Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT) system is disclosed which includes: a network; a plurality of IoT servers coupled together and serviced by the network; a plurality of IoT agents coupled to each other and to the plurality of IoT servers; and a plurality of IoT devices electrically coupled to the plurality of IoT agents, wherein the IoT servers and the IoT agents further includes a deep reinforcement neural network operative to generate an action map {at} so as to satisfy an arg ? ? max ? a t ? Q ? ( s , a , ? ) wherein Q(s,a)=E[Rt|(s, a)].

Abstract: A smart parking system and method are disclosed which includes a plug-and-play and point to multipoint (PnP&P2MP) based internet of things (IoT) parking sensors, gateway managers, and user devices that can share information via a network. The information is used to preserve parking spaces, calculate minimum parking search time, and establish a dynamic queuing system to achieve high throughput, avoid traffic congestion and time losses.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to control aircraft roll operations are disclosed herein. An example system includes a control wheel position determiner to determine a control wheel position based on an input from a control wheel of the aircraft, a control wheel force determiner to determine a first control wheel force based on a sensor measurement, and a spoiler controller to map the control wheel position to a second control wheel force, the second control wheel force based on nominal characteristics of the aircraft, determine a first difference between the first control wheel force and the second control wheel force, and in response to determining that the first difference does not satisfy a threshold, move a flight control surface based on a third control wheel force, the third control wheel force based on a second difference between the first difference and the threshold.

Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve for implant in a human. The valve includes a wireform with undulating inflow cusps and outflow commissure posts to which flexible leaflets attach and coapt in a flow area. Each leaflet may drape over the top of the wireform in the cusp area, but have tabs that each extend underneath the wireform at the commissure posts to be secured along with a tab of an adjacent leaflet. The prosthetic heart valve may also be a dual-wire wireform, with the leaflets sandwiched therebetween. One wireform may be larger than the other, with the leaflets extending over the smaller wireform. The smaller wireform may have commissures that bend radially outward from the larger wireform to provide structure to which the leaflet tabs attach.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for redundant actuation of control surfaces. An example apparatus includes a control surface of an aircraft, and an actuator to move the control surface. The example apparatus also includes an electric motor to move the actuator; the electric motor communicatively coupled to an electrical system of the aircraft. The example apparatus also includes a hydraulic motor to move the actuator, the hydraulic motor fluidly coupled to a hydraulic system of the aircraft. The example apparatus also includes a sensor to detect incorrect operation of the hydraulic system. The example apparatus also includes a switch operatively coupled to the sensor, the switch to enable operation of the electric motor in response to the detected incorrect operation of the hydraulic system.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to thermal management systems for head-worn computers.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to control aircraft roll operations are disclosed herein. An example system includes a control wheel position determiner to determine a control wheel position based on an input from a control wheel of the aircraft, a control wheel force determiner to determine a first control wheel force based on a sensor measurement, and a spoiler controller to map the control wheel position to a second control wheel force, the second control wheel force based on nominal characteristics of the aircraft, determine a first difference between the first control wheel force and the second control wheel force, and in response to determining that the first difference does not satisfy a threshold, move a flight control surface based on a third control wheel force, the third control wheel force based on a second difference between the first difference and the threshold.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving a stream of data, and selecting more than one block of memory to write the stream of data to. The selected blocks of memory are in a memory that includes a plurality of blocks. Moreover, the data is written across the selected blocks of memory in parallel. The blocks of memory are also selected such that no two or more of the selected blocks of memory have an effect on a read apparent voltage of a same one of the plurality of blocks in the memory. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.

Abstract: In a virtualization system that includes a hypervisor that performs OSID management for linking a plurality of OSs with resources, a guest OS that receives an initial value from the hypervisor and sets a OSID for each resource, and a OSID manager that sets a OSID for each resource, a new OSID created by OSID generator in OSID manager after a certain period of time has elapsed after setting the initial value is set to the guest OS and the IP (resource), and is requested to be updated to a new OSID set by the update controller in OSID manager. This enables simultaneous updating of OSID of the guest operating system and the resources, thus achieving high robustness.

Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT) platform is disclosed which includes: a network; a plurality of IoT servers coupled together and serviced by the network; a plurality of IoT managers coupled to each other and to the plurality of IoT servers; and a plurality of IoT devices electrically coupled to the plurality of IoT managers, wherein the IoT servers and the IoT managers of the present invention are operable to configure a plug-and-play and point to multipoint communication environment where the plurality of IoT devices, the plurality of IoT servers, and the plurality of IoT managers communicate with one another in a plug-and-play manner and in a point to multipoint manner regardless of their physical connections, industrial standards, and communication protocols.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device enabling efficient compression without increasing the circuit size and a processing method using the semiconductor device. According to an embodiment, an image processor includes: a coding circuit to perform image processing on a target image divided into a plurality of tiles, the image processing being performed on each of the tiles; a determination circuit to determine whether a tile boundary is included in the area of an image block serving as a unit of compression of the target image; and a compression circuit to compress the image block image-processed by the coding circuit, according to a determination result of the determination circuit.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to thermal management systems for head-worn computers.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for redundant actuation of control surfaces. An example apparatus includes a control surface of an aircraft, and an actuator to move the control surface. The example apparatus also includes an electric motor to move the actuator; the electric motor communicatively coupled to an electrical system of the aircraft. The example apparatus also includes a hydraulic motor to move the actuator, the hydraulic motor fluidly coupled to a hydraulic system of the aircraft. The example apparatus also includes a sensor to detect incorrect operation of the hydraulic system. The example apparatus also includes a switch operatively coupled to the sensor, the switch to enable operation of the electric motor in response to the detected incorrect operation of the hydraulic system.

Abstract: An aircraft control system includes pilot and co-pilot flight control systems that each include a first shaft mechanically coupled to and displaced apart from a second shaft, the shafts defining and being rotatable about independent longitudinal axes. A connecting link enables rotation of one of the first shafts to rotate a corresponding one of the second shafts. A position transducer is mechanically coupled to each shaft and configured to communicate an electrical signal corresponding to the rotation of the respective shaft. A flight control unit electrically communicates with the position transducers and is configured to (a) receive the electrical signal from each position transducer, (b) detect a failure of the flight control system by detecting differences in the position transducers' electrical signals, and (c) communicate the electrical signal from the position transducer to a flight control surface actuation system to compensate for the detected failure.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing the probability of the occurrence of an aircraft's tailstrike are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a disclosed method for reducing a probability of an occurrence of a tailstrike for an aircraft comprises determining whether a tailstrike has a first probability of occurring by using tailstrike related data. The method further comprises producing a tactile warning to a pilot of the aircraft, when at least one processor determines that a tailstrike has the first probability of occurring. In at least one embodiment, the determining of whether a tailstrike has a first probability of occurring comprises determining whether an aircraft pitch attitude is greater than a first probability threshold by using the tailstrike related data; and determining that a tailstrike has the first probability of occurring, when the aircraft pitch attitude is greater than the first probability threshold.

Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT) platform is disclosed which includes: a network; a plurality of IoT servers coupled together and serviced by the network; a plurality of IoT managers coupled to each other and to the plurality of IoT servers; and a plurality of IoT devices electrically coupled to the plurality of IoT managers, wherein the IoT servers and the IoT managers of the present invention are operable to configure a plug-and-play and point to multipoint communication environment where the plurality of IoT devices, the plurality of IoT servers, and the plurality of IoT managers communicate with one another in a plug-and-play manner and in a point to multipoint manner regardless of their physical connections, industrial standards, and communication protocols.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device which suppresses a delay in processing. The semiconductor device is equipped with a plurality of read units which read data stored across a plurality of banks in a memory having the banks, and an access method managing section which, when one of the read units reads the data, determines a read start bank number being a bank number to start reading according to operation situations of the read units excepting the one read unit, and instructs the determined read start bank number to the one read unit.

Abstract: Read Apparent Voltage (RAV) is an anomality in which an apparent threshold voltage of a storage cell transistor does not equal the actual threshold voltage of that same transistor by a large enough magnitude that the binary state of transistor is not read correctly. An infector page may cause the RAV anomality within a different infected page. To determine whether any page is an infector, each page is programmed, a page within each block is read, an acting infector page within an acting infector block is set, a possible infected page within a possible infected block is set, the acting infector page is read a predetermined plurality of instances, the possible infected page is read, a raw bit error rate (RBER) of the read of the possible infected page is determined, and the acting infector page is set as an actual infector page based upon the determined RBER.

Abstract: Systems for compensating for force fighting in multi-actuator systems are provided. A drive controller unit comprises a first feedforward controller in communication with a first actuator and configured to receive a drive command signal. A first feedback regulator is configured to output a first feedback input into the first feedforward controller, and to receive as input a first actuator position and a first actuator force. The drive controller unit further comprises a second feedforward controller in communication with a second actuator and configured to receive the drive command signal. A second feedback regulator is configured to output a second feedback input into the second feedforward controller, and to receive as input a second actuator position and a second actuator force. The drive controller unit utilizes both feedforward controllers and both feedback regulators to minimize force fighting while driving a common aileron.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to thermal management systems for head-worn computers.