Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device that allows suppressing an increase in pressure loss is provided. The exhaust gas purification device of the present disclosure includes a honeycomb substrate and an inflow cell side catalyst layer. The substrate includes a porous partition wall which defines inflow cells and outflow cells extending from an inflow side end to an outflow side end. The inflow cell side catalyst layer is disposed on a surface on the inflow cell side in an inflow cell side catalyst region from an inflow side end to a position close to an outflow side end of the partition wall. The permeability of a portion including an outflow side region from the position to the outflow side end of the partition wall is higher than a gas permeability of a portion including the inflow cell side catalyst region of the partition wall and the inflow cell side catalyst layer.

Abstract: A method comprises receiving a service request from a vehicle, obtaining environment data with one or more sensors, determining a vehicle type of the vehicle based on the service request, determining service data responsive to the service request based on the vehicle type of the vehicle and the environment data, and transmitting a service message comprising the service data to the vehicle.

Abstract: A lever switch includes a lever main body and a rotary operation element rotatably provided at a tip end portion of the lever main body. The rotary operation element is provided with a light ON switch position at which an instruction to cause head lights and small lights to be on at all times is issued, an automatic light switch position at which an instruction to set an automatic light mode, in which a turned-on state of the head lights and the small lights is controlled based on the intensity of illumination in the vicinity of the vehicle, is issued, and a light OFF switch position at which an instruction to turn the head lights off is issued, the light ON switch position, the automatic light switch position, and the light OFF switch position being arranged in an order along a rotation direction.

Abstract: Systems and methods of wheelchair systems enabling fine manual motion control are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wheelchair system includes a wheelchair. The wheelchair includes one or more wheels, at least one actuator coupled to the one or more wheels, a processing device, and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium in communication with the processing device. The non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium includes one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to determine a wheel torque on the one or more wheels, determine a compensation value, and actuate the at least one actuator applying the compensation value to the one or more wheels to remove at least a portion of the wheel torque such that less external force is required to physically move the powered wheelchair than when the compensation value is not applied.

Abstract: A laser welding method is provided to ensure a sufficient joining strength between metal plates by increasing the area of a joining region while preventing “burn through” of a molten metal. In the laser welding method by applying a laser beam to a surface of multiple metal plates superimposed on each other, a scanning locus with the laser beam is sequentially shifted from an inner circular scanning locus to an outer one in a predetermined joining region on the metal plates, and an emission interval is provided to temporally stop the metal-plate-surface irradiation when the scanning locus is shifted. Thus, every time the scanning locus is shifted, the molten metal due to the previous irradiation is cooled and increases its viscosity. Accordingly, the “burn through” is prevented regardless of increase of the area of the joining region, which results in a sufficient joining strength between the metal plates.

Abstract: An injection molding machine that contributes to improving the quality of a workpiece is provided. An injection molding machine configured to causes torpedo pistons to be slid in one way to thereby plasticize a resin material supplied to a first space of a cylinder, and causes a molten resin to flow into a second space of the cylinder and causes the torpedo pistons to be slid in the other way to thereby inject the molten resin. The injection molding machine includes pressurizing pistons inserted into the torpedo pistons so that the pressurizing pistons can be slid in such a way that an amount of protrusion of the cylinder into the second space of the cylinder with respect to the torpedo pistons is changed, and energizing means for energizing the pressurizing pistons toward the second space of the cylinder.

Abstract: A method comprises receiving driving data from a plurality of connected vehicles approaching an intersection, the driving data comprising a speed and position of a connected vehicle, determining estimated times of arrival that each of the connected vehicles will arrive at the intersection based on the driving data, scheduling the connected vehicles to cross the intersection in a particular order based on the estimated times of arrival, and transmitting the scheduled order to the connected vehicles.

Abstract: A vehicle door includes a door panel, a corner piece that is disposed at a door waist portion of the door panel and that includes a protrusion, a weather strip that is disposed to extend along an outer peripheral edge of the door panel and that has a hole portion with which the protrusion is engaged, and a door trim that is disposed to cover the corner piece. The protrusion has a hollow structure and includes an outer peripheral side wall, and an opening is provided in a part of the outer peripheral side wall.

