Abstract: A control apparatus includes a memory configured to store information indicating a first travel amount on a fuel cell and a second travel amount on a battery for a vehicle that runs on the fuel cell and the battery as power sources, and a controller configured to control use of the fuel cell or the battery to increase a proportion of the second travel amount in the first travel amount and the second travel amount overall when an event indicating an overload on the fuel cell occurs.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a communication device configured to execute communication between the vehicle and a communication instrument different from an instrument mounted on the vehicle, and a control device configured to control the vehicle. The control device is configured to acquire a plurality of types of progress in a process of updating software of the control device. The control device is configured to transmit information on first progress among the plurality of types of progress to the communication instrument by using the communication device. The control device is configured to transmit information on second progress different from the first progress among the plurality of types of progress to the communication instrument by using the communication device in response to a transmission request from the communication instrument.

Abstract: A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a first riding space and a second riding space, each of which is a riding position on one side and the other side of a right side and a left side with respect to a front-rear direction, respectively, and is configured to: acquire a traveling route; identify a side where a landscape viewed from the vehicle is good from among the right side and the left side with respect to a traveling direction; identify a preferential space in which a degree of preferential treatment of a passenger riding in the first riding space or the second riding space is high; and determine the forward direction and the backward direction when the vehicle travels on the traveling route such that the preferential space is set to the side where the landscape viewed from the vehicle is good.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and being configured to: acquire a rotation angle by which a head of a user has rotated and a maintained time during which the rotation angle has been maintained, and in a case in which the rotation angle is less than a preset angle, or in a case in which the rotation angle is equal to or greater than the preset angle and the maintained time is less than a preset time, cause a notification unit to execute notification corresponding to the rotation angle and the maintained time.

Abstract: A server executes: a classification process of classifying each of a plurality of power resources into a first resource and a second resource with a capacity of the power storage device larger than the capacity of the power storage device of the first resource; and a resource selection process of selecting, from among the power resources, an adjustment resource of which participation in the power adjustment is requested. The resource selection process includes a first selection process of preferentially selecting the second resource as the adjustment resource over the first resource when a power adjustment request is a first request, and a second selection process of preferentially selecting the first resource as the adjustment resource over the second resource when the power adjustment request is a second request. A power adjustment amount of the first request is larger than a power adjustment amount of the second request.

Abstract: A device includes a first interface unit connected to a first controller area network (CAN) bus, a second interface unit connected to a second CAN bus, and a control unit configured to identify, in a case where transmission of a CAN frame is started, a CAN bus detected to be in a dominant state first after end of arbitration from the first CAN bus or the second CAN bus, as a CAN bus to which a transmission source device of the CAN frame is connected.

Abstract: A vehicle door unlocking system of the present disclosure includes an in-vehicle device installed in a vehicle and an external device installed outside the vehicle. The in-vehicle device acquires unlocking information externally given to the vehicle to unlock the door without a key operation and outputs an unlocking command for making a door locking device unlock the door. The external device acquires the unlocking information defined by a user of the vehicle from the in-vehicle device or a portable terminal of the user and stores the unlocking information as an emergency unlocking information. The external device sends a door unlocking permission signal of the door to the in-vehicle device to make the in-vehicle device output the unlocking command when the unlocking information given to the vehicle and sent from the in-vehicle device coincides with the emergency unlocking information.

Abstract: A parking assistance system includes: a non-on-board sensor that is able to acquire first information that is three-dimensional information of a first area including a target parking space being a target area in which an own vehicle is parked; an on-board sensor that is able to acquire second information that is three-dimensional information of a second area being a surrounding area of the own vehicle and constituting a part of the first area; and a control device configured to determine a route along which the own vehicle moves to the target parking space based on the first information and the second information and to control the own vehicle such that the own vehicle moves along the route.

Abstract: Provided is a driving support device (1) including: an operation sensor configured to acquire operation information that is information on an operation on a driving operation device included in an own vehicle; a periphery sensor configured to acquire peripheral information that is information on a target object existing in a periphery of the own vehicle; and a control device configured to execute deceleration support control of supporting a driving operation executed by a driver to decelerate the own vehicle when existence of a target object in front of the own vehicle is detected based on the peripheral information and a predetermined precondition relating to the target object and the own vehicle is satisfied.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to sense trouble with a first sensor among sensors that are capable of detecting objects around a host vehicle and whose sensing areas at least partially overlap, detect another vehicle traveling in an area around the host vehicle, based on sensor signals from the respective sensors, and decelerate the host vehicle at first deceleration in the case where trouble with the first sensor is sensed and where the other vehicle is detected on the basis of a sensor signal from a second sensor having lower priority than the first sensor in sensing the other vehicle cutting in front of the host vehicle.

