Abstract: According to some examples, a method comprises successively transferring a series of images from an imaging surface to an intermediate transfer member, ITM, then from the ITM to positions on a web substrate. The method may comprise intermittently adjusting a position at which particular images are transferred to the ITM by a first defined distance laterally across the ITM and by a second defined distance longitudinally with respect to the ITM. The method may comprise adjusting a position at which the particular images are transferred to the web substrate by approximately the first defined distance laterally relative to the ITM and by approximately the second defined distance longitudinally relative to the ITM. The method may comprise, after a first defined number of intermittent position adjustments, changing a direction in which the position is adjusted. A print apparatus and a machine-readable medium are also disclosed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus configured to control the timing of the next cleaning such that, if there is a plurality of image forming jobs and a cumulative number of image-formed recording media is equal to or greater than a set number of sheets for cleaning, an image forming apparatus executes cleaning processing when the plurality of image forming jobs is completed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member that contacts an image bearing member to form a primary transfer portion, contacts a secondary transfer member to form a secondary transfer portion, and contacts a charging member that can receive a voltage from a charging power source, to form a charging portion. A toner image borne on the image bearing member is primarily transferred to the intermediate transfer member and secondarily transferred to a transfer material. If toner remains on the intermediate transfer member, the charging member electrically charges the remaining toner. If driving of the intermediate transfer member causes toner to drop onto the intermediate transfer member from the charging member, The timing at which to start image formation is controlled to prevent the dropped toner from moving to a transfer material conveyed to the secondary transfer portion.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.

Abstract: A deviation detection device to detect a deviation of a rotator includes a contact member disposed in contact with the rotator and configured to move, following a deviation of the rotator in a width direction of the rotator. The deviation detection device further includes a deviation detector configured to detect a direction of the deviation and a deviation amount of the rotator based on a displacement of the contact member, and a wear detector configured to detect a state in which an amount of wear of the contact member has reached a threshold.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance device configured to transport a conveyed object, a conveyance guide configured to guide the conveyed object to the conveyance device, a housing including a shaft support. The conveyance guide includes a rotation shaft that includes a non-circular shaft portion. The shaft support has a circular hole part and a guide slot. The circular hole part is configured to rotatably support the rotation shaft, and the rotation shaft is inserted into the shaft support through the guide slot while a flat surface of the non-circular shaft portion slides along a guide surface of the guide slot. The image forming apparatus further includes a restrictor configured to restrict movement of the rotation shaft inserted into the circular hole part of the shaft support in a direction opposite to a direction of insertion of the rotation shaft into the shaft support.

Abstract: A maximum curvature in a rotational direction of a fixing belt and the number of times of bendings when a temperature of the fixing belt is equal to or lower than a glass transition temperature of the fixing belt surface material are specified, and the fixing belt controlled to operate within the specified range.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing rotating member, a heater, a fixing pad, a pressurizing member, a lubricant, and a surface layer. The fixing rotating member is configured to fix a toner image on a recording medium and is heated by the heater. The fixing pad is positioned on an inner circumferential side of the fixing rotating member, and presses the fixing rotating member from the inner circumferential side. The pressurizing member faces an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotating member, and forms a nip for fixing between the pressurizing member and the fixing rotating member. The lubricant is applied to the fixing rotating member. The surface layer is disposed in a vicinity of an end portion of a pressurizing surface of the fixing pad and returns the lubricant to a longitudinal central side of the pressurizing surface.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing rotator, a pressure rotator that contacts the fixing rotator, a heater that heats the fixing rotator, a nip formation pad, a slide aid, a support, a reflector, a light shield, and a belt holder. The nip formation pad contacts the pressure rotator via the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. The slide aid, including a lubricant, is disposed between the fixing rotator and the nip formation pad. The support supports the nip formation pad. The reflector reflects radiation heat from the heater. The light shield intercepts the radiation heat. The belt holder holds the fixing rotator. In a direction parallel to an axis of the fixing rotator, the belt holder and a longitudinal end portion of the slide aid that is located to be shielded by the light shield are distanced from each other.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a flexible rotatable fixing belt, a pressuring member, a pressing member, a heating part, a belt guide, and a fiber member. The pressuring member forms a pressuring area between the fixing belt and the pressuring member. The pressing member comes into contact with an inner circumference face of the fixing belt via lubricant in the pressuring area to press the fixing belt to the pressuring member. The heating part heats the fixing belt from outside. The belt guide supports the fixing belt from a side of the inner circumference face so that the fixing belt faces to the heating part. The fiber member is arranged between the belt guide and the fixing belt. At least a part of a face of the fiber member at a side of the fixing belt is oil repellent.

