Abstract: Projectile launchers have an elongated cylindrical body defining a projectile bore having a bore axis, the body having an open forward exit end, the body having a gas inlet facility at an opposed rear end, a movable latch element connected to the body and having a latch portion movable between a retention position in which the latch portion protrudes into the bore and a release position, and the latch element being biased to the retention position such that a projectile in the bore rearward of the latch is retained by the latch portion except until a gas pressure above a selected amount builds up behind the projectile to overcome the biasing of the latch and launch the projectile. The latch element may be clear of the bore when in the release position.

Abstract: A firearm accessory connecting device to be mounted on a rail interface system has two locking mechanism and alignment relief lugs by which the device can be aligned and secured onto either a KeyMod rail interface or an M-LOK rail interface. The two locking mechanisms situated at a first front-end and a second rear-end of the connecting device and defined by a screw hole whereby a screw will engage the top surface of the connecting device and extend through the screw hole to the interior surface of the rail interface wherein a nut will be used to secure the screw in position and hence the mount onto the rail. The alignment lugs located at specific distances along the bottom surface of the connecting device will be slidably attached and aligned onto the rail interface.

Abstract: A flexible cover comprising at least one, so-called composite, layer, formed from a composite material consisting of at least one fabric and at least one elastomer and a flat metal blade secured to the composite layer by elastomer and comprising pre-cut lines for fragilisation of the flexible cover, the pre-cut lines being arranged so as to create areas in the form of petals, the composite layer and the metal blade being designed so as to return to an initial position once the flexible cover has been opened.

Abstract: A power module configured for use with archery bows to enhance use of the bows and/or provide other functionality.

Abstract: A target marking system includes a light source configured to emit a beam of thermal radiation and to impinge the beam onto a target. The system also includes a detector configured to collect radiation passing from the target to the detector along a path. The radiation passing from the target in response to impingement of the beam onto the target. The system further includes an optics assembly disposed optically upstream of the detector along the path. The optics assembly includes at least one of an afocal power changer, a camera objective, a catadioptric lens, and a zoom system configured to condition the radiation passing from the target to the detector.

Abstract: A system for aligning a weapon to a high-performance target sensor. A reference measurement sensor installed on the target sensor measures the direction and range to each of several references points on the weapon. From these measurements, and measurement by the target sensor of target states, a processing circuit calculates the states of the target in a coordinate system of the weapon. Each reference point may be a retroreflector; the reference measurement sensor may include an imaging sensor to measure direction, and a laser range finder to measure range.

Abstract: A firearms marksmanship training system comprising a shooter observation booth characterized by intended shooting technique data and comprising a plurality of cameras configured to receive observed shooting technique data; a diagnostic target characterized by intended projectile strike data and configured to receive observed projectile strike data; and a shooter data analysis tool configured to determine at least one performance indication, defined as a shooting flaw, using a variance of the intended shooting technique data from the observed shooting technique data and a displacement of the intended projectile strike data from the observed projectile strike data, to determine, using a plurality of known shooting flaws associated with a plurality of known corrective measures, a probability of correction of the shooting flaw for at least one of the known corrective measures, defined as an applied corrective measure, and to provide sensory guidance as to the applied corrective measure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to quick release mechanisms to attach accessories to firearms. Quick release mechanisms of the present invention can be used to attach scopes, sights, lights, lasers, launchers, bipods, grips, and other accessories to firearms.

Abstract: The invention discloses a stealth method by use of three-dimensional spraying.

Abstract: A system for temporarily disabling selected occupants of an area includes one or more flashing units and one or more eye protection units. Each flashing unit includes a light source that generates flashes of light sufficiently bright to temporarily disable people who see the flashes. Each eye protection unit includes a shutter that blocks light while the flashes are being generated. Each flashing unit and each eye protection unit stores data that specifies when the flashes will occur, and are synchronized with each other to ensure that the shutters are closed during each flash. A controller in each flashing unit and a controller in each eye protection unit is configured to change, at coordinated times, the data that specifies when the flashes will occur. In some embodiments, the light source comprises LEDs and the flashing units have heat sinks configured to absorb heat generated by the LEDs.