Abstract: An electrode for a battery includes a laminate including an active material layer and a current collector, and a sealing portion covering an end portion surface of the laminate. The laminate includes two principal faces facing each other, and an end face. The end portion surface includes the end face, and an adjacent face on each of the two principal faces. The adjacent face includes one or more asperities. The sealing portion includes a first sealing portion covering the end face, and a second sealing portion covering at least part of the adjacent face. The second sealing portion is present in one or more recessed portions of the one or more asperities of the adjacent face and does not include a portion higher than a height position of the one or more asperities that is highest. The first sealing portion and the second sealing portion are connected.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to identifying connected vehicles through invoking maneuvers by vehicles that assist with distinguishing between safety messages having unassociated identifiers originating from the connected vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying surrounding vehicles including indeterminate vehicles from a driving environment using temporary identifiers received from the surrounding vehicles. The method also includes generating trajectories for the indeterminate vehicles. The method also includes distinguishing the indeterminate vehicles from communications using the temporary identifiers by observing execution of the trajectories by the indeterminate vehicles. The method also includes executing a planning task by a subject vehicle using safety information from the communications.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold.

Abstract: A vibration damper that damp vibrations transmitted between a drive unit and a support body. The vibration damper comprises: an elastic member interposed between the drive unit and the support body; a rotor supported by the drive unit or the support body; and a vibration translating mechanism that rotates the rotor and reciprocates the rotor between the drive unit and the support body, in response to the vibrations acting in a vibrating direction to isolate the drive unit and the support body away from each other and bring the drive unit and the support body closer together.

Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to: acquire a first image, a second image and report information, the first image being an image resulting from photographing a vehicle before a user gets in the vehicle, the second image being an image resulting from photographing the vehicle after the user gets out of the vehicle, the report information being relevant to a change in a state of the vehicle and being reported by the user; detect the change in the state of the vehicle based on the first image and the second image; and evaluate the user based on the detected change and the report information.

Abstract: Systems and methods to improve machine learning by explicitly over-fitting environmental data obtained by an imaging system, such as a monocular camera are disclosed. The system includes training self-supervised depth and pose networks in monocular visual data collected from a certain area over multiple passes. Pose and depth networks may be trained by extracting data from multiple images of a single environment or trajectory, allowing the system to overfit the image data.

Abstract: A delivery server includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: transmit arrival information of a product to a user terminal carried by a user who has ordered the product; transmit, in a case where unattended delivery is instructed by the user terminal, unattended delivery information to a home delivery terminal of a delivery person who delivers the product, and request a signature of the user; transmit the signature information to the home delivery terminal in response to receiving signature information regarding the signature of the user from the user terminal; and transmit delivery completion information of the product to the user terminal.

Abstract: A collision avoidance assist apparatus executes an emergency steering control including processes to determine a target steering torque used to change a steering angle to avoid a collision of a vehicle with an obstacle so as not to move the vehicle out of a moving lane when the vehicle has a high probability of colliding with the obstacle, and the moving lane is a straight lane, and applies a steering torque corresponding to the determined target steering torque to a steering mechanism. The collision avoidance assist apparatus stops executing the emergency steering control when determining that the moving lane is a curved lane, based on only one of left and right lane markings at an avoidance side of the obstacle which is the left or the right side of the obstacle which the vehicle passes over while executing the emergency steering control.

Abstract: An injection molding machine includes a cylinder that accommodates a molten resin, a discharging nozzle, a piston that discharges the molten resin from the discharging nozzle, and one or more processors configured to execute the following functions. The functions include calculating a target pressure at which a flow rate of the molten resin discharged from the discharging nozzle becomes an indicated flow rate, controlling a pressure of the molten resin in the cylinder such that the pressure becomes the target pressure, acquiring a temperature of the molten resin in the cylinder, and acquiring a pseudo-plastic viscosity corresponding to the temperature of the molten resin. The target pressure is calculated based on the indicated flow rate, the temperature of the molten resin, the pseudo-plastic viscosity, and the size of the discharging nozzle.

Abstract: An anomaly determination apparatus for a vehicle that includes a transmission includes an execution device and a memory device. The memory device is configured to store map data that defines pre-trained map, which has been trained through machine learning. When a variable representing time-series data of a rotation speed of a gear is fed to the map as an input variable, the map outputs a state variable representing a state of the gear as an output variable. The execution device is configured to execute: an obtaining process that obtains the variable representing the time-series data as a value of the input variable; and a determination process that determines whether there is an anomaly in the transmission based on a value of the output variable that is output by the map when the value of the input variable is fed to the map.

