Abstract: The invention relates to a device for an infotainment system. The infotainment system has a computing unit, on which a first operating system is installed and can be executed. The device has a computing unit, on which a second operating system is installed and can be executed. Radio-supported communication with the Internet can be carried out using the second operating system. The device has at least one generic interface to the infotainment system, whereby applications designed for the second operating system can be provided using the infotainment system.

Abstract: Techniques and methods for providing additional safety for interactions with pedestrians. For instance, a vehicle may identify a region through which the vehicle and agent (such as a pedestrian) pass. The vehicle may determine a time buffer value and/or a distance buffer value based on the vehicle and the agent passing through the region. The vehicle may determine a time threshold and/or a distance threshold for passing through the region in the presence of the agent. The time threshold and/or the distance threshold may be based on a velocity of the vehicle, a safety factor, a hysteresis factor, a comfort factor, and/or an assertiveness factor. If the time buffer value is below the time threshold and/or the distance buffer value is below the distance threshold, the vehicle may yield to the agent. Otherwise, the vehicle may not yield to the agent within the region.

Abstract: The present application provides a method, apparatus and system for controlling transportation between warehouses. The method includes: receiving, from the source RCS, first transportation information which includes information of a first to-be-transported object; transporting the first to-be-transported object to a handover area; transferring control over the AGV from the source RCS to the target RCS; receiving a location of a first target storage space from the target RCS; transporting the first to-be-transported object from the handover area to the first target storage space. In the present application, the AGV transfers the control over itself from the source RCS to the target RCS after moving the to-be-transported object to the handover area, such that the target RCS could take over the AGV and control the AGV to transport the first to-be-transported object from the handover area to the first target storage space.

Abstract: In an approach, one or more computer processors determine that a user is in a vehicle. The one or more computer processors identify historical vehicle occupancy data of the user. The one or more computer processors monitor one or more driving metrics of the vehicle while the user is an occupant. The one or more computer processors determine whether a vehicle exceeds a threshold based, at least in part, on a comparison of the monitored one or more driving metrics and the identified historical vehicle occupancy data. The one or more computer processors determine an action based, at least in part, on the vehicle exceeding the threshold.

Abstract: Various technologies described herein relate to routing an autonomous vehicle based upon likelihood of interacting with a disruptive third-party vehicle. A computing system receives an origin location of an autonomous vehicle and a destination location of the autonomous vehicle. The computing system identifies a route for the autonomous vehicle to take based upon output of a computer-implemented model. The computer-implemented model is generated based upon labeled data that is indicative of observed instances of a disruptive third-party vehicle exhibiting behavior that impacts operation of an autonomous vehicle. The output of the computer-implemented model is a score that is indicative of a likelihood that the disruptive third-party vehicle will be traveling through a geographic location along a candidate route at a certain time. The score is used in part to identify the route from amongst a plurality of candidate routes. The autonomous vehicle then travels along the route.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a traveling controller and a determination unit. The traveling controller is configured to control driving force when a vehicle travels. The determination unit is configured to determine, in a case where an obstacle is detected on a road surface on which the vehicle travels, appropriateness of the vehicle passing over the obstacle. The traveling controller is configured to control the driving force of the vehicle to prevent the vehicle from passing over the obstacle in a case where the determination unit determines that it is inappropriate to pass over the obstacle.

Abstract: A method initiates a reaction of a first vehicle to a person in the environment of a second vehicle. The person is on a road on which the first vehicle is travelling and the second vehicle is detected. Measurement data determined by at least one sensor unit are received by a control unit. The control unit carries out a classification and registers the evaluated data as a person and as a second vehicle. Motion vectors of the person are determined and the expected movement of the person is calculated. A position and width of the vehicle doors of the second vehicle are determined or estimated on the basis of the measurement data. A probability of the person opening a vehicle door is calculated. A reaction of the first vehicle is initiated by the control unit depending on the calculated probability.

Abstract: A method of managing wheel slip in a vehicle. The vehicle has a frame, an internal combustion engine, front and rear wheels operatively connected to the engine, a throttle valve for controlling a supply of air to the engine, a steering assembly operatively connected to at least the front wheels for steering the vehicle, and an unassisted continuously variable transmission (CVT) operatively connecting the front wheels and the rear wheels to the engine. The method includes: determining a sensed deceleration of the vehicle; comparing the sensed deceleration of the vehicle to a threshold deceleration; and increasing a torque output of the engine from a current engine torque output value to an increased engine torque output value when the sensed deceleration of the vehicle is greater than the threshold deceleration. A method for managing wheel slip in accordance with a drive mode of the vehicle is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle control device for automatically controlling at least a part of the drive control of the host vehicle. If an external condition detecting unit detects a first other vehicle subject to following control and a second other vehicle which exhibits the traveling movements of cutting in between the first other vehicle and the host vehicle, a deceleration limiter sets limits that differ depending on whether or not the relative speed of the host vehicle vis-a-vis the second other vehicle exceeds a speed threshold having a positive value.

Abstract: A DC feeder voltage computing device includes a model information storing unit, a run history information storing unit, and a voltage setting value computing unit. The model information storing unit stores model information. The run history information storing unit stores, on a per train basis, run history information that indicates locations and power situations of a plurality of trains that run in a DC-electrified section on or before a preceding day. The voltage setting value computing unit computes, on the basis of the model information and the run history information, a voltage setting value for controlling a substation voltage to cause an amount of power consumption in the DC-electrified section to satisfy a preset condition.

