This paper describes the adoption of the Ethernet/IP standard in the development of a specification for the interconnection of mining equipment as part of an industry-sponsored Landmark longwall automation project. Longwall mining is used extensively worldwide and accounts for the majority of underground coal production in Australia and the USA. Full automation of the longwall mining process is...

Incorporation of radio controller units into heavy equipment used in the electricity industry provides numerous advantages including: improved electrical isolation between plant and operator, ability to incorporate an additional remote operator, and reductions in vehicle wiring and hydraulic hoses for equipment control. However, secure operation of vehicles and plant incorporating radio control...

In the current sport-equipment industry, equipment evaluation and/or optimization are mainly done through pure mechanical procedures. It is known that any change of performance environment would cause one to adapt certain aspects of his or her movements to the changed environment. Variation of sport-equipment is counted as an environment change for human performance. Yet, the equipment-induced ...

This report describes a prograimiable transmission control unit which is attached to an IBM System/360 Model 67 machine operated in a timeshared environment. Called the Data Concentrator, this device provides service for AT^T teletype equipment, IBM typewriter terminal equipment, and remotely located computer equipment interconnected with serial-synchronous transmission data sets. The Data Conc...

Today, engineering structures have wide application in military equipment, industrial equipment, machines, robots, etc. How to make the engineering structures away from many damages, repairs, and other costs and how to control them in a way that their life reduction would be prevented are challenging problems for researches in recent decades. They are trying to find an appropriate control appro...