Abstract: A notification device detecting a predetermined action of a driver of a vehicle in which travel is controlled by an autonomous driving system from a driver image including a face region representing a face of the driver and outputting a confidence rate indicating a certainty in the detection, specifying a message for inhibiting a control ending action which possibly follows the detected action and corresponds to an ending condition of control by the autonomous driving system, and notifying the driver of the specified message through an output device when an effectiveness level is higher than a predetermined notification threshold, the effectiveness level calculated by multiplying the confidence rate by a first probability of the control ending action being inhibited when notifying the driver of the specified message or by a second probability of the control ending action being performed when not notifying the driver of the specified message.

Abstract: A method for controlling a mobile vehicle comprises the steps of selecting a control mode for autonomous driving of the mobile vehicle and transmitting information on the selected control mode to the mobile vehicle. The control mode includes a first mode and a second mode of which a restriction on a driving safety is stricter than that of the first mode. The step of selecting the control mode comprises the steps of determining whether a remote support for the mobile vehicle is required, and selecting the first mode as the control mode when it is determined that the remote support is not required whereas selecting the second mode as the control mode when it is determined that the remote support is required.

Abstract: An information processing method generates a learned model for image recognition, wherein a learning model includes a plurality of first models and a second model that is different from the first models. The information processing method includes: dividing an image that is to be used in learning into a plurality of patches; inputting each of the divided plurality of patches into a respective model of the plurality of first models, the respective model being predetermined for each of the patches, and performing calculation; and combining an output of a calculation result of each of the plurality of first models in the second model and generating a learned model by learning the learning model.

Abstract: Compensation can be made for mismatch in abnormal driving behavior detection between an ego vehicle and its human driver. Sensor data of a surrounding driving environment can be acquired. The acquired sensor data can be analyzed to detect abnormal driving behavior by a vehicle in the surrounding driving environment. Responsive to detecting abnormal driving behavior by the vehicle in the surrounding driving environment, the abnormal driving behavior can be classified as to whether it is severe. If the abnormal driving behavior is classified as not being severe, an amplified version of the abnormal driving behavior can be caused to be presented to the human driver of the ego vehicle.

Abstract: A server includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on power control including at least one of power supply from an electrified vehicle to an electric power system and charge from the electric power system to the electrified vehicle, and a control unit configured to control display during use of an Internet service with a terminal owned by a user of the electrified vehicle. The control unit is configured to, when the electrified vehicle accedes to a request to perform the power control, generate a program command to reduce display of advertisements on the terminal as compared to when the electrified vehicle does not accede to the request to perform the power control.

Abstract: A brake light activation determining device has a processor configured to detect decrease in the speed of a vehicle ahead, which is located ahead of one's own vehicle, based on output information from a sensor that acquires information relating to the vehicle ahead, to discriminate whether the brake light of the vehicle ahead is activated based on an image representing the vehicle ahead, and to determine that the vehicle ahead is braking, when it has been discriminated that the brake light of the vehicle ahead has been activated, when the speed decrease timing at which reduction in the speed of the vehicle ahead has been detected and the activation timing at which brake light activation by the vehicle ahead was discriminated are synchronized for the vehicle ahead.

Abstract: A parking assist apparatus is configured to perform a deviation control including at least one of a first notification control and a stop control when the parking assist apparatus determines that a vehicle that is performing an automatic parking deviates from a learned route. The parking assist apparatus is configured to learn, as the learned route, a position of the vehicle in each of multiple learned images that an outside-vehicle camera captures a space including the vehicle and the parking space multiple times while the vehicle is performing a manual parking or the automatic parking; and perform the deviation control when the parking assist apparatus determines that the vehicle deviates based on a position of the vehicle in a comparative image and a position of the vehicle in the learned image.

Abstract: A VGI system is a system in which electric power is exchanged between a power grid of an electric power utility company and a BEV, and includes a plurality of BEVs, EVSE, and a management server that manages exchange of electric power. The EVSE includes specific EVSE available to a specific vehicle among BEVs, the specific vehicle being permanently permitted to use the EVSE. The management server performs processing for temporarily permitting use of the specific EVSE by a non-specific vehicle different from the specific vehicle on condition that the non-specific vehicle uses the specific EVSE to exchange electric power with the electric power utility company and performs processing for granting an incentive to a user of the non-specific vehicle or a manager of the specific EVSE on condition that the non-specific vehicle has exchanged electric power with the electric power utility company.

