Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to determine a tour schedule around a facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a tour time at a tour spot in the tour schedule, based on biological information on a user who is observing a process performed by equipment at the tour spot in the facility.

Abstract: Disclosed is a control device that executes display control for causing a display device to display information on a vehicle capable of traveling using electric power of a battery. Further, the control device, while the vehicle travels toward a predetermined destination, causes the display device to display a transition of a travelable distance corresponding to an SOC of the battery and a transition of a distance to the destination, and causes the display device to display a predicted remaining SOC of the battery when the vehicle arrives at the destination.

Abstract: The vehicle includes a driving operation member that is operated by an operator to perform steering, acceleration, and deceleration, a stop maintaining device that maintains a stop state, and a control device. In the remote control mode, the control device communicates with the remote operation target vehicle, transmits information reflecting the operation amount of the driving operation member to the remote operation target vehicle, and presents information received from the remote operation target vehicle to the operator. When the stop state of the vehicle is not maintained by the stop maintaining device, the control device prohibits the remote control mode.

Abstract: A work status monitoring system includes: an event detection unit configured to detect a plurality of events that have occurred in a work area; a network generation unit configured to generate an event network composed of a plurality of nodes indicating the plurality of events detected by the event detection unit and a plurality of edges indicating an order of generation of the plurality of nodes; an adjustment unit configured to adjust a resolution of the event network generated by the network generation unit to a specified resolution; a conversion unit configured to convert the event network of which the resolution has been adjusted by the adjustment unit into information indicating a relationship of an order of occurrences of a plurality of events; and an output unit configured to output a result of the conversion by the conversion unit.

Abstract: A display control device configured to include a processor coupled to a memory, the processor calculating, based on sets of sensing information acquired from plural sensors that sense objects in front of a vehicle, a position of a detection object in front of the vehicle and, when displaying a position image representing the position of the detection object so as to overlay the position image on a foreground in a display area in front of a driver's seat, deciding whether or not to display the position image based on reliabilities of the sets of sensing information acquired from the plural sensors.

Abstract: A driving assist apparatus comprises a sensor for detecting an object located in front of a vehicle and moving in the same direction as the vehicle, and a controller for executing a brake control for applying a brake force to the vehicle during a time from a time point at which the obstacle satisfies a predetermined start condition to a time point at which a predetermined end condition is satisfied. The controller is configured to set a target stop distance such that the target stop distance increases as a relative speed of the object with respect to the vehicle increases when the controller executes the brake control, and apply the brake force so that the vehicle stops when a distance between the object and the vehicle coincides with the target stop distance.

Abstract: The awareness of users regarding uses of reused products are raised, and their awareness regarding the environment is thereby increased. An information processing system includes information acquisition means for acquiring reuse information, the reuse information being information about an operating status of a reused product; storage means for storing association information associating the reused product with information about a terminal of a previous owner of the product before the product is reused as the reused product; and transmission processing means for transmitting, based on the association information stored in the storage means, the reuse information of the reused product acquired by the information acquisition means to a terminal associated with the reused product.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of: determining, by a server, a time when a vehicle at a charging bay of a charging station has completed charging, sending, by the server, an authorization to autonomously move the vehicle after the time, and providing, by the server, a location to move the vehicle.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode body, a charge collection terminal that contacts a side face on a first direction one side of the electrode body, a laminated sheet covering the electrode body and a portion of the charge collection terminal at another side in the first direction, and a tab film. The tab film is interposed between the charge collection terminal and the laminated sheet, is formed with a projection portion that protrudes out from a corner portion provided to the charge collection terminal at an end portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and to a thickness direction of the charge collection terminal, and is welded to the charge collection terminal and the laminated sheet at a periphery of the charge collection terminal.

Abstract: A control device reads power consumption, information on the delivery number and weight of a first product set, and information on the delivery number and weight of a second product set from a storage device. The control device proportionally divides the power consumption. The control device reads a first conversion formula from the storage device, and calculates CO2 emissions from transportation of the first product set from an A station to a B station and CO2 emissions from transportation of the second product set from the A station to the B station by substituting the power consumptions, into the first conversion formula.

