Abstract: A system for controlling operation of a vehicle includes a millimeter-wave radar sensor, a processor, and a memory communicably coupled to the processor. The memory stores a sensor control module configured to control operation of the radar sensor to acquire data for determining and updating a number of occupants in the vehicle. Upon receiving a control command whose execution will result in movement of the vehicle, a pre-movement radar scan of the vehicle interior is performed. Using information acquired by the pre-movement scan, the sensor control module determines if an excessive occupant condition exists in the vehicle interior. Responsive to a determination that an excessive occupant condition exists, the sensor control module may control an operation of the vehicle other than executing the control command.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to sensing interactions of a passenger with components within a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring, from a radar of a vehicle, radar data about a passenger cabin of the vehicle. The method includes determining a current state of the passenger cabin according to the radar data. The method includes, responsive to identifying that the current state indicates that a passenger satisfies a threshold in relation to an unpermitted action, generating a response that counters the unpermitted action.

Abstract: Safety apparatus for use in vehicles traveling on roadways. The apparatus including a vehicle with a computer having accelerometers and gyroscopes coupled to provide signals compensating for acceleration, velocity, and centripetal forces produced by movement of the vehicle. A color coded slope map stored in the computer. A simulated color wheel overlying a level bubble matrix within the computer with a fixed orientation relative to the vehicle. The matrix including a simulated bubble floating within the matrix, and the signals applied to the simulated bubble so that the position of the bubble and the color of the bubble is only dependent upon the orientation of the vehicle. The computer comparing or mixing the color of the slope map to the color of the bubble at each location along the slope map and providing a warning when the color of the slope map and the color of the bubble are compliments.

Abstract: A recommendation presenting system is provided, which includes: a personal authentication unit for identifying a driver who drives a host vehicle; a live body information detection unit configured to detect the driver's live body information; a determining unit for using a notification model, which is to specify information about an action advised, from the live body information, to the driver who is each driver authenticated by the personal authentication unit to determine information about an action in response to the live body information detected by the live body information detection unit; a notifier unit for notifying the driver about notification details including the information about the action determined by the determining unit; an action detection unit for detecting an action outcome of the driver who has received the notification details; and a learning unit for training the notification model by using the action outcome to update the notification model.

Abstract: While operating a host vehicle in a first lane on a road, respective first statistical probabilities of a) an average speed of a plurality of vehicles, including the host vehicle, operating in the first lane, b) an average distance between the vehicles operating in the first lane, and c) an average number of braking events performed by the vehicles operating in the first lane are determined based on sensor data. A high traffic density probability for the road is determined based on the first statistical probabilities. A host vehicle assist feature is transitioned between an enabled state and a disabled state based on the high traffic density probability for the road being greater than a threshold probability.

Abstract: A management device is configured to manage an operation of a luggage transporting vehicle, the luggage transporting vehicle being configured to autonomously travel a road without a driver being aboard and including a luggage containment part which is shielded by a door part that is able to be opened and closed, the management device including: an acquisition part configured to acquire a first image obtained by imaging a user who unloads luggage from the containment part; and a determination part configured to determine whether delivery of the luggage contained in the containment part has been completed normally on the basis of a result obtained by monitoring a behavior of the user based on the first image.

Abstract: A method for determining driving policies for a vehicle includes: receiving, in real-time during a trip of a vehicle, at least a set of input multimedia content elements captured by at least one sensor deployed in proximity to the vehicle, determining a plurality of possible future scenarios based at least on the set of input multimedia content elements, determining a probability score for each of the plurality of possible future scenarios, determining at least one driving policy according to at least the probability score for at least one of the plurality of possible future scenarios, and controlling the vehicle according to the at least one driving policy.

Abstract: Systems and methods for vehicle-to-vehicle communications are provided. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining from a first autonomous vehicle, by a computing system onboard a second autonomous vehicle, a first compressed intermediate environmental representation. The first compressed intermediate environmental representation is indicative of at least a portion of an environment of the second autonomous vehicle and is based at least in part on sensor data acquired by the first autonomous vehicle at a first time. The method includes generating, by the computing system, a first decompressed intermediate environmental representation by decompressing the first compressed intermediate environmental representation. The method includes determining, by the computing system, a first time-corrected intermediate environmental representation based at least in part on the first decompressed intermediate environmental representation.

Abstract: The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for providing off-road track drivability guidance. In an example scenario, a processor receives a sensor signal that is generated when a vehicle is driven on an off-road track. The processor evaluates the sensor signal to obtain information about a driving surface of the off-road track such as, a material composition, a gradient, and/or an amount of provided traction. The processor conveys the information to another processor (which may be a part of a server computer) that determines a drivability status of the off-road track based on the information about the driving surface and additional parameters, such as present and/or future weather conditions. The server computer may provide the drivability status in response to a query from a processor that is located in another vehicle (or in a personal communication device carried by a driver of the vehicle).

Abstract: This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for determining a passage status of a train through a railroad crossing. In an example method, a railroad crossing status detector system provided in a vehicle may determine that a train is approaching the railroad crossing. The determination is made by evaluating a first detection signal received from a first train detection apparatus located on one side of the railroad crossing. The railroad crossing status detector system may then evaluate a second detection signal received from a second train detection apparatus located on the other side of the railroad crossing and determine that the train has traveled past the railroad crossing. The system may also evaluate one or both detection signals to determine whether the train is currently located at the railroad crossing or is backing up after traveling at least partway across the railroad crossing.

Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems for a road-perception system to estimate a belief and plausibility of lanes in a road model. The road-perception system models lanes of a road using basis bands to represent lane sections. The basis bands comprise points representing a polyline with a width at each point. The use of basis bands results in lower-computational requirements and a more stable road model than grid-based representations of a driving environment. The road-perception system also determines a belief mass associated with the lane sections. The road-perception system then computes, using the belief masses, a belief parameter and a plausibility parameter associated with proposed lanes of the road model. In this way, the described techniques and systems can provide an accurate and reliable road model and quantify uncertainty therein.

Abstract: A vehicular radar sensing system includes a radar sensor disposed at the vehicle so as to have a field of sensing exterior of the vehicle. The radar sensor includes a plurality of transmitters that transmit radio signals and a plurality of receivers that receive radio signals. The received radio signals are transmitted radio signals that are reflected from from a radar reflective sign that is present along a road being traveled by the vehicle and in the field of sensing of the radar sensor. The radar reflective sign has radar reflective information. A control, via processing of outputs of the receivers by a processor, determines the radar reflective information. A display may display the determined radar reflective information for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. The control may control at least one guidance function of the vehicle responsive at least in part to the determined radar reflective information.

Abstract: A method, system and robot, wherein the robot includes two or more sensing devices, sensor A and sensor B, mounted thereon and moves forward along an axis parallel to the rows of plants, being autonomously steered by exerting angular corrections to place the robot as close as possible to the centerline between the rows of plants, wherein the method and system includes the following: (ii) dividing a two-dimensional grid of square cells into groups of cells; (iii) obtaining data points using sensor A and sensor B; (vii) moving the robot: (a) by turning right; or (b) by turning left; or (c) forward without turning, depending on whether each group of cells is calculated as low-activated, high-activated or not activated using the data points.

Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems to make determinations of lane-type and roadway hypotheses in a road model. The road-perception system can fuse various forms of evidence to determine lane-type hypotheses and respective belief masses associated with the lane-type hypotheses. The road-perception system the computes, using the belief masses, a belief parameter and a plausibility parameter associated with the lane-type hypotheses. One or more roadway hypotheses are then determined using the lane-type hypotheses. The road-perception system then uses the respective belief parameter and plausibility parameter associated with the lane-type hypotheses to compute a belief parameter and a plausibility parameter associated with the roadway hypotheses. In this way, the described techniques and systems can provide an accurate and reliable road model with quantified uncertainty.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improving driver attention awareness are disclosed herein. One embodiment monitors the attention status of the driver of a vehicle; detects, based on the monitoring, the commencement of a distracted-driving incident; records, during the distracted-driving incident, information pertaining to the distracted-driving incident; detects, based on the monitoring, the end of the distracted-driving incident; and reports, at the earliest opportunity after the end of the distracted-driving incident and prior to the conclusion of the current trip, the information to the driver.

Abstract: A vehicle braking control method includes activating an electronic parking brake system on a vehicle to perform a braking operation; checking whether a rear wheel unlock braking activation condition is met during the braking operation, and if it is met, acquiring a current vehicle stability characteristic. The method further includes determining whether the acquired vehicle stability characteristic is within a preset range; if it is, using motive power supplied by an electric machine on the vehicle together with a rear wheel unlock braking system to execute the braking operation, otherwise executing the braking operation with the rear wheel unlock braking system.

Abstract: A method for determining an evaluation algorithm from a plurality of available evaluation algorithms for the processing of sensor data of a vehicle sensor of a vehicle. The method includes a step of reading in and a step of selecting. In the step of reading in, an environment signal is read in, which represents a current environment parameter acquired by a sensor unit using at least the vehicle sensor and/or received via a communications interface. In the step of selecting, the evaluation algorithm is selected from the plurality of evaluation algorithms for the evaluation of the sensor data of the vehicle sensor using the environment parameter.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling turning of a vehicle, a system having the same, and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle turning control apparatus include a processor to perform a control operation to determine whether a present situation is a normal turning situation based on steering angle information and wheel speed information of the vehicle, and operate an electronic limited slip differential (eLSD) by making an inner wheel slip based on a turning direction when an operation of the eLSD is failed in the normal turning situation; and a storage to store data obtained by the processor and an algorithm executed by the processor.

Abstract: Provided are a vehicle control system and a vehicle control method, the vehicle control system including one or more image sensors disposed on a vehicle to have a field of view of an outside of the vehicle and configured to capture image data, a processor configured to process the image data captured by the image sensor, and a controller configured to set a travelling route from an alighting infrastructure to a parking infrastructure based at least in part on processing of the image data, and control the vehicle stopped in the alighting infrastructure to travel along the travelling route and to be parked in the parking infrastructure.

Abstract: A method for providing engine start information for a hybrid electric vehicle includes determining a likelihood of engine start for each of a plurality of reasons for engine start, and displaying a reason for engine start having a highest likelihood of engine start from among the plurality of reasons for engine start and engine start information including the highest likelihood of engine start in consideration of a type of at least one reason for engine start and a level of the likelihood of engine start.