Abstract: Provided are an electronic brake system and a method of operating the same, capable of performing a normal operation mode and an abnormal operation mode by including an integrated master cylinder configured to discharge a pressurizing medium according to a displacement of a brake pedal while providing a driver with a pedal fee, a liquid pressure supply device configured to generate a liquid pressure by operating a hydraulic piston according to an electrical being output on the basis of the displacement of the brake pedal, and a hydraulic control unit configured to a liquid pressure of a pressurizing medium to be supplied to each wheel cylinder.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and computer readable media for capturing sensor data relating to an enclosed compartment of a vehicle (e.g., a cargo area of the vehicle) via one or more vehicle sensors; analyzing the sensor data to determine whether it is indicative of a living being present in the enclosed compartment; performing an object detection analysis on at least a portion of the sensor data to determine a type of living being detected; and initiating one or more automated vehicle response measures based on the type of living being.

Abstract: A management system includes a position detection unit which obtains a position of a work machine, a posture detection unit which obtains a posture of the work machine, an object detection unit which obtains a three-dimensional shape of a buried object, a position calculation unit which obtains a position of the buried object by using the position of the work machine obtained by the position detection unit, the posture of the work machine obtained by the posture detection unit, and the three-dimensional shape of the buried object obtained by the object detection unit, and an information acquisition unit which acquires buried object information including at least the position of the buried object obtained by the position calculation unit.

Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to control at least one of a steering system or a propulsion system to operate a vehicle at a speed below a speed threshold. The instructions include instructions to determine whether one or more second vehicles a first distance from the vehicle are traveling below the speed threshold. The instructions include instructions to, upon determining the second vehicles are traveling below the speed threshold, continue to control the steering system or the propulsion system. The instructions include instructions to, upon determining the second vehicles are not traveling below the speed threshold, transition control of the steering system or the propulsion system to a human operator of the vehicle.

Abstract: An approach is provided for pattern-based map matching of a probe trace to a digital map. The approach involves querying the digital map for a set of road links within a threshold distance of a probe point. The approach also involves determining a match starting point for each road link of a set of road links. The approach further involves selecting a sampled probe point from the probe trace. The approach also involves generating one or more patterns for said each road link based on the match starting point, the sampled probe point, the topology polyline, or a combination thereof. The approach further involves selecting a matched road link from among the set of road links based on the one or more patterns. The probe point is then snapped to the matched road link.

Abstract: A driving risk assessment and control decision-making method for an autonomous vehicle includes: detecting the surrounding state of the vehicle multiple times to generate multiple sensing signals; quantifying the sensing signals to generate multiple sensing values and calculating a sensing average value of the sensing values; calculating a sensing error value between each sensing value and the sensing average value, a sensing error average value of sensing error values and a sensing error variation value; integrating the sensing error average value, the sensing error variation value and a sensor systematic error average value and a sensor systematic error variation value to generate a sensing signal correction value; combining the sensing values and the sensing signal correction value to generate multiple sensing signal reference values; judging whether a stability of the sensing signal reference values falls within a preset range; generating a control mechanism based on the judgement.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus (12) has: a setting device (122) for setting a first target position (31) on the basis of a first sign object (21), if the first sign object requesting a vehicle (1) to stop is detected; and a supporting device (123) for performing a first deceleration control for decelerating the vehicle to a first target speed before the vehicle reaches the first target position, if a second sign object (22) representing a stop position is detected during a period when the first decelerating control is performed, the setting device sets a second target position (32) on the basis of the second sign object and the supporting device performs a second decelerating control for decelerating the vehicle to a second target speed before the vehicle reaches the second target position.

Abstract: An agriculture support device includes a traveling creator to create a scheduled traveling route of an agricultural machine in an agricultural field, a display controller to display on an external terminal a virtual traveling status of the agricultural machine to travel on the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator, and a correction permitting controller to permit correction of the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator when the external terminal requests the correction. The display controller displays, on the external terminal, the virtual traveling status and a result traveling status of the agricultural machine that has traveled on the scheduled traveling route.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle and a parking control method therefor which can prevent a parking curb or a driving system from being damaged during parking due to collision with the parking curb or running over the parking curb according to creep torque imitation by an electric motor in a vehicle equipped with the electric motor. A parking control method includes determining whether a parking situation occurs, applying a creep torque modification coefficient to a creep torque until contact with an object that applies a reaction force to a wheel in a parking direction is sensed to determine a modified creep torque upon determining the parking situation, and variably controlling the creep torque by applying a variable coefficient to the modified creep torque.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device associated with a vehicle, the device including a set of sensors configured to generate a set of data associated with the vehicle; and one or more controllers configured to analyze the set of data to determine if an accident involving the vehicle has occurred, responsive to a determination that an accident involving the vehicle has occurred, determine an accident-severity score associated with the vehicle involved in the accident, the accident-severity score being based on a set of accident-severity scoring rules and at least a portion of the set of data, and transmit an output signal representative of the determined accident-severity score.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes: an electronic control system for automatic driving; and a cabin with which a boarding space is formed. The electronic control system includes an antenna unit for satellite navigation, and the antenna unit is attached to a central area of a roof of the cabin in a left-right direction. An upper surface of an area of the roof around the antenna unit is formed so as to be an inclined surface that is inclined in a front-rear direction. Left and right end portions of the roof are provided with left and right bulging edge portions that bulge upward from the left and right end portions and have a length that spans between front and rear ends of the roof, and water drain grooves that guide water on the roof toward the left and right bulging edge portions such that water detours the antenna unit.

