omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Intelligent Decision System. Intelligent Decision System (IDS) is a software package for multiple criteria decision analysis. It can handle hybrid types of uncertainty, including probability uncertainty, missing data, subjective judgements, interval data, and any combination of those types of uncertainty.  It uses belief function for problem modelling and the Evidential Reasoning Approach for attribute aggregation. The outcomes of the analysis include not only ranking of alternative courses of action based on average scores, but also aggregated performance distribution of each alternative for supporting informed and transparent decision making.

References

External links
 International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
 Intelligent Decision System for Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Decision support systems
Multiple-criteria decision analysis
Amalgamated Power Engineering. Amalgamated Power Engineering was a British engineering holding company, created through the 1968 merger of W.H. Allen, Sons and Co (which had absorbed William Foster & Co. in 1960) and Belliss and Morcom. 

In 1966, the receiver of Crossley Brothers of Manchester, sold the Crossley-Premier Engines and Furnival and Co businesses to Belliss and Morcom (B&M) of Birmingham, West Midlands. In 1968 B&M agreed to a merger with W.H. Allen, Sons and Co of Bedford, to form Amalgamated Power Engineering (APE), 60% owned by Allen's shareholders (which included William Foster & Co.) and 40% by Belliss and Morcom; which instantly became a leading manufacturer of engines. In 1968, APE reached agreement with Cooper-Bessemer to allow C-B to sell APE's gas treatment plant worldwide. In 1969, APE's Allen Gwynnes Pumps subsidiary acquired the industrial pumps business of Vickers plc based in Barrow in Furness.

After a difficult period in the 1970s, when due to ongoing losses APE sold a number of subsidiaries, in 1981 APE was acquired by Northern Engineering Industries plc, based in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. NEI shut most of the old central-Birmingham factories, consolidated the products around compressors, and moved B&M to Redditch. NEI itself was then acquired by Rolls-Royce plc in 1989.

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Technology companies established in 1968
Technology companies disestablished in 1981
Defunct engineering companies of England
Rolls-Royce
1968 establishments in England
Former defence companies of the United Kingdom
1981 disestablishments in England
1981 mergers and acquisitions
British companies disestablished in 1981
British companies established in 1968
Horatio Saint George Anson. Horatio St George Anson (1 August 1903 – 30 June 1925) was a British electrical engineer who in collaboration with Stephen Oswald Pearson discovered the Pearson–Anson effect, inventing the neon lamp relaxation oscillator.

He was the son of Admiral Charles Eustace Anson, CB, MVO, Superintendent of the Royal Navy’s Chatham Dockyard (son of Frederick Anson, Canon of Windsor and Caroline Maria, dau. of George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon) and Maria Evelyn, daughter of Horatio S. J. Ross. His brother was the writer Peter Anson. As a youth in the Royal Naval College, he developed an interest in research into radio. He subsequently joined Faraday House, the headquarters of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now the Institution of Engineering and Technology), in London.  There he discovered that the negative resistance of neon lamps could be exploited to create an electronic oscillator. 

In 1924 he was appointed to the Research Department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, Hampshire. He was immediately elected a fellow of the Physical Society of London. However, soon thereafter he died in a car accident.

Publications
 S. O. Pearson and H. St. G. Anson, Demonstration of Some Electrical Properties of Neon-filled Lamps, Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, vol.34, no. 1 (December 1921), pp. 175–176 
 S. O. Pearson and H. St. G. Anson, The Neon Tube as a Means of Producing Intermittent Currents, Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, vol. 34, no. 1 (December 1921), pp. 204–212

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1903 births
1925 deaths
British electrical engineers
Storm Aircraft. Storm Aircraft, also called the StormAircraft Group, is an Italian aircraft manufacturer based in Sabaudia. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of kit aircraft and microlight aircraft, predominantly for the European market, as well as sub-contract work for manufacturers of larger aircraft.

Storm Aircraft was originally called SG Aviation srl, but changed its name for brand alignment. The company works predominantly with aluminum sheet and fibreglass construction methods for its kit aircraft.

