A method includes determining, by a field instrument in an industrial process and control system, a Highway Addressable Remote Transducer (HART) mode of the field instrument. The method also includes, upon a determination, by the field instrument, that the HART mode is a HART On Demand mode, listening for a HART data signal from a HART master device; when the HART data signal is detected, communicating with the HART master device according to a HART protocol; and when the HART data signal is not detected, diverting a current supply allocated for HART communication to a BLUETOOTH Low Energy (BLE) transceiver for use in BLE communication, and communicating according to a BLE protocol.

A motor control apparatus includes a main CPU configured to output a position command value, a plurality of integrated circuits connected to the main CPU and provided depending on the number of a plurality of motors, and a plurality of sub-CPUs connected to the plurality of corresponding respective integrated circuits, wherein each of the plurality of integrated circuits includes a motor interface control unit that outputs a drive command value to an amplifier that drives each of the motors in such a way as to move the motor to a position of the position command value. Each of the plurality of sub-CPUs controls an output of the drive command value by the motor interface control unit in the integrated circuit connected to the sub-CPU, based on the position command value and a position feedback value of the motor being read via the integrated circuit connected to the sub-CPU.

Examples described herein provide a method for assigning tasks to processors of a multi-core processor associated with a gas turbine engine. The method includes assigning a first processing core of the multi-core processor to perform a first type of tasks having a first safety level. The method further includes assigning a second processing core of the multi-core processor to perform a second type of tasks having a second safety level, the second safety level being different than the first safety level. The method further includes executing a first core task of the first type of tasks on the first processing core. The method further includes executing a second core task of the second type of tasks on the second processing core.

A programmable electronic power regulator includes a power module for controlling an actuator, a control module for actuating the power module, and an internal monitoring module for transferring the control module to an emergency operation. The internal monitoring module is configured to monitor a system state, detect a critical operating state, and output an error signal. The control module comprises: a basic controller, which is configured to output a power module control signal, and in which functions for open- and closed-loop control of the actuator are implemented, which are required for an emergency operation in a critical operating state; an additional controller, in which functions that are not needed for emergency operation are implemented; and a controller disconnection point, which connects the basic controller with the additional controller via a control connection, and which is configured to at least partially disconnect the control connection upon receipt of the error signal.

A virtual model of an intraoral cavity is provided, wherein this process is initialized by a dental clinic, and the design and manufacture of a suitable dental prosthesis for the intraoral cavity is shared between a dental lab and a service center.

A distributed maintainable real-time computer system is provided, wherein the real-time computer system includes at least two central computers and one, two or a plurality of peripheral computers. The central computers have access to a sparse global time, have identical hardware and identical software, but different startup data, wherein each functional central computer periodically sends time-triggered multi-cast life-sign messages to the other central computers according to a time plan a priori defined in its startup data, and wherein the peripheral computers (151, 152, 153, 154) can exchange messages (135) with the central computers (110, 120), and wherein at all times one central computer is in the active state and the other central computers are in the non-active state, and wherein after the apparent absence of a life-sign message of the active central computer expected at a planned reception time, that non-active functioning central computer which has the shortest start-up timeout takes over the function of the active central computer, and wherein each central computer (110, 120; 200) consists of three independent subsystems, an application computer (210), a storage medium having the startup data (230) characteristic of the central computer (200) and an internal monitor (220), wherein the internal monitor (220) periodically checks the correct functioning of the application computer (210), and wherein upon detection of an error the monitor (220) initiates a hardware reset and a restart of the application computer (210), and wherein preferably the active central computer initiates a maintenance action after an apparent absence of the life-sign messages expected at the planned reception times from a non-active central computer, which action can lead to the repair or replacement of a permanently failed central computer.

A method of fault-tolerant process control includes providing a network process control system in an industrial processing facility (IPF) including a plant-wide network coupling a server to computing platforms each including computing hardware and memory hosting a software application for simultaneously supporting a process controller and another process controller or an I/O gateway. The computing platforms are coupled together by a private path redundancy network for providing a hardware resource pool. At least some of the computing platforms are directly coupled by an I/O mesh network to a plurality of I/O devices to field devices that are coupled to processing equipment. Upon detecting at least one failing device in the hardware resource pool, over the private path redundancy network a backup is placed into service for the failing device from the another process controller or I/O gateway that is at another of the computing platforms in the hardware resource pool.

A method for operating a microgrid using a distributed energy resource (DER) controller determines an output power value of a DER. The method also receives a remote power correction value from a second DER controller. The method further determines a local output power reference value as a function of the output power value and the remote power correction value. The method further determines a frequency set point as a function of the local output power reference value and a droop coefficient. The method further adjusts an output frequency of the DER as a function of the frequency set point.

A control system includes a control unit configured to control a target controlled apparatus, and at least one communication processing unit configured to execute communication processing in communication between the target controlled apparatus and the control unit, and in the control system, the communication processing unit sequentially measures a processing time of the communication processing and sequentially outputs delay information indicating the measured processing time to the control unit, and the control unit sequentially acquires the delay information from all of a plurality of the communication processing units, and sequentially updates delay information incorporated in a control algorithm for controlling the target controlled apparatus based on the acquired delay information.

A system for distributed device management includes a group of devices. Each device in the group of devices communicate with one or more other devices in the group of devices over one or more network channels, and each device in the group of devices includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit of each device in the group of devices manages one or more devices in the group of devices, authorizes a new device to join the group of devices, and synchronizes data with the new device and with one or more devices in the group of devices over the one or more network channels.