Abstract: A work vehicle includes a satellite positioning apparatus, a monitoring camera, a vehicle wireless communicator and an automated travel controller. A monitoring terminal includes an operation interface to be operated by a monitoring person, a monitor capable of displaying a shot image of the monitoring camera and a terminal wireless communicator. A relay apparatus is configured or programmed to relay data communication between the vehicle wireless communicator and the terminal wireless communicator.

Abstract: One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural system. The one or more information maps map one or more characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. An in-situ sensor detects a mass flow value as a mobile machine operates at the worksite. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that maps predictive mass flow values or predictive yield values at different geographic locations in the worksite based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the mass flow value detected by the in-situ sensor or the yield value based on the detected mass flow value. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.

Abstract: A mobile device includes a processor and memory, coupled to the processor, which memory contains instructions that when executed cause the processor to provide an autonomy management application. The autonomy management application includes an autonomy approval function. The autonomy approval function provides a user interface configured to display at least one aspect of an autonomy job to a user and receive user acceptance of the autonomy job. The autonomy approval function is configured to instruct the user to move within a pre-determined distance from an autonomous work machine that will execute the autonomy job and provide a machine-verified indication of user proximity within the pre-determined distance.

Abstract: A method for determining an object's position using different items of sensor information includes: a) reading the sensor information into a Kalman filter, b) merging the sensor information with the Kalman filter, with the Kalman filter supplying as a result estimated values for states and information associated with the estimated values regarding the accuracy of the estimates, c) monitoring the results of the Kalman filter by estimating a probability of accuracy, with which the estimation error lies within an error band, with the probability of accuracy being determined on the basis of a plurality of conditional probabilities, the conditions for which each relate to estimation errors from at least one earlier series.

Abstract: A method performed by a vehicle pose assessment system for supporting determining a pose of a vehicle in view of a digital map. The approach provided by the method alleviates finding lane segments of the digital map corresponding to current sensor detections, which in turn may support accurate and/or improved vehicle localization. An apparatus and computer storage medium for supporting determining a pose of a vehicle in view of a digital map are also provided.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle platform system and method configured to perform various in-season management tasks, including selectively applying fertilizer, mapping growth zones and seeding cover crop within an agricultural field, while self-navigating between rows of planted crops and beneath the canopy of the planted crops on the uneven terrain of an agricultural field, allowing for an ideal in-season application of fertilizer to occur once the planted crop is well established and growing rapidly, in an effort to limit the loss of fertilizer.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for autonomous aerial imaging and environmental sensing of a datacenter. In one aspect a method includes executing, within a datacenter and by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in data communication with a server, a connectivity-enabled navigation process to collect data from the datacenter; determining, during execution of the connectivity-enabled navigation process and by the UAV, that connection to the server is lost so that the connectivity-enabled navigation process cannot be continued; and in response to determining that connection to the server is lost, executing, by the UAV, an autonomous navigation process until the connection to the server is recovered, wherein the autonomous navigation process navigates the datacenter using visual tags positioned in the datacenter.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, while a robot traverses a building environment, sensor data captured by one or more sensors of the robot. The method includes receiving a building information model (BIM) for the environment that includes semantic information identifying one or more permanent objects within the environment. The method includes generating a plurality of localization candidates for a localization map of the environment. Each localization candidate corresponds to a feature of the environment identified by the sensor data and represents a potential localization reference point. The localization map is configured to localize the robot within the environment when the robot moves throughout the environment.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for an aircraft superhighway system comprising: at least one superhighway node and/or a plurality of spaced apart superhighway nodes/towers, wherein each superhighway node/tower has an overlapping coverage area (e.g. wireless communication coverage area and/or surveillance coverage area) with the coverage area of another adjacent superhighway node/tower and the airspace within each of the coverage areas forming a continuous airspace corridor or aircraft superhighway; and a superhighway controller in communication with at least one of the superhighway nodes/towers; wherein the superhighway controller is configured to use the superhighway nodes/towers for authorising, monitoring and controlling air traffic permitted to transit a flight path within one or more portions of the airspace corridor or aircraft superhighway.

Abstract: A controller: determines whether a current position of an own vehicle is within a high-definition map-available region in which high-definition map information is available; when the current position is within the map-available region, performs acceleration/deceleration of the own vehicle, based on specified speed information acquired by recognizing a speed sign in a captured image or acquired from the high-definition map information and also notifying a driver of the specified speed information; and when the own vehicle is predicted to leave the high-definition map-available region, terminates the acceleration/deceleration control based on the specified speed information and also acquires specified speed information from road map information, the road map information having lower precision than the high-definition map information, based on the current position of the own vehicle and notifies the driver of the acquired specified speed information before a point at which the own vehicle leaves the map-availabl

Abstract: The neutralisation system (1) comprises a drone (2) configured to be able to fly close to a target and transmit at least position information concerning the position of the target, the neutralisation system (1) also comprising at least one missile (6) capable of being guided towards the target in order to neutralise it and at least one control station (8), the control station (8) comprising a receiving unit (9B) capable of receiving at least the position information transmitted by the drone (2) and a display unit (10A) capable of displaying this information to an operator, the missile (6) being configured to be able to be guided towards the target by means of the position information received by the control station (8).