Abstract: The walking assistance device includes: a waist attachment portion attached to a waist; a left knee attachment portion attached to a left knee; and a stretchable left leg wire that connects the waist attachment portion and the left knee attachment portion and that extends along a front surface of a thigh. A motion of swinging the thigh forward is assisted by an elastic restoring force of the left leg wire. The waist attachment portion includes a wire guide extending along an outer periphery of the waist. The left leg wire extends from the left knee attachment portion toward the waist attachment portion, is guided by the wire guide and extends along the wire guide, and is selectively anchored to at least two or more anchoring portions separated from each other in a longitudinal direction of the wire guide.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of powering, by a transport, one or more critical components, running, by the transport, a first set of applications on the one or more critical components, responsive to a dependency of one or more noncritical components on the one or more critical components, powering, by the transport, the one or more noncritical components, and running, by the transport, a second set of applications on the one or more noncritical components.

Abstract: An upstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting an upstream gas temperature at a starting point in time of integration from the upstream gas temperature after starting of the internal combustion engine. A downstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting a downstream gas temperature at the starting point in time of the integration from the downstream gas temperature after the starting of the internal combustion engine. An anomaly diagnosing process obtains an anomaly determination result indicating that the exhaust purification device is in a removed state when a deviation between the upstream integrated value and the downstream integrated value is smaller than a reference level. The determination threshold is higher than a dew point.

Abstract: A power management system includes a vehicle, a charge and discharge apparatus including a cable and a connector, and a command device. The vehicle includes an inlet, a lock device, an electrical storage device, and a controller. The command device, just before an exchange of electric power with the vehicle is started, sends a lock command to the controller to cause the lock device to lock the connector such that the connector does not come off from the inlet. The controller controls the lock device such that the connector is locked upon receiving the lock command and sends a completion signal to the command device upon confirming that the connector is locked. The command device, when not receiving the completion signal after sending the lock command, resends the lock command, and, when, after resending the lock command, failing to confirm that the connector is locked, stops resending the lock command.

Abstract: A server configured to send data for updating software on a vehicle control device though wireless communication includes: one or more memories configured to store a program; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute the program. The one or more processors are configured to set first data and second data. The first data is data to be displayed on an in-vehicle display in order to obtain user's approval to the software update. The second data is data to be displayed on user equipment in order to obtain the user's approval to the software update. The second data has higher information granularity than the first data.

Abstract: A method of maintaining a cooling system includes the steps of introducing an ion exchange resin into a cooling path, performing ion cleaning of a coolant in the cooling path with the ion exchange resin, and adding an additive to the cooling path after removing the ion exchange resin from the cooling path.

Abstract: A system includes: a server; and a moving body wherein, the server is configured to communicate with the moving body, predict occurrence of a loss of communication with the moving body, and send information necessary to execute a first process to the moving body when the loss of communication with the moving body is predicted to occur; and the moving body is configured to receive the information from the server, and execute the first process based on the received information.

Abstract: A determination method for determining whether or not a battery pack is normal, the method comprising a step of measuring a time-dependent change in at least one of a temperature and an output voltage of the battery pack while heating the battery pack, and determining whether or not the battery pack is normal based on the measured time-dependent change. According to this determination method, it is possible to accurately determine whether or not the battery pack is normal.

Abstract: A city management support method comprises the steps of: obtaining service relevant data to perform a future supply forecast for one or more services; obtaining person relevant data to perform a future demand forecast for the one or more services; associating the supply forecast data with the demand forecast data by using at least one of location data and time data as a parameter; generating feedback data for service provider and feedback data for person based on the associated dataset; and transmitting the feedback data for service provider to a terminal of a service provider and transmitting the feedback data for person to a terminal of a person.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting roadway lane boundaries are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives image data of a portion of a roadway; receives historical vehicle trajectory data for the portion of the roadway; generates, from the historical vehicle trajectory data, a heatmap indicating, for a given pixel in the heatmap, an extent to which the given pixel coincides spatially with vehicle trajectories in the historical vehicle trajectory data; and projects the heatmap onto the image data to generate a composite image that is used in training a neural network to detect roadway lane boundaries, the projected heatmap acting as supervisory data. The trained neural network is deployed in a vehicle to generate and save map data including detected roadway lane boundaries for use by other vehicles or to control operation of the vehicle itself based, at least in part, on roadway lane boundaries detected by the trained neural network.

Abstract: A parking management device includes a memory configured to store the shape and size of a predetermined parking area; and a processor configured to determine parking positions of a plurality of vehicles requesting parking in the parking area, based on the shape and size of the parking area and outline information of each of the vehicles, and notify each of the vehicles of a parking position determined for the vehicle via a communication interface.

