Abstract: Processes for automatically identifying road surfaces and related features such as roadside poles, trees, road dividers and walls from mobile LiDAR point cloud data. The processes use corresponding image data to improve feature identification.

Abstract: Described herein is a method and system for flexible, high performance structured data processing. The method and system contains techniques for balancing and jointly optimising processing speed, resource utilisation, flexibility, scalability, and configurability in one workflow. A prime example of its application is the analysis of spatial data, e.g. LiDAR and imagery. However, the invention is applicable to a wide range of structured data problems in a variety of dimensions and settings.

Abstract: Described herein is a method and system for flexible, high performance structured data processing. The method and system contains techniques for balancing and jointly optimising processing speed, resource utilisation, flexibility, scalability, and configurability in one workflow. A prime example of its application is the analysis of spatial data, e.g. LiDAR and imagery. However, the invention is applicable to a wide range of structured data problems in a variety of dimensions and settings.

Abstract: Described herein is a method and system for flexible, high performance structured data processing. The method and system contains techniques for balancing and jointly optimising processing speed, resource utilisation, flexibility, scalability, and configurability in one workflow. A prime example of its application is the analysis of spatial data, e.g. LiDAR and imagery. However, the invention is applicable to a wide range of structured data problems in a variety of dimensions and settings.

Abstract: A method for detection of on-ground or near-ground discrete objects having characteristic features from terrain height data characterizing a search area comprising the steps of: processing the terrain height data to form a regular grid containing elevation and slope data at each grid point; and analyzing said gridded terrain height data to identify said on-ground or near-ground discrete objects within said search area.

Abstract: A method for detection of on-ground or near-ground discrete objects having characteristic features from terrain height data characterising a search area comprising the steps of: processing the terrain height data to form a regular grid containing elevation and slope data at each grid point; and analysing said gridded terrain height data to identify said on-ground or near-ground discrete objects within said search area.

Abstract: An advanced aerodynamic control system for a wind turbine including a drive shaft and blade. The control system includes an air control system coupled to a duct that extends from a first end toward a second end of the blade. A slot extends along a portion of a surface of the blade and is in communication with the duct. An instrument measures operating data of the wind turbine. A controller collects the operating data and compares the operating data to predetermined operating norms. The controller actuates the air control system to urge pressurized air into the duct and out of the slot at a specific air flow rate based upon the comparison between the operating data and predetermined operating norms. Control of the flow rate aids in capture of power from the wind flowing through a swept area of the wind turbine.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a co-crystallized product and a method of making the product. The product comprises a polyol and a hydrogenated maltodextrin that have been co-crystallized together. The co-crystallization of polyols and hydrogenated maltodextrin according to the invention provides a sweetener product that is sucrose-free, yet has a reduced sensory cooling effect compared to the original polyol(s). The reduced sensory cooling effect is due to an increase of the heat of solution that is observed when polyols are co-crystallized with hydrogenated maltodextrin. Because the product of the invention is a sucrose-free sweetener that does not demonstrate the strong sensory cooling effect typically found with polyol sweeteners, the invention has a wide variety of applications which previously are not available for polyol sweeteners.

Abstract: An advanced aerodynamic control system for a wind turbine including a drive shaft and blade. The control system includes an air control system coupled to a duct that extends from a first end toward a second end of the blade. A slot extends along a portion of a surface of the blade and is in communication with the duct. An instrument measures operating data of the wind turbine. A controller collects the operating data and compares the operating data to predetermined operating norms. The controller actuates the air control system to urge pressurized air into the duct and out of the slot at a specific air flow rate based upon the comparison between the operating data and predetermined operating norms. Control of the flow rate aids in capture of power from the wind flowing through a swept area of the wind turbine.

