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The dentist wants to use general anesthesia to put her under to fill the cavities and seal her teeth, but DH flat out said NO. He says that he won't let her be put under cause of the risks that go along with it and they are "just baby teeth, she's going to lose them anyway." Anesthesia is scary for me too, but I don't want her teeth rotting and have her be in pain, and I know it will effect her permanent teeth. When I say that to DH he responds with "I can't believe you would risk her life for a couple cavities." Then I get mad cause he said that and we fight and nothing actually gets discussed :( This sucks. Have any of you been through this with your LO??
I haven't been in this situation, but there is no way that I would let cavities go untreated. Does your DH not realize that cavities are an open pathway to infections? Your LO needs these teeth, and not taking care of them should not even be an option. Here's a link to an article your DH should read. To me, the certainty of pain, further decay, infection, and loss of nutrition definitely outweighs the slight risks that come with general anesthesia.
You should certainly talk to your dentist about other options (like sedation and restraint), but you can't just let them go. What does you DH actually propose as an alternative?
Finn, 2/19/09 * Marlowe, 5/17/14
Ok, so I don't know if it's the same thing- I'm pretty sure it's different. DS ( 5) had to have a baby root canal when he was 2. They gave him the liquid to make him loopy and knock him out ( same stuff he had been given for his catscan- rough kid) and that was it- they were in and out. Fast forward to him turning 5 in January- he had to have cavaties filled.. they gave him the liquid loopy stuff ( different pediatric dentist, btw) and then they said they may/ may not administer the laughing gas once he was back in the room depending on how it was going, how long it took. I'd personally be very leary of a pediatric dentist that was wanting to use Gen. Anesth. for such a quick and simple procedure..... I'd get a second opinion. DH had to have emergency oral surgery right before we had DD (2).... I was with him- and could not put my kids through that. Too risky. I'd rather do nothing if that were my only 2 options honestly.
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Oh- I need to add that we had to pay extra for the sedative, and would have had to pay even more for the general anesthesia ( DH was outrageous)... but I was NOT going to traumatize DS by having him wrapped to a papoose board from the neck down to be "restrained" and have him end up hating the dentist.... oral health is extremely important, but there are other ways to have them sedated...... I am pretty shocked that ped dentist suggested GA.
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I don't think restraint is a good option, the only thing I can think as another option is the sedation as mentioned above.
I would have your DH come to the dentist to discuss this matter.
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DH offers no alternatives, just wants to leave the cavities. His logic is "I have cavities that I haven't had filled & I'm fine." I completely disagree. I think we should have the consult and see what the procedure would be like, or even see if there are other options. Even though, IMO, it would be worse for her to have people hold her down and pry her mouth open and fill them. Ugh, we will have to discuss it, but it is hard for me to even look at him when he says stupid things like if I consider the anesthesia then I don't care about DD. He is so worried about the risks of anesthesia but thinks nothing of the risks of letting her teeth rot out of her head.
my baby has had to have dental work 3 times already and she is only 27 months old she had problem teeth due to cancer
you have to look at it this way a child is usually 6 or 7 before they lose baby teeth and have adult teeth grow back do you want the baby to be in pain that long because of a little seditave it is usually given in liquid form like tylenol and they recover quickly my child has been on mant forms of seditaves due to cancer she has been on stronger meds than even i ever had doctors are trained to do this they do it every day look how minimal complications in kids seditaves are it is worth the risk when you look at the alternitave
Is another pediatric dentist that uses sedation out of the question?
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Luckily This has only happened to one of my kids! My almost 4yr Old just had this done 2 wks ago. He was put under general anesthesia at Childrens Hospital. They had to pull his 2 front teeth (one of them had an abscess). And, fill 6 others. We were in and out in 3 hrs total. He had no pain from them, and he was back to pre-school the next day. This all happened because his baby teeth are softer than the norm and have very deep grooves...gets cavaties easy.
General anesthesia is scary. Yes. IMO it was worth it.
Your hubby is lucky he has gone w/out pain of an abscess. He also should know that tooth abscess can lead to a Heart condition called Endocarditis, and in a worst case scenario the infection can spread to the brain. (Not to scare you, just to make sure you have ALL sides of the story). This happened to my DH...he has made quite a recovery..but is not 100%. Now even for just a cleaning he has to take antibiotics to avoid compliations.
Just look at all the risks, both sides and make the decision that is best for YOUR child! Good Luck!
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Robert 5/84,Tricia&Chris 11/85,Richard 8/91,Erick 5/95,Jonathan 9/03, Nicholas 5/06~ 2 Grandbabies: Elena 5/10 and Hailee 8/10
Well, my sister's son had 4 cavities filled at age 22 months with NO general anesthesia. They did not use a thing. They did two at a time, at two seperate visits. Sure, it wasn't fun, but if you have a good pediatric dentist - they can work wonders.
If your child is the type to not lay still and get extremely scared I'd just do the general. It's just a light general. My son had that for surgery at 11 months and my daughter had complete general anesthesia and a 3 hour surgery at 24 mos. Both were fine. The risks of problem with general anesthesia is less than teh risk of getting into an auto accident on the way to the dentists.
my ods had a lot of teeth issues and he's been under about 3x. he was fine. you have to go to a pediatric dentist. he actually called in a specialist to administer the anesthesia. i would prefer to do this than 1. let his teeth rot 2. let him get traumatized by using a local.