Abstract: A system for controlling a vehicle by jointly estimating a state of a vehicle and a function of a tire friction of a vehicle traveling on a road uses a particle filter maintaining a set of particles. Each particle includes an estimation of a state of the vehicle, an estimation of probability density function (pdf) of the tire friction function, and a weight indicative of a probability of the particle. The system executes the particle filter to update the particles based on a motion model and a measurement model of the vehicle, control commands moving the vehicle and measurements of the state where the vehicle moved according to the control commands. A control command is generated based on the motion of the vehicle, the weighted combinations of the state of the vehicle and the pdf of the tire friction function weighted according corresponding weights of the particles.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may enable the detection and localization of power line corona discharges and/or electrical arcs by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) including an ultraviolet (UV) sensor and a reflective parabolic dish. In various embodiments, the UV sensor may use the photoelectric effect to sense narrow-band UV photons in a Geiger-Mueller tube and circuit configuration. In various embodiments, the reflective parabolic dish may be fixed relative to the UV sensor and include a reflective concave surface. The reflective concave surface may be configured to reflect narrow-band UV photons toward the UV sensor.

Abstract: The safe operation assistance device 200 includes: a connecting destination detecting section 259 that detects and manages a connection state between the safe operation assistance device 200 and a connecting destination device; a unique information setting section 251 that sets unique information identifying a vehicle type of an own vehicle according to the connecting destination device; a positional information acquisition section 257 that acquires positional information of the own vehicle; an own vehicle information management section 252 that manages the positional information and the unique information of the own vehicle; an inter-vehicle communication section 255 that transmits the own vehicle information to other vehicle and acquires other vehicle information; and a risk determination section 254 that determines presence or absence of a collision risk between the own vehicle and the other vehicle using the own vehicle information and the other vehicle information.

Abstract: This application describes systems and methods directed to route optimization for routes comprising large numbers of waypoints. When large numbers of waypoints make up a route, developing an optimized route can be computationally intensive, requiring far too much time to develop a solution that is practicable for most needs. Thus, systems and methods of the inventive subject matter involve grouping subsets of waypoints into clusters and then optimizing those clusters according to genetic algorithm development techniques. The end result is a highly optimized route developed in an amount of time that would have been impossible using standard techniques.

Abstract: A power control system for a vehicle system identifies coupler nodes in the vehicle system for travel of the vehicle system along a route. The coupler nodes represent slack states of couplers between vehicles in the vehicle system. The system also determines combined driving parameters at locations along the route where a state of the coupler nodes in the vehicle system will change within the vehicle system during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system. The system determines a restriction on operations of the vehicle system to control the coupler nodes during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system and to distribute the combined driving parameters among two or more of the vehicles.

Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle and a fail-safe method thereof are provided. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes at least one actuator, a failure processing circuit, and a flight controller. The actuator is configured to drive the flight behavior of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The failure processing circuit is configured to: define a corresponding relationship between the multiple failure states and the multiple protection measures, wherein each protection measure is respectively defined with a priority level and each protection measure is used to correspondingly change the flight behavior of the unmanned aerial vehicle; determine multiple current failure states when the flight behavior takes place; and select, according to the corresponding relationship, the selected protection measure having the highest priority level among the protection measures corresponding to the current failure state.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for adjusting an operational flight envelope for an aircraft. An airspeed of the aircraft is received from a sensor system in the aircraft. An amount of change in the airspeed of the aircraft is determined. A current ceiling of the operational flight envelope for the aircraft is adjusted based on the amount of change in the airspeed of the aircraft.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for unmanned aerial vehicle visual line of sight flight operations. A UAV computer system may be configured to ensure the UAV is operating in visual line of sight of one or more ground operators. The UAV may confirm that it has a visual line of sight with the one or more user devices, such as a ground control station, or the UAV may ensure that the UAV does not fly behind or below a structure such that the ground operator would not be able to visually spot the UAV. The UAV computer system may be configured in such a way that UAV operation will maintain the UAV in visual line of sight of a base location.

Abstract: A method for revising a target take off time in the environment of an airport, associated system and aircraft having such a system. The method includes steps implemented by a computer of an aircraft, including acquisition from an information source of a current position of the aircraft in the environment of the airport and determination of a revised take off time from the current position of the aircraft, from airport data and from performance data of the aircraft, comparison of the target take off time, previously stored in a data memory of the aircraft, to the revised take off time, and if the difference between the target take off time and the revised take off time is greater than a tolerance value, sending by a communication unit of the aircraft of the revised take off time to a system external to the aircraft.

Abstract: Techniques are discussed for controlling a vehicle, such as an autonomous vehicle, based on predicted occluded areas in an environment. An occluded area can represent areas where sensors of the vehicle are unable to sense portions of the environment due to obstruction by another object. A first occluded region for an object is determined at a first time based on a location of the object. A predicted location for the object can be used to determine a predicted occluded region caused by the object at a second time after the first time. Predicted occluded regions can be determined for multiple trajectories for the vehicle to follow and/or at multiple points along such trajectories, and a trajectory can be selected based on associated occlusion scores and/or trajectory scores associated therewith. The vehicle can be controlled to traverse the environment based on the selected trajectory.