omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Dynamic window approach. In robotics motion planning, the dynamic window approach is an online collision avoidance strategy for mobile robots developed by Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, and Sebastian Thrun in 1997. Unlike other avoidance methods, the dynamic window approach is derived directly from the dynamics of the robot, and is especially designed to deal with the constraints imposed by limited velocities and accelerations of the robot.

It consists of two main components, first generating a valid search space, and second selecting an optimal solution in the search space.
In  Fox et al. the search space is restricted to safe circular trajectories that can be reached within a short time interval and are free from collisions. The optimization goal is to select a heading and velocity that brings the robot to the goal with the maximum clearance from any obstacle.

References

External links
 Dynamic Window Approach pseudo-code and explanation

Robot control
1997 in robotics
Nippon Institute of Technology. is a private university in Miyashiro, Saitama, Japan, established in 1967.

History
The Nippon Institute of Technology opened in 1907 as "Tokyo Engineering School". It was renamed "Tokyo Advanced Engineering School" in 1935, but was closed in 1943 due to World War II. In 1947, it reopened as "Toko Gakuen Junior High School" which became "Tokyo Industrial High School" in 1948 and the Nippon Institute of Technology in 1967.

At the time, it had departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Architecture. A Department of Systems Engineering was added in 1975. In 1982, Nippon Institute of Technology established a graduate school offering master's degrees, followed by doctoral degrees from 1987. A Department of Computer and Information Engineering was established in 1995. The school marked its centennial in 2007.

The Nippon Institute of Technology synthesized a diamond via the  open atmosphere combustion flame method in 1988.

See also
Colleges of technology in Japan

References

External links
Official website 

Universities and colleges established in 1907
Private universities and colleges in Japan
Universities and colleges in Saitama Prefecture
Engineering universities and colleges in Japan
1907 establishments in Japan
Grindometer. A grindometer is a device used to measure the particle size of suspensions, typically inks such as those used in printing, or paints.  It consists of a steel block with a channel of varying depth machined into it, starting at a convenient depth for the type of suspension to be measured, and becoming shallower until it ends flush with the block's surface.  The depth of the groove is marked off on a graduated scale next to it.  The suspension to be tested is poured into the deep end of the groove, and scraped towards the shallow end with a flat metal scraper.  At the point where the depth of the groove equals the largest particles in the suspension, irregularities (for example pinholes in an ink sample) will become visible.

The advantages of this method are that it uses a small sample and gives a very quick indication of the high end of the particle size distribution, allowing production processes to be followed in real time.

The following standards are relevant on conjunction with the use of grindometers: ASTM D 1210, ASTM D 1316, JIS K 5600-2-5, ISO 1524, EN ISO 1524, BS 3900-C6

References
 

Measuring instruments
Institute for the History of Aluminium. The Institute for the History of Aluminium (French: Institut pour l'histoire de l'aluminium) is a French non-profit organisation. Founded in 1986, its aims are to foster multidisciplinary study of the history of aluminium in its technical, economic, industrial, commercial and cultural aspects and to protect the aluminium industry's heritage.

The IHA publishes the Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium and an electronic newsletter. It provides support for students who are interested in the history of aluminium through research grants. Access to its specialised library and archives is open to researchers in the reading room of the IHA in Gennevilliers.

References

External links
 Official Website

Organizations established in 1986
Aluminium in Europe
Learned societies of France
1986 establishments in France
MIKE BASIN. MIKE BASIN is an extension of ArcMap (ESRI) for integrated water resources management and planning. It provides a framework for managers and stakeholders to address multi-sectoral allocation and environmental issues in river basins. It is designed to investigate water sharing issues at international or interstate level, and between competing groups of water users, including the environment. MIKE BASIN is developed by DHI. As of September 2014, MIKE BASIN is no longer available for order or download from DHI. It has been replaced by the application named MIKE HYDRO Basin.

Applications
MIKE BASIN can be used for providing solutions and alternatives to water allocation and water shortage problems, improving and optimizing reservoir and hydropower operations, exploring conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water, evaluating and improving irrigation performance, solving multi-criteria optimization problems, establishing cost-effective measures for water quality compliance.

External links

Integrated hydrologic modelling
Hydraulic engineering
Environmental engineering
Physical geography
MIKE FLOOD. is a computer program that simulates inundation for rivers, flood plains and urban drainage systems. It dynamically couples 1D (MIKE 11 and Mouse) and 2D (MIKE 21) modeling techniques into one single tool. MIKE FLOOD is developed by DHI. 

MIKE FLOOD is accepted by US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for use in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

MIKE FLOOD can be expanded with a range of modules and methods including a flexible mesh overland flow solver, MIKE URBAN, Rainfall-runoff modeling and dynamic operation of structures.

