Abstract: In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus for estimating a location of a vehicle including, a communication unit configured to receive, from an information providing vehicle, identification information and location information on a driving vehicle in a vicinity of the information providing vehicle, a weighted value obtaining unit configured to obtain a weighted value representing accuracy of the location information based on the received identification information and a location estimating unit configured to estimate a location of the driving vehicle by applying the weighted value to the location information.

Abstract: A system reduces motion sickness symptoms for occupants of a vehicle. The system has a control unit which is coupled to a sensor system and/or a navigation system, a vehicle seat system, and/or a display unit for receiving and/or outputting signals. The control unit is designed to generate seat adjustment signals and/or display signals depending on received surroundings data and/or vehicle component data.

Abstract: A navigation system for generating turn segments includes a processor, a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor, a segment list stored in the memory module that includes a plurality of known segments, and machine readable instructions stored in the memory module. The machine readable instructions cause the navigation system to identify a current location of the navigation system, search the segment list for at least one known segment candidate that is within a threshold distance of the current location, determine whether at least one known segment candidate from the segment list includes the current location, track turn movements of the navigation system to form an unknown segment in response to determining at least one known segment candidate does not include the current location, and to link the unknown segment to the plurality of known segments from the segment list.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle, including a vehicle body, a wheel supported by the vehicle body, a steering mechanism configured to change a travel direction, a driving/braking force generating device configured to generate a driving force or a braking force to drive or decelerate the autonomous vehicle, a plurality of seats each configured to be sat on by a passenger, and an autonomous driving controller configured to control the steering mechanism and the driving/braking force generating device to autonomously drive the autonomous vehicle without any driver's manipulation. The autonomous driving controller is configured to determine whether or not to control the driving/braking force generating device to change the autonomous vehicle from a stopped state to a run state, based on (1) at least one of a number of passengers, a maximum capacity, or a scheduled number of passengers, and (2) at least one of a number of sitting passengers or a number of ready-state-expressing passengers.

Abstract: A method for controlling a steering system of a vehicle during an autonomous steering development mode may include performing, by one or more computing devices, high-authority autonomous steering control of a steering system of the vehicle. The method may further include receiving, by the one or more computing devices, an input from at least one sensor of the steering system indicative of manual operation of the steering system by an operator of the vehicle. Additionally, the method may include transitioning, by the one or more computing devices, from the high-authority autonomous steering control to a low-authority autonomous steering control of the steering system for a predetermined time period in response to receiving the input from the at least one sensor.

Abstract: A computed-implemented method is provided for creating a velocity grid using a simulated environment for use by an autonomous vehicle. The method may include simulating a road scenario with simulated objects, collecting first LiDAR data from simulated LiDAR sensors in the simulated road scenario, wherein the collected first LiDAR data comprises a first plurality of points that are representative of a first simulated object at a first 3D location and a first time. The method may also include transforming the first plurality of points from a simulated-scene frame-of-reference to a first simulated object frame-of-reference, and simulating the first simulated object to move from the first 3D location to a second 3D location within the simulated road scenario between the first time and a second time.

Abstract: Systems and methods related to redundant battery management systems (BMS) may include an on-battery BMS, and one or more off-battery, off-vehicle, and/or remote BMS. The one or more remote BMS may receive data associated with parameters of a battery, and may process the received data using various models, algorithms, or estimators to determine a battery state. The battery state determined by the remote BMS may then be used to corroborate or support a battery state determined by the on-battery BMS, thereby ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operations of systems, machines, or devices utilizing batteries as power sources.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes an automatic steering switching tool to start or end automatic steering of a vehicle body and a setting operation tool to select a setting for the automatic steering of the vehicle body. The automatic steering switching tool and the setting operation tool are positioned at an upper portion of a steering tower and below a steering wheel.

Abstract: Operation data from one or more vehicle subsystems are input to a vehicle dynamics model. Predicted operation data of the one or more vehicle subsystems are output from the vehicle dynamics model. The operation data and the predicted operation data are input to an optimization program that is programmed to output control directives for the one or more vehicle subsystems. One or more vehicle subsystems are operated according to the output control directives.

Abstract: A vehicle device in one embodiment includes: a control unit in which a system is built, a plurality of operating systems operating on the system; and a plurality of monitoring units that are configured to monitor a defect in the system. Each of the plurality of monitoring units is further configured to: perform monitoring at a respective one of a plurality of layers into which the system are divided; and solve a defect at the respective one of the plurality of layers when the defect occurs.

Abstract: A system and method for mapping a mobile device position on segments that lie between waypoints on a non-linear map by converting real world geographic coordinates of a mobile device to image X, Y coordinates using an image X, Y length or scale of a respective segment as a basis for the conversion. The mobile device position may be mapped in real time and presented to a user via a mobile device. The coordinate may be mapped in real-time to a specific X, Y location on the map and may be presented to a user on a screen, stored in a database, or used in any appropriate way.