Abstract: A target stand includes an upright assembly having a lower end and an upper end. A target adapter socket includes a support element removably coupled to the upper end of the upright assembly and fixedly coupled to a socket member. The socket member has an upwardly directed socket. A steel target has a planar target surface, a lower end, and a tab portion extending from the lower end. The steel target has no extraneous elements which would affect a bullet strike or compromise the strength and hardness of the steel. The tab portion of the steel target is removably received by the upwardly directed socket of the target adapter socket.

Abstract: A shooting target for use with high-power firearms comprising one or more movable targets moveably connected to an upstanding post. The post includes an elongate target guide structure defined by hollow cylinder with a guide slot in the cylinder wall. The target has a pivot section with a target arm extending generally perpendicularly therefrom and a distally disposed target face connected to the arm. The cylinder is sized to receive the pivot section therein so that the target arm extends outwardly though the guide slot, the guide slot configured to simultaneously direct movement of the target from one side of the guide to the other and downwardly as the target rotated in the guide structure following impact by a bullet. The target arm is configured to position the target adjacent to the upstanding post where it is visible to the shooter. The upstanding post is provided with a V-shaped impingement structure disposed facing the shooter and between the target support structure and the shooter.

Abstract: A fin-stabilized sub-caliber projectile adapted to be fired from a rifled barrel, the projectile having a penetrator with a tail fin assembly, a sabot arranged on the penetrator and having at least two sabot segments circumferentially joined to one another that are separated from one another after leaving the barrel by centrifugal forces acting on the projectile during firing. The sabot includes a main body and a front guide flange that is adapted to be supported on an inner wall of the barrel and a rear guide flange arranged at an axial distance. A connecting section of the sabot is arranged between the front guide flange and the rear guide flange and has a smaller outer diameter than the front guide flange or the rear guide flange. The sabot and the penetrator are joined together in a positive manner in a region of the rear guide flange.

Abstract: An articulated arm coordinate measuring machine includes a first end that clamps to a first extension element of a first measurement probe.

Abstract: A shape measuring apparatus includes a probe head that changes its posture by rotational motion of a first drive axis and a second drive axis, and a coordinate measuring machine that three-dimensionally displaces a location of the probe head by three translation axes (a third drive axis, a fourth drive axis, and a fifth drive axis). The location of a measurement tip is given by coordinate values of the third to fifth drive axes, and the posture of a probe head is given by a first rotating angle ? and a second rotating angle ?. An intersection point between a first rotation axis and a second rotation axis is set as a rotation center Q. An interpolation point in each control period is calculated for each of the first to fifth drive axes.

Abstract: A movement unit is provided with a first magnet and a second magnet. A detection unit includes a first magnetic sensor having an axis of sensitivity and a second magnetic sensor having an axis of sensitivity different from the axis of sensitivity of the first magnetic sensor. The movement unit and the detection unit are movable relatively to each other along a movement trajectory. The first and second magnets have facing surfaces, each of which is a projecting curved surface having a shape such that both ends thereof are positioned farther away from the movement trajectory than a center portion thereof. This shape can suppress the linearity error for measured values when the first and second magnets are demagnetized in a high-temperature environment.

Abstract: The proximity sensor (1) includes a core (3) configured to hold a coil (2), a board (5) on which a proximity detection circuit is mounted, and an intermediate component which is a fixing member (4) formed of a resin to fix the board to the core and has a conductive pattern configured to electrically connect the coil and a wiring provided on the board.

Abstract: A sensor for a vibration imaging system is provided. The sensor includes a transmitter configured to project an array of laser beams onto a surface of an object such that neighboring beams in the array of laser beams are frequency shifted relative to each other, an interferometer configured to mix radiations reflected from neighboring points on the surface of the object such that the radiations from neighboring points interfere with one another, a photodetector array configured to produce output signals representative of the interfering beams, a demodulator configured to demodulate the output signals, and a computing device configured to calculate a deformation profile for the object based on the demodulated output signals.