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CHICAGO -- A federal jury convicted Illinois state Rep. Derrick Smith of bribery and attempted extortion Tuesday for taking $7,000 from a purported day care operator seeking a state grant.In a weeklong trial, prosecutors played secret recordings of the 50-year-old Chicago Democrat accepting 70 $100 bills -- which he referred to as "cheddar" on tape -- in exchange for a letter supporting a $50,000 state grant. The day care turned out to be fictitious and part of an FBI sting.Smith, his hands folded at a defense table, showed no emotion as U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman read the guilty verdicts. A family member walked over and patted him on the shoulder minutes later as court was adjourned.Outside the courtroom, a subdued Smith spoke to reporters for the first time since going to trial."We gave it a good fight," he said. "God knows the truth. Jurors didn't see what God saw."Asked what he'd say to his 10th District constituents in Chicago, many of whom backed him even after he was arrested, Smith replied, "I represented them to the best of my ability."The case is the latest entry in Illinois' inglorious history of politicians convicted of corruption, which includes the two previous governors, Republican George Ryan and Democrat Rod Blagojevich.Smith was released pending a sentencing hearing, when he will face up to 30 years in prison - a maximum of 10 for bribery and 20 for attempted extortion. Judge Coleman did not schedule a date for sentencing, but set a status hearing for Sept. 23.One of Smith's attorneys, Victor Henderson, said they hadn't yet decided whether to appeal the verdicts, which jurors returned after deliberating about four hours over two days.The recordings that a campaign worker-turned-informant made for the FBI devastated Smith's defense. In one that prosecutors played for jurors, Smith uses slang when talking about the handover of the bribe, asking, "How she going to get the cheddar to us?" In another he says, "I don't want no trace of it."Prosecutors used Smith's words against him in other ways, too.Citing interview notes with Smith after his March 13, 2012 arrest, FBI agents told jurors how the distraught lawmaker admitted he took the bribe. He even brought agents to his bedroom, retrieved $2,500 in leftover bribe cash from a cedar chest at the foot of his bed and handed it over.Smith once enjoyed staunch support from Democratic Party stalwarts in the state, including Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and Secretary of State Jesse White.But his House colleagues voted 100-6 to expel him after his 2012 arrest. He was reinstated, however, after winning his late-2012 election.Page 2 of 2 - Smith lost his 2014 primary and was supposed to finish out his current term, but a felony conviction means he automatically loses his seat.The defense's primary target was the informant, referred to only by his first name, Pete, in court. Smith attorneys described him as a deadbeat and convicted felon who "set up" Smith for payments of up to $1,000 a week from the FBI."He's a hustler," Henderson told jurors during closing arguments. "He hustled the representative and he hustled the FBI."Pete hoodwinked a devoted public servant in Smith, together with an overzealous FBI, Henderson argued."He (Smith) wasn't going to commit a crime," the lawyer said. "That was something they fabricated."But prosecutor Marsha McClellan said in her closing that the recordings clearly demonstrated no one led Smith astray against his will."There sits a defendant whose public face is one of service, but who privately wanted to use that office ... to get cash into his pockets," she said.In a recording from early March 2012, Pete counts aloud as he hands the cash to Smith in seven $1,000 stacks. As the informant counts the fifth stack, he curses as the money sticks together.Pete then jokingly chides Smith for not expressing gratitude, saying, "(You) didn't even say thank you."The prosecutor said Smith's confident tone on the recordings illustrated he didn't think he'd ever get caught."Never in a million years did he expect us to listen to him now," McClellan told jurors. "He never thought this day would come."___Follow Michael Tarm at https://twitter.com/mtarm.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for minimizing the contributions of failed sensors in a measurement system comprising a plurality of redundant interconnected sensors. More particularly, this invention is directed to minimizing measurement errors in such a system by detecting and isolating the faulty sensors employing failure detection, isolation and correction ("FDIC") methods.
2. Description of the Prior Art
When redundant sensors are provided for measuring a quantity, it is theoretically possible to detect failures in one or a number of such sensors by comparison of the data provided by the sensors. If the faulty sensors are additionally isolated, then it is possible to eliminate the measuring failure by omitting the sensors determined to be faulty.
This general problem occurs in a multiplicity of applications including, for example, measurement of movement with inertial systems containing redundant inertial sensors (e.g. gyroscopes and accelerometers possibly possessing nonparallel sensing axes), and position determination in satellite navigation systems having redundant satellite configurations. The existing methods for solving the problem can be broadly divided into two categories. These are (i) grouping of the system into sensor combinations of minimal redundance by determining all individual combinations and employing combinatorial logic to determining the largest possible failure-free sensor combination (i.e. "parity methods") and (ii) isolating the individual sensor that contributes most to the overall discrepancy (Chi-square criterion) followed by elimination of that sensor ("maximum likelihood" methods).
The known disadvantages of such methods are, in the case of parity methods:
(a) The number of individual combinations of minimal redundance required to be taken into account grows combinatorially (i.e. as n!) with the number of sensors. Since the parity of each combination must be evaluated, cost increases commensurately.
(b) Each individual parity is evaluated discretely as either "good" or "bad" by comparison with predetermined threshold values. A parity that only barely violates a threshold value is indistinguishable from a large threshold-value violation. The same is true of threshold-value undershoots. The resulting total pattern of the parity violations does not, therefore, permit unambiguous interpretation over a comparatively wide range of sensor failures, leaving interpretation to heuristic means. This can lead to unnecessary misinterpretations as the additional introduction of various ("large" and "small") threshold values can only party ameliorate the problem while increasing cost.