The company was acquired by the Tunisian aircraft manufacturer Avionav on 3 November 2021.

History
Founded in 1981 by a group of French and Italian aeronautical engineers as SG Aviation, the company engaged in sub-contract work including the Aermacchi MB-339 empennage and Martin-Baker ejection seat mechanical units. The company has designed and produced cold parts for engine nacelles, including inlets, fan cowls and EBU and systems-to-engine interfaces.

The company has also sold over 1200 kit and complete aircraft to customers in 20 countries.

Aircraft

References

External links

 
Aircraft manufacturers of Italy
Homebuilt aircraft
Orbite Technologies. Orbite Technologies Inc. was a Canadian cleantech company based in Montreal, Canada. It specialized in extracting processes for mining industry, especially alumina extraction. Its main asset is the Orbite process which can be used as a cheaper and pollution-free replacement of the Bayer process as well as a way to treat red mud.  In April 2017, the company declared bankruptcy, due to ongoing delays and issues relating to its construction of a new plant in Cap-Chat, Quebec.  As of January 2018, the bankruptcy process was still ongoing.   As of 2022 the company has rebranded itself as Advanced Energy Minerals, and claims to be manufacturing high purity alumina at its new Cap-Chat plant.

Orbite process

The Orbite process is an industrial means to refine aluminum ores (such as bauxite) to produce alumina (aluminum  oxide) patented by Orbite Alumnae using acid rather than sodium hydroxide like in the Bayer process. It’s also a way to treat red mud in order to extract the minerals it still contains. It does not produce any industrial waste in significant quantity. The process uses hydrochloric acid that is entirely recovered by the end of the process. It works well with low quality bauxite and many other raw materials.

The process
The Orbite process is divided in four steps: aluminum ore preparation, leaching, extraction of alumina, extraction of iron and calcination. First, the raw material is reduced into fine particles to increase the contact surface. Doing so maximize the effect of the acid leaching which is the next step. The acid leaching then occurs at very high temperature using hydrochloric acid. At the end of the leaching all metal molecules (excluding titanium) react to produce chloride compounds. Specifically, iron molecules form ferric chloride (FeCl3) and alumina molecule form aluminum trichloride (AlCl3). Silica is then removed by simple filtration becoming the main leftover of the process. Afterward, the aluminum trichloride is removed by precipitation. The step of the high temperature calcination transforms it into alumina. The leachate still containing FeCl3 is hydrolysed at low temperature, producing ferric oxide and regenerating the hydrochloric acid. Rare earth and other metals can then be extracted using common process.

See also

 Red mud
 Alumina
 Bayer process

References

External links
 

Mining companies of Canada
Companies based in Montreal
Technology companies established in 2007
Companies formerly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Companies traded over-the-counter in the United States
2007 establishments in Quebec
Sohrab Vossoughi. Sohrab Vossoughi is an Iranian–American entrepreneur, product designer and founder of Ziba Design, a design and innovation consultancy based in Portland, Oregon. He named BusinessWeek's Entrepreneur of the Year in 1992.

Early life
Sohrab was born in Tehran, Iran in 1956. He moved to the United States in 1971. After studying mechanical engineering for three years, he switched to study industrial design. He graduated from San Jose State University's Department of Industrial Design in 1979.

Career
Vossoughi joined Hewlett-Packard Corp. In 1982, he began independent consulting for startup companies in Portland, Oregon. By 1984, he had launched a product development firm he named ZIBA Design.

Ziba Design worked on products including Umpqua Bank branches, Herbal Essences in 2006, Heinz Ketchup in 2012, and the Readymop for Clorox in 2002. He built a 3-story  office for Ziba in 2009 for $20 million at 810 NW Marshall St, replacing their previous office at 334 NW 11th Ave. Both were owned by Vossoughi, but Umpqua Bank took the building into receivership after defaulting in 2022, placing it under trustee Kenneth Eiler. The 11th Ave building was builtin 1925 and contained  on three stories and became the home of Cloudability until 2019.

