Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for straight edge detection by a robot and a method for reference wall edge selection by a cleaning robot. The method for straight edge detection by the robot includes that: position coordinates of detection points are determined according to distance values detected by a distance sensor of the robot and angle values detected by an angle sensor of the robot, and then a final straight edge is determined according to a slope of a straight line formed by adjacent two of the detection points.

Abstract: A travel control system for a vehicle includes: an external environment recognizing unit that recognizes an obstacle around the vehicle; a tire parameter estimation unit that estimates a tire parameter of a tire of the vehicle; and a travel plan unit that sets a travel route, an amount of acceleration and deceleration, and an amount of turning based on the obstacle and the tire parameter. The travel plan unit sets the travel route, the amount of acceleration and deceleration, and the amount of turning so as to suppress an excess amount of a slip ratio of the tire relative to an adhesion limit slip ratio while avoiding approach to the obstacle.

Abstract: A traveling control apparatus for a vehicle includes a steering angle detector, a vehicle speed detector, and a cruise control unit. The cruise control unit includes a steering angle speed detector, a steering angle correction value setting unit, and a target acceleration rate setting unit. The steering angle correction value setting unit sets a steering angle correction value, on the basis of a speed of the vehicle detected by the vehicle speed detector and a steering angle speed calculated by the steering angle speed detector. The target acceleration rate setting unit sets a target acceleration rate of a cruise control, on the basis of a steering angle and the speed of the vehicle. The steering angle is based on an addition of the steering angle correction value set by the steering angle correction value setting unit to the steering angle absolute value detected by the steering angle detector.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot body, a memory, an operation controlling module and a manipulator. When the robot body is located at a first position, the operation controlling module stops the robot body and receives a selecting manipulation of operation mode from the manipulator. When a correctable automatic mode is selected at the first position, the operation controlling module makes positional coordinates of a second position provided downstream of the first position in a moving direction, changeable from the second position in automatic operation information. When the positional coordinates of the second position are changed, the operation controlling module corrects the automatic operation information so that the robot body reaches the changed second position while retaining some of elements of the automatic operation information in the correctable automatic mode.

Abstract: A map data updating device comprises a communication unit, a memory, and a processor configured to store map data, received from a server through the communication unit before the vehicle has begun to travel, in the memory as initial map data, and to send a request to the server through the communication unit for update information representing information updated from the initial map data for each of a plurality of road zones within the scheduled route, from among the information associated with the road zones in the map data updated at the server, and to use the update information received through the communication unit to update the initial map data, after the vehicle has begun to travel along the scheduled route.

Abstract: The system has a processing unit that collects input data and a peripheral storage device, connected to the processing unit via an interface system, for recording event data in a non-volatile memory, wherein the event data are input data stored for a recording time period relative to a time zero representing a time when a trigger event occurs. The peripheral storage device has also a volatile memory, and the data logging system stores the input data in the volatile memory of the peripheral storage device, when input data are being collected, and, when a trigger event occurs, makes a copy of stored input data as a backup from the volatile memory of the peripheral storage device into the non-volatile memory of the peripheral storage device.

Abstract: A reward determined as part of a machine learning technique, such as reinforcement learning, may be used to control an adversarial agent in a simulation such that a component for controlling motion of the adversarial agent is trained to reduce the reward. Training the adversarial agent component may be subject to one or more constraints and/or may be balanced against one or more additional goals. Additionally or alternatively, the reward may be used to alter scenario data so that the scenario data reduces the reward, allowing the discovery of difficult scenarios and/or prospective events.

Abstract: A vehicle and a method for controlling a body thereof are provided. The vehicle may include a processor, and non-transitory memory storing instructions executed by the processor. The processor may be configured to determine a first operation mode of a convenience device based on external environment information obtained by a sensor device when converting to an autonomous driving state; determine a second operation mode of the convenience device based on an input of a convenience device manipulator; compare the first operation mode with the second operation mode; and control the convenience device in the first operation mode or the second operation mode based on a comparison result.

Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, and vehicle apparatuses are provided. A method for implementing adaptive cruise control (ACC) established by Reinforcement Learning (RL) including executing, by a processor, adaptive cruise control to receive a set of vehicle inputs about a host vehicle's operating environment and current operations; identify, by the processor, a target vehicle operating in the host vehicle environment and quantifying a set of target vehicle parameters about the target vehicle derived from sensed inputs; modeling a state estimation of the host vehicle and the target vehicle by generating a set of speed and torque calculations about each vehicle; generating a set of results from at least one reward function based on one or more modeled state estimations of the host and target vehicle; processing the set of results with driver behavior data established by RL to correlate one or more control actions to the driver behavior data.

Abstract: A rehosted flight operation system is disclosed. The system comprises one or more controllers configured to execute program instructions. The program instructions include a rehosted flight operation module configured to generate one or more emulated flight operation subsystems, and a host flight operation module configured to generate flight operation data and flight operation commands.

