A store is described, including an ordering interface, a storage area, automated vehicles, and a central processing system. The ordering interface accepts selections of items for purchase from a shopper. The storage area, stocking items for sale, is separate from the area containing the ordering interface. The automated vehicles retrieve items from the storage area. The central processing system is configured to: check-in the shopper; assign an order fulfilment module to the shopper; receive selections of items from the ordering interface in real-time, as the shopper selects the items for purchase; send the selections to the order fulfilment module for retrieval in real-time; check-out the shopper when the shopper is finished selecting items; and arrange delivery of the completed order to the shopper. The order fulfilment module assigns automated vehicles to retrieve the items for purchase in real-time. A method for operating a store is also described.

A method for controlling an electric drive system and the electric drive system. The method includes: measuring an external variable; estimating a control variable for a current sampling step with a mathematical model; predicting a control variable for a future sampling step for each of a plurality of candidate voltage vectors selected for the future sampling step; and calculating a cost function, and identifying a primary voltage vector giving a minimum, where the cost function is defined as a deviation between the predicted stator flux and the reference stator flux. The method further includes: predefining a lookup table giving a correlation between a nonzero voltage vector and a voltage vector group including four candidate voltage vectors, where the plurality of candidate voltage vectors is selected referring the lookup table. The electric drive system includes motor, power converter, and controller, and configured to perform the method.

An information handling system includes a voltage regulator, a device, and a controller. The voltage regulator provides an output voltage to power on the device. The controller includes a voltage enable sense line. The controller provides a signal to enable the voltage regulator on the voltage enable sense line at a first voltage associated with a first state. The controller also monitors a voltage level on the voltage enable sense line, and determines whether the voltage level of the voltage enable sense line has changed to a second voltage level associated with a second state. In response to the voltage level on the voltage enable sense line changing to the second voltage level, the controller detects that the output voltage is fully turned on and provided to the device.

An automation system employing multiple automated devices can establish and utilize two-way communication independent of a network controller by generating a unique network address with respective local circuitry. The local circuitry can be incorporated into a device or physically installed on-site in the form of an attachment, which allows automated devices to be upgraded and supplemented without altering the programming of a network controller.

An automation system employing multiple automated devices can establish and utilize two-way communication independent of a network controller by generating a unique network address with respective local circuitry. The local circuitry can be incorporated into a device or physically installed on-site in the form of an attachment, which allows automated devices to be upgraded and supplemented without altering the programming of a network controller.

A self-perturbing extremum-seeking controller for a plant that includes at least a static portion includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain a value of a performance variable characterizing a performance of the plant. The processing circuit is configured to determine a sign of a gradient of the performance variable with respect to an input to the static portion of the plant. The processing circuit is configured to adjust a control input for the plant using the sign of the gradient, and provide the control input to the plant to affect the performance variable.

A system includes a programmable logic control (PLC) module, an input/output (IO) network bus coupled to the PLC module and provided at facets of a mainframe. A first process chamber attached to a first facet of the facets. A chamber interface IO sub-module is attached to the first facet and coupled to the IO network bus and to a process chamber IO controller of the first process chamber. The chamber interface IO sub-module is to: convert interlock relay signals, received via dry contact exchange with the process chamber IO controller, to digital signals; combine the digital signals into network packets adapted for communication using a protocol of the IO network bus; and transmit the network packets to the PLC module over the IO network bus.

According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a service obtains one or more component tags and one or more activity tags that were assigned to an endpoint device in a network based on deep packet inspection of traffic associated with the endpoint device. The service determines an intent of the endpoint device, using the one or more component tags and the one or more activity tags that were assigned to the endpoint device. The service translates the intent of the endpoint device into a network segmentation policy. The service configures a network overlay in the network that implements the network segmentation policy.

According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a networking device receives a policy for an endpoint in a network. The policy specifies one or more component tags and one or more activity tags that were assigned to the endpoint based on deep packet inspection of traffic associated with the endpoint. The networking device identifies a set of tags for a particular traffic flow in the network associated with the endpoint. The set of tags comprises one or more component tags or activity tags associated with the particular traffic flow. The networking device makes a determination that the particular traffic flow violates the policy based on the set of tags comprising a tag that is not in the policy. The networking device initiates, based on the determination that the particular traffic flow violates the policy, a corrective measure with respect to the particular traffic flow.

According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a device in a network identifies a packet sent via the network towards an endpoint as being a control packet for the endpoint. The device extracts one or more control parameter values from the control packet. The device compares the one or more control parameter values to a policy associated with the endpoint. The device initiates a corrective measure, based on a determination that the one or more control parameter values violate the policy associated with the endpoint.