Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product is provided, for example, for generating heading information. The method comprises receiving a coordinate information for a gantry. The method further comprises receiving an identification information for a link associated with the gantry. Additionally, the method comprises extracting information related to one or more shape points associated with the link based on the identification information. Further, the method comprises matching the coordinate information for the gantry with at least two consecutive shape points from the one or more shape points, wherein the at least two consecutive shape points are closest from the gantry. Also, the method comprises calculating, by a processor, a heading value for the gantry based on the matching. The heading value for the gantry may be used to identify direction information for the gantry, which may further be used for updates.

Abstract: A steering angle calculating circuit includes a first neutral point calculating circuit, a second neutral point calculating circuit, and an absolute angle calculating circuit. The first neutral point calculating circuit calculates a motor neutral point (?m01), based on a steering angle detected by a steering sensor and a rotation angle of a motor detected by the relative angle sensor, when a drive source for driving a vehicle is started. The second neutral point calculating circuit calculates a motor neutral point when the steering angle detected by the steering sensor falls within a predetermined angle range in which a specific stroke with respect to the steering angle is constant. After the motor neutral point is calculated by the second neutral point calculating circuit, the absolute angle calculating circuit calculates the steering angle as an absolute angle, using the motor neutral point calculated by the second neutral point calculating circuit.

Abstract: A system includes a processor. The system includes a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to select one of a first message from a first input device or a second message from a second input device based on one of user priority, device priority, or temporal priority. The instructions include instructions to actuate a vehicle based on the selected first or second message.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a sensor fusion system for use in an autonomous vehicle. The sensor fusion system has a radar detection unit with a metastructure antenna to direct a beamform in a field-of-view (“FoV”) of the vehicle, an analysis module to receive information about a detected object and determine control actions for the radar detection unit and the metastructure antenna based on the received information and on environmental information, and an autonomous control unit to control actions of the vehicle based on the received information and the environmental information.

Abstract: Aspects provide a roadway management device having a processor configured to collect roadway attribute data associated with accidents within accident data and assign positive correlation values to roadway attributes that match the accident data. Aspects cluster subsets of the accidents that share common values of subset of the roadway attributes assigned positive correlation values; select a corrective action to obviate a one of the clustered roadway attributes; determine whether implementation of the selected corrective action has reduced occurrences of accidents matching common accident data of the clustered accidents on a relevant roadway; and increase a selection weighting value of the selected corrective action in response to determining that implementation has reduced accident occurrences. The selection weighting value is used to bias selection for implementation to obviate a roadway attributes with respect to other clustered accidents.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method that comprises detecting that a rate of decrease in fuel quantity for an aircraft exceeds a previously-determined baseline rate of decrease in fuel quantity for the aircraft by a threshold rate during a corresponding segment of flight of the aircraft. The method also comprises determining that a fuel jettison setting for the aircraft is enabled in response to the detected increase in the rate of decrease in fuel quantity. The method further comprises determining that an angle of one or more flaps of the aircraft satisfies a threshold angle. The method additionally comprises generating an alert indicating possible fuel contamination of the one or more flaps due to jettisoned fuel.

Abstract: The invention is a control apparatus for a personal vehicle, in particular for wheelchair (10), the control apparatus comprising: a first motion sensing unit (11) adapted for being mounted on a body part and for determining orientation with respect to an external frame of reference, a second motion sensing unit (12) adapted for being mounted on the personal vehicle and for determining orientation with respect to the same external frame of reference, and a processing unit (13) adapted for outputting an inertial control signal corresponding to a relative orientation of the first motion sensing unit (11) and of the second motion sensing unit (12) determined on the basis of a first orientation supplied by the first motion sensing unit (11) and of a second orientation supplied by the second motion sensing unit (12). The invention is furthermore a personal vehicle provided with the control apparatus, and a control method therefore.

Abstract: In order to be able to determine with precision the location of the stagnation point at different zones along the leading edge of an aerodynamic profile, a system comprises rows of pressure sensors distributed on either side of the leading edge and forming, virtually, patterns that are spaced apart from one another in the form of simple polygonal lines, and a computer connected to the pressure sensors. The computer determines, along each of the patterns, a respective stagnation point position that is defined by a curved abscissa for which a pressure interpolated on the basis of pressure measurements provided by the pressure sensors of the corresponding row is at a maximum, and by an altitude evaluated on the basis of respective altitude data from the pressure sensors of the corresponding row.

Abstract: A system for reconstructing vehicle itinerary include a processor and a memory storing instructions, implemented by the processor, to cluster historical trip records into a plurality of clusters, each of the plurality of clusters including a set of historical trip records that describe events occurring within a predetermined time range at one location; identify a sequence of clusters that includes a cluster at each location; and estimate an itinerary for a vehicle based on the sequence of clusters and constraint data describing physical constraints, the itinerary for the vehicle describing a sequence of arrival and departure times at a sequence of locations for the vehicle.

Abstract: A method includes controlling an electrified vehicle by automatically commanding an output torque from an electric machine if the electrified vehicle is in park and an engine start or stop request has been received. A road grade may be used to determine whether or not to command the output torque.