Applications
MIKE FLOOD can be used for river-flood plain interaction, integrated urban drainage and river modeling, urban flood analysis and detailed dam break studies.

Integrated hydrologic modelling
Hydraulic engineering
Environmental engineering
Physical geography
Chen Lei (PRC Minister). Chen Lei (; born June 1954) is a Chinese politician who has served as Minister of Water Resources since 2007.

Biography
A native of Beijing, Chen became a worker at Ningxia 905 factory in September 1971. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in May, 1980. From December 1976 to July 1980, Chen studied at department of metal materials of Northeast Institute of Technology, majoring in powder metallurgy. After graduation, he became a teacher in the department of hydraulic engineering mechanics of North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power. From September 1982 to May 1985, Chen studied in the graduate school of the University in Beijing, majoring in agricultural hydraulic engineering, and obtained a master's degree. He then served in China Irrigation and Drainage Company and eventually became the general manager. In May 1995, he started serving in Ministry of Water Resources. Chen was elevated to vice Minister in May 2001. From March to May 2002, he studied at CCP Central Party School. In December 2004, Chen became a member of Three Gorge Project construction commission. In March 2005, Chen was appointed as a vice chairman of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and in August was elected a standing committee member of CCP Xinjiang committee. In December 2005, he became the executive vice chairman of Xinjiang, and vice secretary of political and legislative commission of Xinjiang. In April 2007, Chen was appointed Minister of Water Resources.

Chen was a member of the 17th and 18th Central Committees of the CPC.

References

1954 births
Living people
People's Republic of China politicians from Beijing
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Beijing
Political office-holders in Xinjiang
Members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Ministers of water resources of the People's Republic of China
Lui Ming-wah. Lui Ming Wah, SBS, JP (呂明華, born 8 April 1938 in Weihai, Shandong, China) was the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco), representing industrial (second) industry in functional constituencies seats. He was the member of the Alliance in Legco.

Lui is a businessman and a registered engineer. He founded and is chair of the Hong Kong Shandong Business Association.

References

1938 births
Chinese emigrants to British Hong Kong
Living people
Engineers from Shandong
Hong Kong businesspeople
Members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Politicians from Weihai
Professional Forum politicians
Businesspeople from Shandong
People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong
HK LegCo Members 1998–2000
HK LegCo Members 2000–2004
HK LegCo Members 2004–2008
Hong Kong people of Shandong descent
Recipients of the Silver Bauhinia Star
Barrie Gilbert. Barrie Gilbert (5 June 1937 – 30 January 2020) was an English-American electrical engineer. He was well known for his invention of numerous analog circuit concepts, holding over 100 patents worldwide, and for the discovery of the Translinear Principle. His name is attributed to a class of related topologies loosely referred to as the Gilbert cell, one of which is a mixer - a key frequency translation device - used in every modern wireless communication device. A similar topology, for use as a synchronous demodulator, was invented by Howard Jones in 1963. 

Gilbert was born in Bournemouth, England. During the 1950s he pursued an interest in solid-state devices while at Mullard, working on the development of early transistors, and later, the first-generation planar ICs. After some pioneering development of sampling oscillography he emigrated to the United States in 1964 to pursue this interest at Tektronix, Beaverton, Oregon, where he developed the first electronic knob-readout system and other advances in instrumentation. He returned to England in 1970, where he was Group Leader at Plessey Research Laboratories, managing a team developing OCR systems and integrated circuits (ICs) for communications applications. From 1972-1977 he consulted for Analog Devices Inc., Wilmington, MA, designing several ICs embodying novel nonlinear concepts. He returned to the USA and Tektronix in 1977  to pursue HF ICs and process development.

In 1979, Analog Devices allowed Gilbert to create the first remote design center for the Company, in Oregon, to persuade him to rejoin the company as their first Fellow.  This center developed into the Northwest Labs.

On February 4, 2020, Analog Devices announced that Gilbert had died.

Awards and honors
In 1984, Gilbert became a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for discovery of the translinear principle and invention of the translinear multiplier. For pioneering work on merged logic, he received the IEEE "Outstanding Achievement Award" (1970) and later the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council "Outstanding Development Award" (1986).  He was Oregon Researcher of the Year in 1990 and he received the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award (1992) "For contributions to non-linear analog signal processing circuits". He has five times received the ISSCC Outstanding Paper Award.  He held an Honorary Doctorate from Oregon State University. In 2009, Gilbert was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

References

1937 births
2020 deaths
21st-century American engineers
20th-century American inventors
English emigrants to the United States
Analog electronics engineers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
People from Beaverton, Oregon
Tektronix people
B34. B34  may refer to:
 Avia B-34, a biplane fighter aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s
 Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code
 Lockheed B-34 Lexington, a bomber and patrol aircraft of World War II, used by United States and British Commonwealth forces
 Unterseeboot B-34, a German Type UB II submarine of the German Imperial Navy during World War I
Weng Shilie. Weng Shilie (; born 1932) is a Chinese scientist and an expert in thermo-engine. He formerly served as the president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 1995.