(c) Since the selection of threshold values is generally fixed, an unexpectedly high noise level of all the sensor values leads to complete failure as it is then possible that all individual combinations will exceed the threshold values with discrimination no longer taking place beyond them. The threshold values must be matched to the worst possible case to avoid this problem. This leads to undesirably high insensitivity of the method in "normal operation".
(d) As the individual parities are broadly divided into higher/lower than the threshold value, singularities (i.e. sensor data combinations that do not, in principle, permit unambiguous isolation of failure) can only be roughly detected and partly distinguished from unambiguous situations. The result of this is that either (1) singularities remain undiscovered or (2) cases that are actually unambiguous are treated as singularities. Failure to discover singularities can lead to incorrect decisions. Treating unambiguous cases as singularities can impair the integrity of the method since a less reliable information is generally relied upon in the treatment of singularities.
"Maximum likelihood" methods are subject to the following disadvantages:
(a) False isolation decisions can occur when multiple failures take place simultaneously since these methods are based upon the assumption that, at any particular given time, only one sensor delivers faulty data.
(b) After the occurrence and isolation of an individual failure, it is necessary to reconfigure the parameters of the method in real time to the corresponding (n-1) sensor configuration to detect and further isolate later-occurring individual failures. The subsequent faulty behavior of the previously-isolated sensors is no longer included in the new configuration. Possible "recovery" of such sensors can only be detected by parallel processing of a plurality of configurations. This correspondingly increases the processing costs.
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide an improved FDIC method that is free of the described shortcomings of prior art parity and maximum likelihood methods.
The present invention addresses the aforesaid object by providing a method for minimizing the contributions of sensors affected by possible measuring failures detected by a plurality of redundant interconnected sensors forming a measuring system by detecting and isolating the sensors affected by failures. The method is begun by mapping the sensor values measured by all of the sensors, which are combined to form a measured vector by means of a linear transformation, into a vector in a parity space (parity vector). The dimension of the vector space is determined by the redundance of the system.
Thereafter, the absolute magnitude of the parity vector is determined and compared with a first detection threshold. A failure-free state is concluded when the first detection threshold is not exceeded. In the event that the threshold is exceeded, the measured parity vector is projected onto all subspaces characteristic of possible failure states. The dimensions of the subspaces are determined by the number of possible faulty sensors associated with the respective failure state. In order to isolate the failures, the projection of the parity vector onto a subspace, respectively belonging to the relevant failure determination level, which provides the largest proportion of the measured parity vector, is established.
It is then tested to determine whether the remaining residual failure exceeds a second detection threshold. When the second detection threshold has not been exceeded, the best sensor combination is determined by omitting the sensor value combination belonging to the respective subspaces with the largest proportion of the parity vector at the relevant failure determination level. When the second detection threshold is exceeded, the measured parity vector is projected onto all subspaces characteristic of the possible failure states, the projection of the parity vector onto a subspace that provides the largest proportion of the measured parity vector established as before and the remaining residual failure tested to determine whether the next detection threshold is exceeded. This process continues until a detection threshold is not exceeded in which case the best sensor combination is determined by omitting the sensor value combination belonging to the respective subspaces with the largest proportion of the parity vector at the relevant failure determination level.
The method according to the invention essentially differs from the known parity and maximum likelihood methods in the following regards:
geometrical interpretation of the properties of the parity space and their consequent use for isolating simultaneously occurring multiple failures;
off-line analysis of the directions in the parity space and the provision of the isolation results in a precalculated table,
optionally possible adaptive matching of the detection thresholds to the general noise level of the failure-free sensors.
The sensor values (measurement vector) measured by all the sensors are mapped by a linear transformation into a vector in the parity space. The dimension of the parity space is determined by the redundance of the measuring system, which is to say by the number of sensors and the dimension of the quantity to be measured. For example, with 8 nonparallel measuring axes for measuring a 3-dimensional movement quantity (for example speed of rotation or acceleration), the dimension of the associated parity space is equal to 5. A number of subspaces can be defined in this parity space, each of which is characteristic of a particular combination of sensor failures. In the case of the abovementioned example of 8 individual sensor axes for measuring a 3-dimensional quantity, these subspaces are:
8 one-dimensional subspaces (lines) for characterizing uniaxial failures
28 two-dimensional subspaces (planes) for characterizing biaxial failures
56 three-dimensional subspaces for characterizing triaxial failures
70 four-dimensional subspaces for characterizing four-axis failures
(Note: five-axis failures can still be detected, but not isolated, and failures relating to a larger number of axes cannot even be detected using the sensor system of this example.)
The subspaces characterize failure combinations in such a way that, when a particular failure combination is present, the resulting parity vector lies fully within the relevant subspace.
The principle of the method consists in determining, by projection of the measured parity vector onto all possible subspaces, which of the subspaces for each failure level (uniaxial, biaxial, . . . ) involves the greatest portion of the measured parity vector. By omitting the sensor combinations associated with these subspaces, the best sensor combination can then be determined at each failure level. The result of this failure isolation is independent of any threshold values, since it is not determined by the magnitude (length) of the measured parity vector, but only by its direction. The magnitude of the parity vector, or of the projection of the parity vector onto the subspaces, is only employed for failure detection; that is to decide whether a failure is present at all, or whether a single, double, triple failure, etc., should be assumed. (This decision, too, can be made without "a priori" threshold values, if the projections onto the subspaces with minimal redundance are optionally employed as a measure for these threshold values.)
