scholarly journals A Station Engineering Electrical/Controls Construction Database

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michèle A. Thébeau
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Transmission Measurement ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Application Software ◽  
Compressor Station ◽  
Data Manipulation ◽  
Mass Data ◽  
And Control

This paper will discuss the structure, features and capabilities of the Union Gas Ltd. Station Engineering Electrical/Controls Construction Database. The central feature of the application is the R:BASE database. In general, the database contains information which pertains to a transmission, measurement, regulating and/or compressor station. From the menu-driven custom application software used with R:BASE, the user can perform mass data manipulation to maintain the database, as well as create reports such as the equipment catalogue report. Finally, data can be extracted from the database to auto-generate junction box termination schedules as well as auto-generate, through a CAD software package, instrumentation loop drawings. These have the ability to show information such as panel and I/O module terminations, junction/termination box schedules, cable and conduit schedules, and device information such as alarm, shutdown and control setpoints.

scholarly journals WASP: a software package for correctly characterizing the topological development of ribbon structures

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Sierzega ◽  
Jeff Wereszczynski ◽  
Chris Prior
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Helical Structure ◽  
Optical Tweezer ◽  
Application Software ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Magnetic Flux Ropes ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Ribbon Structures

AbstractWe introduce the Writhe Application Software Package (WASP) which can be used to characterisze the topology of ribbon structures, the underlying mathematical model of DNA, Biopolymers, superfluid vorticies, elastic ropes and magnetic flux ropes. This characterization is achieved by the general twist–writhe decomposition of both open and closed ribbons, in particular through a quantity termed the polar writhe. We demonstrate how this decomposition is far more natural and straightforward than artificial closure methods commonly utilized in DNA modelling. In particular, we demonstrate how the decomposition of the polar writhe into local and non-local components distinctly characterizes the local helical structure and knotting/linking of the ribbon. This decomposition provides additional information not given by alternative approaches. As example applications, the WASP routines are used to characterise the evolving topology (writhe) of DNA minicircle and open ended plectoneme formation magnetic/optical tweezer simulations, and it is shown that the decomponsition into local and non-local components is particularly important for the detection of plectonemes. Finally it is demonstrated that a number of well known alternative writhe expressions are actually simplifications of the polar writhe measure.

Terrain Adaptive Vehicles

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (B) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Reference List ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Coordination Problem ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Vehicle Type ◽  
Variable Configuration ◽  
And Control ◽  
Wheeled Vehicles ◽  
Coordination And Control ◽  
Principal Elements

Research on walking vehicles and variable configuration wheeled vehicles is reviewed. The central feature of the vehicles discussed is terrain adaptive capability. The principal elements of the technical problems of coordination and control are discussed for each vehicle type. Examples of each vehicle type are discussed and an extensive reference list is provided. Although the article is primarily a review article, it contains a new discussion of the coordination problem of robotic mechanisms.

scholarly journals Modeling and simulation of reconfigurable systems with applications to the polishing process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang (John) Sun
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Topology Design ◽  
Graphic User Interface ◽  
Polishing Process ◽  
Tree Structures ◽  
Tool Paths ◽  
Simulation And Control ◽  
And Control ◽  
Polishing Tool ◽  
Cam Software

This thesis presents a newly developed system for simulation and control of reconfigurable machines and applications in the polishing process. A software package is developed that consists of the Varying Topology Simulation and Control System (VT-Sim) as well as the Polishing CAM (P-CAM) software system. VT-Sim can simulate and control reconfigurable machines of serial or tree structures. It is developed based on mechatronic modules, each of which has a graphic user interface that can be connected to a physical module. The selected modules are linked through a graph-based topology design platform to generate an assembled system together with the equations for simulation and control. P-CAM can simulate and generate CNC codes for the polishing process. The roughness of the polished parts is simulated for selected polishing parameters. Once satisfied, polishing tool paths can be generated and visualized.

EXPERIMENTS WITH A SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR PROCESS IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL

1980 ◽  
pp. 473-478
Author(s):  
R.M.C. De Keyser ◽  
F.M. D'Hulster ◽  
J.G. Heyse ◽  
A.R. Van Cauwenberghe
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Process Identification ◽  
And Control

A Methodology for Evaluating Application Software

1986 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Cohill ◽  
David M. Gilfoil ◽  
John V. Pilitsis
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Application Software ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
And Performance

A methodology for evaluating applications software is proposed, using five different categories of criteria. Three of the categories, functionality, usability, and performance, are tailored for each class of applications software. The other two categories, support and documentation, have generic criteria that can be applied to all types of application software. After a software package has been scored according to the criteria of a category, statistical analysis is used to convert the raw data to a numeric score that can be used to make between-product comparisons. The methodology has been successfully tested with UNIX-based* word processing and data base packages.

DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES FOR GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND CONTROL

1996 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 201-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAM BINNS ◽  
MATT ENGLEHART ◽  
MIKE JACKSON ◽  
STEVE VESTAL
Keyword(s):  
Embedded System ◽  
Development Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Software Architectures ◽  
Application Software ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Navigation And Control ◽  
Generic Architecture ◽  
Detailed Specification ◽  
And Control

We describe two languages and associated tools for capturing and analyzing two different views of the architecture of an embedded system. One language is tailored to address guidance, navigation, and feedback control issues, while the other is tailored to address real-time, fault-tolerance, secure partitioning, and scalable multiprocessor issues. Both languages have tools that perform analyses appropriate for the issues each addresses, and tools to automatically configure the application software from a sufficiently detailed specification. The integrated languages and tools are intended to support a development process based on reusing an easily configurable generic architecture developed for a family of products.

Computer-Generated Virtual/Physical Reality: Blurring the Lines

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry C. Petersen ◽  
Andrzej Markowski ◽  
Paul Sullivan ◽  
Robert Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Flight Training ◽  
Data Manipulation ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Data Files ◽  
Video Manipulation ◽  
And Control ◽  
And Training

Abstract As computers grow in ability to access and process ever-larger blocks of data within real-time responses, their ability to generate virtual reality responses has multiplied exponentially. Simultaneously, computer capabilities of using huge data files to control manufacturing processes, create rapid prototypes, augment human senses, and control vehicles and machines have given them the ability to control and even create physical reality. But computers now have the ability to blur the lines between virtual and physical realities in areas which include video manipulation, virtual reality with tactile feedback, and physical training devices such as flight training simulators. This paper investigates types of computer-generated virtual/physical realities and their uses and implications for industry and consumers alike. Examples of research by the authors in video manipulation and training, solid modeling, animated simulation, manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and reverse engineering will be presented, along with data base corruption, and data manipulation methods and problems. Finally, applications and future implications of this technology will be presented.

scholarly journals Considerations on determining the explosion risk and the areas with explosion hazard in a natural gas compressor station

2018 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 03005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Maria Gligor ◽  
Valentin Petrescu
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Transportation Networks ◽  
The Other ◽  
Explosion Hazard ◽  
Compressor Station ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The One ◽  
Explosion Risk

Compressor stations are important components within natural gas transportation networks. The current paper analyses some of the safety aspects involved in the operation of such facilities – on the one hand related to the explosion risk for employees working in compressor stations and on the other hand related to determining to the areas with increased explosion hazard in such a station, in order to help reducing work-related accidents and the occurrence of professional illnesses. The explosion risk is determined based on a method devised by the National Institute for Research and Development for Environmental Protection Bucharest, while the explosion hazard areas are determined and displayed with the help of the software package AutoCAD Plant 3D.

Employability Skills: Brush Up Your Computing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive W. Humphris
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
System Development ◽  
Logic Gates ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Data Handling ◽  
Computer Data ◽  
Binary Arithmetic ◽  
Data Files ◽  
And Control

Employability Skills: Brush Up Your Computing. eBook covers all the topics of this popular software title used in schools and colleges worldwide for over twenty years. See Additional Notes for instructions to download the highly interactive PC software for your school. Used in thousands of schools and colleges worldwide the software is designed to work as a traditional textbook on your PC screen. A combined eBook and educational software package at a tiny fraction of the previously published price. Table of Contents (350 software topics) Introduction, Hardware Devices, Data Structures, Data Files, Computer Systems, Data Handling, System Development, Computer Programming, Binary Numbers, Binary Arithmetic, Logic Gates 1., Logic Gates 2., Logic Families, Flip Flops, Combinational Logic, Counters, Counting, Shift Registers, Logic Interfacing, Boolean and DeMorgan's, Micro-Computer, Data/Address Bus, Memory Addressing, Arithmetic and Logic Unit, Clock and Reset, Instructions and Control, Memory Cells, Microprocessor Memory, Addressing Modes, Instructions Set 1., Instructions Set 2., Instructions Set 3., Additional Notes.

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