Abstract: A method for filtering attack streams targeting a connectivity module receiving a plurality of incoming connection streams includes: determining a plurality of aggregates; determining a plurality of first measurement vectors; determining another aggregate resulting from the combination of a plurality of incoming connection streams during another time period; determining another first measurement vector associated with the other aggregate; determining an abnormality score depending on the result of projecting the other first measurement vector and projecting the plurality of first measurement vectors and then, if the abnormality score is comprised in an area of doubt regarding the presence of an attack stream determining a plurality of second measurement vectors, each associated with one of the aggregates; determining another second measurement vector associated with the other aggregate; and detecting the presence or absence of an attack by analysing the other second measurement vector.

Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication device, a second communication device and a relay device. The first and second communication devices are connected to a communication network. The relay device is connected to the communication network and relays communication between the first and second communication devices. The relay device includes a relay unit and a priority determination unit. The relay unit carries out a receiving process for receiving data frames transmitted from the first communication device to the communication network and a transmission process for transmitting the received data frames to the second communication device. The priority determination unit determines the priority of the transmission process of the received data frames based on the data frames received by the relay unit. The relay unit carries out a transmission process of the data frames based on the priority determined by the priority determination unit.

Abstract: The present invention acquires surrounding information of surrounding environment of a vehicle; sets a virtual viewpoint position ahead of the vehicle in a traveling direction; uses the acquired surrounding information and generates virtual surrounding information indicating the surrounding environment at the set virtual viewpoint position; transmits a first control signal for controlling an external device located at a location away from the vehicle to display the generated virtual surrounding information; receives driving operation information on a driving operation of the vehicle output from the external device; generates driving assistance information for assisting driving of the vehicle based on the received driving operation information; and generates a second control signal for controlling an output device installed in the vehicle to output the driving assistance information.

Abstract: A wound rotor, such as a wound rotor for an electric machine, includes a shaft having a main axis. The shaft includes a manifold. The wound rotor also includes a winding wire and n poles wound and ordered with an ascending order number obtained by rotation about the main axis. The n wound poles can be distributed radially about the main axis. The n poles are wound with the wire in series in turn according to their ascending order numbers, the last pole, however, not being wound last.

Abstract: A driving circuit applies a voltage to a switching element to switch between an ON state and an OFF state. The switching element includes a control terminal, a high-potential terminal, and a low-potential terminal, and is switched between the ON state and the OFF state depending on the voltage of the control terminal in a case in which a potential of the low-potential terminal is defined as a reference potential. The driving circuit includes a negative-voltage power supply for applying a negative voltage as the voltage to the control terminal when the switching element is switched from the ON state to the OFF state, and a voltage changing unit for changing the voltage immediately before the switching element is switched from the OFF state to the ON state to be higher than the negative voltage immediately after the switching element is switched from the ON state to the OFF state.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor base body, and a first main electrode and a second main electrode provided on the semiconductor base body. The semiconductor base body includes a drift region of a first conductivity type through which a main current flows, a column region of a second conductivity type arranged adjacent to the drift region in parallel to a current passage of the main current, a second electrode-connection region of the first conductivity type electrically connected to the second main electrode, and a low-density electric-field relaxation region of the first conductivity type having a lower impurity concentration than the drift region and arranged between the second electrode-connection region and the column region.

Abstract: A vehicle allocation support device: acquires baggage information about baggage carried in a vehicle; acquires user information that includes at least user position information indicating a current position of a user or destination information indicating a scheduled destination of the user; acquires vehicle information including vehicle position information indicating a position of the vehicle; specifies a usage area in which the baggage is to be used, based on an estimated usage place that is information corresponding to the baggage and in which the baggage is estimated to be used and one of the user information and the vehicle information; and determines a vehicle allocation route for allocating the vehicle to at least the current position of the user, the scheduled destination of the user, or the usage area, based on a positional relationship between the usage area and one of the user position information and the scheduled destination information.

Abstract: A vehicle dispatch support device extracts one or more reserved vehicles for which a vehicle dispatch plan has been determined according to reserved vehicle dispatch request data requested by a reserved user; extracts one or more available vehicles that can arrive at a desired boarding place of the reserved user via a desired boarding place and a desired alighting place of the new user prior to a usage start time of the reserved user; calculates, as a margin time, a time difference between the usage start time and an arrival time for the available vehicles to arrive at the desired boarding place of the reserved user via the desired boarding place and the desired alighting place of the new user; and sets an available vehicle of which the margin time is short as a dispatch vehicle candidate to be dispatched to the new user.

Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle including: based on map information including information of an installation position of a traffic light and information of a lane controlled by the traffic light and a range of the angle of view of a camera mounted on the own vehicle, calculating an imaging-enabled area in which an image of the traffic light can be captured on the lane by the camera; determining whether or not the own vehicle is positioned in the imaging-enabled area; and when the own vehicle is positioned in the imaging-enabled area, controlling the own vehicle in such a way that the traffic light is not shielded from the range of the angle of view of the camera by a preceding vehicle of the own vehicle.

