The two-wheeled bot is equipped with a low-resolution monochrome camera that feeds images back to the Operator Control Unit, and since it weighs just a single pound and fits in most cargo pockets, the whole platoon could carry their own in order to really scope out the next bend.
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These allow the operator greater control over quality by cutting down the number of router hops the packets have to pass through and managing traffic flows to avoid congestion.
Also in the quarter, the Hurricane Deep well was lost when its operator Chevron lost control of the well, and it had to be plugged and abandoned with attendant write-downs.
Of course, Doug is ignoring that while drilling, the operator temporarily lost control of the well and a flare occurred that lasted over two hours, a pretty good sign that a lot of gas was flowing up the well.
Assistant Chief Constable James Vaughan told the inquest the officers involved had behaved correctly, but the control room operator had failed to carry out a full eight-point risk assessment.
Shareholders in MegaFon, Russia's second-biggest mobile-phone operator, agreed to a management reshuffle that gives control of the company to Alisher Usmanov, one of Russia's business oligarchs, and paves the way for an IPO in London.
The second glaring item of the many problems that the operator has faced was the failure of the newly designed remote control guns that Schlumberger insisted would successfully perforate the casing.
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He also looked at buying into Uunet, a fast-growing Internet backbone operator that would have brought rich returns, but the owners wanted to retain control.
As it turns out, the crux of the invention was head-slappingly simple: though a patent-pending idea Smith calls "get out of the way control, " the unit measures the load on each joint as its operator moves about, and figures out the direction it needs to move in 3-D space to literally move out of the way.
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In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a "ground control station, " or GCS. There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.
GE, which supplies the National Grid operator in the U.K., would dearly love to outfit the U.S. network with control software and thousands of sensors to report voltage and other information on a second-by-second basis.
Sitting in the control tower on a recent weekday, Ron Anderson, the dispatcher, and Pete Falotico, the tower operator, pointed to a screen that showed blinking, malfunctioning symbols indicating where damaged signals in the station and the river tunnels were slowly sputtering back to life a few more after each overnight shift of repair work.
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