Abstract: An image recording medium includes two sheets made of resin and a toner image interposed between the two sheets. The toner image serves as an adhesive to bond the two sheets together and includes an information image. At least one of the two sheets includes a transparent portion to enable the information image to be visible through the at least one of the two sheets.

Abstract: An image fixing device for fixing an image on a sheet includes a rotatable fixing film; a heater provided on an inner surface of the fixing belt; a rotatable pressing member provided in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the film to press against the heater through the film, thus forming a nip configured to nip and feed the sheet; a holding member including a guide portion configured to guide the rotation of the fixed in the field and to hold the heater; and a metal sheet which covers the heater and an area of guide portion slidable relative to the film and which is slidable on an inner surface of the film. The metal sheet has a thermal conductivity ?10 W/(m·° C.) and has a thickness more than 0 ?m and not more than 50 ?m.

Abstract: A toner cartridge extrusion device that extrudes a toner cartridge with a driving force of a driver is provided. The toner cartridge extrusion device includes a single detector that performs drive detection to detect drive of the driver and extrusion detection to detect whether or not the toner cartridge has been extruded.

Abstract: A control circuit determines that there is a failure in a power supply circuit in a case where a voltage detected by a voltage detection circuit when a constant-current control is performed is greater than a first predetermined value and a voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit when the first predetermined value is set as the target voltage in the constant-voltage control is greater than a second predetermined value greater than the first predetermined value and determine that there is an error in a load in a case where the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit when the constant-current control is performed is greater than the first predetermined value and the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit when the first predetermined value is set as the target voltage in the constant-voltage control is not greater than the second predetermined value.

Abstract: A monitoring device includes circuitry to compare a printed output with a reference representing a target output and to determine potential defects in the printed output based on the comparison. The monitoring device further includes and circuitry to implement a convolutional neural network to classify each potential defect as a true defect or a false alarm.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion capable of forming a toner image on an envelope including a flap; a stacking portion configured to stack the envelope; a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the envelope; a display portion configured to display information; an acquiring portion configured to acquire information corresponding to a kind of the envelope; and a controller configured to control the display portion when a double-side mode is selected, so that a stacking method in which the envelope is stacked on the stacking portion in a state in which an orientation of the envelope is designated on the basis of the information acquired by the acquiring portion is displayed at the display portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion capable of forming a toner image on an envelope including a flap; a stacking portion configured to stack the envelope; a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the envelope; a display portion configured to display information; and a controller configured to control the display portion so that when the double-side mode in which the images are formed on the double sides of the envelope is selected, a stacking method in which the envelope is stacked on the stacking portion so as to fix the image on a flap-formed side when the envelope first passes through the fixing portion is displayed at the display portion.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: an interface that obtains job information including a plurality of jobs that represent processing contents that are performed on sheets; an image former that forms images on the sheets based on the job information; a plurality of stackers in which the sheets discharged from the image former are stacked so as to be divided for each of the jobs; and a processor that: obtains, from the job information, next processing information of a next processing to be performed on the sheets after the image forming processing, and selects, based on the next processing information, a first stacker among the plurality of stackers for the sheets to be stacked.

