Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for providing guidance for autonomous vehicles in areas of low network connectivity, such as rural areas. According to an embodiment, a guidance system receives a request to exchange data with a vehicle within a specified radius thereof over a wireless connection (e.g., a radio frequency protocol-based connection). The data is stored by the guidance system and is indicative of navigation information within the specified radius. The guidance system transmits the stored data to the vehicle. The guidance system also receives, from the vehicle, data indicative of navigation information for a path previously passed by the vehicle.

Abstract: A virtualization system implemented within a cloud server enables the simulation of robot structure and behavior in a virtual environment. The simulated robots are controlled by clients remote from the cloud server, enabling human operators or autonomous robot control programs running on the clients to control the movement and behavior of the simulated robots within the virtual environment. Data describing interactions between robots, the virtual environment, and objects can be recorded for use in future robot design. The virtualization system can include robot templates, enabling users to quickly select and customize a robot to be simulated, and further enabling users to update and re-customize the robot in real-time during the simulation. The virtualization system can re-simulate a portion of the robot simulation when an intervention by a human operator is detected, positioning robots, people, and objects within the virtual environment based on the detected intervention.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing robot plan online adjustment. A method includes receiving an initial plan for performing a particular task with a robot having a sensor. The initial plan defines an initial path having a plurality of waypoints. Each waypoint is associated with a target position and a target velocity. The method includes generating an alternative path from the initial path. Generating an alternative path includes generating a plurality of alternative paths including performing respective modifications to one or more waypoints in the initial plan, evaluating each alternative path according to a simulated total time duration required for the robot to traverse the alternative path, and selecting an alternative path having a total time duration that is less than a total time duration of the initial plan.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for predicting and controlling robot walking. The method includes the following steps: constructing a grid map based on grid units marked with a status; establishing a dynamic detection model with a current location of a robot as a reference point based on the grid map; predicting a forward path condition of the robot based on the dynamic detection model; and controlling a walking mode of the robot based on the prediction result.

Abstract: Method and device for optimized autonomous driving, wherein a trajectory for the actuation of the vehicle is determined. A profile of the trajectory is defined by a bending line of a bending band. The bending line is preferably determined by the finite element method, in particular according to the principle of virtual shifting, and achieves an optimization goal and satisfies a boundary condition. The boundary condition is defined in accordance with a profile of a roadway for the vehicle. The optimization goal is defined by a desired driving property of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for controlling the speed of a work vehicle towing an implement that is movable between a working position, in which ground engaging tools of the implement are configured to perform a field operation, and a transport position, in which the ground engaging tools are raised relative to the ground. The method may include monitoring, with a computing device, an implement weight supported by the implement while the implement is in the transport position. The method may further include comparing, with the computing device, the implement weight to a predetermined threshold weight. Additionally, the method may include, when the implement weight differs from the predetermined threshold weight, adjusting, with the computing device, a maximum speed limit for the work vehicle.

Abstract: A collision avoidance system may validate, reject, or replace a trajectory generated to control a vehicle. The collision avoidance system may comprise a secondary perception component that may receive sensor data, receive and/or determine a corridor associated with operation of a vehicle, classify a portion of the sensor data associated with the corridor as either ground or an object, determine a position and/or velocity of at least the nearest object, determine a threshold distance associated with the vehicle, and control the vehicle based at least in part on the position and/or velocity of the nearest object and the threshold distance.

Abstract: A vehicle control method is disclosed. The vehicle control method includes: while controlling the driving of a vehicle taking control of itself, determining if there is a need to hand over the control of driving to a passenger in the vehicle; if it is determined that there is a need to hand over the control of driving to a passenger in the vehicle, selecting at least one of passengers to whom the control of driving may be handed over; determining an order of priority in handing over the control of driving by taking into consideration the at least one selected passenger's occupancy state information; handing over the control of driving to a top priority passenger according to the order of priority; and controlling the driving environment by taking into consideration the top priority passenger's occupancy state information.

Abstract: An acceleration slip regulation method includes determining a current control phase of a vehicle in an acceleration slip regulation state, determining a current road surface adhesion coefficient of the vehicle, determining, based on the current control phase and the current road surface adhesion coefficient, maximum torque allowed by a road surface, obtaining demand torque received by a drive motor of the vehicle and a wheel slip rate of the vehicle, and outputting adaptive feedforward torque for acceleration slip regulation based on the maximum torque allowed by the road surface, the demand torque, and the wheel slip rate, where the adaptive feedforward torque is used to perform the acceleration slip regulation on the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for detecting a stop request during at least partially autonomous operation of a vehicle, having the following steps of: monitoring a stop request apparatus in the interior of the vehicle; detecting activation of the stop request apparatus; and taking the detected activation of the stop request apparatus into account during autonomous operation of the vehicle by adapting the route guidance.