Abstract: Stacked imager devices that can determine distance and generate three dimensional representations of a subject and associated methods are provided. In one aspect, an imaging system can include a first imager array having a first light incident surface and a second imager array having a second light incident surface. The second imager array can be coupled to the first imager array at a surface that is opposite the first light incident surface, with the second light incident surface being oriented toward the first imager array and at least substantially uniformly spaced. The system can also include a system lens positioned to direct incident light along an optical pathway onto the first light incident surface. The first imager array is operable to detect a first portion of the light passing along the optical pathway and to pass through a second portion of the light, where the second imager array is operable to detect at least a part of the second portion of light.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method which uses a field splitter or a beam splitter for the purpose combining two different views of a materials testing sample under materials testing into a single image. This allows for three-dimensional strain measurement in the context of material/compound testing. In particular, the time and stress dependent change in gauge length can be tracked and calculated in order to calculate the time and stress dependent strain. The method and apparatus allows imaging on a single image sensor for the three-dimensional strain calculation.

Abstract: A metrology method, and associated metrology apparatus, that includes measuring a target formed in at least two layers on a substrate by a lithographic process and capturing at least one corresponding pair of non-zeroth diffraction orders, for example in an image field, to obtain measurement data. A simulation of a measurement of the target as defined in terms of geometric parameters of the target, the geometric parameters including one or more variable geometric parameters is performed and a difference between the measurement data and simulation data is minimized, so as to directly reconstruct values for the one or more variable geometric parameters.

Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of further improving measurement accuracy of a three-dimensional shape of a moving object. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire three-dimensional shape information indicating a result of measurement of a three-dimensional shape of an object; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a motion of the object corresponding to the three-dimensional shape information acquired by the first acquisition unit; and a processing unit configured to process the three-dimensional shape information acquired by the first acquisition unit, on a basis of the information indicating the motion of the object acquired by the second acquisition unit.

Abstract: Measurement apparatuses and methods are disclosed for generating high-precision and -accuracy gas concentration maps that can be overlaid with 3D topographic images by rapidly scanning one or several modulated laser beams with a spatially-encoded transmitter over a scene to build-up imagery. Independent measurements of the topographic target distance and path-integrated gas concentration are combined to yield a map of the path-averaged concentration between the sensor and each point in the image. This type of image is particularly useful for finding localized regions of elevated (or anomalous) gas concentration making it ideal for large-area leak detection and quantification applications including: oil and gas pipeline monitoring, chemical processing facility monitoring, and environmental monitoring.

Abstract: Provided is an inclination measuring device with excellent convenience. An inclination measuring device includes: an optical system (sensor head) configured to irradiate a measurement object with an irradiated light ray from a light source and receive a reflected light ray from a measurement surface; a light receiving unit including at least one spectroscope configured to separate the reflected light ray into wavelength components, and a detector in which a plurality of light receiving elements are disposed; a light guide including a plurality of cores; and a processor configured to calculate an inclination angle of the measurement surface based on reflected light rays with respect to a plurality of irradiated light rays with which a plurality of positions on the measurement surface are irradiated.

Abstract: A system for detecting localized ground position changes makes use of plurality of lighting units, each fixed to the ground. Each lighting unit comprises a positioning system and a transmitter for transmitting positioning information to a remote central processing unit. The positioning information from the plurality of fixed lighting units is processed to identify local ground position changes. The infrastructure of a networked lighting system in this way enables ground information to be determined, for example for detecting ground movement in response to natural events or man-made activities (such as tunneling, building, extraction of natural resources etc.).