References

Iranian designers
Businesspeople from Tehran
Iranian industrial designers
Product designers
1956 births
Businesspeople from Portland, Oregon
20th-century Iranian businesspeople
Iranian emigrants to the United States
San Jose State University alumni
Living people
American industrial designers
The Economical Printing Press in Dubai. The Economical Printing Press is the second commercial printing press to be established in Dubai and has been in Dubai for over 40 Years. The Economical Printing Press is specialized in ABT and BLTmedia.

History

The company was founded by Mr. "Hassan Fahmi" Saleh AlShunnar, an architectural engineer who migrated to Dubai in the early 60's looking for work.

The Economical Printing Press was forced to downsize its employee count in 2009 due to the great recession that hit Dubai in that period, which saw many people leaving the country with all their belonging and debt unsettled.

The company has relocated its headquarters to Al Quoz in Dubai, and is about to open five more branches scattered around the United Arab Emirates.

References

Companies based in Dubai
Intrinsic low-dimensional manifold. In chemical kinetics, an intrinsic low-dimensional manifold is a technique to simplify the study of reaction mechanisms using dynamical systems, first proposed in 1992.

The ILDM approach fixes a low dimensional surface which describes well the slow dynamics and assumes that after a short time the fast dynamics are less important and the system can be described in the lower-dimensional space.

See also
Intrinsic dimension

References

Chemical kinetics
Open-Source Lab (book). The Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs by Joshua M. Pearce was published in 2014 by Elsevier.

The academic book is a guide, which details the development of free and open-source hardware primarily for scientists and university faculty. It provides step-by-step instructions on building laboratory hardware and scientific instruments. It also provides instructions on digital design sharing, Arduino microcontrollers, RepRap 3D Printers for scientific use and how to use open-source hardware licenses. The Guardian discusses how ideas in the Open-Source Lab could enable 3D printing to offer developing-world scientists savings on replica lab kits. The Open-Source Lab book has been covered extensively by the media. It was one of the top books chosen by Shareable for "New Books About Sharing, Cities and Happiness".

The book itself is not open source and is sold under copyright by Elsevier.

Claims 
The author claims the method enables researchers in every discipline to develop research tools at low costs following his previous research in open-source hardware published in Science. These claims have been generally supported by others using the techniques, such as those in the DIYbio community. While discussing the book in an interview with 3-D Printing Industry, Pearce has claimed to save thousands of dollars in his own lab, and his various studies on the economics of printing lab equipment, such as a PLOS ONE article on open-source optics have generally found over 90% savings. A study on the use of 3D printing in this context cited this book as also being good for the environment.

Chapters
 Introduction to Open-Source Hardware for Science
 The Benefits of Sharing—Nice Guys and Girls do Finish First
 Open Licensing—Advanced Sharing
 Open-Source Microcontrollers for Science: How to Use, Design Automated Equipment With and Troubleshoot
 RepRap for Science—How to Use, Design, and Troubleshoot the Self-Replicating 3-D Printer
 Digital Designs and Scientific Hardware
 The Future of Open-Source Hardware and Science

Uptake
Copies of Open-Source Lab were a prize in an Instructables "Build My Lab" Contest sponsored by Tekla Labs.

See also

 List of open-source hardware projects
 Open-notebook science, an open science technique

References

External links 
 
 Open-source Lab at Appropedia

2014 non-fiction books
Computer science books
Elsevier books
Free culture movement
Open-source hardware
Electronics books
Walker Electric Truck. Walker Electric Trucks were battery-powered vehicles built from 1907 to 1942 in Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan. Initially designed and manufactured by the Walker Vehicle Company (not to be confused with the Walker Motor Car Company) in Chicago, they were bought by the Anderson Electric Car Company of Detroit in 1916, then sold to Commonwealth Edison of Chicago in 1920, and last to York & Towne in 1933. In addition to the trucks the company manufactured the Chicago Electric Car. Several of their trucks were long in service, surviving the brand, in some cases, by decades. A few of them are now on display in museums or, in the case of one exported to New Zealand, still "in service" with its original owner Orion New Zealand Limited.