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for determining an estimated ambient air temperature in an environment in which a vehicle is operating. The estimated ambient air temperature may be compared to an ambient temperature sensor value. The comparison may be used to determine whether an ambient air temperature sensor of the vehicle is functioning properly or if an error notification or fault code should be triggered.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus controls a vehicle-control force of a vehicle that is switchable between traveling under normal traveling control and traveling under cruise control. The apparatus includes a first target-vehicle-control-force determination unit, a second target-vehicle-control-force determination unit, and a vehicle-control-force controlling unit. The first target-vehicle-control-force determination unit determines a target vehicle-control force of the normal traveling control on the basis of an accelerator position, and switches a control mode of the normal traveling control between a normal mode and a one-pedal mode. The second target-vehicle-control-force determination unit determines a target vehicle-control force of the cruise control, and execute override when the accelerator position is greater than a reference accelerator position in the cruise control.

Abstract: The moving robot using artificial intelligence includes: a traveling unit to move a main body; an operation unit to perform a specific operation while generating noise; a sensing unit to sense an ambient situation during traveling; and a controller to determine whether a specific activation condition is satisfied, based on situation information sensed by the sensing unit, and, when the activation condition is determined to be satisfied during traveling, perform a control action to activate a low noise mode so that the operation unit performs the specific operation with relatively reducing the noise. The control method using artificial intelligence includes: determining whether a specific activation condition is satisfied, based on situation information acquired by sensing an ambient situation during traveling; and, when the activation condition is determined to be satisfied, performing a specific operation in an activated state of a low noise mode in which noise is relatively reduced.

Abstract: An automated valet parking method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes transmitting a target position and a guide route from a parking infrastructure to a vehicle, performing autonomous driving toward the target position along the guide route; performing autonomous parking at the target position.

Abstract: A method of controlling a mower implement includes sensing a separation distance between the mower implement and an adjacent windrow with an outboard distance sensor. The sensed separation distance is then compared to a defined separation target. The computing device indicates that a course of the mower implement is on-target when the separation distance is approximately equal to the defined separation target. The computing device indicates that the course of the mower implement is drifting in a first direction when the separation distance is less than the defined separation target and greater than zero. An offset distance is sensed between the mower implement and a standing crop edge. The computing device indicates that the course of the mower implement is drifting in a second direction when both the separation distance and the offset distance are substantially equal to zero.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a parking assistance device capable of computing a parking path that is suitable for given circumstances or user's needs. A parking assistance device of the present invention is a parking assistance device for assisting in parking a vehicle in a parking space provided on one side of a road, the parking assistance device being configured to compute a first parking path for starting moving the vehicle forward from the initial position thereof, and a second parking path for starting moving the vehicle backward from the initial position thereof, select one of the first parking path or the second parking path on the basis of a preset evaluation function, and set the selected path as a parking path to be used.

Abstract: A method for controlling an automated or autonomous locomotive device, including automatically ascertaining a deviation from a predefined trajectory, the deviation requiring a return of the locomotive device to the predefined trajectory; automatically calculating a jerk as an input variable, as a function of the deviation from the predefined trajectory; automatically calculating an unconstrained correcting variable for the return to the predefined trajectory, as a function of a weighted sum that includes a weighted summand of the input variable and a weighted summand of the state for the return path; automatically calculating a constrained correcting variable regarding the jerk; the unconstrained correcting variable being manipulated via a cascade that includes multiple stages having one saturation function per stage; integrating the constrained correcting variable, to obtain a constrained return trajectory to the predefined trajectory; automatically steering the locomotive device to the predefined trajectory

Abstract: A robot causes an image capturing device to capture an image of a container in which a plurality of targets are placed to overlap in part with one another, the plurality of targets including components whose types are different from each other among the component and a component kit in which two or more of the components are assembled with one another, detects types, positions and poses of the plurality of targets based on the captured image captured by the image capturing device, determines a priority order of one or more of component kits being assembled using the targets placed in the container according to the detected types, the detected positions and the detected poses, and assembles the component kit selected based on the determined priority order.

Abstract: A method of controlling movement of a transport robot including determining a following error of a left driving wheel and a following error of a right driving wheel according to actual moving distances of the left driving wheel and the right driving wheel and a predetermined moving trajectory; determining a deviation error between the actual moving trajectory and the predetermined moving trajectory of the transport robot based on the following error of the left driving wheel and the following error of the right driving wheel, generating a position adjustment instruction of the left driving wheel and a position adjustment instruction of the right driving wheel according to the deviation error; transmitting the position adjustment instruction of the left driving wheel and the position adjustment instruction of the right driving wheel to a first servo driving system and a second servo driving system respectively to reduce a moving deviation.

Abstract: A method and system for controlling a wheel slip of a vehicle without using a reference speed is provided. The system includes a speed detector that detects a speed of a driving device for operating the vehicle and a controller that determines a torque calibration command based on a torque command of the driving device, and a current speed and a past speed of the driving device detected by the speed detector. The torque command of the driving device is calibrated using the determined torque calibration command, and a driving device is operated based on the calibrated torque command.