Abstract: Disclosed is a post-processing apparatus configured to be coupled to an image forming apparatus or another post-processing apparatus. The post-processing apparatus includes: a post-processing unit that performs post-processing to a sheet that is conveyed; and a standby path arranged on an upstream side or a downstream side of the post-processing unit and capable of holding the sheet. The post-processing unit performs the post-processing in a state in which the sheet is partly in the standby path.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus that includes a color image former that forms a color image with a plurality of process color toners, a spot color image former that forms a spot color image with a spot color toner, a transfer unit that transfers the formed color image and the formed spot color image onto a recording material, a fixing unit that fixes the transferred color image and the transferred spot color image onto the recording material, and a hardware processor that selects a first mode or a second mode depending on whether or not a type of the recording material and an amount of toner to be attached onto the recording material satisfy a predetermined condition. The number of times of image transfer and fixation onto an identical surface of the recording material is two or more predetermined times in the first mode. The number of times of image transfer and fixation onto an identical surface of the recording material is less than the predetermined times in the second mode.

Abstract: A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for holding toner. A first electrical contact and a second electrical contact are positioned on a first longitudinal end of the housing. The first electrical contact is electrically connected to processing circuitry positioned on the housing. The second electrical contact is electrically connected to an imaging component positioned on the housing. The first electrical contact is positioned higher than the second electrical contact. A first drive coupler and a second drive coupler are positioned on a second longitudinal end of the housing. The first electrical contact and the second electrical contact are positioned higher than a first rotational axis of the first drive coupler. The first electrical contact is positioned higher than a second rotational axis of the second drive coupler and the second electrical contact is positioned lower than the second rotational axis.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier whose rotational speed changes depending on a printing speed of an image onto a sheet, an applicator that applies a lubricant to a surface of the latent image carrier, and a hardware processor that causes a surface of the applicator to move such that a difference between a first moving speed and a second moving speed is within a certain range, the first moving speed being a speed at which the surface of the latent image carrier moves, the second moving speed being a speed at which the surface of the applicator moves.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a drawer unit. The drawer unit includes a rotatable photosensitive drum, an optical print head, a relay substrate, a first wall portion, a second wall portion and a third wall portion continuously formed between an upstream end portion of the first wall portion and an upstream end portion of the second wall portion with respect to a drawing-out direction of the drawer unit from the main assembly. The relay substrate is provided on a surface of the third wall portion on an upstream side with respect to the drawing-out direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a drawer unit. The drawer unit includes a photosensitive drum, an optical print head, first to third wall portions and a relay substrate. The main assembly includes a first facing portion, a second facing portion and a main assembly substrate. The relay substrate and the main assembly substrate are connected by a cable folded back at the rear of the third wall portion. A distance between a portion of the cable before being folded back and a portion of said cable after being folded back is larger than a distance, with respect to a longitudinal direction of the optical print head, between the first or second wall portion on which the relay substrate is provided and the first or second facing portion facing the first or second wall portion on which the relay substrate is provided.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a first apparatus and a second apparatus. A cable-side connector of an electrical cable extending from the second apparatus is connected to a first-apparatus-side connector provided in the first apparatus. The cable-side connector is provided on a side of the first apparatus. The image forming apparatus comprises an opening portion provided in the first apparatus and through which the cable-side connector is connectable to the first-apparatus-side connector from an outside of the first apparatus; a lid that covers the opening portion; an attaching portion provided on the lid so as to attach the lid to the first apparatus; an engaging portion provided on the lid so as to be disengageably engaged with the opening portion; an outlet portion provided on the lid and through which the electrical cable extends to the outside of the first apparatus; and an attachment member attached to the electrical cable.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly, and a drawer unit. The drawer unit includes a rotatable photosensitive member, an optical print head including a light emitting element, a substrate, and an electroconductive member and includes a first grounding member. The accommodating portion includes a second grounding member configured to ground the electroconductive member in contact with the first grounding member when the drawer unit is positioned between an accommodated position and a drawn-out position.

