Efficient feeding plays a vital role in the success of fish farming operations. In recent years, there has been growing need to develop auto-feeder technologies that not only optimize feed utilization but also reduce labor costs and environmental impact. This abstract explores various types contribute achieving independence farming. The paper delves into three primary categories auto-feeders: d...

The ability to detect High Impedance (HiZ) faults has been a topic of research and development for over 30 years. About seven years ago, products began to appear on the market that could securely perform this function. Over this time period, several hundred HiZ detection devices have been placed in service and have performed to expectations. This paper reviews the operating principle of HiZ fau...

In automated assembly lines, part feeders often impose a bottleneck that restricts throughput. To facilitate the design of parts and assembly lines, we’d like to estimate feedrates based on CAD models of parts. A previous paper [8] described how to predict throughput for a vision-based robotic part feeder given the distribution of part poses when parts are randomly dropped on a conveyor belt. E...

The primary heat transport system of a typical CANDU®-6 nuclear power reactor contains 760 feeder pipes. These feeders carry the coolant between the inlet or outlet headers and the individual fuel channels. Inspection requirements that developed in feeders in the 1990’s led to rapid development of NDE technology to evaluate feeder integrity. The NDE technology had to deal with the complex and v...

in recent years, significant research efforts have been devoted to the optimal planning of power systems. substation expansion planning (sep) as a sub-system of power system planning consists of finding the most economical solution with the optimal location and size of future substations and/or feeders to meet the future demand. the large number of design variables, and combination of discrete ...

This paper describes a communication concept in the distribution power network with dispersed energy resources (DER), which regulates and controls the voltage profile in the power network. The communication concept is based on fast links between checkpoints on feeders and on DER. The advantage of this concept is establishing communication among all DERs, feeders and the area control center, whi...

In the manufacture of printed circuit boards, electronic components are attached to a blank board by one or more pick-and-place machines. Each machine has component magazines that house replaceable feeders. Since component requirements differ among board types, each change of feeders can improve processing time but indicates a machine setup. We develop an integer programming model for the joint...

Flexible parts feeding techniques have recently begun to gain industry acceptance. However, one barrier to effective flexible feeding solutions is a dearth of knowledge of the underlying dynamics involved in flexible part feeders. This paper presents the results of testing the CWRU flexible parts feeder. Data was collected for extended periods while feeding a variety of parts. The data was exam...