Abstract: A platooning management device, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The platooning management device includes a processor that calculates driving costs of vehicles in a platooning line, and compares the driving costs of the vehicles to determine whether it is necessary to change a location of a leading vehicle in the platooning line. When it is necessary to change the location, the processor performs location change control. A storage stores driving costs obtained by the processor and information received from the vehicles in the platooning line.

Abstract: A method includes determining a current state of an environment of an autonomous agent, such as a vehicle. The method also includes determining, via a first neural network, a set of actions based on the current state. The method further includes determining whether further analysis of the set of actions is desired. The method selects an action from the set of actions using a model-based solution based on a reward and a risk of the action when further analysis is desired. The method also includes selecting the action from the set of actions according to a metric when further analysis is not desired. The method controls the autonomous agent to perform the selected action.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided that are related to generating repair orders, including vehicular repair orders. A computing device can receive repair-related information associated with a repair order. The repair-related information can include information about a first repair attribute of one or more repair attributes. The computing device can determine a first ontology related to the first repair attribute. The first ontology can be further related to a first template. The computing device can determine modified repair-related information by at least utilizing the first template to modify at least a first portion of the repair-related information that includes the information about the first repair attribute. The computing device can generate an output related to the repair order that includes the modified repair-related information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for vehicles to closely follow one another safely through partial automation. Following closely behind another vehicle has significant fuel savings benefits, but is unsafe when done manually by the driver. On the opposite end of the spectrum, fully autonomous solutions require inordinate amounts of technology, and a level of robustness that is currently not cost effective.

Abstract: A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to determine optimal vehicle actions based on a modified version of a Nash equilibrium solution to a multiple agent game, wherein the Nash equilibrium solution is modified by performing an adaptive grid search optimization technique based on calculating rewards and penalties for the agents to determine optimal vehicle actions, wherein the agents include one or more of autonomous vehicles, non-autonomous vehicles, stationary objects, and non-stationary objects including pedestrians and wherein the rewards and the penalties for the agents are determined by simulating behavior of the agents to determine possible future states for the agents to determine the optimal vehicle actions. The instructions can include further instructions to determine a vehicle path based on the optimal vehicle actions and download the vehicle path to the vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a system and method for interfacing with physical input mechanisms of a vehicle and electrically controlling signals from the physical input mechanisms to a computer of the vehicle. Examples of such physical input mechanisms include a gas pedal, a brake pedal, a turn signal stalk, a button, and the like. In one example, the method may include receiving, via a first interface, a request to actuate a component of a vehicle that is controlled by a physical input mechanism, generating, via a processor, a control signal that corresponds to an actuation signal from the physical input mechanism, and transmitting, via a second interface, the generated control signal to a control unit of the vehicle for actuating the component of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle routing system includes a vehicle routing and analytics (VRA) computing device, one or more databases, and one or more vehicles communicatively coupled to the VRA computing device. The VRA computing device is configured to generate an optimal route for a vehicle to travel that maximizes potential revenue for operation of the vehicle, the optimal route including a schedule of a plurality of tasks, and generate analytics associated with operation of the vehicle. The VRA computing device is further configured to provide a management hub software application accessible by vehicle users associated with vehicles, tasks sources, and other users.

Abstract: A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for a multi-dimension artificial intelligence (AI) agriculture advisor is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include creating a user profile. Embodiments of the present invention may include preparing and transforming the external data. Embodiments of the present invention may include conducting a hypothesis on the transformed data. Embodiments of the present invention may include validating the transformed data. Embodiments of the present invention may include training an artificial intelligence (AI) model based on the transformed data. Embodiments of the present invention may include validating and retraining the artificial intelligence (AI) model. Embodiments of the present invention may include matching the user data with the artificial intelligence (AI) model. Embodiments of the present invention may include ranking results based on the matching the user data with the artificial intelligence (AI) model.

Abstract: An asset management mapping system including a microphone recording the audio of the asset inspector and a condition signal generator generating an condition signal based on asset inspector input from a keypad including condition selectors recorded into a global positioning system recorder that associates the audio, condition signal, and video with a gps location to create a pavement condition database. The database is interpreted to generate a condition output map of the areas inspected and provide associated video of each location on the map.

Abstract: A system and method for testing a tractor trailer is disclosed. The system includes a housing having connections for establishing an electrical and pressure connection to the electrical system and ABS of a tractor trailer, respectively, a circuit board that generates electrical signals and pressure signals corresponding to the connections, an electronic device for displaying the electrical signals and pressure signals, a wireless transceiver for transmitting the electrical signals and pressure signals to the electronic device, and a memory for storing the transmitted electrical signals and pressure signals. The method includes connecting the tractor trailer electrical system and ABS connections to the housing, powering on the tractor trailer, querying an electrical signal and/or pressure signal of the electrical system and ABS, wirelessly transmitting the electrical signal and/or pressure signal to an electronic device, and displaying the electrical signal and/or pressure signal on the electronic device.