Abstract: A charging system of an electrically powered vehicle includes a power storage device, a charging device that performs external charging for charging the power storage device with power received from an external power supply, a DCM that outputs information for informing a user of information about charging by the charging device, and an ECU that controls the charging device and the DCM. The ECU controls the charging device to perform the external charging, controls the charging device to limit charging power when a predetermined condition is satisfied during the charging, and controls the DCM to output information for informing the user of a remaining charging time calculated using charging power immediately before limitation while the charging power is limited. The user's feeling of strangeness can be reduced.

Abstract: A tank mounting structure includes a frame, a band, and a tank protector. The frame is configured to fix the tank. The band is configured to fix the tank in a state where the band sandwiches the tank with the frame and the band deforms in accordance with expansion or contraction of the tank. The tank protector is configured to be fixed to an inner side of the band or an outer side of the band.

Abstract: A vehicle, which is a fuel cell vehicle, has an EV mode and an FC mode. In the EV mode, power generation by the FC stack is stopped and an electric power is supplied from a battery to a motor generator. In the FC mode, an electric power supplied from the FC stack to the motor generator is greater than an electric power supplied from the battery to the motor generator. In the EV mode, ECU controls an MID so that the MID displays the instantaneous electric power efficiency of the vehicle and does not display the instantaneous fuel efficiency of the vehicle. In the FC mode, ECU controls MID so that the MID displays the instantaneous fuel efficiency of the vehicle and does not display the instantaneous electric power efficiency of the vehicle.

Abstract: The driving assistance device includes a movement detecting unit detecting an attitude changing movement for changing the attitude of a driver seat or a steering wheel of a vehicle capable of traveling in an automated driving mode in which a driver need not perform driving operations during traveling, a hold detecting unit detecting whether or not the steering wheel is held by the driver, and a hold requesting unit starting a holding request asking the driver to hold the steering wheel if the movement detecting unit has detected the attitude changing movement in the automated driving mode and if the hold detecting unit has not detected hold of the steering wheel.

Abstract: A tunable optical metamaterial system includes a tunable optical metamaterial, an actuator module to selectively activate the tunable optical metamaterial, and a control system to selectively control the actuator module. The tunable optical metamaterial includes a substrate composed at least in part of an electroactive polymer (EAP), and an optically active particle array that includes a plurality of optically active elongated members populated spaced apart on the substrate in two or more orientations to form confocal lenses that are optically responsive to the expansion of the substrate. The control module, is configured to control the optical properties of the tunable optical metamaterial by causing the electrical activation of the substrate via the actuator module to selectively expand the substrate in a manner that alters the spacing between the optically active elongated members.

Abstract: A control device for an automated driving vehicle has a first automated driving mode in which the automated driving vehicle, receiving a permission notice from an operations management controller, travels, according to automatic operation, along a controlled route managed by the operations management controller, in accordance with a traveling schedule provided from the operations management controller; and a second automated driving mode in which the automated driving vehicle travels, without a permission notice from the operations management controller, along a non-controlled route that is not managed by the operations management controller, according to automatic operation. The first automated driving mode and the second automated driving mode are switchable.

Abstract: A vehicle may include: a body including a front compartment; a hood panel covering the front compartment and including a recess in an upper surface of the hood panel; a hood garnish mounted at the recess; a drainage outlet disposed at a bottom of the recess and penetrating the hood panel; and a drainage channel disposed below the hood panel and including an inlet configured to receive drainage water from the recess.

Abstract: The apparatus for automated driving includes a processor configured to: determine whether a change of a travel condition or a controller of a vehicle that is being automatically driven is necessary; when the change is necessary, detect a predetermined feature that is visible to a driver, predetermined notification that is recognizable to the driver, or a predetermined situation around the vehicle; and when the feature, the notification or the situation is detected, control the vehicle so as to make the change, or notify the driver of the change with a notifying device.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle of the disclosure includes an engine, a motor that outputs a torque to a driving system, a hydraulic clutch that connects the engine with the motor and disconnects the engine from the motor, and a control device that performs slip control of the hydraulic clutch in response to satisfaction of a start condition of the engine and controls the motor to output at least a cranking torque to the engine. The control device sets a target value of a rotation speed difference between the engine and the motor during execution of the slip control, and increases at least one of a hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic clutch, an output torque of the motor and an output torque of the engine when a difference between the rotation speed difference and the target value is out of an allowable range. This configuration ensures good startability of the engine.

