Abstract: The technology relates to factors regarding the external environment around a vehicle that are used to trigger enhanced driving directions for use by the driver. The factors can include issues such as adverse weather conditions, low light conditions and temporary obstacles or other obstructions that may prevent or reduce the ability of the driver to see street signs or other landmarks that are part of an initial set of driving directions. Upon determination of one or more relevant factors, the system is able to modify or otherwise enhances directions in real time. This allows the driver to be able to quickly and easily identify other visible landmarks and use such information to navigate to a desired destination. This approach employs one or more on-board cameras configured to detect objects and conditions in the environment adjacent to or otherwise nearby the vehicle, such as within line of sight of the vehicle's front end.

Abstract: A mower combination including an agricultural vehicle and a front mowing unit as well as two lateral mowing units located behind and to the sides of the front mowing unit. Each of the lateral mowing units has a conveyor unit to deposit cut crop as a swath. A control unit receiving a plurality of signals from the combination including signals representing a steering angle of the agricultural vehicle, a speed of operation of each conveyor unit and a lateral displacement of each conveyor unit and comparing them against a predetermined set of values. As required the control unit adjusts the speed of operation of at least one conveyor unit based on this comparison. Swaths produced by towed rear mowing units are controlled, in particular to enable aligned curved swaths to be produced when the mower combination is turned, or to enable a narrow swath to be produced when the mower combination is turned.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a map information storage, a charging record information storage, and a processor. The map information storage is configured to store map information including a location of a charging station to charge a battery of an electric vehicle. The charging record information storage is configured to store charging record information indicating whether or not it has been possible to charge the battery. The processor is programed to calculate an evaluation value based on the charging record information.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a computer system and techniques for updating map data used for navigating an autonomous vehicle. In some embodiments, the computer system is configured to obtain map data including a starting location and a destination location; obtain a plurality of travel times corresponding to a plurality of respective possible routes for traveling from the starting location to the destination location; obtain benefit information for at least a first respective possible route; and determine a selected route based on the travel times and the benefit information. In some embodiments, the computer system is configured to obtain a route between a starting location and a destination location; obtain map-age information for the route; determine a first set of driving parameters for the autonomous vehicle based on the map-age information; and navigate the autonomous vehicle along the route using the first set of driving parameters.

Abstract: Based on position information indicating a position of a vehicle on a map, whether the vehicle has arrived at an entrance of an area in a vicinity of a destination of the vehicle where road links do not exist is determined, a history of the vehicle having parked in the area is stored as parking information, the parking information is referenced when it is determined that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and guidance information is output as information which guides the vehicle based on recommendation information and which includes at least a parking position in the area.

Abstract: A method for route planning includes a) making an initial energy forecast for a journey route to a route destination using an initial speed for at least one section of the journey route. The method may also include: b1) making a first energy forecast for the journey route using a first speed for the at least one section; b2) making a second energy forecast for the journey route using a second speed for the at least one section; b3) determining whether the journey route, based on the second energy forecast, includes n or n?1 charging stops; and b4) if the journey route includes n charging stops, determining the first speed as specified speed for the at least one section of the journey route, or if the journey route includes n?1 charging stops, repeating steps b2) and b3) with a third speed for the at least one section.

Abstract: A method for providing a cruising speed recommendation to an operator of a vehicle includes determining a projected route; receiving route characteristic data including route elevation data; determining a sampling resolution; sampling the route elevation data at the sampling resolution to generate sampled route elevation data; determining at least one start of uphill position and at least one start of downhill position; determining at least one cruise speed route segment based at least in part on the at least one start of uphill position and the at least one start of downhill position; determining a corresponding cruising speed for the at least one cruise speed route segment based at least in part on one or more of the route elevation data and the sampled route elevation data; and communicating the corresponding cruising speed for the at least one cruise speed route segment.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of trays on which a plurality of service items are provided; a plurality of sensors respectively disposed above the plurality of trays; a memory configured to store map information of a specific space; and a processor configured to: identify a respective service item provided on each of the plurality of trays, based on sensing data received from the plurality of sensors, based on a result of the identifying and the map information stored in the memory, identify a travel path to sequentially deliver each of the plurality of service items that are identified to a plurality of locations corresponding to the specific space, and control travel of the electronic apparatus, based on the travel path.

Abstract: A distance-to-empty presentation apparatus of a fuel cell vehicle includes: a traveling speed acquisition unit configured to acquire a traveling speed of the fuel cell vehicle; a traveling distance acquisition unit configured to acquire a traveling distance of the fuel cell vehicle in a fuel filling period, the fuel filling period is a period from the time when the fuel is filled in the fuel cell vehicle previously to the time when the fuel is filled in the fuel cell vehicle this time; a fuel residual amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a fuel residual amount of the fuel cell vehicle; a fuel consumption amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a fuel consumption amount of the fuel cell vehicle; a fuel efficiency calculation unit configured to calculate fuel filling period fuel efficiency by using the traveling distance in the fuel filling period and a traveling period fuel consumption amount that is the fuel consumption amount during traveling preparation and during traveling in the fuel fillin