Abstract: A liquid xylitol composition that is non-crystallizing at low temperatures comprising, at between about 65 and about 90 weight percent dry solids, xylitol, in an amount between about 65 and about 90 weight percent of the dry solids, and sorbitol, in an amount between about 10 and about 35 weight percent of the dry solids. This liquid xylitol composition is preferably non-crystallizing at between about 0° C. and about 10° C. A process for producing liquid xylitol compositions, comprising co-hydrogenating a sugar syrup mixture comprising a sugar syrup having a dextrose equivalence (DE) of between about 20 DE and about 99 DE, in an amount between about 5 and about 35 weight percent of the mixture, and xylose, in an amount between about 65 and about 95 weight percent of the mixture. This process may be used to produce liquid xylitol compositions that are non-crystallizing at low temperatures.

Abstract: Management functionality in a communications network is integrated using a design module for constructing a management information base (MIB). A unit of manageable physical resources is represented in the MIB by a management unit comprising a collection of managed objects representing actual physical and logical resources in the network. The functionality provided by those physical and logical resources is represented separately and independently from the objects representing those physical and logical resources. A realisation model associates classes of objects representing the functionality with classes of objects representing the physical and logical resources. In an embodiment, an Application model represents the functionality of network resources. An Implementation model represents the actual, specific implementation of how that functionality is carried out. A set of realisation associations links an application model to an implementation model to form a realisation model.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a co-crystallized product and a method of making the product. The product comprises a polyol and a hydrogenated maltodextrin that have been co-crystallized together. The co-crystallization of polyols and hydrogenated maltodextrin according to the invention provides a sweetener product that is sucrose-free, yet has a reduced sensory cooling effect compared to the original polyol(s). The reduced sensory cooling effect is due to an increase of the heat of solution that is observed when polyols are co-crystallized with hydrogenated maltodextrin. Because the product of the invention is a sucrose-free sweetener that does not demonstrate the strong sensory cooling effect typically found with polyol sweeteners, the invention has a wide variety of applications which previously are not available for polyol sweeteners.

Abstract: There is presented a method for integrating management functionality in communications networks by virtue of a design model for constructing a management information base in a communications network management system. A unit of manageable physical resources is represented in the management information base by a management unit. The management unit comprises a collection of managed objects representing actual physical and logical resources in the communications network, the managed objects arranged such that functionality provided by the physical and logical resources is represented separately and independently from the actual physical and logical resources themselves, in the particular way in which those resources are implemented. A unit of manageable functionality and resources is represented in the management information base by a management unit.

Abstract: A communications network, eg a distributed network, comprises a plurality of distributed physical resources in the form of components, assemblies of components, and systems based on components and composites. A network management system of such a network comprises an application level which represents the functionality of a plurality of different composites being hardware and/or software components of different proprietary manufacture and different function capability, and an implementation level which implements control of the composites. The application level is sub-divided into a plurality of application level elements each of which correspond to a function capability of a composite or system, a system being a highest level of composite. The implementation level is sub-divided into a plurality of implementation level elements each of which represents a system, a composite or a component.

Abstract: A management base of a communications network manager is constructed using object oriented techniques. A network comprises a plurality of physical resources in the form of components and assemblies of components, which are distributed across the network. A management system for the network is constructed in an evolutionary manner by representing an overall functionality of the network by an application model in which each function of the network is modeled independently of its implementation, decomposing the application model into an implementation model in which every function represented in the application model is represented in the implementation model, representing the application model as a plurality of objects, representing the implementation model as another plurality of objects, connecting the objects of the application model and implementation model together to obtain a combined object model, and constructing a management base according to the combined object model.

Abstract: A number of methods and arrangements for controlling a gyroscopic continuously variable transmission (GVT) are described. The stroke length or effective stroke length of the input member (1) can be varied. A bearing arrangement includes a lubricant volume (212) and vanes (208) between an aperture and a shaft (8?) to transmit power whilst allowing for movement between the components. A transmission system may have a number of GVT's and a cam member (304) to move the inputs of the GVT's. The transmission may be provided in a wind turbine.