Abstract: Collision detection useful in motion planning for robotics advantageously employs data structure representations of robots, persistent obstacles and transient obstacles in an environment in which a robot will operate. Data structures may take the form of hierarchical data structures ((e.g., octrees, sets of volumes or boxes (e.g., a tree of axis-aligned bounding boxes (AABBs), a tree of oriented (not axis-aligned) bounding boxes, or a tree of spheres)) or non-hierarchical data structures (e.g., Euclidean Distance Fields) Such can result in computational efficiency, reduce memory requirements, and lower power consumption. The collision detection can take the form as a standalone function, providing a Boolean result that can be employed in executing any of a variety of different motion planning algorithms.

Abstract: A system for predicting ideal environmental conditions to grow plants establishing a connection with at least one sensor, wherein the sensor is able to collect data related to at least one environmental condition; grouping, by one or more processors, the at least one sensor into at least one zone; calibrating the at least one sensor within each zone, wherein the calibration is based on a set of environmental conditions desired for a plant; collecting data related to the at least one environmental condition from the at least one sensor; manipulating the collected data, wherein the data is manipulated from a first format to a second format, wherein the second format is readable by a predictive analyzing engine; performing a predictive model manipulation on the manipulated collected data; alerting a user with a recommendation based on the predictive model; and manipulating a user interface to identify specific environmental conditions.

Abstract: A device for locating an object. The device includes a housing including a first hole. The device also includes a sensor carried by the housing and comprising two or more electrodes that are positioned next to each other to form a substantially circular configuration. The sensor includes a second hole formed in the center of the circular configuration, and the second hole is axially aligned with the first hole.

Abstract: A display system may comprise an array of pixels arranged to display an image and one or more imaging sensors. Each imaging sensor may be arranged with at least one pixel of the array. The display system may further comprise at least one communication line to provide an image to the array of pixels and to output the sensed data of the plurality of imaging sensors. The display system may further comprise an array of non-visible light quantum dots. The array non-visible light quantum dot may be arranged with the array of pixels such that each quantum dot converts light from the array of pixels to emissions in a non-visible light wavelength range. The display system may further comprise a one or more sensor pixels sensitive to light in the non-visible light wavelength range.

Abstract: There is provided a utility junction box including a plurality of sidewalls forming a housing having an open bottom opening into an interior volume for receiving one or more utility lines from a first location, one or more apertures formed in at least one sidewall of the housing, a weather guard disposed on an exterior of the at least one sidewall having a downwardly sloping front face having formed therein one aperture corresponding to each of the one or more apertures formed in the at least one sidewall of the housing and disposed directly opposite therefrom. Each aperture formed in the sidewall of the housing is configured to allow a utility line to pass from within the interior volume of the housing through the aperture and direct the utility line through the corresponding aperture formed in the weather guard to a second location exterior to the utility junction box.

Abstract: A clip assembly is provided including a clip having a support leg joined with a control arm, an actuator, and a displacement control element operable to engage the control arm and hold the support leg in a retracted mode. The actuator is movable relative to the clip and/or a carrier associated with the clip to disengage the displacement control element from the control arm and thereby deploy the associated support leg from the body to secure the clip to the panel. The clip can include a retention leg to retain the clip relative to the panel upon installation of the clip relative to the panel. A related method of use is provided.

Abstract: A clip assembly is provided including a clip having a support leg joined with a control arm and a grenade pin having a grasping element and a key with a displacement control element operable to engage the control arm and hold the support leg in a retracted mode. The grenade pin is removable from the clip to disengage the displacement control element from the control arm and thereby deploy the associated support leg from the body to secure the clip to the panel. The clip can include a retention leg to retain the clip relative to the panel upon installation of the clip relative to the panel. A related method of use is provided.

Abstract: Speech recognition may be improved by generating and using a topic specific language model. A topic specific language model may be created by performing an initial pass on an audio signal using a generic or basis language model. A speech recognition device may then determine topics relating to the audio signal based on the words identified in the initial pass and retrieve a corpus of text relating to those topics. Using the retrieved corpus of text, the speech recognition device may create a topic specific language model. In one example, the speech recognition device may adapt or otherwise modify the generic language model based on the retrieved corpus of text.