Abstract: Technologies and techniques for carrying out an assisted lane change onto a deceleration lane, during which an intervention in an acceleration device may be carried out in an at least partially assisted manner as a function of a driver input on a driving lane of the roadway. The lane change from the driving lane onto the deceleration lane may be carried out in an at least partially assisted manner, wherein swarm data are received from at least one further motor vehicle, which carried out a lane change onto the deceleration lane at a crossing, and a change position for the lane change of the motor vehicle is determined as a function of the received crossing position. The lane change is carried out at the determined change position. Other aspects relate to a computer program product and to an assistance system.

Abstract: A method for determining a tyre normal force range (Fz,min, Fz,max) of a tyre force (Fz) acting on a vehicle (100), the method comprising; obtaining (S1) suspension data (310) associated with a suspension system of the vehicle (100); obtaining (S2) inertial measurement unit, IMU, data (320) associated with the vehicle (100); estimating (S3), by a suspension-based estimator (330) a first tyre normal force range (Fz1,min, Fz1,max) based on the suspension data (310); estimating (S4), by an inertial force-based estimator (340), a second tyre normal force range (Fz2,min, Fz2,max) based on the IMU data (320); and determining (S5) the tyre normal force range (Fz,min, Fz,max) based on the first tyre normal force range (Fz1,min, Fz2,max) and on the second tyre normal force range (Fz2,min, Fz2,max).

Abstract: A method for preventing vehicle collision applied in an electronic device obtains a first image in the driving direction of a vehicle using the method (method vehicle), and detects a driving route of other vehicles in the first image, and takes one of the other vehicles in the first image as a target vehicle when it satisfies a first condition. The first condition comprises a vehicle being in the same lane as the method vehicle and having an opposing driving direction. The electronic device further detects whether a detectable distance between the method vehicle and the target vehicle is less than a preset distance, and generates a warning or a control command when the detectable distance is less than the preset distance.

Abstract: A driving assist device includes a driving assist controller. The driving assist controller is configured to perform driving assistance when the vehicle changes a course by crossing the oncoming lane. The driving assist controller sets a predicted travel region based on behavior of the oncoming vehicle when the oncoming vehicle is approaching the vehicle that enters an intersection. When the vehicle enters the predicted travel region in a travel path of the vehicle, the driving assist controller determines whether there is a possibility of contact between the vehicle and the oncoming vehicle based on the predicted travel region and the travel path of the vehicle. The driving assist controller causes the vehicle to stop outside of the predicted travel region when there is a possibility of the contact.

Abstract: An awakening inducing device induces a vibration device disposed in a seat at a position where the vibration device opposes at least one of a muscle belly portion or an insertion portion of a hamstring of a user sitting on the seat; and a control device that, by controlling the vibration device, causes the vibration device to given vibration stimulation to at least one of the muscle belly portion or the insertion portion.

Abstract: A vehicle control system may include a portable terminal that transmits a door open command of a vehicle, a vehicle control device that updates a maximum value of a door opening amount of the vehicle, determines a current door opening amount based on surrounding environment information, and transmits the maximum value of the door opening amount and the current door opening amount, and a server that compares the current door opening amount with the maximum value of the door opening amount, and determines whether to perform a remote vehicle departure depending on the comparison result. The vehicle control system may improve driver comfort by controlling the door opening through a remote vehicle departure in a situation where the door cannot be opened remotely.

Abstract: A construction equipment includes: a lower traveling body; an upper rotating body rotatably supported on the lower traveling body; a work machine comprising a boom rotatable with respect to the upper rotating body, an arm rotatable with respect to the boom, a bucket rotatable with respect to the arm, a tilt rotator having a tilting actuator for supporting the bucket to tilt with respect to the arm, and a rotating actuator for supporting the bucket to rotate with respect to the arm; an operation lever for outputting an operation signal; a location information providing unit providing location and posture information of the work machine; a work setting unit for setting and providing plane information of a work area; and an electronic control unit controlling the work machine and the posture of the bucket so that the rotating axis of the bucket is vertically aligned with respect to the work area.

Abstract: A lane departure suppression device including a control unit that executes a lane departure suppression control (automatic steering of the steering wheel and/or a warning being issued) when it is determined that there is a possibility that a vehicle departs from a lane. The control unit does not execute the lane departure suppression control when the control unit determines that a lateral speed and a lateral acceleration of the vehicle are increased within a predetermined time from a time point at which acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle is started, and that there is an adjacent lane on a side with respect to the lane in which the lateral speed and the lateral acceleration are increased.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described for controlling, and communicating with, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a millimeter wave (mmWave) communication network established between a base station and the UAVs. A communication system may include one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The communication system may further include one or more base stations including millimeter wave (mmWave) antennas configured to generate control signals to the one or more UAVs over an mmWave communication network.