Abstract: In a first aspect, the angular rate sensor comprises a substrate and a rotating structure anchored to the substrate. The angular rate sensor also includes a drive mass anchored to the substrate and an element coupling the drive mass and the rotating structure. The angular rate sensor further includes an actuator for driving the drive mass into oscillation along a first axis in plane to the substrate and for driving the rotating structure into rotational oscillation around a second axis normal to the substrate; a first transducer to sense the motion of the rotating structure in response to a Coriolis force in a sense mode; and a second transducer to sense the motion of the sensor during a drive mode. In a second aspect the angular rate sensor comprises a substrate and two shear masses which are parallel to the substrate and anchored to the substrate via flexible elements. In further embodiments, a dynamically balanced 3-axis gyroscope architecture is provided.

Abstract: An inertial measurement apparatus has mechanically bendable beams that have an isosceles trapezoid cross-section. The apparatus has a resonant member having a perimeter at least partially defined by a sidewall slanted at a first angular value and at least one electrode disposed adjacent, and parallel, to the sidewall and separated therefrom by a capacitive gap.

Abstract: A method for localizing a more highly automated vehicle (HAV) on a digital map, includes detecting features of semi-static objects in an environment of the HAV with the aid of at least one first sensor, transmitting the features of the semi-static objects to an evaluation unit, classifying the semi-static objects, wherein the feature ‘semi-static’ is assigned to the semi-static objects as the result of the classification, transferring the features of the semi-static objects into a local environmental model of the HAV, the local environmental model including at least selected features of the semi-static objects in the form of expanded landmarks, transmitting the local environmental model to the HAV in the form of a digital map, and localizing the HAV with the aid of the digital map. A corresponding system and a computer program are also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital sight for a hand-carried projectile-firing device and a method of controlling the digital sight. A digital sight for a hand-carried projectile-firing device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a digital sight for a hand-carried projectile-firing device, the digital sight including an inertial sensor package and a manual rotation device, wherein the inertial sensor package includes a gyroscope and an accelerometer module. In accordance with the present invention, equipment for measuring the firing direction of a hand-carried projectile-firing device such as a mortar is replaced with a digital sight for a hand-carried projectile-firing device, which reduces an estimation error while using a single medium-low level gyroscope, thus enabling the projectile-firing device to precisely and promptly fire a projectile and improving the operability thereof.

Abstract: A method of identifying operational modes experienced by a user during a jump from an aircraft may comprise estimating a user altitude and a user descent rate, based on a set of navigation state data vectors. The method may further comprise determining that the user is ready to transition from a flight mode to a descent mode when the user altitude is above a jump altitude threshold, and a variation of the user altitude is below a predetermined altitude variation threshold. After determining that the user is ready to transition from the flight mode to the descent mode, the method further comprises determining that the user has transitioned from a flight mode to a descent mode when a user ground speed is below a ground speed threshold, and one or both of (i) a GNSS position error estimate, and (ii) the user descent rate estimate, indicates a jump signature.

Abstract: System and method for generating a dynamic route map for a person trapped in an enclosed space and for enabling quick evacuation of the person is disclosed. When a request for evacuation is made by the person, the evacuation system locates the person based on the RFID person identifier tag and localizes the location of the person with respect to plurality of RFID floor tags and plurality of self-identifying RFID reader antenna tags. Further, condition of the floor is assessed by comparing the RSSI readings of the plurality of RFID floor tags and the RSSI readings of the plurality of self-identifying RFID reader antenna tags and the environmental information with pre-defined baseline RSSI readings of the plurality of RFID floor tags, RSSI readings of the plurality of self-identifying RFID reader antenna tags and an environmental threshold. A dynamic floor map is generated by collecting the RSSI readings from the plurality of RFID floor tags, self-identifying RFID reader antenna tags.

Abstract: An indoor mobile robot position and posture measurement system based on photoelectric scanning and the measurement method thereof, the measurement system includes: a mobile robot (1) which is arranged with a laser transmitter (2), the peripheral of the laser transmitter (2) is provided with no less than three receivers (3) for receiving the light signals emitted by the laser transmitter (2), and at least one signal processor (4) connected to the receivers (3) for processing signals received by the receivers (3) to determine precise coordinates of the receivers in laser transmitter coordinate system, and a terminal computer (5) wirelessly connected with the signal processor (4) to determine the posture angle and the position of the mobile robot through the distances between the laser transmitter (2) and each receiver (3).