Measures to improve efficiency are essential for actual practice of the principle in real-time processing. Since the failure isolation depends only on the direction of the parity vector, it is possible to calculate the projections of the parity vector onto the characteristic subspaces off line, outside the real-time application, and to provide the result of the failure isolation in a table. The cost to be expended in real time is then restricted to calculation of the parity vector and of a table key from the direction of the parity vector. By using the key, the results of the failure isolation are then called up from the table. In order to minimize the required table size, use may be made of the symmetries in the parity space, which are given from the symmetry of the sensor axial arrangement.
The preceding and other objects and advantages of the present invention will become further apparent from the detailed description that follows. Such description is accompanied by a set of drawing figures. Numerals of the drawing figures, corresponding to those of the written description, point to the features of the invention. Like numerals refer to like features throughout both the written description and the drawing figures.
FIG. 1 is a graph of the statistical (Chi-square) density distributions of the resulting lengths of parity vectors for 1 degrees to 5 degrees of freedom;
FIG. 2 is a graph of false-alarm probability as a function of predeterminable threshold values for various degrees of freedom;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart for illustrating the method of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of the method of the invention in accordance with an alternative embodiment that includes stored isolation detection; and
FIG. 5 is an illustration of the parity space in which four sensors are provided to measure a scalar quantity.
The method of the invention is described below in three sections ("A", "B" and "C"). Section A describes basic principles. The implementation of the failure-detection method is described in section B with the aid of flow charts. Finally, two applications are presented in section C.
The basic principle underlying the invention is the existence of a linear or linearized relationship in the failure-free case between quantities to be determined and sensor values measured. Thus,
s=Ax+e (1)
Where s indicates the sensor values combined to form measurement vectors, x is the quantity to be measured and e indicates a sensor failure. The matrix A describes the relationship between the two for the failure-free case.
The estimated value of the quantity to be measured is given by the measured sensor values according to the following:
Where H, pseudoinverse of the matrix A, provides the linear least squares fit. It is assumed below that the relevant inverse exists (i.e., the measured quantity can be determined).
With regard to "residues" (i.e., deviations between actual sensor values (affected by failures) and the sensor values associated with the estimated measured value), the following equation applies; ##EQU1##
The magnitude of the residue vector r is a measure of the consistency of the sensor data. That is, with fully consistent sensor data, r is equal to zero, while it differs from zero when the sensor data are affected by failures. In principle, the value of r allows conclusions to be drawn regarding the failure. For efficient analysis of sensor data consistency, r is not directly taken as a starting point. Rather, R is firstly diagonalized according to ##EQU2## R is by definition real and symmetrical, so that diagonalization is always possible. In addition, it is a property of the eigenvalues λi that they can only assume the values of 0 and 1. The degeneracy of the eigenvalue 0 is determined by the dimension of the measured quantity while that of the eigenvalue 1 is determined by the number of redundant sensors. For the decomposition of R according to equation 4, this means that, in the matrix V, only the rows with the eigenvalues 1 contribute to R. Let m be the dimension of the quantity to be measured and n be the number of sensors, then the dimension of the matrix V is (n-m)�m, and the (n-m) rows of V can be constructed from an orthonormalized set of eigenvectors of R with the eigenvalue 1.
The matrix V has the following properties
The mapping
p=Vs (6)
defines, for a measured vector s, a parity vector p that contains all the information regarding the failure state of the sensor value.
In particular,
rT r=pT p (7)
that is, the length of the residue vector r is equal to the length of the parity vector p and serves as a measure of the consistency of the sensor combination containing all sensors.
A conclusion can be drawn from the direction of p as to which sensors contribute how much to the overall failure. If, for example, a single failure is present in sensor i, then the parity vector determined according to equation 6 lies wholly in the direction defined by the ith column of V. In the event of a double failure (i.e., in the sensors i and j), the resulting parity vector lies in the plane spanned by the ith and jth columns of V. The column vectors of the matrix V thus define characteristic subspaces containing the resulting parity vector for particular failure combinations. The assignment of subspaces of the parity space to failure combinations can be continued with an increasing number of sensors affected by failures for as long as the number of associated column vectors does not yet span the entire parity space. In the case of n sensors and an m-dimensional measured quantity, the dimension of the parity space is (n-m) and the matrix V consists of n characteristic column vectors. Only (n-m) column vectors are required to span the parity space fully (i.e., it is possible to isolate failures in up to (n-m-1) sensors).
In order to test the hypothesis that failures are present in a particular combination k of sensors, one of the projections
pk =Ck p
ok =Ok p (8)
with the property
ok T ok +pk T pk =pT p (9)
is formed, the rows of the transformation matrix Ck being formed by orthonormalization of the column vectors of V involved in the combination k. The corresponding transformation Ok projects onto the respective orthogonal subspace. The relationship of equation 9 can be used to determine only the projection onto the subspace with smaller dimensionality. As a result, the processing cost is reduced.
The following consistency criteria are satisfied:
The quantities
ek =pk T pk
δk =pT p-pk T pk (10)
are a measure of which portion of the observed inconsistency is due to the sensors involved in the combination k, or still remains if these sensors are omitted.
The total number K of sensor combinations whose failures can, in principle, be isolated is given by ##EQU3## The summand in each case describes the number of combinations (f of n) associated with a failure level f. The summation runs from the failure-free case (f=0) to the minimum required residual redundance (f=n-m-1). For each of these sensor failure combinations, the consistency of the remaining sensors can be determined according to equation 8, and, by comparison with a threshold value dependent on the failure level, a decision can be made as to whether the sensor combination remaining in each case affords acceptable consistency. In particular, it is also possible to sort the sensor combination at each failure level in order of increasing inconsistency, and at each failure level to determine the combination with the best consistency. An important property of the parity vector, which is used in a practical embodiment of the method, is that the relative magnitudes of the inconsistencies for the various sensor combinations are determined solely by the orientation of the parity vector in the parity space. The absolute magnitude is given by a common factor from the magnitude of the parity vector. The latter does not, however, have any influence on the order of the sensor combinations sorted according to inconsistencies.