Abstract: A system and method for environmental parameter mapping. A method includes adding at least one entry to a mapping data structure, wherein each entry includes a position of a robotic device and at least one corresponding environmental parameter for the respective position of the robotic device, wherein each environmental parameter of each entry indicates an attribute of an environment at the corresponding position and is based on at least one sensor signal captured at the corresponding position; and sending at least one command to the robotic device, wherein the at least one command is determined based on the mapping data structure and includes at least one command to navigate.

Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for sensor calibration. A request is received from an ego vehicle in motion for assistance in collaborative calibration, when the ego vehicle determines that a sensor deployed thereon needs to be calibrated. The request includes at least one of a first position of the ego vehicle and a first configuration of the sensor with respect to the ego vehicle. An assisting vehicle is identified based on the first position, the first configuration, and a second position associated with the assisting vehicle and an assistance plan is generated in response to the request indicative of the assisting vehicle to travel to the ego vehicle to facilitate the calibration of the sensor by collaborating with the moving ego vehicle. Such generated assistance plan is then sent out to initiate the collaborative calibration.

Abstract: An approach is provided for resolving an inconsistency in road closure data stored in a mapping platform. The approach, for example, involves processing map data to generate a roadway graph representing a spatial relationship between a first road segment and a second road segment. The spatial relationship indicates that a first closure state of the first road segment cannot differ from a second closure state of the second road segment. The approach also involves determining that the inconsistency in the road closure data for the first road segment and the second road segment indicates that first closures state and the second closure state do not match. The approach further involves changing the road closure data stored in the mapping platform either to match the first road closure state with the second road closure state, or to match the second road closure state with the first road closure state in response to the inconsistency.

Abstract: A tire high temperature forecasting system includes at least one tire that supports a vehicle, and at least one sensor mounted on the tire for measuring a temperature of the tire. An electronic memory capacity is in a unit mounted on the tire for storing tire identification information. A processor is in electronic communication with the sensor and the electronic memory capacity, in which the processor receives and correlates the measured temperature, a time of the temperature measurement, and the tire identification information. Transmission means transmit the measured temperature, a time of the temperature measurement, and the tire identification information to a remote processor. The remote processor executes a forecasting model, and the forecasting model generates a forecast estimate. If the forecast estimate includes a predicted high temperature that is greater than a predetermined high temperature threshold for the tire, an alert is generated by the forecasting model.

Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to ways to resolve autonomous vehicle (AV) routes based on verbal descriptions of landmark features. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving speech instructions, wherein the speech instructions indicate an autonomous vehicle (AV) destination, analyzing the speech instructions to identify one or more landmarks associated with the AV destination, and determining location information corresponding with the one or more landmarks. In some aspects, the process further includes calculating a route based on the location information corresponding with the one or more landmarks. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

Abstract: A traffic analysis system analyzes location data from a plurality of vehicles to determine journeys made by the vehicles. Vehicles may make one or more rest stops during a journey. The traffic analysis system compares rest periods to journey criteria to determine whether a rest period delineates the end of a journey, or whether a rest period is still within the journey. In this way, a plurality of trips can be chained together into a journey to provide more accurate analysis of traffic patterns.

Abstract: A system, method and server for a controlling a relation between a vehicle and traffic flow over a road segment. The system includes a telemetric device of the vehicle and a processor of the server. The telemetric device obtains telemetric data related to the road segment being traversed by the vehicle. The processor determines a property of the road segment based on the telemetric data and a road profile for the road segment, determines a disruption score indicative of a level of disruption in the traffic flow for the road segment based on the property, and outputs a notification signal when the disruption score is above a selected disruption threshold. The notification signal is usable for controlling the relation between the vehicle and the traffic flow.

Abstract: A method of movement tracking includes: performing, when it is determined that a strength of an external signal is greater than a threshold, positioning based on the signal to generate a first record; performing, when it is determined that the strength is not greater than the threshold, measurement of a movement variation to generate a second record; performing, when it is determined that the strength increases from being not greater than the threshold to being greater than the threshold, positioning based on the signal to obtain coordinates of an exact position; and computing corrected data based on the second record and the coordinates, and generating a movement path record based on the first record and the corrected data.

Abstract: A method for visualizing sensor data from the surroundings of a vehicle and/or measuring data from the vehicle uses light modules in the interior of the vehicle for the visualization of the sensor data. The sensor data is detected as video data, after which the video data is analyzed in relation to relevant recognizable structures, after which the relevant structures are transferred to a video sequence with a format fitting for the respective light module, and/or sensor data not detected as video data and/or measuring data is recalculated into video sequences via an algorithm, after which the video sequences from the different data are superimposed and displayed on the light modules.