Abstract: In one embodiment, a self-aware self-evolved self-contained localization map system for an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) is disclosed. The localization map system collects ADV localization data and real-time poses for analysis in view of a first localization map of the ADV. The analysis determines confidence scores based on rankings of similarities scores of candidate poses, consistency of the real-time pose, and spatial or temporal completeness of a map feature space surrounding the ADV. The subset of the collected localization data is aligned with the first localization map based on a highest ranked candidate pose and is applied onto the first localization map based on the determined confidence scores to generate a second localization map to subsequently determine a location of the ADV.

Abstract: The present technique provides an apparatus for determining a position of a vehicle on a track, the apparatus comprising: a storage medium operable to store a map of the track comprising a representation of one or more features of the track and to store a position of the vehicle on the map; input circuitry operable to receive, from a camera attached to the vehicle, a plurality of images captured by the camera as the vehicle travels along the track; and processor circuitry operable, for at least one of the plurality of captured images: to perform feature recognition on the image, to assign an indicator to at least one recognised feature in the image indicative of the suitability of the at least one recognised feature for adjusting the position of the vehicle on the map based on the recognised feature, and for each recognised feature in the image with an indicator which indicates that the recognised feature is suitable for adjusting the position of the vehicle on the map based on the recognised feature: when th

Abstract: An evaluation unit obtains from sensors in a roadway surface respective overlap signals (a) transmitted by the sensors via a communications interfaces of the sensors and (b) that include respective identifications of the sensors and information as to whether the respective sensors are currently overlapped by any dynamic objects above the sensors on the roadway surface, where the sensors are associated with respective geographical positions; ascertains a respective position of each of the at least one dynamic object situated on the roadway on the basis of the overlap signals in the form of a local environmental model of the road section; and transmits the local environmental model to the HAV in the form of a digital map identifying the at least one dynamic object at one or more respective positions of the map corresponding to the ascertained at least one respective position.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a digital topographical position map in a vehicle comprises a receiver for receiving sensor data that specify different topographical positions of the vehicle, a processor that is designed to take the different topographical positions of the vehicle as a basis for sensing an average topographical position of the vehicle and at least one further topographical position of the vehicle, which differs from the average topographical position, wherein the processor is designed to produce the digital topographical position map on the basis of the average topographical position, and to store the at least one further topographical position in the digital topographical position map.

Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method of facilitating provisioning of social activity data to a mobile device based on user preferences is disclosed. The computer implemented method may include receiving, using a communication device, at least one selection corresponding to a plurality of filtering icons corresponding to a plurality of activities. Further, the computer implemented method may include receiving, using the communication device, a location indicator from the mobile device. Further, the computer implemented method may include filtering, using a processing device, social activity data based on the at least one selection of plurality of filtering icons to generate a filtered social activity data. Further, the computer implemented method may include transmitting, using the communication device, the filtered social activity data to the mobile device.

Abstract: When a vehicle that can travel autonomously is dropped off, a vehicle control apparatus causes the vehicle to move to a standby place by traveling autonomously. Specifically, when the vehicle is dropped off, the vehicle control apparatus determines a moving destination among standby places, based on the current location of the vehicle, and the locations of the standby places, and vehicle-demand prediction information, and instructs the vehicle to move to the determined moving destination.

Abstract: This disclosure involves improved route recommendation in map service. A computer-implemented method comprises identifying at least one intermediate point for traveling from an origin to a destination based on a user input. The method further comprises determining one or more first recommended routes from the origin to the destination via the at least one intermediate point. The method further comprises determining one or more second recommended routes from the origin to the destination without considering the at least one intermediate point. The method further comprises in response to at least one of the first recommended routes being better than the second recommended routes, storing the at least one intermediate point associated with the origin and the destination.

Abstract: A system and method of providing a route to a navigation system including calculating the route from road data including road segments, determining decision points on the route, wherein at least two road segments are connected to each other at each of the decision points, storing data of the determined decision points in a memory and encoding the route based on the stored data of the determined decision points.