According to Jay Christ's Collection of Antique Delivery Trucks and Classic Cars in Manchester, Pennsylvania, that has restored two Walker Electric Trucks—a 1919 Model LA-10, and a 1938 Model 500 Gas-Electric Dynamotive: 
Walker manufactured many different models of trucks and these trucks were sold all across the USA and even to Britain and New Zealand. These trucks had a 3.5 HP electric motor that was powered by many batteries to produce 66 to 80 volts and a maximum of 40 amps. The driving range of these trucks was about 50 miles and the maximum speed was 10 to 12 MPH. The trucks were plugged into a charging station in the evening after the daily deliveries were completed...These trucks were a welcome relief for the general public and the delivery companies. Previously the deliveries were made by horse and wagon. The horses were not the most sanitary because of their daily habits of relieving themselves anywhere they felt like it along the routes. This didn't make the customers too happy. The horses were loyal in the task of pulling the wagons but their pace was slow compared the trucks. The first companies to use this style of delivery were dairies, bakeries, US Mail, retail store and freight companies. Marshall Field and Company had a fleet of 276 electric Walker Trucks in 1925.

The Iowa Trucking Museum in Walcott, Iowa has a 1911 Walker Electric Truck that had been owned and used by Bowman Dairy and celebrated the truck's 100th birthday at the Walcott Truckers Jamboree in 2011. A 1918 Walker Electric panel van is displayed at the Thor Electric Truck company in Los Angeles.

The Dwinell-Wright Company in Boston, Massachusetts employed a Walker Electric Truck from 1914 through 1960 to move freight—primarily green coffee beans—from the docks to their South Boston warehouse. Afterward the vehicle was put on display at Edaville Railroad.

References

External links 

Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
Jay Christ's Collection of Antique Delivery Trucks and Classic Cars

Electric vehicles
Electric trucks
Electric vehicles introduced in the 20th century
Zi-Qiang Zhu. Zi-Qiang Zhu (born September 23, 1962 in Zhejiang, China), better known Z. Q. Zhu, is a Chinese-born British professor in electrical machines and control. He is the head of the Electrical Machines and Drives Research Group at the University of Sheffield in the UK, which is one of the largest research groups consisting of more than 100 personnel, specializing in permanent magnet brushless machines and drives for applications ranging from automotive, aerospace, renewable energy, to industrial and domestic products. The group also hosts the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre on Advanced Electrical Machines and Drives and the Sheffield Siemens Wind Power Research Centre (S2WP). Zhu is academic director of S2WP and also director of the Welling Shanghai Research Centre.

Education
He received BEng and MSc degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Zhejiang University, in 1981 and 1984, respectively, and a PhD degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Sheffield, in 1991. From 1984 to 1988, he was a lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering of Zhejiang University. Since 1988, he has been with the University of Sheffield, where he was initially a research associate and then subsequently appointed to an established post as senior research officer/senior research scientist. Since 2000, he has been a professor of electrical machines and control systems with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield. In 2016 he became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Research
His research experience includes design and analysis of brushless PM, switched reluctance, induction motors, actuators, and drives; vector, direct torque, sensorless and intelligent controls; as well as noise and vibration. On these topics, he has published more than 900 journal and conference papers, including more than 300 IEEE Transactions and IET Proceedings papers. His current major research interests include design and control of permanent magnet brushless motors and drives, for applications ranging from automotive to renewable energy.

Awards and honors

 2021 - IEEE Nikola Tesla Award
 2024 - Global Energy Prize

References

1962 births
Living people
Chinese emigrants to the United Kingdom
British people of Chinese descent
People from Zhejiang
Scientists from Ningbo
Zhejiang University alumni
People from Cixi
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
List of SLAM methods. This is a list of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods. The KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite website has a more comprehensive list of Visual SLAM methods.