Abstract: A vehicle management device includes one or more processors configured to: manage a plurality of vehicles to be provided for users in a car sharing service; manage, as a plurality of first vehicles, a part of the vehicles to be allocated to an on-demand use in which the users use the car sharing service without reservation; manage, as a plurality of second vehicles, a part of the vehicles to be allocated to a reservation use in which the users use the car sharing service with the reservation; and change at least one of the second vehicles to the first vehicles when the number of the first vehicles is less than a first predetermined number.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a vehicle that can feed power to outside; a plurality of off-grid terminals that each manage power of a corresponding one of a plurality of off-grid areas; and a server. The server transmits information of the plurality of off-grid areas to the vehicle, and when information of a selected area selected by a user of the vehicle from the plurality of off-grid areas is received from the vehicle, the server performs a matching process for matching the vehicle and the selected area with each other, and transmits, to the vehicle, information instructing to feed power to the selected area.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that creates an electrical energy consumption map, for an autonomous vehicle, indicating electrical energy consumption of links in an operation route defined by an operation plan, calculates, based on the map, a first predicted value of total electrical energy consumption required for traveling the operation route, and compares the total electrical energy consumption indicated by the first predicted value with a SOC prior to operation of the vehicle, and when the SOC prior to operation does not satisfy the total electrical energy consumption, extracts links satisfying a predetermined condition as candidate links for switching to a manual driving section from among links designated as an autonomous driving section and changes the operation plan so that the SOC prior to operation satisfies the total electrical energy consumption by switching at least one of the extracted candidate links to the manual driving section.

Abstract: An update control system includes: a vehicle including an in-vehicle control device; an information processing terminal configured to communicate with the in-vehicle control device by wire communication; and a center configured to communicate with the in-vehicle control device over a wireless network. The in-vehicle control device is configured to: determine whether the vehicle is in a first state in which a wireless update process is possible or a second state in which a wired update process is possible; and when the state of the vehicle is switched between the first state and the second state after start and before completion of an update process using a distribution package, carry over a progress of the update process performed until the state is switched; and perform the update process in the switched state.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine control device shifts a control system to synchronous five-pulse control when an operating point crosses a second boundary from a state in which asynchronous pulse-width modulation control is being executed, and shifts the control system to the asynchronous pulse-width modulation control when the operating point crosses a first boundary from a state in which the synchronous five-pulse control is being executed. The first boundary is set such that the number of switching pulses per unit rotational speed by the synchronous five-pulse control immediately before the operating point crosses the first boundary is smaller than the number of the switching pulses per unit rotational speed by the asynchronous pulse-width modulation control immediately after the operating point crosses the first boundary.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.

Abstract: A method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method includes, for each of a plurality of vehicles for which charging in a target time period has been applied for, acquiring vehicle information including predicted remaining SOC to be remaining at a start of the target time period and/or predicted consumed SOC to be consumed in a vehicle use period after an end of the target time period, determining, based on the vehicle information, whether each of the plurality of vehicles is a target for charging in the target time period, and determining a charging plan to charge a vehicle being determined to be eligible for charging, among the plurality of vehicles, in the target time period.

Abstract: Disclosed are positive electrode active material particles having both high-capacity and cycling properties. The positive electrode active material particles of the present disclosure have an O2-type structure, and comprise: at least one element selected from Mn, Ni and Co; Li; an element M; and O, wherein the element M is at least one selected from B, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo and W, and the molar concentration of the element M in the surface layer portion of the particles is higher than the molar concentration of the element M in the central portion of the particles.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to steering a vehicle based during loss of traction. In one arrangement, a method for steering a vehicle during loss of traction is disclosed. The method includes, responsive to detecting a slipping tire of a vehicle losing traction with a road, automatically steering the vehicle separately from an input of a steering wheel of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to follow a path. The method also includes decoupling control of a pair of front tires of the vehicle by the steering wheel. The method further includes rotating, independently of an input to the steering wheel and in parallel with steering the vehicle, the steering wheel to match an actual yaw of the vehicle.

Abstract: A battery cooling device, including a plurality of coolers to cool a battery using insulating oil, includes: a communication pipe to connect the plurality of coolers to each other, the communication pipe allowing the insulating oil to flow therethrough; a water level sensor provided in a vertical portion of the communication pipe, the vertical portion extending in a vertical direction, and detects a water level in the vertical portion; a shutdown valve provided in the communication pipe; and a control device configured to control the shutdown valve. Further, the control device closes the shutdown valve when the water level sensor detects a water level rise equal to or greater than a predetermined value.