Abstract: A sensing device has a strain gauge device, an idler, and a connecting rod assembly. The sensing device receives a mechanical force to generate a deformation accordingly, and generates a sensing signal according to the deformation. The idler is a ring body which has a ring contracting portion contacting a transmission belt, so as to receive the mechanical force which the transmission belt applies on the idler. A first end of the connecting rod assembly is connected to the strain gauge device via a rod slot which is located on a side of the strain gauge device, and a second end of the connecting rod assembly is pivotally connected to the idler via a pivot connecting portion of the idler, such that the mechanical force which the idler suffers can be transmitted to the strain gauge device.

Abstract: A method and a system for verifying integrity of GPS position information according to a disclosed embodiment is a method performed in an unmanned moving object including one or more processors and a memory for storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors. The method includes an operation of performing an authentication process for a connected base station, by the unmanned moving object, an operation of measuring a position of the unmanned moving object by performing wireless communication with a plurality of authenticated base stations, and an operation of verifying the GPS position information by comparing a value of the measured position with a position value of the GPS position information received from a satellite.

Abstract: A green area maintenance system includes a motor scythe, a scythe position determining device for determining scythe position coordinates, and a position recording device. The scythe position determining device is attached to the motor scythe. The position recording device is designed for recording a series of scythe position coordinates of a delimiting border while the motor scythe is being guided together with the scythe position determining device along the delimiting border of an area to be maintained.

Abstract: A parking assistance unit comprises: a step determination unit that executes a first determination process for determining whether a step that a vehicle wheel has contacted is a step for stopping the vehicle; and a braking/drive force setting unit that executes a stop request control for requesting stopping of a vehicle by increasing the braking force of the vehicle, when a step has been determined by the first determination process to be a step for stopping the vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing system and an information processing device that are capable of reflecting an emotion of a user and performing route search. In an information processing system including a search unit that performs the route search on the basis of route search information that is input, to output a result searched by the search unit, the search unit performs the route search on the basis of the route search information, and emotion information obtained from an artificial intelligence module that generates an emotion of the same quality as in an emotion of a searcher.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving control apparatus, a driving control method, and a program that can resolve a conflict between a deliberate action and a reflex action during determination of a next action in autonomous driving. During autonomous driving, a reflex action is determined as a simplified action on the basis of detection results detected by a variety of sensors provided in a vehicle, and a deliberate action ranked higher than a reflex action is determined through elaborate processing. A plurality of resolution modes are made available to deal with a possible conflict between the reflex action and the deliberate action, and by which of the resolution modes the conflict is resolved is specified in advance so that the conflict is resolved by the specified resolution mode. The present disclosure is applicable to motor vehicles that drive autonomously.

Abstract: An example method determines a plurality of traffic sections for a geographical traffic area, each traffic section including a road segment and vehicle(s) traveling on the road segment; monitors a responsive vehicle rate for a first traffic section of the plurality of traffic sections; and assigns, based on the responsive vehicle rate of the first traffic section, the first traffic section to one of a first section server dedicated to manage the first traffic section and a remote management server capable of managing the plurality of traffic sections of the geographical traffic area, the first section server comprising computing device(s) of responsive vehicle(s) in the first traffic section.

Abstract: A method and system for navigating traffic for an autonomously controllable vehicle operates by detecting at least one target vehicle within a traffic environment with at least one sensor disposed on a primary vehicle. The system obtains information with a plurality of sensors disposed on the primary vehicle of the traffic environment and the at least target vehicle and predicts a maneuver of the at least one target vehicle with a controller disposed on the primary vehicle for a future time based on the information obtained relating to the traffic environment and the at least one target vehicle. The system further generates a recommended path for the primary vehicle with the controller that avoids conflicts with a future position of the at least one target vehicle based on predicted maneuvers of the at least one target vehicle.

Abstract: A system and method to distribute pesticides, fertilizers, water, and other materials on a farm with accuracy and precision is disclosed in order to combat the problems imposed on the environment due to over-fertilization and over use of pesticides. This system and method is a social networking control system in which multiple farms have independent grids of sensors capable of detecting the presence of pesticides, fertilizers, water, and other materials in the air, in the top-soil, and in the groundwater. These grids of sensors detect the location and concentration of these materials and reports them back to a social control system for analysis. The control system regulates the deposition of further chemicals through computer control of the chemical dispersal systems.

Abstract: A system determines wind information for achieving a desired outcome for travel of a selected group of one or more vehicles along one or more routes. The system determines wind drag and/or a parasitic energy loss for travel by different potential groups of vehicles based on the wind information. The system determines the wind drag and/or parasitic energy loss for each of plural, different locations along the one or more routes, visually presents the wind drag and/or parasitic energy loss for each of the different groups of vehicles, and/or determines the selected group of the one or more vehicles from the different groups of vehicles for travel along the one or more routes to achieve the desired outcome based on the wind drag and/or parasitic energy loss that is determined.