Biography
Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, Weng graduated from the ship building department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1952. He obtained a Soviet doctor's degree (Candidate of Sciences) at the institute of ship building in Leningrad of USSR in 1962. He served as the chairman of Shanghai Science and Technology Association.

Weng is a professor of SJTU and served as president of the University. He is one of the main founders of China's new generation of thermo-turbines.

References

1932 births
Living people
Engineers from Zhejiang
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Presidents of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Educators from Ningbo
Mouse (software). MOUSE, short for MOdel for Urban SEwers, is a computer program that models collection system for urban wastewater and stormwater. MOUSE is the first micro-computer based software created by DHI and it was developed in 1983. The MOUSE engine is used in the CS - Pipeflow module of the hydraulic modeling software MIKE URBAN.

Applications
MOUSE can be used for analysing CSOs and SSOs, evaluating RDII, network capacity and bottlenecks, predicting local flooding, estimating sediment build-up and transport, optimization and design of RTC solutions, analysing water quality and sediment problems, and real-time modeling embedded in RTC solutions.

References

External links 
 DHI Water.Environment.Health

Hydrology models
B40. B40, B-40, or B.40 may refer to:

Roads 
 Autovia B-40, a Spanish motorway in Catalonia
 Bundesstraße 40, a German road

In Science 
 Borospherene, B40, an allotropic cage-like molecule of pure boron
 HLA-B40, an HLA-B serotype

Military 
 Vietnamese designation of the RPG-2, the first rocket-propelled grenade launcher designed in the Soviet Union
 BSA B40, a 350cc British motorcycle
 Blackburn B.40, an experimental Blackburn flying boat
 Rolls-Royce B40 Engine, an inline-four petrol engine primarily used in the Austin Champ
 Unterseeboot B-40, World War I Imperial Germany Navy submarine U-boat
 YB-40 Flying Fortress, an aircraft

Other 
 40 amp, type B – a standard circuit breaker current rating
 B40 Balkan Cities Network, an intercity organization between Balkans cities
 Sicilian Defence, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code
MIKE 21. MIKE 21 is a computer program that simulates flows, waves, sediments and ecology in rivers, lakes, estuaries, bays, coastal areas and seas in two dimensions. It was developed by DHI.

Simulation engines
MIKE 21 comprises three simulation engines: 

Single Grid: the -dependent non-linear equations of continuity and conservation of momentum are solved by implicit finite difference techniques with the variables defined on a space-staggered rectangular grid.

Multiple Grids: the Multiple Grids version uses the same simulation engine and numerical approach as the single grid version. However, it provides the possibility of refining areas of special interest within the model area (nesting). All domains within the model area are dynamically linked. 

Flexible Mesh: is an unstructured mesh and uses a cell-centred finite volume solution technique. The mesh is based on linear triangular elements.

Applications
MIKE 21 can be used for design data assessment for coastal and offshore structures, optimization of port layout and coastal protection measures, cooling water, desalination and recirculation analysis, environmental impact assessment of marine infrastructures, water forecast for safe marine operations and navigation, coastal flooding and storm surge warnings, inland flooding and overland flow modeling.

Integrated hydrologic modelling
Hydraulic engineering
Environmental engineering
Physical geography
Alexander Smits. Alexander John Smits  (born December 25, 1948) is an Australian-American engineer and academic who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is also the director of the Gas dynamics laboratory at Princeton. Smits received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1970. Subsequently he received his Ph.D. from Melbourne in 1975.

Smits is an expert in the areas of turbulence and fluid mechanics, and is also the chief editor of Efluids.com, a website designed for students and researchers to share information about fluids. He is also currently an associate editor for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and the Journal of Turbulence. Smits is the head of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University.

Smits was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for contributions to the measurement and understanding of turbulent flows, fluids engineering, and education. Also, he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. He was awarded the Batchelor Prize in 2020 for his significant research contributions to fluid mechanics over the previous decade.

Smits was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2023 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to aerospace engineering, particularly in the field of fluid dynamics, and to tertiary education".

References in Pop Culture 
Smits was referenced in an episode of Numb3rs, in which it was stated (with regard to fluid dynamics) that "there is some amazing work done by Prandtl, Euler, and Smits."

