Proof of Concept Center - A Promising Tool for Innovative Development at Entrepreneurial Universities

The article reviews the USA experience in creating the new element of national innovative infrastructure for Russia - the Proof of Concept Center (POOC). The article uses the term POCC as an abbreviation; it considers the POCC functions, its role in the innovative chain, and its difference from Centers for Technology Transfer. Evidently, the key feature of POCC is the availability of its own foundation for financing innovative projects. The article analyzes the major sources for these foundations and suggests distinguishing the two types of POCC in terms of financing. It presents examples of POCC of the USA of varied scale and which were founded at different times. It highlights the correlation between the establishment of POCC and the increasing number of innovative companies. The work also presents information about the structure analogous to the first type of POCC in Russia, and considers the potential for creating university-based POCC of the second type. The article also presents information regarding the high potential and the efficiency of POCC as a unit of innovative infrastructure

Mathematical model of a record type device for valued components recovery from end process gases of uranium hexafluoride production

Mathematical model of the device for valued components recovery from end gases of sublimate production including hydrodynamics, thermodynamics and kinetics of interaction process of solid and gaseous phases realized in the package MATLAB has been presented. Static and dynamic characteristics of the device as a control object necessary for control algorithm synthesis are obtained and analyze

Automated Intelligent Monitoring and the Controlling Software System for Solar Panels

The inspection of the solar panels on a periodic basis is important to improve longevity and ensure performance of the solar system. To get the most solar potential of the photovoltaic (PV) system is possible through an intelligent monitoring & controlling system. The monitoring & controlling system has rapidly increased its popularity because of its user-friendly graphical interface for data acquisition, monitoring, controlling and measurements. In order to monitor the performance of the system especially for renewable energy source application such as solar photovoltaic (PV), data-acquisition systems had been used to collect all the data regarding the installed system. In this paper the development of a smart automated monitoring & controlling system for the solar panel is described, the core idea is based on IoT (the Internet of Things). The measurements of data are made using sensors, block management data acquisition modules, and a software system. Then, all the real-time data collection of the electrical output parameters of the PV plant such as voltage, current and generated electricity is displayed and stored in the block management. The proposed system is smart enough to make suggestions if the panel is not working properly, to display errors, to remind about maintenance of the system through email or SMS, and to rotate panels according to a sun position using the Ephemeral table that stored in the system. The advantages of the system are the performance of the solar panel system which can be monitored and analyzed

Pseudo-linear correction as a means of improving the quality of control systems

The work shows the possibility to improve the quality of automatic control systems by applying the controller which includes a pseudo-linear correcting device with phase advance, one proportional and one differential element and an integrating link based on the Clegg integrator. The conducted research shows that such approach to constructing automatic control systems enables to improve significantly the performance indices for transient processes when controlling objects whose parameters change their values over time. The work concludes that the use of such systems is possible and appropriate for non-stationary objects when changing their parameters in quite a wide range

The research of the maximum wind speed in Tomsk and calculations of dynamic load on antenna systems

The work is concerned with calculations and analysis of the maximum wind speed in Tomsk city. The data for analysis were taken from the TOR-station located in the north-eastern part of the city. The TOR-station sensors to measure a speed and a direction of wind are installed on the 10-meter meteorological mast. Wind is measured by M-63, which uses the standard approach and the program with one-minute averaging for wind gusts recording as well. According to the measured results in the research performed, the estimation of the dynamic and wind load on different types of antenna systems was performed. The work shows the calculations of wind load on ten types of antenna systems, distinguished by their different constructions and antenna areas. For implementation of calculations, we used methods developed in the Central Research and Development Institute of Building Constructions named after V.A. Kucherenko. The research results could be used for design engineering of the static antenna systems and mobile tracking systems for the distant objects