coupled to the tooling end effector and is arranged to determine a load in the direction of insertion of the tool module. The tooling end effector is further arranged to move the tool module with respect to the second robot arm in a plurality of degrees of freedom different than the insertion direction.

Abstract: A microwave resonator device including a first resonator member comprised of a dielectric material and a second resonator member comprised of a dielectric material. The second resonator member can be positioned spatially offset from the first resonator member to define a spatial interaction region configured to confine an electromagnetic field in a microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The spatial offset between the first resonator member and the second resonator member defining the spatial interaction region is less than the microwave wavelength associated with a resonant frequency of the microwave resonator device. The microwave resonator device facilitates generation of a resonant field enhancement within the spatial interaction region.

Abstract: A system and method for optically communicating infusion line conditions is disclosed. An infusion line light array includes a plurality of LEDs in a light string configuration. The light array is configured to couple to a fluid-carrying tubing at a plurality of fastening points along a length of the fluid-carrying tubing. A control unit operably coupled to the light array, receives a pumping parameter from a pump interface, the pumping parameter being generated by an infusion pump providing a fluid to a patient through the fluid-carrying tubing, and causes, responsive to receiving the pumping parameter, the light array to display, along the length of the fluid-carrying tubing, a light pattern representative of the pumping parameter.

Abstract: A microwave resonator device including a first resonator member comprised of a dielectric material and a second resonator member comprised of a dielectric material. The second resonator member can be positioned spatially offset from the first resonator member to define a spatial interaction region configured to confine an electromagnetic field in a microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The spatial offset between the first resonator member and the second resonator member defining the spatial interaction region is less than the microwave wavelength associated with a resonant frequency of the microwave resonator device. The microwave resonator device facilitates generation of a resonant field enhancement within the spatial interaction region.

Abstract: The example embodiments are directed to a system and method for tag mapping. In one example, the method includes receiving a request to perform tag mapping for a target tag of a master data set, the target tag representing a target component of an asset, querying a customer data for a plurality of candidate tag records based on the target tag, tokenizing the plurality of candidate tag records included in the customer data set, reducing an amount of the tokenized tag records in the customer data set based on the target tag and each tokenized candidate tag record, performing tag mapping with the reduced amount of tokenized tag records to identify at least one candidate tag that is a possible match to the target tag, and outputting information concerning the identified at least one matching candidate tag.

Abstract: A method for operating a hydraulic brake system of a motor vehicle having a brake booster and a hydraulic brake boost wherein a brake pressure is detected and an underpressure, prevailing in an underpressure chamber of the brake booster is estimated on the basis of the detected brake pressure. The hydraulic brake boost controlled based on the estimated underpressure, with the estimated underpressure taking into account an actuation of the hydraulic brake boost.

Abstract: The example embodiments are directed to a pluggable framework for managing algorithm ensembles for code design. In one example, the method includes receiving a selection of an algorithm from among a plurality of available algorithms, inserting the selected algorithm into an algorithm ensemble including a grouping of algorithms which combine to perform a data processing operation, the inserting comprising linking an input of the selected algorithm to an output of a first algorithm and linking an output of the selected algorithm to an input of a second algorithm, from among the algorithms included in the algorithm ensemble, and executing the algorithm ensemble on input data in an order defined by the linking to generate a processing result of the input data.

Abstract: The example embodiments are directed to a system and method for tag mapping. In one example, the method includes receiving a request to perform tag mapping for a target tag of a master data set, the target tag representing a target component of an asset, querying a customer data for a plurality of candidate tag records based on the target tag, tokenizing the plurality of candidate tag records included in the customer data set, reducing an amount of the tokenized tag records in the customer data set based on the target tag and each tokenized candidate tag record, performing tag mapping with the reduced amount of tokenized tag records to identify at least one candidate tag that is a possible match to the target tag, and outputting information concerning the identified at least one matching candidate tag.

Abstract: A method and system for determining the pressure in a brake booster used to actuate a brake system having at least one main brake cylinder. The brake booster connected in a fluid-conducting manner by a non-return valve to an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine. A reduced pressure loss in the brake booster resulting from actuation of the main brake cylinder is balanced with the reduced pressure gain in the brake booster as a result of a pressure difference between the brake booster pressure and the intake manifold pressure. The reduced pressure gain in the brake booster is determined based on time, the air mass flow between the brake booster, and the intake manifold.

Abstract: The example embodiments are directed to a system and method for tag mapping. In one example, the method includes receiving a request to perform tag mapping for a target tag of a master data set, the target tag representing a target component of an asset, querying a customer data for a plurality of candidate tag records based on the target tag, tokenizing the plurality of candidate tag records included in the customer data set, reducing an amount of the tokenized tag records in the customer data set based on the target tag and each tokenized candidate tag record, performing tag mapping with the reduced amount of tokenized tag records to identify at least one candidate tag that is a possible match to the target tag, and outputting information concerning the identified at least one matching candidate tag.

Abstract: A method for fault diagnosis of a vacuum system having a vacuum source and a vacuum consumer connected to the vacuum source via a connecting line with a non-return valve disposed in the connecting line upstream of the vacuum source. The method including indirectly determining a vacuum in the vacuum consumer based on an estimated vacuum value. Providing a flow sensor, using the flow sensor to measure a flow in the connecting line and drawing a conclusion regarding a defect based on the estimated vacuum value and the flow. An exemplary embodiment may also include a combined check valve and flow sensor.

Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, a service brake, a brake booster, a parking brake, a wheel-speed sensor and an inclination sensor is disclosed. The method including measuring the speed of motor vehicle using the wheel-speed sensor to create a speed signal. An inclination of the motor vehicle with respect to the direction the motor vehicle is sensed and an angle signal is created. The internal combustion engine is started when the speed measured is greater than zero and the inclination of the motor vehicle is greater than a predetermined value, such that the internal combustion engine creates a partial vacuum to power the brake booster to assist with the operation of the service brake.

Abstract: A method can include receiving data in a data domain where a first portion of the data domain includes a signal to noise ratio that exceeds a signal to noise ratio in a second portion of the data domain; generating a model; in a transform domain, based at least in part on the model, filtering at least a portion of the data in the second portion of the data domain; and, based at least in part on the filtering, outputting noise attenuated data for at least a portion of the data in the second portion of the data domain.

Abstract: A method can include selecting a location associated with a seismic survey geometry; selecting a trace for the location where the trace is selected from one of a plurality of different types of traces that include real data traces, interpolated data traces and model data traces; generating a multiple model based at least in part on the selected trace; and adjusting seismic data based at least in part on the multiple model.

Abstract: The example embodiments are directed to a system and method for tag mapping. In one example, the method includes receiving a request to perform tag mapping for a target tag of a master data set, the target tag representing a target component of an asset, querying a customer data for a plurality of candidate tag records based on the target tag, tokenizing the plurality of candidate tag records included in the customer data set, reducing an amount of the tokenized tag records in the customer data set based on the target tag and each tokenized candidate tag record, performing tag mapping with the reduced amount of tokenized tag records to identify at least one candidate tag that is a possible match to the target tag, and outputting information concerning the identified at least one matching candidate tag.