Abstract: The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a socially based platform for rating routes of travel based on member user experience.

Abstract: An approach is provided for providing a calculated route using waypoints associated with a traveled route. A traveled route platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more location logs to determine one or more waypoints, wherein the one or more location logs include, at least in part, one or more location samples for at least one device on a traveled route. The traveled route platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more waypoints via one or more routing engines to determine a calculated route as a representation of the traveled route.

Abstract: The discussion relates to route safety. One example can obtain crash probabilities for road routes for driving between two points. The example can present multiple individual road routes that reflect both crash probabilities and estimated times between the two points. The example can receive an indication that a user selected an individual one of the multiple individual road routes. The example can provide driving instructions for the selected individual one of the multiple individual road routes.

Abstract: An audio-guided navigation device (1) includes a user position acquiring unit (12); an environment information acquiring unit (13); and an audio signal processing unit (143) configured to generate stereophonic sound in which a virtual sound source is configured at a leading position ahead of a user position on a route. The audio signal processing unit (143) is configured to add an acoustic effect corresponding to environment information to an audio signal.

Abstract: A probe information storing unit is provided to store therein probe information items of a vehicle, and a voxel storing unit is provided to store therein voxels, which are defined and later described, in association with position information of the respective voxels. The voxels are defined in a three-dimensional space based on map data. The voxel storing unit and the probe information storing unit are referred to, and the probe information items are given, as votes, to the voxels that correspond to position information of the respective probe information items. A statistical process is executed to the probe information items given to each of the voxels, and the process results are associated with the respective voxels.

Abstract: A lane display device acquires traffic information indicating a certain section for each of lanes and displays the certain section in the lane in which a vehicle travels and a transition region indicating transition with respect to the certain section near at least one of a start point or an end point of the certain section.

Abstract: One or more embodiments described herein can provide for location-based generation of multimedia content. In some embodiments a system comprises: a first generation component configured to generate a first set of multimedia content corresponding to a first location of a vehicle; a second generation component configured to generate a second set of multimedia content corresponding to a second location of the vehicle; an interaction component configured to facilitate generation of detailed information associated with a first subset of multimedia content of the first set of multimedia content or a second subset of multimedia content of the second set of multimedia content based on a set of received input data; and a presentation component configured to display the first set of multimedia content, the second set of multimedia content, the first subset of multimedia content or the second subset of multimedia content at a user interface.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for location referencing roadway data. A server determines a roadway event; the roadway event including a roadway description and a roadway location. The server then generates a roadway message. The roadway message includes the roadway description and a roadway path. The roadway path includes a LinkID set, a length of the roadway event, and an offset from a reference node of a starting link. The LinkID set includes at least the starting link. The server then broadcasts the roadway message. A device receives the data. The device decodes and displays the data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an autonomous vehicle and an autonomous vehicle system having the same. The autonomous vehicle according to the present invention comprises: a plurality of cameras; a radar; a communication unit; a display; an audio output unit; and a processor which, in an autonomous driving mode, controls the autonomous vehicle so as to select any one of a plurality of routes toward a destination and perform autonomous driving along the selected route, to receive advertisement information from the outside when driving along the selected route, and to output the received advertisement information through at least one of a display or an audio output unit, the received advertisement information being variable for each of the plurality of routes. Due to this feature, it is possible to provide different advertisements for each route to the destination during autonomous driving.

Abstract: A combined motion capturing system comprises multiple inertial sensor units (101), at least one communication unit (102), and a terminal processor (103). The inertial sensor units (101) are connected to the communication unit (102). The communication unit (102) is connected to the terminal processor (103). The inertial sensor units (101) are mounted at positions of one or more motion capture objects according to different combination modes, and measure motion information of the positions where the inertial sensor units (101) are mounted, and send the motion information to the communication unit (102). The communication unit (102) receives the motion information output by inertial sensors, and sends the motion information to the terminal processor (103).