List of methods
 EKF SLAM
 FastSLAM 1.0
 FastSLAM 2.0
 L-SLAM (Matlab code)
 QSLAM
 GraphSLAM
 Occupancy Grid SLAM
 DP-SLAM
 Parallel Tracking and Mapping (PTAM) 
 LSD-SLAM (available as open-source)
 S-PTAM (available as open-source)
 ORB-SLAM (available as open-source)
 ORB-SLAM2 (available as open-source)
 ORB-SLAM3 (available as open-source)
 OrthoSLAM
 MonoSLAM
 GroundSLAM
 CoSLAM
 SeqSlam
 iSAM (Incremental Smoothing and Mapping)
 CT-SLAM (Continuous Time) - referred to as Zebedee (SLAM)
 RGB-D SLAM 
 BranoSLAM
 Kimera (open-source)
 Wildcat-SLAM

References

Robot navigation
Robotics lists
St Croix Pietenpol Aerial. The St Croix Pietenpol Aerial is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Chad and Charles Wille and produced by St Croix Aircraft of Corning, Iowa, first flown in 1977. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction, with partial kits available.

Design and development
The Pietenpol Aerial was conceived as a biplane adaptation of the Pietenpol Air Camper parasol wing homebuilt design. The design work was completed in 1974 and the first example flown in 1977, with the plans as supplemental drawings to the Aircamper plans. The resulting aircraft features a biplane layout, two separate tandem open cockpits with individual windshields, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from a combination of wood and welded steel tubing, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing has four ailerons and has a combined wing area of . The lower wing is removable, allowing the aircraft to fly as an Aircamper parasol monoplane. The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Continental O-240 powerplant.

The aircraft has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is .

The designers estimated the construction time from the supplied plans as 1200 hours.

Flight testing showed that the aircraft has shorter take-off and landing distances that the standard Aircamper, a lower stall speed and better stability in turbulence. The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a  engine is  and the landing roll is .

Operational history
By 1998, the company reported that 400 sets of plans had been sold.

In February 2014, one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications (Pietenpol Aerial)

References

Aerial
1970s United States sport aircraft
1970s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1977
Versar. Versar, Inc. is a project management company providing technical and management support to government and companies in the world. The company was founded on July 14, 1969. The company operates in three segments including Engineering and Construction Management, Environmental Services, and Professional Services. It offers project scoping/development, cost estimation, construction oversight through Engineering and Construction Management. The company offers environmental solutions through Environmental Services. The company offers solid waste management, water program management, staff augmentation through Professional Services.

History
In 1969, Versar, Inc. was founded in Springfield, Virginia.
In January 2014, the company selected Locus Technologies (Locus) Environmental Information Management (EIM) software to be the preferred environmental data management system.

In 1997, the company acquired a majority interest in Science Management Corp.
 
In February 2014, the Company completed the acquisition of  Lime Energy, Inc.'s Facility Repair and Renewal (FRR) business unit.

In November 2017, Versar was acquired by Kingswood Capital Management for $1.6 million.

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
Companies based in Virginia
American companies established in 1969
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1969
1969 establishments in Virginia
Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Rajiv Bajaj. Rajiv Bajaj (born 21 December 1966) is an Indian businessman, and the managing director of Bajaj Auto since 2005. He introduced the Pulsar range of motorcycles credited with reviving the fortunes of the ailing company.

India Today magazine ranked him #42nd in their India's 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list.

Early life and education
Rajiv Bajaj completed his schooling from St Ursula High School in Akurdi, Pune. He graduated in first class, with distinction, in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune in 1988, and then completed his master's in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Warwick in 1990.

Career 
Bajaj worked at Bajaj Auto in the areas of Manufacturing & Supply Chain (1990–95), R&D and Engineering (1995–2000), and Marketing and Sales (2000–2005), and has been its managing director since April 2005.

References

Indian business executives
Bajaj Auto executives
Chief executives in the automobile industry
1966 births
Living people
Savitribai Phule Pune University alumni
Businesspeople from Pune
Bajaj family
Alumni of the University of Warwick