Abstract: A user destination is identified based on received location information from a user. A first seat in a vehicle is assigned to the user based on the user destination. At least one of the first seat and a second seat in the vehicle is moved upon user entry until a distance between the first seat and the second seat is greater than a distance threshold.

Abstract: Determining classification(s) for object(s) in an environment of autonomous vehicle, and controlling the vehicle based on the determined classification(s). For example, autonomous steering, acceleration, and/or deceleration of the vehicle can be controlled based on determined pose(s) and/or classification(s) for objects in the environment. The control can be based on the pose(s) and/or classification(s) directly, and/or based on movement parameter(s), for the object(s), determined based on the pose(s) and/or classification(s). In many implementations, pose(s) and/or classification(s) of environmental object(s) are determined based on data from a phase coherent Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) component of the vehicle, such as a phase coherent LIDAR monopulse component and/or a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LIDAR component.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile selection system for selecting medical accessories comprising a control system, a user interface and a treatment cart. The treatment cart comprises a plurality of storage devices each having at least two storage areas for a respective accessory type. The control system thereby implements a selection method having the following method steps. The treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed is determined in one method step via the user interface. In a further method step, a plurality of accessory set parameters which characterize a medical accessory set are determined on the basis of an accessory database and on the basis of the treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed.

Abstract: An electronic brake system and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The electronic brake system includes an integrated master cylinder, a hydraulic-pressure supply device, and a hydraulic control unit. The integrated master cylinder allows a brake fluid to be discharged based on displacement of a brake pedal and at the same time provides proper pedal feel for the user. The hydraulic-pressure supply device generates hydraulic pressure by operating a hydraulic piston in response to an electrical signal that is output in response to displacement of the brake pedal. The hydraulic control unit controls hydraulic pressure of brake fluid supplied to respective wheel cylinders. The electronic brake system operates in different ways according to a normal operation mode and an abnormal operation mode.

Abstract: A driving assist device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a control device. The control device does not execute an inter-vehicle distance control under a predetermined first condition upon determination that at least one preceding object is detected based on the output of one of the first sensor and the second sensor without being detected based on the output of the other of the first and second sensors; and an environment of a non-detection sensor that is the other of the first and second sensors satisfies a first requirement for determination of a reliability of the output of the non-detection sensor; and the control device executes the inter-vehicle distance control under a predetermined second condition upon determination that the environment of the non-detection sensor satisfies a second requirement for determination of the reliability of the output of the non-detection sensor.

Abstract: A sailing assisting system is provided in which a sailing assist for a vessel which enters a specific water area where sailing of the vessel is limited is realized through a simple configuration and in which a steersman is prevented from having strange feeling. A sailing assisting system includes movable controlling devices (a shift and throttle controller, a steering device, a trim switch), actuators (a rotational shaft drive unit, a shaft drive unit, a switch drive unit) for driving these controlling devices, and a control unit for executing a notification operation and controlling the actuators to limit movable ranges of the controlling devices if a hull is determined to stay within a specific water area where the sailing of the hull is limited based on information on the specific water area and information on the position of the hull.

Abstract: A system for performing an earthmoving operation may include a work vehicle having an articulable implement and a soil composition sensor supported on the work vehicle. The soil composition sensor may generate data indicative of a soil composition below a surface of a worksite. The system may additionally include a computing system communicatively coupled to the soil composition sensor and the work vehicle. The computing system may receive an input associated with a target profile of the worksite. The computing system may further receive the data indicative of the soil composition of the worksite. Additionally, the computing system may generate an earthmoving prescription map based at least in part on the target profile of the worksite and the soil composition of the worksite, where the earthmoving prescription map indicates soil composition layers between the surface of the worksite and the target profile of the worksite.

Abstract: System for automatically classifying vehicle vocation and benchmarking vehicle performance relative to other vehicles having the same vocation classification, independent of vehicle fleet groupings, industry vehicle application groupings and vehicle type groupings, is disclosed. The system includes a vehicle vocation classifier in communication with a data management system to store historical vehicle data including recurring vehicle usage data, and assign one or more predicted vocations for each vehicle based on the recurring vehicle usage data using a machine learning technique. The system also includes a benchmarking management system for grouping the historical vehicle data for vehicles of same determined predicted vocation, determining therefrom benchmarking vehicles having better performance characteristics than other vehicles of the same determined predicted vocation, and benchmarking performance of the other predicted vocation vehicles relative to the benchmarking vehicles.

Abstract: In a predictive path planning functionality for a transportation vehicle data describing a roadway are acquired by one or more sensors disposed on the transportation vehicle and analyzed. One or more predicted paths are predicted with at least one neural network. Data describing a reference path taken by the transportation vehicle are acquired. The one or more predicted paths are evaluated to detect one or more errors in the predicting operation wherein the one or more errors include an indication that the one or more predicted paths of the path planning system deviate from the reference path.