Abstract: Composite materials include a steel matrix with structural aramid formed of individual fibers penetrating into the matrix at substantial depth. The fibers typically have defined diameters and large ratios of penetration depth to fiber diameter. Specified methods for forming the composite materials have a unique ability to achieve the large ratios of penetration depth to fiber diameter.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting data includes a memory that stores a vehicle identifier for identifying a vehicle; and a processor configured to associate, when a time of generation of data representing road environment around the vehicle is included in a first period, a first hash value with the data and to associate, when the time of generation is included in a second period different from the first period, a second hash value different from the first hash value with the data. The data is generated by a sensor mounted on the vehicle. The first hash value and the second hash value are obtained by irreversibly transforming the vehicle identifier.

Abstract: An occupant crash protection includes: a seat-side airbag device configured to deploy a seat-side gas cushion portion between an aisle and an occupant sitting on a seat, the seat-side airbag device being placed around the seat on which the occupant sits; and a wall-side airbag device configured to deploy a wall-side gas cushion portion toward the seat-side gas cushion portion to be deployed from the seat side to the aisle, the wall-side airbag device being placed inside a vehicle cabin wall.

Abstract: A getting-off support device of a vehicle continues to issue an alarm for a predetermined time when a physical body condition indicating that a physical body that obstructs getting-off of an occupant in the vehicle exists around the vehicle and a getting-off condition indicating that the occupant in the vehicle intends to get off the vehicle are satisfied, and prolongs the time of issuing the alarm when both of the physical body condition and the getting-off condition are further satisfied while the issuing of the alarm is continued.

Abstract: A method for producing a solid electrolyte for an all-solid state battery, the solid electrolyte having the following chemical formula XM2(PS4)3, where X is lithium (Li), sodium (Na), silver (Ag) or magnesium (Mg0,5) and M is titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), germanium (Ge), silicon (Si), tin (Sn) or a mixture of X and aluminium (X+Al) and the method including: mixing powders so as to obtain a powder mixture; pressing a component with powder mixture; and sintering component for a period of time equal to or greater than 100 hours so as to obtain the solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte exhibits the peaks in positions of 2?=13.64° (±1°), 13.76° (±1°), 14.72° (±1°), 15.36° (±1°), 15.90° (±1°), 16.48° (±1°), 17.42° (±1°), 17.56° (±1°), 18.58° (±1°), and 22.18° (±1°) in a X-ray diffraction measurement using CuK? line. The disclosure is also related to a method of producing a solid electrolyte.

Abstract: A self-position estimation accuracy verification method includes a step of moving a mobile object to a first check point, a step of acquiring first check information, a step of starting a self-position estimation using the first check information as an initial value, a step of moving the mobile object to a second check point while continuing the self-position estimation, a step of acquiring second check information, and a step of calculating a deviation between a position and a posture of the mobile object on the map estimated by the self-position estimation at the second check point and a position and a posture of the mobile object on the map indicated in the second check information, and verifying the accuracy of the self-position estimation based on the deviation.

Abstract: A driving diagnosis device includes: an event display unit that displays at least one event that is executed while a vehicle is driven; an event determination unit that determines whether the event is executed; a change element giving unit that gives, to a character of a game that is displayed on a display unit of an operation terminal by executing a game application, a change element generated in response to the event determined to be executed by the event determination unit; and a determination prohibition unit that causes the event determination unit not to determine that the same event is executed, when the same event is executed after the number of times the same event is executed exceeds a limited number of times that is a predetermined plurality of times.

