Abstract: An aircraft navigational system for a multiengine aircraft can include a flight planning module configured to receive two or more navigational points defining a route and determine if a first degraded operation ceiling is high enough to travel along the route based on obstacle data defining relative location of one or more obstacles and one or more obstacle clearance standards. The module can be configured to receive a status and/or performance limitation of an electric motor system of the aircraft. The module can be configured to determine if the electric motor system is or will be able to provide temporary additional power to produce a second degraded operation ceiling for at least a required time based on the status and/or performance limitation of the electric motor system if the first degraded operation ceiling is not high enough to permit travel along the route.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information medium control motion of a moving body according to position information corresponding to a predetermined array pattern. An information processing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit acquires position information from a sensor configured to read a predetermined array pattern, and a motion control unit controls motion of a first moving body including movement in a real space based on the position information.

Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a memory configured to store a buffer storing volumetric weather data. The system also includes processing circuitry configured to retrieve weather radar data from the buffer by retrieving a first reflectivity value associated with a first cell of the buffer, where the first cell represents a first volume of space. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine an altitude of a first location based on a parameter and an altitude extent of the first volume of space. The altitude of the first location is lower than an altitude of a centroid of the first volume of space. The processing circuitry is also configured to associate the first reflectivity value with the first location.

Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle is provided with a driving plan preparing part preparing a driving plan setting one or more via-points on a projected route from a starting point to a destination to divide the projected route into a plurality of driving routes and divide the driving routes further into pluralities of driving sections and setting which driving mode of an EV mode or HV mode to drive over in each driving section and with a driving mode switching part switching the driving modes according to a driving plan. The driving plan preparing part is configured to be able to prepare a driving plan setting the driving modes of all driving sections in at least one driving route to the EV mode.

Abstract: It is possible to manage information on a city area in a centralized manner and reduce a processing load. A management system includes: information acquisition means that is provided in infrastructure of a predetermined city area and acquire information on the city area; service providing means sending instructions to respective mobile bodies for providing a plurality of different conveyance services, each of the mobile bodies including a sensor configured to detect the information on the city area and moving in the city area based on the information detected by the sensor, thereby providing each of the conveyance services; and instruction means for sending an instruction to the service providing means based on the information on the city area acquired by the information acquisition means.

Abstract: Upon detecting a current balise, an onboard system of a train calculates a speed curve based on measured traveling speed at a timing of the detection and sets a minimum required time period for traveling to each of a next balise and a balise subsequent to the next balise. Upon detecting the next balise, the onboard system compares a traveling time period from the timing of detecting the current balise to the timing of detecting the next balise with the set minimum required time period. The onboard system activates an emergency brake when the elapsed time period is shorter than the minimum required time period to stop the train.

Abstract: A sensor system may include first and second sensors configured to be coupled to a vehicle and generate respective first and second sensor signals indicative of operation of the vehicle. The sensor system may also include a sensor anomaly detector including an anomalous sensor model configured to receive the first and second sensor signals and determine that one or more of the first sensor or the second sensor is an anomalous sensor generating inaccurate sensor data. The sensor system may also be configured to identify one or more of the first sensor or the second sensor as the anomalous sensor generating inaccurate sensor data.

Abstract: Disclosed are a car-sharing service device and a method of operating the same capable of improving convenience of the use of a car-sharing service and increasing participation in the service by providing an environment in which targets requiring the car-sharing service are specified and the common use of a shared car is recommended to each of the specified targets.

Abstract: A control method for an electrical walker is provided. The control method includes measuring a plurality of slope angle values, determining a correction parameter value according to the plurality of slope angle values and generating a corrected driving force value according to the correction parameter value and an original driving force value.

Abstract: An ECU, which is a signal control apparatus, has a plurality of control units, which control one same motor. Steering angle calculation units acquire sensor signals from the angle sensors provided corresponding to the steering angle calculation units, respectively, and calculate the steering angles in correspondence to the sensor signals. The angle FB units perform the angle FB control based on the angle differences, which are between the target angle and the steering angle and between the target angle and the steering angle, respectively. In the angular FB unit of at least one of the control units, the angular feedback control is performed using the angle difference, which is subjected to the correction processing to reduce the error between the detection angle of the own system and the detection angle of the other system calculated by the steering angle calculation unit of the other control unit.

Abstract: Described herein are methods of detecting and labeling features within an image of an environment. Methods may include: receiving sensor data from an image sensor, where the sensor data is representative of a first image including an aerial view of a geographic region; detecting, using a perception module, at least one vehicle within the image of the geographic region; identifying an area around the at least one vehicle as a road segment in response to detecting the at least one vehicle; based on the identification of the area around the vehicle as a road segment, identifying features within the area as road features based on a context of the area; generating a map update for the road features of the road segment; and causing a map database to be updated with the road features of the road segment.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: recognizing a forward vehicle in response to the processing of image data captured by an image sensor disposed at the vehicle so as to have a field of view of the outside of the vehicle; obtaining a distance from the forward vehicle in response to the processing of detecting data captured by a radar disposed at the vehicle so as to have a detecting area of the outside of the vehicle; obtaining a change amount of vertical movement of the forward vehicle in the image data in response to the distance from the forward vehicle that is equal to or less than a reference distance; obtaining a height of an obstacle on a road surface corresponding to the change amount; obtaining the height of the obstacle on the road surface in the image data in response to the distance from the forward vehicle that exceeds the reference distance; identifying a driving speed of the vehicle; identifying a reference height corresponding to the driving speed of the vehicle; and outputting deceleration guide information