Abstract: The present invention is a sensor device comprising: a housing; a processing unit assembly disposed within the housing, wherein the processing unit comprising a high frequency oscillator, a first voltage meter, a low frequency oscillator, a second voltage meter; a probe having a predetermined shape and profile attached to the processing unit and extending from the housing a predetermined distance; and a first sensing unit integrated into the probe and in electrical communication with the high frequency oscillator and the first voltage meter; a second sensing unit integrated into the probe relative to the first sensing unit and in electrical communication with the low frequency oscillator and the second voltage meter.

Abstract: An automatic tensioning side track assembly includes at least one of a screen receiver and a base track. The screen receiver includes a first magnet channel having a first outer wall continuously surrounding an entire perimeter of the first magnet channel. A first magnet is housed within the first magnet channel, wherein the first magnet channel is configured to entirely shield the first magnet from ambient fluid and debris. The base track is engaged with the screen receiver, wherein the base track includes a second magnet channel having a second outer wall continuously surrounding an entire perimeter of the second magnet channel. A second magnet is housed within the second magnet channel, wherein the second magnet channel is configured to entirely shield the second magnet from ambient fluid and debris.

Abstract: A line roller assembly is provided including a base assembly including a clamping assembly configured to clamp the base assembly to a parapet wall surrounding a roof of a structure or other installation, a carriage assembly slidably mounted on the base assembly, said carriage assembly including at least one arm including a roller at a distal end, said carriage assembly movable between at least one extended position and a medial position, and said at least one roller includes a groove configured to receive a line for aiding the line over the parapet wall, wherein in the at least one extended position the at least one arm extends a pre-determined distance over an edge of an outer wall of the structure or the at least one arm extends a pre-determined distance over an inner edge of the parapet wall of the structure over the roof.

Abstract: An automatic tensioning side track assembly includes a stationary base track, a dynamic screen receiver, a first magnet, a second magnet, and a screen. The first magnet is oppositely charged relative to the second magnet and is configured to maintain an attractive magnetic force with the second magnet. The first magnet is disposed at a first position associated with a first rectilinear horizontal distance away from the second magnet when the screen is at a substantially planar configuration and has a desired tensioned state. The first magnet is disposed at a second position associated with a second rectilinear horizontal distance away from the second magnet when the screen is at a substantially bowed configuration and has an undesired tensioned state. The first magnet is configured to automatically return from the second position to the first position after the screen is displaced to the substantially bowed configuration.

Abstract: An automatic tensioning side track assembly includes a stationary base track, a dynamic screen receiver, a first magnet, a second magnet, and a screen. The first magnet is oppositely charged relative to the second magnet and is configured to maintain an attractive magnetic force with the second magnet. The first magnet is disposed at a first position associated with a first rectilinear horizontal distance away from the second magnet when the screen is at a substantially planar configuration and has a desired tensioned state. The first magnet is disposed at a second position associated with a second rectilinear horizontal distance away from the second magnet when the screen is at a substantially bowed configuration and has an undesired tensioned state. The first magnet is configured to automatically return from the second position to the first position after the screen is displaced to the substantially bowed configuration.

Abstract: Speech recognition may be improved by generating and using a topic specific language model. A topic specific language model may be created by performing an initial pass on an audio signal using a generic or basis language model. A speech recognition device may then determine topics relating to the audio signal based on the words identified in the initial pass and retrieve a corpus of text relating to those topics. Using the retrieved corpus of text, the speech recognition device may create a topic specific language model. In one example, the speech recognition device may adapt or otherwise modify the generic language model based on the retrieved corpus of text.

Abstract: A structural electronics wireless sensor node is provided that includes layers of electronic components fabricated from patterned nanostructures embedded in an electrically conductive matrix. In some aspects, the structural electronics wireless sensor node includes a plurality of nanostructure layers that each form individual electronic components of the structural electronics wireless sensor node. In certain embodiments, the structural electronics wireless sensor node includes electronic components such as a resistor, a inductor, a capacitor, and/or an antenna.

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 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.