Abstract: An apparatus main body includes a main casing and a cover configured to rotatably move about a rotational axis located below an opening between an open position and a closed position. A drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and is configured to be installed into the apparatus main body through the opening. A developing cartridge includes a developing roller and is configured to be installed into the apparatus main body through the opening. A swing plate is attached swingably to the apparatus main body. The swing plate supports the developing cartridge. The swing plate includes a guide configured to guide installation of the developing cartridge into the apparatus main body. The swing plate is configured to swingably move in a state where the drum cartridge and the developing cartridge are installed in the apparatus main body, thereby causing the developing roller to move relative to the photosensitive drum.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a body side connector and a removable unit removably inserted in the apparatus body. The removable unit includes a unit side connector configured to engage with the body side connector in conjunction with insertion of the removable unit into and from the apparatus body in an insertion direction and disengage from the body side connector in conjunction with removal of the removable unit from the apparatus body in a removal direction. The apparatus further includes a first holder and a second holder. The first holder holds the body side connector and restrict the body side connector from moving in the insertion direction and the removal direction relative to the first holder. The second holder holds the first holder and restrict the first holder from moving in a direction different from the insertion direction and the removal direction.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes: a main body; a toner cartridge having a first opening; a process cartridge having a photosensitive drum and a second opening; a positioning part; a transfer unit; and an urging member. The toner cartridge and process cartridge are attachable to and detachable from the main body in an axial direction of the photosensitive drum. The positioning part and transfer unit are positioned above the process cartridge attached to the main body. The positioning part fixes the attached process cartridge in position relative to the main body. The urging member urges the attached process cartridge toward the positioning part and urges the process cartridge such that the toner can be supplied from the toner cartridge to the process cartridge through the first opening and the second opening when the toner cartridge and the process cartridge are attached to the main body.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a cartridge replaceable by detachably mounting to the image forming apparatus, a door that takes a closed state or an open state, a locking pin that switches a state of the regulation unit between a regulating state in which the replacement unit is prevented to be detached from the image forming apparatus and a release state in which the replacement unit is to be detachable from the image forming apparatus, and a lock control unit (a control unit) that makes a determination as to whether or not the state of the regulation unit is to be switched from the release state to the regulating state, at a predetermined timing when initial processing is completed after a power source is turned on or a state of the door becomes the closed state from the open state.

Abstract: In a configuration in which a cartridge is removably mounted from a longitudinal direction of the cartridge (a side-oriented configuration), an image bearing member is disposed at a position farther from a light emitting unit in a state in which a cover is opened than a state in which the cover is closed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the cartridge.

Abstract: A system and method for generating a normalized page count for a printer includes an encoder that is coupled to the registration motor of the registration rollers. A memory stores an encoder count that is updated as encoder data is received from the encoder. A processor determines the normalized page count from the encoder count stored in memory. The normalized page count substantially reflects the equivalent number of standard pages printed by the printer. The normalized page count is stored as the page count for the printer.

Abstract: Provided is a timepiece part that reduces axial runout of a flat member when the rotating axle thereof turns. A escape wheel and pinion 18 includes an axle member having a first shaft 44 and a second shaft 45 that is larger in diameter than the first shaft, and a seat 48 disposed outside the position where the first shaft and the second shaft connect; a guide member 49 disposed in contact with the seat, having a first hole in which the first shaft is inserted, and having a diameter greater than the second shaft; an escape wheel 23 disposed in contact with the guide member and having a second hole in which the first shaft is inserted; and a fixing member 50 disposed in contact with the escape wheel, having a third hole in which the first shaft is inserted.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a clock. The clock includes: a first belt; an hour axis unit comprising first and second rotation axis spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance and being rotable; and an hour hand configured to point a position of the hour axis unit, wherein the first belt makes revolutions by being engaged with the first and second rotation axis.

Abstract: A striking watch is provided with an acoustic radiating membrane made of metallic material or amorphous metal. The membrane takes the form of a loop with walls of a certain thickness to be connected by a first edge portion to a middle part of a watch case and by a second edge portion to a bezel fixed to a watch crystal. The bezel connected to crystal is movable with respect to the case middle via the membrane during the vibration of membrane once a sound is generated by a watch striking mechanism in the watch case. The membrane is configured with a wall of a specific thickness in an active region dependent on the mass of the bezel connected to the crystal, to obtain a frequency f0 of a first vibration mode.