Abstract: In a vehicle dispatch management system which manages a plurality of shared vehicles (2) and dispatches the shared vehicles in response to a dispatch request from a user, the vehicle dispatch management system includes: an individual cruising distance calculation device (22) configured to calculate a cruising distance of each of the shared vehicles; a total cruising distance calculation device (17) configured to calculate a total cruising distance of all of the shared vehicles; an energy supply determination device (18) configured to determine a necessity of traveling energy supply of the shared vehicle when the total cruising distance is equal to or less than a first predetermined value; and a supply instruction device (19) configured to instruct a supply instruction to the shared vehicle determined to be supplied on the basis of determining the necessity of traveling energy supply of the shared vehicle.

Abstract: A headlamp control device includes a headlamp control unit for controlling headlamps so as to regulate an irradiation amount, the headlamps being installed in a vehicle equipped with an autonomous driving mode driven in accordance with images acquired by a visible light camera for capturing the circumference of the vehicle and a manual driving mode driven by a driver of the vehicle. The headlamp control unit decreases the irradiation amount of the headlamps in the autonomous driving mode so as to be smaller than the irradiation amount of the headlamps in the manual driving mode.

Abstract: A charge/discharge control method for a charge/discharge element includes receiving a request value (Pfr) of a frequency adjustment capacity according to a system frequency (f) of an electric power system (10) based on a priority degree (?) and the request value (Pfr) being received, the priority degree indicating a degree at which charging or discharging of an own element (EV1) is prioritized over charging or discharging of another charge/discharge element (EV2, EV3, . . . ), correcting the output property to increase an upper limit value or a lower limit value of an output range as the priority degree (?) is higher, and performing charging or discharging with an output determined based on a deviation (?f) between the system frequency (f) measured at a connection end to the electric power system (10) and a reference frequency (fref) of the electric power system (10) and the output property after the correction.

Abstract: A method for object avoidance by a motor vehicle includes: detecting objects located in the surroundings of the motor vehicle; acquiring data characterizing the position and/or dynamics of each object, then, if several objects have been detected; verifying whether at least one criterion of proximity between at least two of the detected objects is met and, if so; combining the two objects into one group; calculating the data characterizing the position and/or dynamics of the group; and activating a system for obstacle avoidance and/or determining an avoidance trajectory, according to the data characterizing the position and/or dynamics of the group.

Abstract: A method detects a vehicle overweight state for a vehicle equipped with a power unit including a traction battery. The method selects a number of vehicle acceleration phases. The method includes, for each selected acceleration phase: calculating a mean value of a differential force equal to a value of the traction loads of the unit from which there are subtracted the value of the acceleration resultant force and the value of the sum of the resistive loads experienced by the vehicle, calculating a statistical value based on the calculated mean values of the differential force, and comparing the statistical value against a vehicle overweight threshold value. The vehicle is in an overweight state if the statistical value is higher than the threshold value.

Abstract: A method for detecting a faulty cell in an electric battery pack includes the following steps: measuring the no-load voltage at the terminals of each cell of the battery pack; calculating the deviation between the no-load voltage measured at the terminals of the cell and an average known no-load voltage as a function of the number of days during which the battery pack was not used; calculating the difference between the calculated deviation and a quantity n·?, n being an integer no lower than 1, and ? being a known standard deviation which is a function of the number of days during which the battery pack was not used; and detecting a faulty cell if the difference is greater than zero.

Abstract: A floor structure of an electric vehicle floor structure includes a battery unit and an underfloor panel. The battery unit is arranged underneath a floor of a passenger compartment between front wheels and rear wheels. The underfloor panel covers an entire bottom surface of the battery unit from below. The underfloor panel is provided with a center panel and a surrounding panel. The center panel has a noise absorption material that arranged at a lateral-direction center and a longitudinal-direction center of the underfloor panel. The surrounding panel has a high-strength material arranged around the center panel.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a drift region that is arranged on a main surface of a substrate, and has a higher impurity concentration than the substrate; a first well region that is connected to the drift region; and a second well region that is arranged adjacent to the first well region and faces the drift region. The second well region has a higher impurity concentration than the first well region. A distance between the source region that faces the drift region via the first well region and the drift region is greater than a distance between the second well region and the drift region, in a direction parallel to the main surface of the substrate. A depletion layer extending from the second well region reaches the drift region.

Abstract: A method automatically controls a motor vehicle with wheels including at least two steered wheels. The method includes the following steps: the motor vehicle acquiring parameters relating to an obstacle avoidance trajectory, and a computer computing a provisional control instruction for an actuator for braking the steered wheels, based on the parameters and by way of a closed-loop controller. The method also includes the following steps: acquiring a lateral acceleration or a roll angle to which the motor vehicle is subject, and computing, in open-loop mode, a correction term or the provisional control instruction, based on the acquired lateral acceleration or roll angle.

Abstract: A structure of an electric or hybrid vehicle includes a floor, a battery container secured beneath the floor, and a compressed foam plate arranged between the battery container and the floor.

Abstract: A method determines an insulation resistance of the high-voltage network in an electric or hybrid vehicle, in which a controllable continuous voltage source connected to the body and to a single first terminal of a high-voltage battery of the vehicle is provided, a first resistor being connected in series to the source between the single first terminal and the body and a second resistor being connected in series between the first resistor and the source, consecutive voltage setpoint values are applied between the body and the single first terminal, a measurement signal of the voltage at the terminals of the second resistor is acquired for each setpoint value, adaptive filtering of the signal is carried out and an estimate made, in a recursive manner, of a vector of the filter transfer function coefficients, providing an update of the filtering coefficients, the insulation resistance being determined based on the estimate.