Under particular failure conditions it is possible for a plurality of different sensor combinations to give an acceptable consistency for one failure level or for the best consistency not to be determined unambiguously, in such a way that two different sensor combinations provide consistency values which are very close to the maximum. In the geometrical interpretation of the parity space, this case corresponds to the situation that the parity vector determined from the measured vector lies at the intersection of two (or more) characteristic subspaces. Should this occur at the maximum failure level, then there is a singularity, and unambiguous failure isolation only on the basis of the currently measured sensor values is not possible. An isolation decision may then possibly be made using the data of earlier processing cycles, for example such that an earlier, unambiguously made isolation decision is retained, if this also delivers an acceptable consistency for the current singularity case. Otherwise, additionally available status information regarding the individual sensors is employed to resolve singularities.
Threshold Value Determination:
In the establishment of detection thresholds as acceptance criteria for the inconsistencies of the remaining sensor combinations at the various failure levels ("threshold values"), account must be taken of the fact that even failure-free sensors do not deliver absolutely consistent measured data, but they are affected by some inaccuracies. The inaccuracies of the failure-free sensors establish a lower limit for the threshold values to be selected, it also being possible to take into account a safety factor to avoid false alarms. The safety factor is determined by the statistical distribution of the inaccuracies of failure-free sensors and the required maximum false alarm rate.
An upper limit for the threshold values to be selected is given by the external accuracy requirements of the application. Such requirements establish which failures in the measured quantity to be determined can still be accepted or at what rate missed detection is permissible.
A prerequisite of a technically meaningful application is that the inaccuracies of the failure-free sensors permit a sufficiently accurate determination of the measured quantity. That is, the upper limit of the threshold values must lie considerably above the abovementioned lower limit.
If an independent, statistical normal distribution (with variance 1, to which the threshold values are then related) is in each case assumed for the inaccuracies of the failure-free sensors, then a Chi-square distribution with degree of freedom v=(n-m) results from equation 7 for the statistical density distribution of the resulting length of the parity vector. ##EQU4## This density distribution is represented in FIG. 1 for various degrees of freedom. In the case of failure-free sensors, this corresponds to the statistical distribution of the remaining inconsistencies δ.sub.χ at the various failure levels. For each degree of freedom they are respectively equal to the degree of freedom. The lower limits for the threshold values Smin for a predetermined, maximum permissible false alarm rate Pf are determined by ##EQU5## and the upper limits for the threshold values Smax can, with a maximum permissible failure Δxi of the ith component of the measured quantity to be determined, be estimated as ##EQU6## Where Hij are the elements of the least squares transformation matrix. The graph of FIG. 2 gives the relationship between selected threshold value (in units of σ2 of the sensor inaccuracy) and the resulting false alarm probability.
Under nominal conditions (i.e., if the sensor inaccuracy of the failure-free sensors has the assumed distribution), then the threshold values determined in this way affect the desired false alarm rate and failure limits for the measured quantity. However, under circumstances in which (temporarily) all of the sensors exhibit larger inaccuracies than assumed, undesired failure detections can occur. To avoid this, the threshold values can be dynamically matched to the lowest inconsistency of the highest failure level (i.e., to the inconsistency of the best sensor combination) with the minimum number of redundant sensors. Instead of the above-described threshold values Snom, threshold values of the form
Sv =max[Sv nom,a�min[δk ]](15)
are then selected, where a is chosen as a function of the failure level, or of the degree of freedom, for example such that
The effect of selection of the threshold values is that, even with unexpectedly high inaccuracy of all sensors, the method accepts the best sensor combination, at the latest, at the maximum failure level. Even failures at the lower failure levels are only detected when individual sensors are actually significantly less accurate.
It is not generally required to evaluate respectively all sensor combinations or sensor failure combinations to carry out the failure detection and isolation method. Rather, the method schematically represented in the flow chart of FIG. 3 can be employed. In this, the parity vector is first determined (box 1) and the consistency of the overall sensor combination calculated therefrom.
Whether the consistency of the overall sensor combination is acceptable is detected (box 2) by comparison with a threshold value which is selected specifically for the failure level f (here f=0). If acceptable, then all sensors are sufficiently failure-free and can be employed to determine the measured quantity (box 3). The method (for the current processing cycle) is then terminated. Otherwise, the sensor combinations of the failure level 1, which result from omission of one sensor in each case, are first evaluated (box 6), and the best sensor combination at this failure level is determined. Should this best sensor combination be acceptable (i.e., the remaining inconsistency lies below a threshold value (dependent on the failure level) (box 5)), then the isolation decision can be terminated with the best sensor combination at this failure level (box 10).
Otherwise, a test is carried out as to whether the maximum failure level has already been reached (box 5), and, if this is not the case, such method is continued for the next higher failure level (box 4). If the maximum failure level is reached without sufficient consistency determined in the remaining sensors at the maximum failure level, it is assumed that too many sensors are faulty. The best sensor combination at the maximum failure level is isolated as an "emergency solution". This case can only occur if the threshold values of the individual failure level are rigidly predetermined and are not dynamically matched.
For applications in which the geometry of the sensor system, and therefore also the geometry of the characteristic subspaces in the parity space, do not change at all or only slowly compared to the required processing frequency, a method in accordance with FIG. 4 can be selected to increase the efficiency further.
