Abstract: Provided is an apparatus that includes a path planning unit that determines a travel path of a moving apparatus, calculates a path cost for each of a plurality of path candidates by applying a cost calculation algorithm in which a path that enables more stable traveling has a lower cost, and determines the path candidate having the path cost that has been calculated to be the lowest cost as the travel path that is best. The path planning unit further sets a plurality of sampling points in a path, calculates a cost corresponding to each sampling point by applying the cost calculation algorithm in which the cost becomes higher as the difference between landing heights of the left and right legs at each sampling point becomes larger, and calculates an addition value of the costs of the sampling points as the path cost.

Abstract: An AI based system and method for managing heterogeneous network-agnostic swarm of robots is disclosed. The method includes receiving a set of commands from a human machine interface associated with one or more electronic devices, determining one or more robotic capabilities associated with autonomous robot and capturing one or more positional parameters by using one or more sensors. The method includes broadcasting the one or more robotic capabilities and the one or more positional parameters to each of the one or more autonomous robots and determining one or more situational parameters associated with the one or more autonomous robots. Furthermore, the method includes detecting one or more targets and allocating the one or more tasks and the detected one or more targets among the one or more autonomous robots.

Abstract: An unmanned driving system includes a moving object movable by remote control; a moving object configured to be movable by remote control; a remote control unit configured to perform the remote control for the moving object, wherein the remote control unit moves the moving object that has been finished a first work at a first place in a factory to a second place in the factory by the remote control, wherein the first work is a work using production equipment, wherein the second place is a place for performing a second work on the moving object; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire abnormality information, wherein the abnormality information includes at least one of information regarding abnormality in the production equipment, information regarding abnormality in the moving object, and information regarding abnormality in another moving object of the same type as the moving object; and an estimation unit configured to estimate whether or not the moving object has an abnormality using the abno

Abstract: Sports and fitness applications for an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are described. In an example embodiment, a UAV can be configured to track a human subject using perception inputs from one or more onboard sensors. The perception inputs can be utilized to generate values for various performance metrics associated with the activity of the human subject. In some embodiments, the perception inputs can be utilized to autonomously maneuver the UAV to lead the human subject to satisfy a performance goal. The UAV can also be configured to autonomously capture images of a sporting event and/or make rule determinations while officiating a sporting event.

Abstract: A management apparatus manages driving of a plurality of automated guided vehicles that convey a conveyance target object in a production facility. The apparatus acquires remaining amount information of a battery provided in a selected vehicle selected from the plurality of automated guided vehicles, acquires a conveyance condition of a conveyance target object, the conveyance condition including a condition for specifying a conveyance destination, estimates, based on the remaining amount information and the conveyance condition, a remaining amount of the battery at the time of conveying the conveyance target object to the conveyance destination, and decides a driving mode of the selected vehicle based on an estimation result of the estimation unit.

Abstract: A parking assist device performs parking assist. A vehicle receives assist from the parking assist device. A type determination unit determines a type of received data, which represents data received from the parking assist device or the vehicle. A replacement transmission unit replaces the received data with at least one transmission data, which is prepared in advance, according to the type of the received data and transmits the transmission data to the receiver device, when the type of the received data is a first type. A transfer unit transfers the received data as the transmission data to the receiver device when the type of the received data is a preset second type.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for planning locations to surface an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to reset inertial navigation errors by obtaining a GPS fix. A spatial point process model for historical maritime traffic is used to quantify surfacing risk throughout an operational area. Accumulated navigation uncertainty for each candidate surfacing point of a feasible path is modeled and penalized. This allows autonomy to balance the tradeoff between surfacing risk, navigation performance and pathlength. The planning method results in minimizing the path length the UUV travels and the number of times the UUV surfaces, while satisfying a defined constraint on maximum allowable risk.

Abstract: Sports and fitness applications for an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are described. In an example embodiment, a UAV can be configured to track a human subject using perception inputs from one or more onboard sensors. The perception inputs can be utilized to generate values for various performance metrics associated with the activity of the human subject. In some embodiments, the perception inputs can be utilized to autonomously maneuver the UAV to lead the human subject to satisfy a performance goal. The UAV can also be configured to autonomously capture images of a sporting event and/or make rule determinations while officiating a sporting event.

Abstract: Provided is a reception device comprising: a reception part configured to receive the control signal from a transmission device; and a controller configured to performs a process of outputting a motor driving instruction value corresponding to the control signal received by the reception part as a motor driving instruction value for controlling a driving amount of a motor, wherein the controller performs: a hold process for holding and outputting a value corresponding to the control signal during a reception period as the motor driving instruction value when the control signal is not receivable; and a failsafe gradual change process for gradually changing the motor driving instruction value from the value during the hold process toward a failsafe value determined for failsafe when a period of the hold process reaches a certain period.

Abstract: A method for steering an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle along an object buried below a seabed: the AUV being equipped with at least one acoustic transmitter for generating acoustic signal towards the buried object and the seabed; arranging a first sensor assembly flush with the AUV hull of the starboard side of the AUV for recording reflected acoustic signal from the buried object and the seabed, arranging a second sensor assembly flush with the AUV hull of the port side of the AUV for recording reflected acoustic signal from the buried object and the seabed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a construction and/or material-handling machine, in particular a crane, comprising a movable functional element, in particular a functional element suspended in an oscillating manner, in particular in the form of a load receiving means, at least one drive device for moving the functional element, a detection device for detecting manual manipulation movements for moving the functional element, and a controller for actuating the drive device on the basis of the detected manipulation movement.