Abstract: Methods, systems, and products for generating an updated map for use with an autonomous vehicle driving operation or a simulation thereof may include obtaining first map data associated with a first map of a geographic location including a roadway, and the first map data may include at least one first lane segment. Second map data associated with a second map of the geographic location may be obtained, and the second map data may include at least one second lane segment. A plurality of non-overlapping areas may be determined based on the first lane segment(s) and the second lane segment(s). A first non-overlapping and/or a first warp point within the first non-overlapping area may be selected. The first lane segment(s) may be warped around the first warp point to increase a total overlapping area based on the based on the second lane segment(s) and the first lane segment(s) after warping.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ISG control system and an ISG control method for a construction machine capable of controlling ISG even in a working state of a construction machine, the ISG control system including: a surrounding environment determinator configured to determine surrounding environment of the construction machine; and a vehicle controller configured to determine whether the construction machine is in a working state or a traveling state based on a determination result from the surrounding environment determinator, wherein the vehicle controller controls an engine based on a preset work ISG condition when it is determined that the construction machine is in the working state, and wherein the vehicle controller controls the engine based on a preset travel ISG condition when it is determined that the construction machine is in the traveling state.

Abstract: A method for generating paths in a building space, the method including retrieving, by a processing circuit, a heatmap for the building space, generating, by the processing circuit, a plurality of vectors, the vectors defined by a first grid location and a second grid location of a plurality of grid locations, determining, by the processing circuit, a subset of vectors from the plurality of vectors based on a proximity of the plurality of vectors to a selected vector in the plurality of vectors, and combining, by the processing circuit, the subset of vectors to generate a merge location, wherein the merge location is used to adjust at least one of the first grid location or second grid location of at least one vector in the subset of vectors.

Abstract: This document describes methods by which a system determines a pickup/drop-off zone (PDZ) to which a vehicle will navigate to perform a ride service request. The system will define a PDZ that is a geometric interval that is within a lane of a road at the requested destination of the ride service request by: (i) accessing map data that includes the geometric interval; (ii) using the vehicle's length and the road's speed limit at the destination to calculate a minimum allowable length for the PDZ; (iii) setting, start point and end point boundaries for the PDZ having an intervening distance that is equal to or greater than the minimum allowable length; and (iv) positioning the PDZ in the lane at or within a threshold distance from the requested destination. The system will then generate a path to guide the vehicle to the PDZ.

Abstract: A moving robot according to an aspect of the present invention includes a body configured to define an exterior, a travelling unit configured to move the body against a travelling surface of a travelling area, a storage configured to store a grid map corresponding to a travelling area and cost information of grids included in the grid map, and a controller configured to generate a movement route based on the cost information, control the travelling unit to travel according to the generated movement route, and increase a stay cost of a grid corresponding to a route that has passed during the travelling and control the storage to store the increased stay cost.

Abstract: Route planning for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) includes obtaining a route between an origin and a destination, where the route is optimized for at least one of a noise level or energy consumption of an engine of the HEV that is used to charge a battery of the HEV, and where the route comprises respective engine activation actions for at least some segments of the route; and controlling the HEV to follow the segments of the route and to activate the engine according to the respective engine activation actions.

Abstract: A navigation system for a vehicle comprises onboard sensors including a vision sensor, and an onboard map database of terrain maps. An onboard processer, coupled to the sensors and map database, includes a position PDF filter, which performs a method comprising: receiving image data from the vision sensor corresponding to terrain images captured by the vision sensor of a given area; receiving map data from the map database corresponding to a terrain map of the area; generating a first PDF of image features in the image data; generating a second PDF of map features in the map data; generating a measurement vector PDF by a convolution of the first PDF and second PDF; estimating a position vector PDF using a non-linear filter that receives the measurement vector PDF; and generating statistics from the estimated position vector PDF that include real-time measurement errors of position and angular orientation of the vehicle.

Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a communication device used in a vehicle and a control unit configured to determine whether a user is in the vehicle when a signal sent from the communication device is received via the communication unit, according to at least one of whether a destination has been set by the user and whether a vehicle dispatch application is activated. The vehicle dispatch application is a program for receiving a vehicle dispatch service.

Abstract: A map management system includes: at least one cloud server including a first processor configured to manage map data for a preset area; a plurality of edge servers, each edge server including a second processor configured to manage map data for a preset area; at least one vehicle including a third processor configured to collect raw data for updating map data during traveling; and a plurality of blockchains including the at least one cloud server and the plurality of edge servers.

Abstract: An autonomous electric vehicle comprises a battery electrically connected to the electric motor for powering the electric motor and a battery status prediction module to predict, based on event data from a mobile device of a user of the vehicle, whether the vehicle will be parked at a destination and a time period when the vehicle will be parked. The battery status prediction module predicts a predicted battery status at the end of the time period based on a temperature profile for the time period obtained from a remote weather server. The battery status prediction module determines if the predicted battery status at the end of the time period will have at least a minimum battery capacity to travel a distance to a charging station determined by the battery status prediction module from the destination and a location of the charging station.

Abstract: A mobile apparatus receives a route response including information identifying a starting location and a target location of a route and an encoding data structure encoding the route. The encoding data structure is a probabilistic data structure configured to not provide false negatives. The mobile apparatus uses the information identifying the starting and target locations to identify a decoded origin traversable map element (TME) and a decoded target TME of the mobile version of the digital map for the route; accesses map information for determining a cost value for TMEs of the digital map, wherein a TME that satisfies the encoding data structure is assigned a minimal cost value; determines a decoded route from the decoded starting TME to the decoded target TME based on the cost value assigned to the TMEs using a cost minimization route determination algorithm; and performs at least one navigation function using the decoded route.