Facebook, Inc.

Chiyun Xia

William Hamlin Farr

Eric Booen

Alexandre Chong

Alexandre Yin Khet Chong

Abhishek Tiwari

Chien-Chung Chen

Pratheep Bondalapati

Tobias Gerard Tiecke

Harvard Keese Harding, Jr

Qi Tang

Yan Yan

Ferze Daligues Patawaran

Alex Chong

The disclosed system may include (1) a conductive coil, where at least a portion of the coil is oriented along a first direction and orthogonal to a second direction, (2) a magnetic field generation structure that generates a magnetic field through the coil along a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, (3) a force constant compensator that (a) receives a current command to alter a relative location of the coil and the field, and (b) adjusts the current command based on at least one physical characteristic of the system that affects a relationship between current in the coil and resulting force between the coil and the field along the second direction, and (4) a coil driver that generates, in response to the adjusted current command, a first current in the coil to generate a force between the coil and the field. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for controlling a Lorentz-force-based apparatus

The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a subassembly that includes (a) a plurality of conductive coils, where the coils are arranged into first and second rows that are aligned as adjacent layers along a first direction, and where the rows are offset along the first direction such that two portions of each of the coils are arranged along the first direction without overlapping and each of the two portions of each coil is aligned in parallel along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and (b) a body that holds the coils, (2) a structure that generates a magnetic field through the portions of the coils, where the magnetic field is directed along a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, and (3) a coil driver circuit that supplies current to at least some of the coils to move the structure relative to the subassembly, or vice-versa, along the first direction. Various other embodiments are also disclosed.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for lorentz-force-based movement

The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a subassembly including (a) a first conductive coil, where at least a portion of the first coil defines a portion of a spherical surface and is oriented along a first direction along the portion of the spherical surface, (b) a second conductive coil proximate the first coil, where at least a portion of the second coil is oriented along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction along the portion of the spherical surface, and (c) a body that holds the coils, (2) a structure that generates a magnetic field through the portion of the first and second coils along a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, and (3) a coil driver circuit that supplies current to the coils to move the structure relative to the subassembly, or vice-versa, along the first and second directions. Various other embodiments are also disclosed.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for Lorentz-force-based movement

The disclosed system may include (1) a conductive coil, where at least a portion of the coil is oriented along a first direction and orthogonal to a second direction, (2) a magnetic field generation structure that generates a magnetic field through the coil along a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, (3) a detection subsystem that determines a location of the coil relative to the field, (4) a force-to-current converter that (a) receives a force command to alter a relative location of the coil and the field, and (b) issues, in response to the force command, a current command based on the location of the coil relative to the field, and (5) a coil driver that generates, in response to the current command, current in the coil to generate a force between the coil and the field along the second direction. Various other embodiments are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for controlling a lorentz-force-based apparatus

The disclosed system may include (1) a subassembly including (a) conductive coils having portions oriented along a first direction, and (b) a body that holds the coils such that the portions are aligned along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, (2) a structure that generates a magnetic field directed through at least one coil along a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, (3) a commutation controller that (a) receives a current command indicating a total amount of current to provide to the coils, and (b) determines, based on a present location of the body along the second direction relative to the magnetic field, a portion of the total amount to supply to each coil, and (4) a coil driver for each coil, where each coil driver supplies the portion of the total amount to the corresponding coil. Various other embodiments are also disclosed.

The disclosed system may include (1) an optical element that receives an optical beam, (2) a wide field-of-view (FOV) quadrant photodetector that receives, from the optical element, first light originating from the optical beam, (3) a narrow FOV quadrant photodetector that receives, from the optical element, second light originating from the optical beam, and (4) a controller that controls an orientation of the optical element during at least a period of time based on a weighted combination of (a) output of the wide FOV quadrant photodetector in response to the first light, and (b) output of the narrow FOV quadrant photodetector in response to the second light. Various other systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for weighted combination of quadrant photodetector output for beam tracking

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for analog spatial multiplexing are disclosed. One apparatus includes a receiver, wherein the receiver includes a plurality of antennas operative to receive a plurality of wireless signals, a plurality of tunable time delays, and a plurality of frequency response equalizers, wherein a time delay of each of the tunable time delays is adjusted based on a feedback of measurements of one or more pilot tones of more than one output of the plurality of frequency response equalizers. The receiver further includes a plurality of frequency up-converters generating a plurality of frequency up-converted signals, a MIMO processor receiving the plurality of frequency up-converted signals, wherein the MIMO processor adjusts a gain and phase of the of the frequency up-converted signals based on the measurements of the pilot tones, and a plurality of frequency down-converters receiving and frequency down-converting output signals from the MIMO processor.

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