Abstract: A vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a rotating electric machine; a power storage device; first and second electric heating type catalyst for purifying exhaust gas; a bidirectional power converter which converts first AC power into DC power, and convert DC power into a second AC power; a plurality of relays, which are electrically connected to a first power path and a second power path and which at least selects one of and switch between parallel connection and series connection of the first electric heating type catalyst and the second electric heating type catalyst; and a controller configured to control ON and OFF of each of the relays.

Abstract: An all-solid-state cell using a deposition-dissolution reaction of metallic lithium as an anode reaction includes: an anode current collector, a first solid electrolyte layer, a second solid electrolyte layer, and a cathode active material layer in this order in a thickness direction. The first solid electrolyte layer contains a solid electrolyte phase containing a first solid electrolyte, and a metal phase containing at least one of the following: Sn, Mg, and Ag. A proportion of the metal phase in the first electrolyte layer is 2.50 vol % or less. The second solid electrolyte layer contains a second solid electrolyte and does not contain the metal phase.

Abstract: A thermal management system is employed in a vehicle including a fuel supply system configured to supply hydrogen gas as fuel to an engine. The fuel supply system includes a tank configured to store the hydrogen gas, a fuel injection valve configured to inject the hydrogen gas, and a regulator configured to control a pressure of the hydrogen gas supplied from the tank to the fuel injection valve. The thermal management system includes a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between coolant for the engine and the tank and a tank temperature control passage configured to cause the coolant that has flowed from the engine to return to the engine through the heat exchanger. The thermal management system includes an electromagnetic valve and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to adjust the amount of coolant flowing through the tank temperature control passage by controlling the electromagnetic valve.

Abstract: A display device includes a first plate material on which a movie is to be projected onto a projection surface thereof, a vibrator fixed to a reverse surface of the first plate material and configured to vibrate the first plate material to generate a sound, and a second plate material fixed to the first plate material so that an obverse surface of the second plate material faces the reverse surface of the first plate material, and the vibrator is disposed in a hole provided on the obverse surface of the second plate material.

Abstract: A voice control apparatus includes a controller configured to detect a speed of a vehicle, and set a frequency of voice output for an occupant of the vehicle higher as the detected speed increases.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to control a specific function in response to an operation that can be performed by both manual input and voice input. The controller is configured to notify an occupant of a vehicle that the operation can be performed by voice input, upon determining that the occupant has performed the operation by manual input, with a higher frequency when the occupant is a driver than when the occupant is not the driver.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus displays, on a screen of the terminal apparatus, a plurality of stations that serves as locations for renting out and returning one or more mobile objects. The terminal apparatus then identifies a group to which each of the plurality of stations belongs. Then, the terminal apparatus displays, among the plurality of stations displayed on the screen, each station that belongs to a first group to which a first station selected from among the plurality of stations by a user belongs in a first mode and each station that belongs to one or more groups other than the first group in a second mode.

Abstract: When a vehicle receives a remote air conditioning request from user equipment with a system of the vehicle stopped, the vehicle turns on a remote air conditioning request signal after starting the system, and executes remote air conditioning in which the air conditioner is operated with the engine in operation, on the condition that a recognized shift that is a recognized shift position is a parking position. When the recognized shift is not the parking position, the prohibition of the remote air conditioning is suspended when the elapsed time from the system start is less than the predetermined time, and the prohibition of the remote air conditioning is determined when the elapsed time is equal to or more than the predetermined time.

Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus includes a controller that is configured to control a specific function in response to voice input from an occupant of a vehicle, and that is configured to sequentially transition to each of multiple states within a transition period from accepting the voice input until at least finishing controlling the specific function, and display, on a screen, which of the multiple states the controller is in.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods for training and using an artificial intelligence model for use with predicting a task output. The method includes generating a plurality of individual datasets, each of the plurality of individual datasets comprising data of at least one answer to at least one of a plurality of questions of each of a plurality of questionnaires, generating a first batch of individual datasets, the first batch of individual datasets comprising one or more of the plurality of individual datasets, inputting the first batch of individual datasets into the artificial intelligence model, and encoding the data of the first batch of individual datasets with an autoencoder.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for driver training using zone of proximal learning (ZPL) includes receiving, by one or more processors, driving data with respect to a driver operating a vehicle, estimating, using a personal behavior model, a driver profile based on the driving data, estimating one or more zone of proximal development (ZPD) states based at least in part on the driver profile, and performing one or more vehicle actions to place the driver into the one or more ZPD states.