Abstract: In a system that enables a person who possesses a portable device in which enablement data as data that permits operation of a vehicle is stored, to operate the vehicle, a relay device is provided for relaying the enablement data from a center server that issues the enablement data of the vehicle, to a portable device of a person scheduled to operate the vehicle. The relay device includes an obtaining unit that obtains the enablement data of the vehicle from the center server, a temporarily storing unit that temporarily stores the enablement data obtained by the obtaining unit, in a storage device, and a transmitting unit that sends the enablement data stored in the storage device, to a portable device used by a person in charge of operation of the vehicle.

Abstract: A voltage detection unit includes a voltage detection terminal configured to be conductively connected to a detection target, an electric wire conductively connected to the voltage detection terminal and a housing having a plate shape and including a terminal accommodating concave configured to accommodate the voltage detection terminal, an electric wire accommodating concave defined by a first groove side wall, a second groove side wall and a groove bottom surface, and configured to accommodate the electric wire and to guide the electric wire out of the housing and an electric wire restricting portion configured to hold the electric wire between the electric wire restricting portion and the groove bottom surface and to prevent the electric wire from being displaced out of the electric wire accommodating concave.

Abstract: A steering control device for a steering system includes an electronic control unit configured to: calculate target torque that is a target value of the motor torque; control operation of the motor; calculate a vehicle speed basic axial force based on a detected vehicle speed; calculate another state quantity basic axial force based on a state quantity other than the detected vehicle speed; calculate a distributed axial force by adding the vehicle speed basic axial force and the other state quantity basic axial force at individually set distribution ratios; calculate the target torque based on the distributed axial force; and reduce the distribution ratio of the vehicle speed basic axial force when the detected vehicle speed is abnormal as compared to when the detected vehicle speed is normal.

Abstract: A method of using detection devices for hazard detection when activating a physical closure member of an automobile generates a combined output signal from a first-detection device having a first-operational range and a second-detection device having a second-operational range. The combined output signal is generated for activity detected within a full-operational range, wherein the full-operational range is a mathematical union of the first-operational range and the second-operational range. A cumulative safety threshold is determined for the physical closure member using processing circuitry. Hazard-related data within the combined output signal is analyzed using processing circuitry. If the hazard-related data exceeds the cumulative safety threshold, a current state of the physical closure member is changed. If the hazard-related data does not exceed the cumulative safety threshold, a current state of the physical closure member is maintained.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wiring board is capable of forming a metal layer included in a wiring layer to have an even thickness. The method includes preparing a conductive first underlayer on a surface of a substrate; a conductive second underlayer on a surface of the first underlayer; and a seed layer on a surface of the second underlayer and containing metal. The method disposes a solid electrolyte membrane between an anode and the seed layer as a cathode; applies voltage between the anode and the first underlayer to form a metal layer on the surface of the seed layer; removes an exposed portion of the second underlayer without the seed layer from the substrate; and removes an exposed portion of the first underlayer without the seed layer from the substrate. The first underlayer is a material having a higher electrical conductivity than that of the second underlayer.

Abstract: A power electronics module includes a heat sink structurally configured to dissipate thermal energy, an electrically-insulating layer directly contacting the heat sink, a conductive substrate positioned on and in direct contact with the electrically-insulating layer, a power electronics device positioned on and in direct contact with the conductive substrate, a printed circuit board layer that at least partially encapsulates the conductive substrate and the power electronics device, and a driver circuit component positioned on a surface of the printed circuit board layer.

Abstract: To provide a light-blocking member that can be easily folded. Wire 12 is bendable and deformable, and is attached to sheet member 11 so as to surround an outer peripheral part of substantially rectangular sheet member 11. Handle members 14 and 15 are attached to both ends of one side of sheet member 11, and are fixed to wire 12.

Abstract: A change point detection device includes a memory 170 that stores map information representing a structure associated with a traveling condition on and around a road, an object detection unit 162 that detects a shielding object 20 hiding the structure from an image acquired by an in-vehicle camera 110 mounted on a vehicle 100 and representing an environment around the vehicle 100, a collation unit 163 that eliminates the structure hidden by the shielding object 20 in the map information, collates the image with the map information, and calculates a coincidence degree between the image and the map information, and a change point detection unit 164 that determines, when the coincidence degree is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, that the structure represented in the image has a change point different from the corresponding structure represented in the map information.