After the parity vector has been determined from the sensor values (box 1), the norm of the parity vector is determined and the parity vector is suitably normalized (box 2). A normalization particularly suitable for these purposes consists of normalizing the component with maximum magnitude to the value +1 by multiplication of all components by a factor. The index of the maximum component serves as a first element in the table key. The remaining portion of the table key is then obtained from the remaining components of the parity vector by quantizing the respective value range [-1, +1] into q equal sections. A table formed in this way then has, in the case of a d-dimensional parity space and a quantization of the components into q sections,
entries, which respectively code for one direction of the parity vector. This number gives an upper limit, which can be further reduced by exploiting possible application-specific symmetries in the parity space.
After the table key has been determined from the components of the parity vector (box 3), isolation information stored under this key is called up (box 4). At each table key (direction of the parity vector), the f respective best sensor combinations are provided in order of increasing inconsistency for each failure level f.
For the detection and isolation decision (box 5), only these respective best sensor combinations are then evaluated, by projection of the parity vector onto the associated subspaces, at each failure level. In this case, the sequence of the above-described stepped method can then again be used.
The sensor combination to be used is then selected independent of the method used to establish the consistency of the sensor combinations. Each sensor combination has its own least squares transformation matrix Hi, in which the sensors to be omitted are no longer taken into account, and the value of the quantity to be measured is given from the measured vector according to equation 2.
Four thermometers:
In this example, the application for a particularly simple case is demonstrated. In it redundant sensors are used for measuring a scalar (1-dimensional) measured quantity. In the example, 4 sensors were chosen, so that it is even possible to isolate simultaneously occurring double failures and, on the other hand, the parity space, which, in this case, is three-dimensional, still gives clear ideas regarding the geometry in the parity space. Instead of the thermometers, mentioned here, for measuring temperature, it is equally possible to consider any other scalar measured quantities/sensors. The relationship between the temperature and the measured value Ti is ##EQU7## The number of possible, isolatable failure combinations is K-11, and the corresponding combinations, with the associated projection matrices, are given in the following table. A projection onto the subspace of smaller dimension is chosen in each case.
TABLE 1______________________________________Projection matrices for the characteristicsubspaces of the 4-thermometer example.Number offaulty Faultysensors sensor(s) Projection matrices______________________________________1 1 ##STR1##1 2 ##STR2##1 3 ##STR3##1 4 ##STR4##2 1,2 ##STR5##2 1,3 ##STR6##2 1,4 ##STR7##2 2,3 ##STR8##2 2,4 ##STR9##2 3,4 ##STR10##______________________________________
FIG. 5 illustrates the geometrical conditions in the three-dimensional parity space for the preceding example including four thermometers. The four characteristic directions for individual failures lie along the space diagonals (regions A) defined by the four thermometers T1 to T4. Six planes in all are spanned by the four directions, and the planes correspond to the double failures (regions B), the width of the indicated "bulge" specifying the magnitude of the permissible establishable inaccuracies of failure-free sensors. The intersections of the planes define the singularity regions in which unambiguous double failure isolation is not possible (regions C). If the direction of the parity vector lies in the remaining regions of the represented sphere (regions D), then there exists a failure in more than two thermometers, which can no longer be isolated. The width of the regions depends on the inaccuracy assumed for failure-free sensors. In the representation of FIG. 5 only a typical region is represented, by bold interrupted bordering, for each region.
Position determination by measuring the pseudodistance to navigation satellites:
In this case, position determination from measured "pseudodistances" is considered. The measurement equation is of the form (after conventional linearization by a known approximated value for the position), in the case of n observed satellites ##EQU8## The components si of the measured vector characterize the measured pseudodistances to the individual satellites. x, y, z and δt characterize the components of the positional correction, or the failure in the receiver clock. The first three elements of each row of the measured matrix are the direction cosines of the connecting line between the satellite and the approximated position. Since, in this case, the measured matrix A changes as a function of the respective satellite constellation, further procedures must be dynamically carried out for failure detection and isolation, i.e., for calculation of the parity transformation V. In this case, however, it is substantially possible to resort to quantities already determined for the position determination.
In any case, the transformation matrix
is determined, from which the residue matrix R can be determined, by
An orthonormal set of eigenvectors of R with eigenvalue 1 can be determined by means of standard numerical methods. The eigenvectors, as row vectors, respectively form the rows of the matrix V. The parity vector determined by
p=V s
is then projected onto the characteristic subspaces, determined by the permissible satellite combinations, and an optimally consistent satellite combination is determined. When determining the permissible satellite combinations, care should be taken to consider only such combinations with a sufficient DOP value.
Because of the changing satellite constellation, there is no possibility of an off-line precalculation of a decision table, in which an isolation decision for all directions of the parity vector is stored. However, such a calculation can be carried out by a background task, since the satellite constellation only changes slowly.
The improvements which can be achieved with this method are:
Failure isolation takes place without threshold values, which is to say that it can take place without "a priori" assumptions regarding the actual noise of the failure-free sensors.
During isolation of the failure, apparent singularities are avoided and actual singularities are detected as such.
In contrast to existing parity methods, the processing cost needed in real time for failure detection and isolation is in principle determined only by the dimension of the parity space, and is independent of the number of possible sensor combinations. Thus, for example, the 163 possible combinations of 8 uniaxial accelerometers, arranged with nonparallel axes, can be isolated with the same cost as the 11 possible combinations of 4 biaxial gyroscopes arranged with nonparallel axes.