Abstract: An example operation includes providing by a first electronic control unit (ECU) a fixed private key of a vehicle to a server; generating by the first ECU a limited life certificate based on the fixed private key, wherein the first ECU acts as a certificate authority; and providing the limited life certificate to a second ECU within the vehicle to allow the second ECU to securely communicate with the server.

Abstract: Systems and devices are disclosed herein for absorbing unwanted target sounds. In one example, an acoustic scatterer for absorbing a target sound includes a housing defining a plurality of channels having an open end and a terminal end. The terminal ends of the plurality of channels are separate from each other and extend along a length of the housing. The acoustic scatterer also includes one or more spacers subdividing the plurality of channels along the length of the housing. In another example, a system for absorbing a target sound includes a plurality of acoustic scatterers, each having a housing that defines a plurality of channels having an open end and a terminal end. The terminal ends of the plurality of channels are separate from each other and extend along a length of the housing. The plurality of acoustic scatterers are stacked on top of each other in a lengthwise direction.

Abstract: There is provided a controller configured to perform: obtaining, in response to receiving a request to remotely operate an air conditioner in a vehicle, information about a place where the vehicle is parked; obtaining information about a time point; selecting an air conditioning mode in the vehicle based on the information about the place and the information about the time point; and transmitting to the vehicle a command to operate the air conditioning in the air conditioning mode thus selected.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a first video including a video in which an area behind a vehicle is captured; an image processing unit that generates a second video to be displayed on a display unit of the vehicle, based on the first video; a video switching unit to which the first video and the second video are input, and that outputs the first video or the second video to the display unit in accordance with a state of the second video; and a setting switching unit that forcibly switches a setting of the display unit to a setting for the first video when the video switching unit outputs the first video.

Abstract: A center configured to communicate with an OTA master configured to control software updating of a plurality of electronic control units installed in a vehicle includes: a communication device configured to receive, from the OTA master, identification information; a storage device storing propriety determination information used in propriety determination of determining whether the version of software implemented in each of the electronic control units is an implementation management version; and a processor configured to perform the propriety determination based on the identification information and the propriety determination information, and perform, by communicating with the OTA master, restoration control on at least one of the electronic control units regarding which a determination has been made that the version of the software is not the implementation management version.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores information on a package to be transported by a vehicle traveling within a site of a factory and attributes of each employee working at the factory, a controller that sets a condition on an employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package and formulates a transportation plan for the package based on the information on the package, and identifies at least one employee who has attributes satisfying the condition, from among one or more employees scheduled to ride in the vehicle transporting the package, based on the attributes of each employee and the condition on the employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package, and a communication interface that notifies a mobile terminal carried by the at least one employee of a request for loading or unloading the package.

Abstract: A power management apparatus includes a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires information about supply and demand of electric power for a power bank (power storage device), and a processor (controller) that controls electric power received by an electric vehicle from the power bank. The processor sets a power exchange ratio of electric power received from the power bank to electric power supplied to the power bank, depending on the supply and demand of electric power. The processor determines an amount of electric power to be received by the electric vehicle from the power bank, based on an amount of electric power supplied from the electric vehicle to the power bank, and the power exchange ratio.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface, a memory, and a controller. The memory stores correspondence information associating a travel history of a first vehicle configured to run on a fuel cell as a power source with a state of deterioration of the fuel cell. The controller receives, via the communication interface, information on a travel history from a second vehicle configured to run on a fuel cell as a power source, and outputs a notification about the fuel cell of the second vehicle based on the information on the travel history and the correspondence information.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a data communication module (DCM) in a vehicle is unable to send a message, routing the message from the DCM to a device detachably connected to the vehicle, and sending, by the device detachably connected to the vehicle, the routed message to a device external to the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for ground state inference is described. The method includes modeling a material state of a selected material. The method also includes inferring an energy function and a ground state of the selected material according to the modeling of the material state. The method further includes predicting a different material state of the selected material in response to the inferring of the ground state of the material.

Abstract: A management method for management of a CO2 emission amount emitted by production of a product in a production line where a first product and a second product are produced includes acquiring a power consumption amount consumed in the production line for a predetermined period, and calculating a CO2 emission amount for each product by allocating the power consumption amount based on a ratio of a total work time required to produce the first product in the production line during the predetermined period and a total work time required to produce the second product in the production line during the predetermined period.