Abstract: A time correction device includes a mounting stand on which a watch is mounted, a detector configured to detect a position of a hand of the watch mounted on the mounting stand, an operation mechanism configured to operate a crown of the watch mounted on the mounting stand, a timekeeping circuit configured to keep an internal time, and a control circuit configured to acquire an indicated time indicated by the hand from the position of the hand and control the operation mechanism to rotate the crown in accordance with a difference between the internal time and the indicated time and thus correct the indicated time to the internal time.

Abstract: A wearable device and a power saving method thereof are proposed. The wearable device includes a processor; a wireless communication module coupled to the processor and configured to implement wireless communication with an external device; a functional module coupled to the processor and including a plurality of controllers and a plurality of functional members, the controllers correspondingly connected to the functional members, each of the functional members configured to carry out at least one function; and a user activity monitor coupled to the processor and configured to collect user activity information, wherein when the user activity information indicates a low-level activity, the processor disables the wireless communication module and/or at least one of the functional members of the functional module. The wristwatch can reduce power consumption.

Abstract: A timepiece movement capable of suppressing generation of malfunction of a hand is provided. The movement includes an indicator hand wheel which is provided so as to be rotatable and to which an indicator hand is mounted; an indicator hand stepping motor rotating and driving the indicator hand wheel in both directions; an hour wheel provided so as to be rotatable around a first rotation axis different from a rotation axis of the indicator hand wheel and having a first shaft portion which extends along the first rotation axis and on the outer peripheral surface of which there is provided a contact portion that the indicator hand can abut, with the distance of the contact portion from the first rotation axis varying in accordance with a position in the peripheral direction around the first rotation axis; and an hour hand stepping motor rotating and driving the hour wheel and provided separately from the indicator hand stepping motor.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of configuring a watch screen and a wearable electronic device implementing the same, which displays various pieces of information provided by an application, in an icon form, to enable a user to easily identify the information. A method of configuring a watch screen, the method comprising selecting one of a plurality of predetermined watch screens, thereby resulting in a selected watch screen; determining at least one icon of a plurality of predetermined icons as components of the selected watch screen; and displaying the selected watch screen, wherein the selected watch screen includes the at least one icon.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a control method based on disturbance perception, which relates to control theory and engineering. In the method, an error-based dynamic system is established under motivation of the total disturbance based on the error between the expected value and the actual output value of the system, based on which a Disturbance Perception Controller (DPC) model is further established. The control method generally includes the establishment of a tracking error and an integral thereof, and a differential based on a desired trajectory and differential signals thereof, and an actual output of a nonlinear uncertain object and determination of a disturbance perception control law.

Abstract: An object is to make it possible to acquire a parameter or a first physical quantity that has been learned and an evaluation function value and thereby check the progress or the result of machine learning. An output device includes: an information acquisition unit which acquires, from a machine learning device that performs machine learning on a servo control device for controlling a servo motor driving the axis of a machine tool, a robot or an industrial machine, a parameter or a first physical quantity of a constituent element of the servo control device that is being machine learned or has been machine learned and an evaluation function value; and an output unit which outputs information indicating a relationship between the acquired parameter, the first physical quantity or a second physical quantity determined from the parameter and the evaluation function value.

Abstract: A model (8) is based on mathematical-physical equations. The model models the production of a particular output product (1) from at least one input product (2) supplied in each case to an installation in the raw materials industry on the basis of operation (B) of the installation. During production of the output products (1), the installation is controlled by a control device (5) in such a manner that particular actual operation (B) of the installation corresponds as far as possible to particular desired operation (B*) of the installation. The desired operation (B*) is determined by the control device (5) using the model (8) of the installation. The model (8) is parameterized according to a number of first model parameters (P1) for the purpose of modelling the installation.