In contrast to existing "maximum likelihood" methods, it is in addition always possible, within the bounds of intrinsic limits, to detect and isolate simultaneously occurring multiple failures correctly. While this invention has been described with reference to its presently-preferred embodiment, it is not limited thereto. Rather, the present invention is limited only insofar as it is defined by the following set of patent claims and includes within its scope all equivalents thereof.
While this invention has been described with reference to its presently-preferred embodiment, it is not limited thereto. Rather, the present invention is limited only insofar as it is defined by the following set of patent claims and includes within its scope all equivalents thereof.
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Let It All Hang Out, All Together: World-Record Skinny-Dip Planned Next Week
If you were ever inclined to be a part of a world-historical event involving thousands of naked people, well hell, this is your week.
July 7 to 14 happens to be Nude Recreation Week, that yearly stretch of the calendar where we celebrate all things dropsical and low-hanging. This time up, the week's big finish is an attempt at the world record for the most people simultaneously in the water sans suit.
Of course, there's a South Florida connection here.
First, it's not what you might think. Actually, scratch that; it is exactly what you might think -- a bunch of people getting down to what God gave them, then flopping those wonderful privates in the water.
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But it's not like one big skin fling at a single organized location. The attempt is spread out across the country.
This is actually the third shot at setting the record. The last attempt -- like this year's, the deal is being stage-managed by the American Association for Nude Recreation and the Naturist Society -- was in 2010. Then, 14,110 people dipped their parts into the ocean without the aid of any clothing. In 2009, the event pulled in 13,648 participants.
Next week's setup is the same deal. Coordinators have arranged events at "clubs, beaches, rivers, lakes, rented pools, and back yards" all set to go at the same time next Saturday.
The locations are spread out all over the country. Florida -- this is no surprise -- is hosting ten events for the Big Dip. Down here in SoFla, you can stop by Sunsport Gardens in Loxahatchee to get in on the action or Sanibel Naturalists in Fort Myers. The full list of cleared naked locations is here.
You have to be at least 18 to participate, and $10.95 gets your a T-shirt that... you probably won't have much need for, if this is your cup of tea.
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MESA, Ariz. -- When it comes to Trever Miller, the Chicago Cubs may have found more than a left-handed reliever for the late innings.
Spring training is barely two weeks old and already the veteran has emerged as a leader among a group of players he is just getting to know.
Miller, who will turn 39 in May, has provided inspiration for some of the younger pitchers in camp. Fellow newcomer Andy Sonnanstine remarked that Miller's obvious fitness level means that nobody has excuses for not being in great shape.
"[Sonnanstine] gave me a new title this year," Miller said. "He said, 'You're a young kid's worst nightmare because you are in impeccable shape, you can run for days, you work really hard in the weight room.' So they have no excuses."
Regardless of his commitment to fitness, his lasting impression remains to be seen. The Cubs do need some late innings to be filled from left-handers in the wake of Sean Marshall's departure, but Miller will have to earn his spot as a non-roster invitee to camp.
"He's doing well," manager Dale Sveum said. "He's the ultimate professional. He came in in phenomenal shape and he's throwing the ball well. It's just one of those things where it all comes down to what happens against that other team with all this competition that is going on in camp."
Listening to Miller, he seems to relish the camp battle despite the fact that his main competition for lefty bullpen spots includes 26-year-old James Russell, 27-year-old John Gaub and 27-year-old Scott Maine.
Those guys are barely older than the players Miller coaches in the offseason near his Florida home. He provides instruction to players from youth baseball all the way through the college level.
"It's very therapeutic and it's a way for me to give back," Miller said. "We can give back financially obviously; we make a lot of money. But I like to give back to the kids all the knowledge I have gained by playing this game for so long. I think it's a travesty if you don't."
To Miller, not passing along the keys to the game is the real travesty, not something like missing out on a World Series title by just a few months. After 2 ½ years in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, Miller was traded last July to the Toronto Blue Jays.
While the Cardinals went on to World Series success, Miller's path was rocky. He was released by the Blue Jays less than a month after the trade and landed with the Boston Red Sox only to be around in the midst of their collapse.
Miller wasn't around the Red Sox long enough and hadn't established the relationships necessary to make a difference on clubhouse morale with Boston. With the Cubs, though, he can see himself assuming a role of leadership.
"I'm more 'lead by example,'" he said. "If a guy is doing something I don't like, quietly tell him. If he's doing something I love, I'll praise him out loud in front of everybody. That's how it should be done. But I like to come in and do my work."
If things don't work out this spring Miller could be back to baseball instruction sooner than expected. As rewarding as it is, though, at least one more season in the major leagues is his goal.
To get there he will probably have to beat out two pitchers a decade younger. Yet he won't stress about his competition in his own clubhouse, saving those feelings for when the season starts.
"I come in and do what I do; I get myself ready to compete for a championship season wherever I am," Miller said. "I never stop training. I always keep in shape and I always keep my eye on the prize which is winning a World Series wherever I am. So if I come in and do my thing and have confidence -- that I should be able to make this team and help the Cubs attain the goal of winning a World Series.
"If you start looking backward or try to measure things out then you're not taking care of your own business and the results aren't at the plate where they need to be."
Spoken like a guy who could teach youngsters a thing or two about the game of baseball.


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OSHA News Release - (Archived) Table of Contents
OSHA News Release – Region 5
U.S. Department of Labor
Region 5 News Release: V-294
November 15, 2000
Contact: William Murphy
Phone: (513) 841-4132
OSHA Credits Cooperative MASTER Program
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced today that the number of injuries and illnesses at the Paul Brown Stadium (Cincinnati Bengals) construction project is significantly below the national average for such projects, and area workplace safety experts are crediting a voluntary construction safety program.