Abstract: In the fiber bundle arranged in the innermost layer so as to be in contact with the liner, the end portions in the width direction of the adjacent fiber bundles are wound so as to overlap by 14% or more.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: a front camera configured to capture an image in front of the vehicle through a windshield of the vehicle; a front visibility recognition unit configured to recognize a degree of deterioration of front visibility through the windshield based on captured image of the front camera; a foreign object removing unit configured to remove a surface abnormality of a rear window that deteriorates rear visibility through the rear window of the vehicle; and a rear visibility control unit configured to operate the foreign object removing unit to remove the surface abnormality of the rear window based on the degree of deterioration of the front visibility.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a duct body for supplying cooling air toward a heating element, wherein the duct body has an upstream duct and a downstream duct, the duct body has an overlapping region in which the upstream duct and the downstream duct overlap, and in the overlapping region, the upstream duct is disposed outside the downstream duct via an air layer, the downstream duct has a convex portion on a surface on the upstream duct side, the upstream duct has a concave portion on a surface on the downstream duct side, and the overlapping region has a fitting structure in which at least a part of the convex portion fits with the concave portion, and has a heat insulating structure having the air layer on an upstream side of the fitting structure.

Abstract: An apparatus for distance estimation identifies a first partial region from a first surrounding image generated at a first point of time by a first camera, generates an interpolated second surrounding image corresponding to the first point of time by using a preceding second surrounding image and the succeeding second surrounding image, and estimates an interpolated position of the second camera corresponding to the first point of time. The apparatus detects one or more feature points for a target object represented in both the first partial region and the interpolated second surrounding image, and estimates the distance between the vehicle and the target object.

Abstract: An information processing method, for an information processing apparatus including a controller, includes a first step, by the controller, of acquiring positional information indicating a change over time in positions of a plurality of users, a second step, by the controller, of predicting a number of the users who will gather at a specific time at a boarding/alighting point to board/alight from a vehicle based on the change over time in the positions of the plurality of users indicated by the positional information, and a third step, by the controller, of determining a vehicle dispatch schedule for the vehicle to the boarding/alighting point based on the number of users predicted to gather at the specific time at the boarding/alighting point.

Abstract: A gas cylinder bundle includes a gas cylinder bundle frame and a high-pressure tank arranged on the gas cylinder bundle frame. The gas cylinder bundle frame is equipped with a plurality of levels of shelf portions in an up-down direction on which the high-pressure tank is arranged. The high-pressure tank is arranged such that an axial direction of the high-pressure tank arranged on a shelf portion of a next level above a shelf portion of one level faces a direction rotated by 90° with respect to an axial direction of the high-pressure tank arranged on the shelf portion of the one level.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having a cylinder in which an air-fuel mixture of gaseous fuel and intake air is combusted, an intake passage connected to the cylinder, and a supercharger for supercharging the intake air, in a case where backfire is generated in a set period before supercharging is performed by the supercharger, supercharging is performed at a smaller supercharging pressure than in a case where backfire is not generated in the set period.

Abstract: An operation management server manages a vehicle equipped with a battery able to store regenerated electric power. The operation management server includes: a processor that generates a message to be transmitted to the vehicle; and a storage that stores traveling histories of a plurality of vehicles. The processor estimates a transition in a power storage amount of the battery on a planned travel route of the vehicle based on a travel plan of the vehicle and the travel histories of the vehicles. The processor generates the message for proposing execution of external power supply from the battery to an outside of the vehicle before the power storage amount reaches a predetermined amount, when an estimation is made that the power storage amount will exceed the predetermined amount on the planned travel route.

Abstract: A server is configured to distribute update data for software for an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle. The server includes: a storage device that stores device identification information in which information that specifies a communication module mounted on the vehicle and information that specifies a portable terminal configured to communicate with an update control device mounted on the vehicle are associated with each other, and the update data; and a processor configured to determine whether communication with the update control device is possible, and transmit the update data to the portable terminal that is associated with the communication module when the determination unit determines that the communication with the update control device is not possible.

Abstract: The present information processing device includes a processor configured to determine, based on information indicating vehicle behavior about a plurality of vehicles, a boarding and alighting place of a transport vehicle that transports a user among places satisfying a predetermined condition concerning behavior of the plurality of vehicles.