Abstract: A controller has improved closed-loop step testing of a dynamic process of an industrial processing plant. The controller performs economic optimization relaxation on process variables, such that operating range of the variables (MVs and CVs) during the testing are not skewed by variations in optimization cost factors. The controller employs computer-implemented methods and systems that receive a user-defined giveaway tolerance representing an allowable range between a current process variable value and a target process variable value. In response to the variables not meeting the giveaway tolerance, the methods and systems adjust the MPC controller configuration to drive the variables inside the tolerance, while relaxing optimization of the variables already meeting the giveaway tolerance. Using the adjusted configuration, the methods and systems calculate a new set of targets and generate a dynamic move plan from the new target.

Abstract: An electronic device for performing a control operation and a method therefor are provided. The electronic device includes a communication interface, a memory to store at least one command, and a processor connected to the communication interface and the memory. The processor is configured to, by executing the at least one command, based on usage information of a first user using the electronic device, establish a first device knowledge base by obtaining a first control condition and a first control operation preferred by a first user, based on a context corresponding to the first control condition being detected, identify whether to perform the first control operation stored in the first device knowledge base based on a basic knowledge base that stores information on the context and information on the electronic device, and based on a result of the identification, control the electronic device.

Abstract: Method and system for storing natural gas and natural gas liquids via a variable volume flow splitter from a producing field. A method and system comprising storing natural gas and natural gas liquids while simultaneously selling natural gas and natural gas liquids from a single compressor in quantities as deemed desirable. In response to desired quantities to be injected into a storage reservoir or sold, the system provides a single action (e.g., a single action such as the click of a mouse button) that splits the gas stream into injection for storage and the sales pipeline for transportation to market by adjusting a flow splitter of a single value or valves in combination operated remotely or manually on the downstream side of the sales gas compressor that varies the volume to any combination and ratio from 0 to 100% of gas and entrained gas liquids to be sold or injected.

Abstract: A building management system includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a publication by an agent on an agent communication channel, the publication comprising timeseries data, identify, based on the publication, an object entity of an entity database associated with the agent, wherein the entity database includes one or more object entities and relationships between the one or more object entities and one or more data entities, identify a data entity related to the object entity based on a relationship of the relationships relating the object entity and the data entity, and ingest the timeseries data into the data entity.

Abstract: A building automation system may adjust operation of a building system based upon information regarding the relative location of one or more users of the building automation system. In some embodiments, a mobile device having location services for determining a location of the mobile device may provide this information. A mobile device may include a user interface, a memory for storing two or more predetermined geo-fences each defining a different sized region about a home of a user of the mobile device and a controller operatively coupled to user interface and the memory, the controller configured to accept a selection of one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences via the user interface. The controller may report when the location of the mobile device crosses the selected one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences to a remote device. Other geofencing approaches are also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to virtual code-based control system, method and program, a control device and a control signal generating means. A control method on the basis of a control signal comprising a virtual code according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a control signal receiving step for a control module receiving, from a control signal generating means, a control signal generated by means of combining a plurality of specific codes in accordance with a particular rule; a step for the control module extracting the plurality of specific codes comprised in the virtual code; and a command searching step for the control module searching for a storage location comprising a particular command on the basis of the plurality of specific codes.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for controlling machine configurations. An example method includes deter mining a desired trajectory of an auxiliary machine based at least in part on a desired work path or an alignment of a host machine and the auxiliary machine; determining a first actual trajectory of the auxiliary machine based on i) determining a first distance between a first side of the auxiliary machine and the host machine and ii) determining a second distance between a second side of the auxiliary machine and the host machine, the first side is opposite the second side; comparing the desired trajectory of the auxiliary machine to the first actual trajectory of the auxiliary machine; and when the first actual trajectory does not satisfy a threshold distance of the desired trajectory, selecting a trajectory-assist mode to steer the auxiliary machine toward the desired trajectory.

Abstract: A control method includes sending, by a controller, a created context-aware model to a context-aware engine. The context-aware model is used to define a preset control performed when target data meets a trigger condition and to instruct the context-aware engine to send indication information to the controller when the context-aware engine determines that the target data meets the trigger condition. The preset control is used to implement a context-aware function. The indication information is used to indicate that the target data meets the trigger condition. The method also includes receiving, by the controller, the indication information. The method further includes performing, by the controller, the preset control based on the indication information.