The Cincinnati Area Office of the U.S. Department of Labor - OSHA developed a voluntary cooperative partnership with the contractors and Hamilton County to enhance overall job site safety at the Paul Brown Stadium. The partnership, known as "Mobilized Alliance for Safety, Teamwork, Education and Results (MASTER) was designed to increase employee involvement, joint labor and management job site safety oversight, teamwork and education of construction workers on construction sites.
The lost workday injury and illness rate for the stadium project is 0.95 as compared to the national rate of 4.0 for the construction industry. The national rate is based on the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics survey for 1998, which is the most recent data.
Hamilton County has indicated that over four million dollars has been saved through reduced worker's compensation and general liability costs due to the low injury and illness rate.
The MASTER project concept, with an emphasis on the utilization of fall protection, was implemented at the start of the stadium project and has remained in place throughout all phases of the project. A labor and management safety team provided continuous oversight and monitoring of site safety performance. The MASTER project at the Paul Brown Stadium is unique because it includes Hamilton County as well as Turner/Barton, Malow/DAG Joint Venture and contractor and employee representatives.
"Falls, electrocutions and accidents in which employees are struck by or caught in various materials account for the majority of fatalities and serious injuries at construction sites", Michael G. Connors, Regional OSHA Administrator, Chicago, said. "One of OSHA's goals, as outlined in the agency's strategic plan, is to reduce fatalities by 15% in the construction industry. The MASTER project demonstrates OSHA's commitment to work cooperatively with employers and employees who are pro-actively making an attempt to reduce injuries and fatalities at their work sites.
William M. Murphy, Area Director of the Cincinnati area office stated, "The MASTER project concept has been very successful in reducing injuries and illnesses on construction sites". Murphy noted that employee exposure to fall hazards accounts for approximately one-third of all fatalities in the construction industry and OSHA has a special emphasis on fall hazards. The MASTER project includes special provisions to address fall hazards and was highly successful at the Paul Brown Stadium in reducing all injuries including those related to fall hazards.
The MASTER project program is being tested at construction sites in the Cincinnati area, including the Great American Ball Park Stadium (Cincinnati Reds) and OSHA plans to expand the program in 2001 to include all of Ohio.
The information in this news release will be made available to sensory-impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (312) 353-6976; TDD Message Referral Phone: 1-800-800-4571.
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"Yes sir, I committed to USF last night said Jozwiak. "I'm so excited. I'm jacked up and can't wait to get there."
Jozwiak, listed at 6-foot-4 and 290 pounds, is being recruited as an interior lineman and had eight offers including ones from Boston College, West Virginia, Louisville, Duke, Iowa State, and Syracuse.
"I went to USF in the beginning of the summer, worked out with coach Shankweiler and met Coach Holtz, and just got a feeling that something big is fixing to happen, and I want to be part of it."
"This summer I visited everywhere, I went to Florida, West Virginia, South Carolina, Clemson, and others," said Jozwiak. "I saw a lot of places and had options available, but USF, I just love it down there, and there's something about it that just makes me want to be there."
"I just love the coaching staff, Coach Holtz is probably one of the greatest guys that I've ever met, and their coaching staff, Coach Shankweiler is an awesome guy and he knows his stuff about the game. The tight end coach Larry Scott, is another great guy and knows the game. The USF facilities are great, I love the weight room, and they're just putting in new practices fields, and a new dining facility and they play in Raymond James Stadium, which is one of the best playing fields in college."
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SpiceJet set to make China debut
The airline would be operating the flight between Delhi and Guangzhou with a 189-seater Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft.
New Delhi: Expanding its international network, no-frill carrier SpiceJet is set to make its debut in the Chinese sky with the launch of its service from Delhi to southern China's Guangzhou city from February. SpiceJet would fly on Guangzhou-Delhi route four days a week and commercial flights on this route would commence from February 8, an airline spokesperson said, adding booking of tickets for the flights on the route are open.
The airline would be operating the flight between Delhi and Guangzhou with a 189-seater Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft. "Guangzhou makes our debut in the Chinese sky. We are offering the air connectivity at very affordable fare to the passengers from India and China. The service also reiterates growing economic interest between two of the world's largest economies," said Neil Mills, SpiceJet's Chief Executive Officer at the inaugural function held at Guangzhou on Tuesday.
Guangzhou is South China's centre of education, culture and communication and is one of the three biggest exhibition cities of that country. The city is leading manufacturing and economic region of China and therefore one of the most important centers of foreign commerce, the statement said.


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In the last 10 months, Roman Quinn ruptured his right Achilles tendon; changed positions; became the Phillies' best outfield prospect; and earned an assignment as the team's top-ticket player in the showcase Arizona Fall League.
The Phillies' minor-league system has had few success stories this season, a required caveat when analyzing it on a micro level. Quinn, a 21-year-old prospect, is one whose development did not regress.
"For me, he's going to be an impact player," said Joe Jordan, the Phillies' director of player development. "I still believe that."
The Phillies will send seven players to Arizona for more seasoning; only Quinn is considered a prospect. The next closest is righthanded reliever Colton Murray, a 13th-round pick who has a 2.30 ERA at double-A Reading with 57 strikeouts and 20 walks in 542/3 innings. The other players are catcher Logan Moore; pitchers Nefi Ogando, Ryan O'Sullivan, and Ethan Stewart; and a player to be named.