Abstract: A turning control device includes a first processor, a second processor, a third processor, and a fourth processor. The first processor calculates a torque command value based on a difference between a target pinion angle and a pinion angle. The second processor calculates a compensation value compensating resistance of a turning mechanism based on a difference between a target pinion angular velocity and a pinion angular velocity. The third processor limits a variation range of the torque command value based on a limit value of the torque command value and limits a variation range of the compensation value based on a limit value of the compensation value. The fourth processor calculates a turning torque command value by subtracting the compensation value from the torque command value. The third processor changes the limit values based on a traveling state of a vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle guidance system of the present disclosure includes a guide device that guides the vehicle in a direction away from an estimated driving line estimated to be driven by other vehicle different from the vehicle as the evacuation direction based on the first information about a driving course on which the vehicle drive, the second information about the estimated driving line, and the third information about a current position of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for monitoring driving behavior of a vehicle includes obtaining first information including values related to driving operations of a vehicle based on sensors and obtaining a geographical location or a vehicle type of the vehicle. The method also includes extracting second information including values related to operations of vehicles associated with the vehicle type of the vehicle or the geographical location of the vehicle and determining whether there is a difference between the first information and the second information. The method further includes instructing the vehicle to adjust driving operations in response to determining that there is the difference between the first information and the second information.

Abstract: A server determines whether a vehicle is being driven. The server sends a notification, requesting a user of the vehicle to approve processing related to a software update of a control device installed in the vehicle. When the server determines that the vehicle is being driven, the server sends the notification to an in-vehicle terminal mounted on the vehicle. When the server determines that the vehicle is not being driven, the server sends the notification to a mobile terminal portable by the user of the vehicle.

Abstract: A notification method includes: determining candidate destinations for a vehicle from among a plurality of facilities requesting for electric power, using first information about the vehicle and second information about the plurality of facilities; and transmitting the candidate destinations to a user terminal of the vehicle. The first information includes a power generation type of an electric power stored in a power storage device included in the vehicle. The second information includes a power generation type of the electric power requested by each of the plurality of facilities.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus assists driving of a vehicle by performing control of the vehicle corresponding to a blind spot. A driving support apparatus stores risk estimation information for calculating a risk estimation value indicating a height of a risk of a blind spot, and determines a plurality of blind spots as one conglomerate risk when the plurality of blind spots are detected in front of a vehicle and satisfy a predetermined condition. When the conglomerate risk exists, the driving support apparatus calculates a risk estimation value indicating the height of the risk in each of the plurality of blind spots on the basis of the risk estimation information, and determines a control end position for ending the control of the vehicle corresponding to the blind spot and a target passing speed of the control end position of the vehicle on the basis of the risk estimation value.

Abstract: The drive route generation device according to the present disclosure is configured to execute a process of acquiring a designated point, a process of acquiring a designation condition for a drive route to be generated, a process of selecting one or a plurality of specific spots from a plurality of spots based on the position information and the designation condition for the plurality of spots, and a process of generating, as a drive route, a circulation route that comes back to a designated point via one or a plurality of specific spots using the designated point as a departure point.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle including a right lamp unit and a left lamp unit includes a flashing control unit configured to control flashing of the right lamp unit and the left lamp unit, and a behavior control unit configured to execute at least a deceleration process for decelerating the vehicle in a traveling lane and a course change process for causing the vehicle to enter an adjacent lane or a road shoulder from the traveling lane when a driver of the vehicle is in a state that is inappropriate to continue driving. The flashing control unit is configured to flash the right lamp unit and the left lamp unit in the same pattern when the behavior control unit executes the deceleration process, and to flash the right lamp unit and the left lamp unit in different patterns when the behavior control unit executes the course change process.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides to an apparatus for managing travel of a vehicle having an autonomous travel function. The apparatus executes the following steps. The apparatus sequentially acquires sensor information from a recognition sensor mounted on the vehicle. The apparatus sequentially generates prediction information showing a position of an object at a future time point based on the sensor information acquired sequentially. The apparatus transmits a remote support request to a remote support operator. The apparatus receives a remote support given in response to the remote support request by the remote support operator. The apparatus makes the vehicle autonomously travel in accordance with the remote support in response to confirming that an actual position of an object obtained from sensor information and a predicted position of an object obtained from prediction information correspond.

Abstract: A battery frame is fixed to a chassis and a battery pack is assembled to the battery frame. The battery frame includes a pair of crossbars and a pair of side bars. The crossbars extend in the vehicle width direction while being spaced apart in the vehicle front-rear direction, and have both ends in the vehicle width direction fixed to the side members. The side bars extend in the vehicle front-rear direction while being spaced apart in the vehicle width direction, and have front ends and rear ends detachably fixed to the crossbars.