Abstract: A method for producing a rare earth magnet that can improve magnetic properties by both increasing a density of a sintered body and suppressing strain of a magnetic phase. The method includes preparing a magnetic powder containing Sm, Fe, and N, preparing a modifier powder containing at least one of metallic zinc or a zinc alloy, mixing the magnetic powder and the modifier powder to obtain a mixed powder, performing compression molding on the mixed powder in a magnetic field to obtain a magnetic field molded body, and performing pressure sintering on the magnetic field molded body to obtain a sintered body. In the pressure sintering, the magnetic field molded body is pressed and sintered at a pressure of 500 MPa or more and 900 MPa or less and at a temperature of 360° C. or more and 390° C. or less for 1 hour or more and 24 hours or less.

Abstract: A control system includes a temperature sensor for detecting a vehicle battery temperature, a heater for heating a battery, a battery control unit for detecting a battery charge state and controlling a heater operating state, and a control unit for controlling a drive device that operates with power supplied from the battery, and gives an instruction related to the heater operating state to the battery control unit. When the battery temperature is lower than a threshold and the battery charge state is higher than a predetermined level, the control unit causes the heater to generate heat to the battery control unit. When the battery temperature is lower than the temperature threshold and the charge state of the battery is equal to or lower than the charge level, the control unit stops the heater to the battery control unit and limits power consumption of the drive device.

Abstract: An electric vehicle includes: first and second rotating electric machines for driving front wheels and rear wheels; a battery for supplying power to the rotating electric machines; a cooling liquid circulating circuit for collecting heat from the rotating electric machines with cooling liquid and supplying heat to the battery; and an electronic control device for controlling driving of the rotating electric machines. Further, the first rotating electric machine is a winding field motor, and when a temperature of the battery is desired to be raised during traveling, the electronic control device flow current only through stator coil with respect to the first rotating electric machine, collect heat with cooling liquid, supply the collected heat to the battery to raise the temperature of the battery, and perform control of outputting a driving force required for travelling with the second rotating electric machine.

Abstract: The charger includes a controller for controlling the booster circuit. The controller includes a FB module, a FF module, and a driver. The controller (1) identifies the disturbance peak frequency on the board diagram of the disturbance transfer function from the target voltage to the current flowing through the reactor by sweeping the target voltage while setting FB command to zero, and (2) determines FB gain included in FB module such that the difference between the control peak frequency on the board diagram of the control transfer function of the controller and the disturbance peak frequency is larger than the predetermined threshold frequency width when it is assumed that the ideal power supply is connected to the low voltage terminal.

Abstract: A communication control device includes a processor configured to control switching of a partner of communication with a mobile terminal for first traffic from a first edge server to a second edge server in a cellular network when a switching condition for the first traffic based on a reduction in quality of communication related to the first traffic at present or in future is met and a second edge server capable of taking over the communication related to the first traffic is discovered in a state in which the mobile terminal is performing communication related to the first traffic and second traffic with the first edge server via the cellular network, an allowable delay for the second traffic being longer than an allowable delay for the first traffic.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to integrating human decision-making into a model-based system. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data, including driver data about a driver of a vehicle and driving data about the vehicle and a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The method includes encoding, using a world encoder, the sensor data into a latent representation. The method includes determining human decision- making characteristics according to the latent representation. The method includes generating a control signal for providing shared control of the vehicle according to the human decision-making characteristics and the latent representation.

Abstract: The vehicle traveling assistance device proposes a change of the set vehicle speed based on the traveling environment of the own vehicle during execution of the constant speed traveling control for autonomously controlling the traveling of the own vehicle so that the travel speed of the own vehicle is maintained at the set vehicle speed. The vehicle traveling assistance device determines whether or not to make a proposal based on whether or not the set vehicle speed after the change is equal to or higher than a predetermined vehicle speed threshold. The predetermined vehicle speed threshold is set by an operator of the own vehicle.

Abstract: The driver assist ECU determines whether there is another vehicle on the collision course based on the other vehicle information. ECU determines whether a predetermined execution condition for executing the collision avoidance assist operation is satisfied when it is determined that there are other vehicles on the collision course, and starts executing the collision avoidance assist operation when it is determined that the execution condition is satisfied. ECU changes the execution condition based on an approaching direction determination result as to whether the other vehicle on the collision course is approaching from the direction of the driver's seat of the host vehicle or is approaching from the direction on the passenger seat of the host vehicle, and a visual perception determination result as to whether the probability that the driver of the host vehicle has visually perceived the other vehicle on the collision course is high.

Abstract: A method for a driver prediction system is described. The method includes training a neural network to a learn a set of polynomial basis functions. The method also includes selecting, using a trained neural network, a learned polynomial basis function to perform a prediction of an action of an autonomous dynamic object (ADO) agent. The method further includes computing projection coefficients of the learned polynomial basis function to weigh the learned polynomial basis function. The method also includes using the projection coefficients of the learned polynomial basis function to weigh the learned polynomial basis function to provide a distribution regarding a likelihood of the prediction of the action of the ADO agent.