Abstract: In a control device for a vehicle, the vehicle is configured to charge an electric power storage device with an electric power supplied from a charger. The control device includes an input and output circuit and a control circuit. The input and output circuit is configured to input predetermined signal and output the predetermined signal. The control circuit is configured to prepare for charging of the electric power storage device by controlling transmission and reception of signals through the input and output circuit according to a predefined communication sequence. The control circuit is configured to proceed with the predefined communication sequence by transmitting the second signal to the charger even when the vehicle does not receive the first signal at the predetermined timing.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assist apparatus acquires a collision index value which represents a magnitude of a collision of an own vehicle and a dozing level of a driver of the own vehicle, and executes a secondary collision reducing control of executing a forcibly-decelerating process of forcibly decelerating the own vehicle when a light collision condition is satisfied, and a dozing condition is satisfied. The vehicle driving assist apparatus executes the forcibly-decelerating process so as to decelerate the own vehicle with controlling a deceleration of the own vehicle such that the deceleration of the vehicle realized when the light collision condition and the dozing condition become satisfied, and the dozing level is relatively low, is smaller than the deceleration of the own vehicle realized when the deceleration when the light collision condition and the dozing condition become satisfied, and the dozing level is relatively high.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for an in-vehicle infotainment platform for a vehicle. The in-vehicle infotainment platform includes a memory and an electronic control unit. The memory is configured to store meeting information including video conferencing information or audio conferencing information. The electronic control unit is coupled to the memory. The electronic control unit is configured to automatically connect to a video conference using the video conferencing information or automatically connect to an audio conference using the audio conferencing information.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material includes a hydrogen storage alloy. The hydrogen storage alloy has an A2B7 crystal structure. The hydrogen storage alloy includes nickel. The saturation magnetization per unit mass is 1.9 emu·g?1 or more.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle that is provided with (i) an engine, (ii) a first starting device including an electric motor and a high-voltage power supply device, such that the first starting device cranks the engine by using the electric motor, (iii) a second starting device including a starter motor and a low-voltage power supply device, such that the second starting device cranks the engine by using the starter motor, and (iv) various kinds of electrical equipment operable by an electric power supplied from the low-voltage power supply device. In a case in which start of the engine by cranking the engine by using the first starting device has failed and then the start of the engine by cranking the engine by using the second starting device has failed, the control apparatus cranks the engine by using the second starting device again.

Abstract: A vehicle is configured to transport a passenger through autonomous travel. The vehicle includes an in-vehicle camera configured to image the passenger to generate an image, a camera controller configured to control the in-vehicle camera, and a passenger information detection unit configured to detect information about the passenger. The passenger information detection unit measures the number of passengers and the camera controller stops an operation of the in-vehicle camera in a case where the number of passengers is one.

Abstract: An electric powered vehicle may include a battery ECU housed in a battery pack and a vehicle ECU mounted on a vehicle body and communicably connected to the battery ECU. The vehicle ECU may be configured to transmit first and second identification data for detecting communication disruptions to the battery ECU. The battery ECU may be configured to: when the battery ECU receives both the first and the second identification data, determine that the battery ECU is communicably connected to the vehicle ECU and enable a predetermined mutual monitoring function for the vehicle ECU; and when the battery ECU receives the first identification data but does not receive the second identification data, determine that the battery ECU is communicably connected to another ECU other than the vehicle ECU and disable the mutual monitoring function for the vehicle ECU.

Abstract: A window glass heating device for a vehicle is provided with a window heater configured to heat a whole area of a window glass, a window heater control unit configured to control the window heater, a camera heater that is an electric heater which heats a camera-imaging window area which is a part of the window glass included in an imaging area of a camera that images a vehicle exterior from a vehicle interior via the window glass, and a camera heater control unit configured to control supply of power to the camera heater. The camera heater control unit is configured to acquire window heater operation information, acquire a temperature of the camera heater, and control supply of power to the camera heater such that the temperature of the camera heater is within a predetermined temperature range based on the window heater operation information.

Abstract: A binder composition includes a dispersion medium and a group of binder particles. The group of binder particles is dispersed in the dispersion medium. The group of binder particles include a polymer material. The polymer material includes a constitutional unit originated from vinylidene difluoride. The group of binder particles has a number-based particle size distribution. The particle size distribution satisfies the following conditions: “0.19?X?0.26”, “0.69?Y?0.76”, and “0?Z?0.05”. Here, “X” represents a frequency of particles each having a particle size of less than or equal to 40 ?m. “Y” indicates a frequency of particles each having a particle size of more than 40 ?m and less than or equal to 110 ?m. “Z” indicates a frequency of particles each having a particle size of more than 110 ?m and less than or equal to 250 ?m.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an asynchronous injection valve configured to inject water into an intake port when one or more intake valves are closed and a synchronous injection valve configured to inject water into the intake port when the one or more intake valves are open. The asynchronous injection valve and the synchronous injection valve are configured to have injection characteristics that are different between the asynchronous injection valve and the synchronous injection valve.

Abstract: An injection molding machine capable of changing the position of the supply hole of the resin material in a cylinder as appropriate is provided. An injection molding machine according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a supply hole through which a resin material is supplied to an inside of a cylinder, the supply hole being formed in a side wall part of the cylinder; and a closing part that, when a torpedo piston moves to a side of an other end part of the cylinder in order to plasticize the resin material, moves together with the torpedo piston and closes the supply hole.