Abstract: A battery state notification apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a collision detector, an electric leakage detector, a surrounding condition detector, a vehicle exterior sounding device, and a battery state notification device. The collision detector detects a collision of the electric vehicle. The electric leakage detector detects a state of the electric leakage from the drive battery. The surrounding condition detector detects a surrounding condition including the presence of a person around the electric vehicle. The vehicle exterior sounding device outputs a sound to the outside of the electric vehicle. The battery state notification device causes the vehicle exterior sounding device to make notification about the state of electric leakage from the drive battery in a case where the collision detector detects the collision of the electric vehicle and where the surrounding condition detector detects the presence of the person around the electric vehicle.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method of generating low bandwidth map format agnostic routes between origins and destinations for route communication between different map formats or versions using reduced bandwidth. Methods may include: receiving an indication of a route request between an origin and a destination; generating a route between the origin starting road segment and the destination target road segment, the route including a plurality of road segments; identifying one or more intermediate segments from the plurality of road segments, each intermediate segment having an anchor point; generating a plurality of route fragments from the route; encoding each route fragment by applying an XOR algorithm to identifiers of route fragment road segments of a respective route fragment; and providing the encoded route fragments and one or more anchor points of the one or more intermediate segments in response to the route request.

Abstract: Both responsiveness and stability of a power assist control system are satisfied. A processor executes, in accordance with a program, determining base assist gain based on steering torque and base assist torque, generating stabilizing compensation torque based on the base assist torque, with use of a stabilizing compensator that has a second-order or higher transfer function in which a frequency characteristic is variable in accordance with the base assist gain and which is expressed using a responsiveness parameter ? and a damping parameter ?, and generating a current command value for use in control of the motor based on the stabilizing compensation torque.

Abstract: A device is for estimating a position of a vehicle equipped with a laser scanner capable of acquiring point cloud data by scanning a laser beam and a camera capable of acquiring an image in a predetermined direction. The device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the point cloud data and the image, an estimation unit configured to estimate the position based on the point cloud data or the image, and an extraction unit configured to extract, from the point cloud data, valid point cloud data that is usable for estimating the position. The estimation unit is configured to estimate the position using: (i) the valid point cloud data if a number of pieces of valid point cloud data is equal to or greater than a predetermined number; and (ii) the image if the number of pieces of valid point cloud data is less than the predetermined number.

Abstract: A vehicle controlling apparatus includes first and second slip determining units, first and second slip controllers, and a target torque corrector. The first slip controller is configured to maintain a slip rate of a first drive wheel at a predetermined slip rate, in a case where an execution condition of a first slip control is determined by the first slip determining unit as being satisfied. The second slip controller is configured to maintain a slip rate of a second drive wheel at a predetermined slip rate, in a case where an execution condition of a second slip control is determined by the second slip determining unit as being satisfied. The target torque corrector is configured to decrease a target torque of a second motor, in a case where the execution condition of the first slip control is satisfied and where the execution condition of the second slip control is unsatisfied.

Abstract: A parking assistance device including a recognition part configured to acquire recognition information through recognition of surroundings, a parking region determiner configured to determine a space between other vehicles as a parking region of the host vehicle based on the recognition information, an automatic parking controller configured to perform a parking operation to park the host vehicle in the parking region, and a parking location determiner. In response to determining that an entry width of the parking region is less than a predetermined value, the parking location determiner is configured to determine a parking location of the host vehicle in the parking region that is at a central location as viewed from an entry side of the parking region. In response to determining that the entry width is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the parking location determiner is configured to determine the parking location that is closer to one of the other vehicles as viewed from the entry side.

Abstract: It is an aspect of the present disclosure to provide a personal mobility capable of adjusting a shape of a cluster in performing platooning and a control method thereof. In accordance with one aspect of the disclosure, a personal mobility performing platooning includes: a transceiver; and a controller configured to determine a movement command for a slave of the platooning based on driving information when the personal mobility is configured as a master of the platooning and adjust a cluster shape of the platooning by controlling the transceiver to transmit the movement command to the slave.

Abstract: A drone apparatus and a method for deploying a drone working zone are provided. The drone apparatus includes an aircraft body, a communication device, a positioning device and a flight controller. The flight controller is configured to: set edge rules of a working zone unit used to construct a working zone for the drone apparatus to work around a bridge; control the aircraft body to fly along a target section selected in the bridge according to a control signal received by the communication device, and calculate positions of multiple points of interest (POIs) passed by during the flight using the positioning device; generate one working zone unit with positions of adjacent two of the POIs according to the edge rules of the working zone unit; and combine multiple working zone units generated by using positions of all the POIs to construct and deploy the working zone of the target section.

Abstract: A method for operating a braking force generator for a motor vehicle having a hydraulic braking system. The braking force generator, in a first working mode, builds up braking force independently, and in a second working mode, builds up braking force to assist the driver. A strategy for operating the braking force generator is adapted depending on a driving situation. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: A system performs a control method to launch an unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV. The control method includes calculating a selected altitude, relative to a reference level, for launching the UAV, operating a lifting arrangement to vertically elevate the UAV to the selected altitude, and causing the UAV to be launched from the selected altitude. Elevating the UAV may improve the performance of the UAV in terms of range, power consumption, ability to carry payload, transit time to destination, etc. The selected altitude may be calculated as a function of parameter data representing any of the UAV, the lifting arrangement, or surrounding conditions. An apparatus is further provided to determine an optimal location of the system in relation to a plurality of destinations of UAVs to be elevated by the system.