Abstract: Example implementations provide fluid-borne vehicles comprising a body and a plurality of thrust vectoring modules, each thrust vectoring module comprising a set of thrust producing means, wherein a first thrust producing means, mounted on a first mounting bar having a first mounting bar axis, is rotatable about the mounting bar axis and the mounting bar axis is rotatable about an arm having an arm axis that is nonparallel to the mounting bar axis; and a second thrust producing means, mounted on a second mounting bar having a second mounting bar axis, is rotatable about the second mounting bar axis and the second mounting bar axis is rotatable about the arm axis that is nonparallel to the second mounting bar axis.

Abstract: A door opening and closing assisting apparatus includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on an opening and closing velocity of a door on a vehicle; a door actuator that performs driving for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; a target assisting power computer that computes a target assisting power for assisting the opening and closing operation of the door; and a controller that performs driving control for the door actuator based on the target assisting power. The target assisting power computer calculates, based on the opening and closing velocity of the door obtained by the information obtainer, a standard assisting power which is assisting power required to maintain the opening and closing velocity, makes a correction by decreasing the calculated standard assisting power according to a predetermined rule, and sets the standard assisting power after the decrease correction as the target assisting power.

Abstract: A method includes implementing an inverted degradation model to determine an optimal battery core temperature. The inverted degradation model receives as inputs one or more of a power state value indicating whether the battery is currently in a high-power state or a low power state, a battery temperature value representing a current battery core temperature, a battery degradation value representing a battery degradation status, a battery age indicator representing a current age of the battery, a state of charge value representing a remaining battery charge and a battery current load value representing a current draw from the battery by the electric vehicle. The inverted degradation model outputs a desired battery core temperature value. The method includes operating the battery thermal system in order to achieve the desired battery core temperature.

Abstract: A method and a system for landing and terrain flight assistance are provided herein. The method may include the following steps: obtaining, by at least one imaging sensor disposed on an aerial platform, at least two images of at least a portion of a specified region of a terrain; determining, based on the at least two images, a 3D model of at least a portion of the specified region; receiving a predetermined model of at least a portion of the specified region; determining a real-world geographic location of the aerial platform based on the 3D model and the predetermined model; and determining flight instructions based on the 3D model and the determined geographic location of the aerial platform.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a system performing a method of operating the vehicle. The system includes a battery pack, a sensor associated with the battery pack, a cooling system for cooling the battery pack, and a processor. The processor is configured to measure a battery pack parameter of the battery pack for an occurrence of a battery pack fault, measure a sensor parameter for the occurrence of a sensor fault in the sensor, measure a cooling system parameter of the cooling system for the occurrence of a cooling system fault, determine an ingress of a fluid into the battery pack based on the occurrence of the battery pack fault and one of the sensor fault and the cooling system fault, and perform an action based on the ingress of the fluid into the battery pack.

Abstract: A method includes generating an image, segmenting the image to identify a component of an agricultural item, detecting one or more agricultural features of the agricultural item based on the image, the one or more agricultural features being associated with the component of the agricultural item, generating a two-dimensional grab-point based on the component of the agricultural item and the one or more agricultural features, and generating a three-dimensional grab-point based on the two-dimensional grab-point and a depth estimation of the agricultural item.

Abstract: A vehicle device in one embodiment includes: a control unit accesses a peripheral device and executes functions when a vehicle is used; a connection portion to which an external device is connected, the external device communicable with the control unit and executing a function when the vehicle is used; and a determination unit determining whether the external device is connected to the connection portion in an executable state of the function. The control unit activates the external device to enable execution of the function and stops at least one function when the external device is determined to be connected to the connection portion in the executable state. The control unit executes the at least one function being stopped for the external device to execute the function when the external device is determined to be no longer in the executable state.

Abstract: A distributed control system and method for decentralized, collaborative platform navigation, routing, and/or control are disclosed employing a distributed, factorized positioning, navigation, and timing chain that can link platforms or nodes having local sensors together by their local inertial and ranging measurements. In the distributed, factorized PNT chain, each platform maintains and contributes local measurements as states to a set of dynamically assigned parent node for a platform cluster, each parent nodes and associated clusters links to at least one other parent node aggregates the states of the platforms in the cluster and passes/propagates states of a linked clustered.

Abstract: A method of operating an implement carrying tillage elements in an agricultural field includes traversing the field with the implement while the tillage elements engage soil of the field, detecting a tillage event based on an operating parameter, recording a location of the tillage event with at least one computer, stopping the implement within the field in response to the tillage event, and generating a first representation of the tillage elements engaged with the soil. The first representation is generated with information from at least one sensor. The tillage elements are lifted to disengage the tillage elements from the soil, and a second representation of the tillage elements disengaged from the soil is generated. The implement is backed rearward through the field with the tillage elements disengaged from the soil, and a third representation of a portion of the soil worked by the tillage elements is generated.