Abstract: The power storage device includes power storage units arranged with a conductive plate interposed therebetween in the vertical direction, each of the power storage units includes an electrode stack including bipolar electrodes stacked with a separator interposed therebetween, and a sealing member provided around the electrode stack so as to seal a housing space formed between adjacent electrodes of the electrode stack. At least one of the power storage units is provided with an overhang member on an outer peripheral surface of the sealing member. The overhang member includes an inclined portion that extends from the outer peripheral surface of the sealing member toward the outside of the power storage unit and inclines downward as it leaves away from the outer peripheral surface of the sealing member, and a top portion formed at a lower end of the inclined portion.

Abstract: A vehicle control method for controlling a vehicle including executing a front wheel and a rear wheel including: front wheel-only steering operation control for turning the front wheel without turning the rear wheel in response to a steering instruction from a driving entity; executing rear wheel-only steering operation control for turning the rear wheel without turning the front wheel in response to the steering instruction from the driving entity; and executing a specified control execution process for executing one type of steering operation control specified by the driving entity among a plurality of types of steering operation control including at least the front wheel-only steering operation control and the rear wheel-only steering operation control.

Abstract: A travel control device is configured to make an autonomous driving vehicle travel in such a way that the autonomous driving vehicle arrives at a specified position specified by a user who intends to board the autonomous driving vehicle, when the autonomous driving vehicle has reached a predetermined range from the specified position, transmit an information sending request notifying the user terminal that the autonomous driving vehicle has reached a vicinity of the specified position and requesting sending of position identifying information for identifying a position at which the user intends to board the autonomous driving vehicle to the user terminal via a communication circuit, and when receiving the position identifying information via the communication circuit, change a position of the autonomous driving vehicle, based on the position identifying information in such a way that the autonomous driving vehicle comes close to the user.

Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.

Abstract: A vehicle is positively charged with static electricity due to an external factor. The vehicle includes a battery, a static eliminator sheet, and a holding member. The battery includes at least one cell, an electrolyte, a resin case, and negative and positive terminals. The resin case accommodates the components and electrolyte of each cell. The negative terminal is grounded to the vehicle body. The positive terminal is supplied with electric power from a charger. The static eliminator sheet is made of a material on a positive side of a triboelectric series with respect to a material of the resin case. The holding member holds the static eliminator sheet and the resin case in contact with each other. The holding member holds the battery at a predetermined location of the vehicle body in a state where the resin case and the static eliminator sheet are slidable due to vehicle body vibrations.

Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle allows passengers to transfer from a passenger vehicle, which is a relatively large vehicle, to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is provided with an autonomous travel control unit (steering control unit) configured to, when the passenger vehicle is stopped, cause the autonomous vehicle to pull up alongside the passenger vehicle such that an entrance (second entrance) of the autonomous vehicle is placed next to an entrance (first entrance) of the passenger vehicle.

Abstract: A parking lock device for positioning a parking head moved to a parking position in a parking position and holding the parking state includes a first switching mechanism and a second switching mechanism. The first switching mechanism is switched between a coupled state in which the parking head and the parking rod are coupled to each other and a non-coupled state in which the first switching mechanism is relatively movable. The second switching mechanism is switched between a locked state in which the parking head is positioned in the fixed case and an unlocked state in which the parking rod is retracted in the locked state to release the positioning of the parking head with respect to the fixed case.

Abstract: During a period from when an automated driving vehicle starts pulling over to a sidewalk side until the vehicle pulls over completely thereto, an operation control section causes the vehicle to immediately stop when an object that can be an obstacle exists in at least one of a middle front area, a sidewalk-side front area, and a sidewalk-side side area that are areas each within a predetermined distance at a middle front, at a sidewalk-side front, and on a sidewalk-side side of the vehicle, respectively. During the period, the operation control section does not cause the vehicle to stop when the object does not exist in any of the middle front area, the sidewalk-side front area, and the sidewalk-side side area, even when the object exists in an area surrounding the vehicle other than the middle front area, the sidewalk-side front area, and the sidewalk-side side area.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal worn by a user riding on a vehicle or a terminal on the vehicle, and an information processing apparatus. The terminal acquires position information. The information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire the position information acquired by the terminal as position information of the vehicle, and identify a first parking slot in which the vehicle is parked from the position information of a plurality of parking slots included in a parking lot and the position information of the vehicle. The terminal worn by the user or the terminal on the vehicle acquires the position information by using a first signal from a first satellite and a second signal from a second satellite.