Abstract: A method for operating an autonomous ground vehicle may include: via one or more processors, determining an occupation state of the autonomous ground vehicle; if the occupation state is unoccupied, autonomously initiating a testing routine, the testing routine comprising: determining a test location, determining a safety parameter of the test location; if the safety parameter fulfils a safety criterion, testing an autonomous driving system of the autonomous ground vehicle in the test location.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus of an embodiment includes a surrounding situation recognition unit which recognizes a situation of surroundings of a vehicle, a branch point recognition unit which recognizes a branch point present in a traveling direction of the vehicle on the basis of the recognition result of the surrounding situation recognition unit, a main lane recognition unit which recognizes a main lane connected to the branch point, and a driving control unit which controls one or both of the steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and causes the vehicle to travel in the direction of the main lane recognized by the main lane recognition unit at the branch point.

Abstract: An object detection device detects an object moving in the area surrounding an own object. The object detection device includes: an information obtainment unit which obtains an object speed value that is at least one of a speed and an acceleration of the object in a lateral direction which is orthogonal to a predetermined direction of the area surrounding the own object; and an upper limit setting unit which sets an upper limit of the object speed value on the basis of angle information that is the relationship indicating an angle of a moving direction of the object with respect to the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A computing system that analyzes the network effects of avoidance areas on autonomous vehicle routing is described herein. The computing system includes a data store that comprises a set of avoidance areas through which the autonomous vehicle is prohibited from being routed. A routing system generates an initial route from a source location to a target location irrespective of avoidance areas included on the initial route. When a number of avoidance areas on the initial route exceed a predetermined threshold, one or more alternative routes are generated from the source location to the target location that respectively circumvent a corresponding identified avoidance area on the initial route. Metrics are evaluated for the one or more alternative routes and a subset of avoidance areas are outputted to desirably be removed from the set of avoidance areas.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a space estimation unit that, in a case where it is recognized that a travel position of a host vehicle is inside a railroad crossing, which is a stop prohibited area, and it is recognized that a side road vehicle intends to enter in front of the host vehicle, on the assumption that the side road vehicle has entered in front of the host vehicle, estimates whether a space enough for the host vehicle is formed between the side road vehicle and the stop prohibited area, and a vehicle controller that, if it is estimated that the space is not formed, causes the host vehicle to perform entry prevention action to prevent the side road vehicle from entering in front of the host vehicle.

Abstract: A transportation system is disclosed. The transportation system has a vehicle that is self-powered and configured to generate an air cushion on a trackless lane having a substantially flat surface. The vehicle is configured to move over the substantially flat surface on the air cushion. The transportation system also has a guidance system configured to guide the vehicle between peripheries of the trackless lane.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a module for robot navigation, an address marker and an associated robot. The module divides a whole workspace area for robot traveling into a plurality of module areas, and each module area is internally provided with a first magnetic piece having a polarity of an N pole or an S pole and a second magnetic piece having a polarity different from the polarity of the first magnetic piece. The first magnetic piece is a first magnetic strip, and the second magnetic piece is a second magnetic strip. The first magnetic strip is arranged in the Y-axis direction, and the second magnetic strip is arranged in the X-axis direction. A third magnetic strip and a fourth magnetic strip are further included. The four strips are in cross arrangement. The polarity of the second magnetic strip, the polarity of the third magnetic strip and the polarity of the fourth magnetic strip are the same.

Abstract: A positioning detection device includes a first obtaining circuit to obtain a satellite signal, a second obtaining circuit to obtain a detection signal of an inertial device, a third obtaining circuit to obtain a traveling state of the vehicle body including straight-traveling and turning of the vehicle body, a first calculator to calculate first positioning information in satellite navigation system to which the satellite signal is applied, a second calculator to calculate second positioning information in inertial navigation system to which the detection signal is applied, a third calculator to calculate third positioning information in Kalman filter to which the first positioning information and the second positioning information are applied, and an output circuit to output the third positioning information when the third obtaining circuit obtains the straight-traveling and to output the first positioning information and/or the second positioning information when the third obtaining circuit obtains the tur

Abstract: Various aspects of a system and method to provide a unified connected network are disclosed herein. The system comprises a server communicatively coupled to an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicle and a first set of electronic devices. Upon detection of an event, the server receives a first set of data from the ECU and/or a second set of data from the first set of electronic devices associated with a plurality of services. The server extracts information from the received first set and/or the second set of data, based on analysis of the received first set and/or the second set of data. The server further determines one or more responses that correspond to the detected event, based on the extracted information. The server further transmits the determined one or more responses to a second set of electronic devices associated with the plurality of services.

Abstract: An apparatus for reducing vibrations of an electronic steering apparatus includes a vibration filter unit which extracts a steering vibration signal that is a radio frequency component of a torque signal transmitted from a torque sensor, a signal generation unit which generates a reference signal based on one of a wheel speed and a wheel vibration number transmitted from a sensor mounted in a vehicle, an adaptive filter which receives the reference signal generated by the signal generation unit and generates a current control signal, a motor which receives the current control signal, and an error unit which stores a steering vibration component value generated based on the steering vibration signal and the current control signal applied to the motor. Here, the steering vibration component value stored in the error unit is provided as feedback to the adaptive filter to update the adaptive filter with a coefficient.