Abstract: A vehicle adapted to an automated valet parking service in a parking lot includes a recognition sensor that recognizes a mark around the vehicle. The vehicle performs a self-position estimation process for identifying a vehicle position in the parking lot based on an installation position and a recognition result of the mark by the recognition sensor. The vehicle performs vehicle traveling control for causing the vehicle to automatically travel in the parking lot based on the vehicle position. The automated valet parking service includes an additional service implemented on the vehicle during a period in which the vehicle is left in the parking lot. When restarting the vehicle traveling control after completion of the additional service, the vehicle executes the self-position estimation process in a return space where the mark is installed to acquire a latest vehicle position, and restarts the vehicle traveling control based on the latest vehicle position.

Abstract: An agent control device configured to execute a plurality of agents and including a processor, the processor being configured to: request execution of each of the agents at a prescribed trigger; store an interruptibility list that stipulates interruptibility of execution for each function of a given agent being executed or for an execution status of the given agent; reference the interruptibility list in order to set permissibility information relating to executability of another one of the agents in conjunction with execution of the given agent; and perform management such that, in a case in which there is a request for execution of the other agent while the given agent is executing and the permissibility information indicates that the other agent is not executable, execution of the given agent continues without responding to the request.

Abstract: A vehicle front structure which includes a bracket and a washer. The bracket is disposed between a part of a back surface of a license plate and a front grille. The bracket fastens the license plate to the front grille. The washer moves forward on the back side of the license plate in an area without the bracket in order to clean a sensing surface of a sensor which monitors the front of the vehicle. The bracket includes one or more of supporting portions which protrude on the washer side and support the license plate from the back side of the license plate.

Abstract: A vehicle control system is provided to maintain an SOC level of the battery during autonomous operation of the vehicle. The control system is applied to a vehicle that can be operated autonomously by controlling an engine, a motor, a steering system, a brake system etc. autonomously by a controller, and the vehicle is allowed to coast by manipulating a clutch. During autonomous operation of the vehicle, a first coasting mode in which the engine is stopped and the clutch is disengaged is selected if the SOC level is higher than a threshold level, and a second coasting mode in which the engine is activated and the clutch is disengaged is selected if the SOC level is lower than the threshold level.

Abstract: Compact sound attenuation systems for fluid ducts are provided having one or more sound attenuation units that can be absorptive or reflective, depending on design. Each sound attenuation unit has one or more encircling Helmholtz resonators that fully encircle the duct in a lateral direction. Sound attenuation units can be coincident with the duct well and either interior or exterior to the duct, or in some instances can be partly interior and partly exterior to the duct. Sound attenuation systems can be tuned for maximum attenuation of a single resonance frequency, or can include multiple units of different frequencies for broadband attenuation.

Abstract: A trajectory setting device that sets a trajectory of a host vehicle includes a first path generation unit configured to generate a first path by assuming all obstacles around the host vehicle to be stationary obstacles, a second path generation unit configured to generate a second path when the moving obstacle is assumed to move independently, a third path generation unit configured to generate a third path when the moving obstacle is assumed to move while interacting with at least one of the other obstacles or the host vehicle, a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate reliability of the second path and reliability of the third path, and a trajectory setting unit configured to set the trajectory for traveling from the first path, the second path, and the third path based on the reliability of the second path and the reliability of the third path.

Abstract: A vehicle system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a first program, a second program, and a third program. The first program is configured to recognize an object present around a vehicle, the second program is configured to store information related to the recognized object as time-series map data, and the third program is configured to predict a future position of the object based on the stored time-series map data. The first program and the third program are configured to be (i) first, individually optimized based on first training data corresponding to output of the first program and second training data corresponding to output of the third program, and (ii) then, collectively optimized based on the second training data corresponding to the output of the third program.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of establishing a security level based on an environment of a transport, determining a minimal radio frequency signal strength needed for a device to communicate with the transport based on the security level of the transport, and performing a command, by the transport, based on the communication when the minimal radio frequency signal strength is achieved.

Abstract: A driving consciousness estimation device includes a driver state estimation unit configured to estimate a state of a driver of a host vehicle, a manual driving ability estimation unit configured to estimate a manual driving ability of the driver based on at least one of a travel state of the host vehicle, a traveling environment around the host vehicle, and a reaction of the driver, and a driving readiness calculation unit configured to calculate a driving readiness relating to a driving consciousness of the driver based on the state of the driver and the manual driving ability of the driver.