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel prediction engine that (1) can formulate predictions about current or future destinations and/or routes to such destinations for a user, and (2) can relay information to the user about these predictions. In some embodiments, this engine includes a machine-learning engine that facilitates the formulation of predicted future destinations and/or future routes to destinations based on stored, user-specific data. The user-specific data is different in different embodiments. In some embodiments, the stored, user-specific data includes data about any combination of the following: (1) previous destinations traveled to by the user, (2) previous routes taken by the user, (3) locations of calendared events in the user's calendar, (4) locations of events for which the user has electronic tickets, and (5) addresses parsed from recent e-mails and/or messages sent to the user.

Abstract: An anti-collision system includes a truck cab defining a truck cab volume and a sensor positioned with respect to the truck cab. The truck cab is rotatable with respect to the truck chassis along a rotation path to define a truck cab rotation volume. The truck cab volume is entirely within the truck cab rotation volume along the entire rotation path, i.e., the truck cab rotation volume encompasses the truck cab volume at every position of the truck cab volume along the rotation path. The sensor has a field of view (FOV) that overlaps a portion of the truck cab rotation volume to detect an obstruction in the FOV that is within the truck cab rotation volume. The sensor may also cause the system to provide an alert or control rotation of the truck cab in response to detecting the obstruction.

Abstract: A multirotor aerial vehicle (MAV) is disclosed. The MAV includes a housing, a plurality of rotatable arms, wherein each of the plurality of rotatable arms has a proximal end coupled to the housing and a distal end configured to rotate about a vertical axis passing through the proximal end of the corresponding arm, a plurality of thrust-generating rotors, each coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of rotatable arms at the corresponding distal end, a flight controller configured to selectively control each of the plurality of thrust-generating rotors, and a flight trim controller configured to control rotation of the plurality of rotatable arms in order to adjust the geometric center of the rotors of the MAV from a first center of gravity (CoG) associated with the MAV in an unloaded state to a second CoG associated with the MAV in a loaded state.

Abstract: In order to determine navigation instructions, a mapping server can use digital map data, which can include a set of intersections connected by road segments. In some cases, the mapping server generates navigation guidance data for one or more intersections of digital map data. Responsive to a request for navigation instructions from a client device, the mapping server can generate a navigation route between an origin and destination location, and a corresponding set of navigation instructions can be generated based on the navigation route. In some implementations, the generated navigation instructions are then modified to clarify or otherwise improve the quality of the navigation instructions. Finally, the finalized navigation instructions can be sent to a client device for display to the requesting user.

Abstract: A spacecraft including: an engine; a thrust vector control device controlling a thrust vector as a direction of a thrust acting on the spacecraft; and a main control device configured to acquire state quantities of the spacecraft in a powered descending in which the spacecraft is guided to a target point while the engine generates the thrust, and generate a throttling command by which combustion of the engine is controlled and an operation command by which the thrust vector control device is operated. The state quantities contain a first acceleration parameter and a second acceleration parameter. The first and second acceleration parameters are calculated as coefficients A and B obtained by fitting based on acceleration of the spacecraft previously detected, supposing the following equation is satisfied between a reciprocal number 1/a of the acceleration a of the spacecraft and time t: 1/a=?At+B??(1).

Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a traffic control entity, a method, a computer program, and an apparatus for adapting a speed of transportation vehicles in a platoon. The method for adapting a speed of transportation vehicles in a platoon includes obtaining information related to a future course of required minimum inter-vehicular distances of the transportation vehicles of the platoon. The method also includes adapting a speed of the transportation vehicles of the platoon based on the information related to the future course of the required minimum inter-vehicular distances and a fuel consumption of the transportation vehicles of the platoon.

Abstract: A method of monitoring a power drive unit installed on an aircraft is provided. The method includes causing, by a controller, sensors to measure an angular position at corresponding locations along at least one wing of the aircraft. The controller, as part of the method, receives the angular position from the one or more sensors and analyzes the angular position to generate feedback information to implement the monitoring of the power drive unit.

Abstract: Vehicle operations management systems can facilitate maintenance of commercial passenger vehicles. An operations management system includes a server and a maintenance computer. The server is configured to receive a message that indicates a maintenance performed on a device located in a commercial passenger vehicle or that indicates a performance status of the device located in the commercial passenger vehicle, generate, based on the message, a predictive maintenance list that recommends maintenance to be performed on one or more devices that belong to a category of devices that is the same as the category of devices to which the device indicated in the received message belongs, and send the predictive maintenance list to a maintenance computer. The maintenance computer is configured to receive and display the predictive maintenance list on a graphical user interface (GUI).