Bibliography 
Alexander Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Chair

References 

1948 births
Living people
Australian mechanical engineers
Princeton University faculty
University of Melbourne alumni
Engineers from Amsterdam
Dutch emigrants to Australia
Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Officers of the Order of Australia
Fagerdala World Foams. Fagerdala is a company specializing in the development, manufacturing and converting of technical polymer foams, thermoforming parts and resilient materials.

History 
The company was founded as Fagerdala World Foams in 1964 by father and son, Alf and Dag Landvik.

The company’s initial products were Polyurethane mattresses and cushions, before expanding into other foam applications.

In 1989, Fagerdala licensed Tempur-Pedic technology from NASA using its visco elastic material in the manufacture of its pressure-relieving mattresses.

During the 1990s, Polypropylene materials were then utilized to make automotive shock-absorbing parts, acquiring an assortment of design patents along the way. The company positioned itself as a polypropylene supplier to the automotive market.

From 2000 onwards, the company developed Polyethylene foam cushion packaging technology to serve the electronic industry.

The company is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singaporean-owned company, Sealed Air.

Products 
 EnviroFoam — foam made using 100% recycled EPS foam resins
 Specialty resins
 Packaging
 Automotive
 General applications

Global locations 
 Fagerdala Industri AB (Sweden)
 Fagerdala Tuotanto Oy (Finland)
 Fagerdala Termonova Oy (Finland)
 Fagerdala UK Ltd (United Kingdom)
 Fagerdala Airofom AG (Switzerland)
 Fagerdala-Paclite Inc (USA) — 4 operating locations in 3 states namely: Lompoc, California Marysville and Marine City, Michigan and Indianapolis, Indiana.
 Fagerdala Mexico SA de CV — (Mexico)
 Fagerdala Singapore Pte Ltd (Singapore) — Asia pacific Headquarters
 Fagerdala Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)
 Fagerdala Shanghai Foams Co Ltd (China)
 Fagerdala SuZhou Packaging Co Ltd (China)
 Fagerdala Xiamen Packaging Co Ltd (China)
 Maxfoam Do Brasil LTDA (Brazil)
 Gefinex GmbH (Germany)
 Aldlev Srl (Italy)
 Polyciment (France)

References 

Manufacturing companies of Sweden
Leonidas J. Guibas. Leonidas John Guibas () is the Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He heads the Geometric Computation group in the Computer Science Department.

Guibas obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976. He was program chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 1996. In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Guibas is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and was awarded the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for 2007 "for his pioneering contributions in applying algorithms to a wide range of computer science disciplines." In 2018 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2022 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Research
The research contributions Guibas is known for include finger trees, red–black trees, fractional cascading, the Guibas–Stolfi algorithm for Delaunay triangulation, an optimal data structure for point location, the quad-edge data structure for representing planar subdivisions, Metropolis light transport, and kinetic data structures for keeping track of objects in motion. More recently, he has focused on shape analysis and computer vision using deep neural networks. He has Erdős number 2 due to his collaborations with Boris Aronov, Andrew Odlyzko, János Pach, Richard M. Pollack, Endre Szemerédi, and Frances Yao.

References

External links
Guibas laboratory
Detection of Symmetries and Repeated Patterns in 3D Point Cloud Data, videolecture by Guibas

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Stanford University Department of Computer Science faculty
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Greek computer scientists
American computer scientists
1999 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Bavarian R 3/3. The Bavarian Class R 3/3 of the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn) was an  intended for goods trains. Of the engines delivered before World War I, one went to the Polish  PKP, the other 17 were included by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as Class 89.7 in their numbering plan. The 90 units of the second series that were supplied from 1921 onwards all went into the Reichsbahn, and were designated as Class 89.8. 86 examples went into the Deutsche Bundesbahn after the Second World War and the last one was not taken out of service until 1960.

Numbers 89 835, 837 and 851 remained in Austria after the Second World War. The Austrian Federal Railway (Österreichische Bundesbahn or ÖBB) took them over as ÖBB Class 789 and designated them using their previous serial numbers. Numbers 789.835 and 837 were sold in 1956 as industrial locos, number 789.851 was retired in 1957. Finally number 789.837 returned to Bavaria and may be found today in the collection of the Bavarian Railway Museum (Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum) in Nördlingen.

No. 89 801 (ex K.Bay.Sts.B. 4701) belongs to the DB Museum fleet. It was damaged during the great fire on 17 October 2005 at Nuremberg and is being restored in Koblenz. (See photograph left).

See also 
 Royal Bavarian State Railways 
 List of Bavarian locomotives and railbuses

References

0-6-0T locomotives
R 3 3
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany
Krauss locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1906
C n2t locomotives
Freight locomotives