Abstract: Systems and methods for training a model are described herein. In one example, a system for training the model includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor having a training module. The training module has instructions that cause the processor to determine a contrastive loss using a self-supervised contrastive loss function, adjust, based on the contrastive loss, model weights a visual backbone that generated feature maps and/or a textual backbone that generated feature vectors. The training module also has instructions that cause the processor to determine a localized loss using a supervised loss function that compares an image-caption attention map with visual identifiers and adjust, based on the localized loss, the model weights the visual backbone and/or the textual backbone.

Abstract: An information processing device that is used to control a vehicle, includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires information pertaining to a switch that has been operated on a smart key corresponding to the vehicle; and a display control unit that performs control to display an operation screen for controlling the vehicle based on the information pertaining to the switch that has been acquired by the first acquisition unit.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining depths of a scene from a monocular image. In one embodiment, a method includes generating depth features from sensor data according to whether the sensor data includes sparse depth data. The method includes selectively injecting the depth features into a depth model. The method includes generating a depth map from at least a monocular image using the depth model that is guided by the depth features when injected. The method includes providing the depth map as depth estimates of objects represented in the monocular image.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein relate to controlling a robot. One embodiment receives an initial state of the robot, an initial nominal control trajectory of the robot, and a Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence bound between a modeled probability distribution for a stochastic disturbance and an unknown actual probability distribution for the stochastic disturbance; solves a bilevel optimization problem subject to the modeled probability distribution and the KL divergence bound using an iterative Linear-Exponential-Quadratic-Gaussian (iLEQG) algorithm and a cross-entropy process, the iLEQG algorithm outputting an updated nominal control trajectory, the cross-entropy process outputting a risk-sensitivity parameter; and controls operation of the robot based, at least in part, on the updated nominal control trajectory and the risk-sensitivity parameter.

Abstract: A distance estimating device has a processor configured to calculate first and second right side distances between a moving object and a right side feature and first and second left side distances between the moving object and a left side feature, determine a reference feature-to-feature distance between the right and left side feature at the current location, and estimate a right side and left side distance combination, where the feature-to-feature distance between a right left side feature obtained for each combination of first right side distance corrected by an estimation error or second right side distance and first left side distance corrected by an estimation error or second left side distance, is closest to a reference distance, determining it to be the distance between the moving object and the right side feature and the distance between the moving object and the left side feature, for the current location.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a cathode active material with excellent capacity properties. In order to achieve the object, the present disclosure provides a cathode active material to be used in a fluoride ion battery wherein the cathode active material mainly contains a metal element M and a metal element M?; the metal element M is at least one kind of Cu, Fe and Mn; and the metal element M? is at least one kind of Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho and Yb.

Abstract: A method of providing dynamic and variable learning for an ego vehicle by determining and using most-trustworthy inputs includes determining, based on ambient conditions of an environment of the ego vehicle, a level of trustworthiness of sensor values obtained from one or more ego vehicle sensors. The method also includes determining a level of confidence in an accuracy of an output of a subsystem of the ego vehicle. The output of the subsystem is based on the sensor values. The level of confidence is based on the level of trustworthiness of the sensor values.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to an improved camera system including directional optics to estimate the depth of grayscale and color images. In one embodiment, a camera system includes a graded lens to receive light associated with a scene and resolve multiple angles of the light according to parameters of the graded lens. The camera system also includes a detector that senses the light from the graded lens per pixel to integrate multiple views of the scene into a single image to estimate depth associated with objects and the single image includes data for views of the objects that overlap having resolved angles in association with the parameters.

Abstract: An electrode using a carbon nanotube as a conductive material, and excellent in resistance characteristics is provided. An electrode for a secondary battery herein disclosed has a collector, and an active material layer formed on the collector. The active material layer includes an active material and a carbon nanotube. At least a part of the surface of the carbon nanotube is coated with a material including an element with a lower electronegativity than that of carbon.

Abstract: A defects management system includes a server, a mobile computing device, and a local hub. The server has a database configured to store a plurality of records that respectively correspond to a plurality of products in an inspection line. The mobile computing device is configured to receive user input indicating a location of a defect on a selected product among the plurality of products. The local hub, in communication with the server, is configured to receive the user input from the mobile computing device and update a record among the plurality of records that corresponds to the selected product to include a defect indication in accordance with the user input.