Abstract: The present invention relates to a folding cart for loading in a vehicle, including a cart body configured to load the goods, the leg capable of the height adjustment and the folding and unfolding operations by the rotation, and the handle with sterilizing and disinfecting functions of the goods in the cart body. The cart body may be loaded with the goods (luggage) in the luggage room or the trunk of the vehicle by the user's simple operation, thereby further facilitating the loading work of the purchased goods in the vehicle, and the movement of the cart body loaded in the vehicle may be controlled, thereby preventing breakage or damage to the goods. Further, UV LED may be provided on the handle in the state where the cart body is loaded in the vehicle to sterilize and disinfect the goods in the cart body.

Abstract: A vehicle speed control method includes the steps of: limiting the acceleration of a pertinent vehicle according to an acceleration limitation level which has been set based on a predetermined command; and adjusting the acceleration limitation level based on a first parameter regarding a driver's request for acceleration and a second parameter regarding the traveling state of a peripheral vehicle when a preset acceleration limitation alleviation condition is satisfied.

Abstract: System and method for detecting a target object within an environment, including obtaining a two-dimensional input image of a scene within the environment; generating, using a machine learning based feature generation model, a feature map of respective feature vectors for the input image; comparing the feature vectors included in the feature map with reference feature vectors generated by the feature generation model based on reference points within a reference image, wherein the reference image includes an reference object instance that corresponds to the target object; based on the comparing, identifying points of interest in the input image that correspond to the reference points; and determining a presence of the target object in the environment based on the comparing.

Abstract: An electronic pre-charge relay device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a control signal input unit for inputting a control signal for turning on and off; an AC conversion unit for converting the control signal into an AC signal; an insulating transform unit for boosting the converted AC control signal to a predetermined voltage level; a rectifying and smoothing unit for converting the boosted AC control signal into a DC input signal; a power semiconductor switch having a gate used to turn on and off to supply electrical energy to a load in relation to the control signal; and a gate signal generation unit for generating at least one gate signal suitable for the power semiconductor switch by using the converted DC input signal.

Abstract: System and method for detecting a target object within an environment, including obtaining a two-dimensional input image of a scene within the environment; generating, using a machine learning based feature generation model, a feature map of respective feature vectors for the input image; comparing the feature vectors included in the feature map with reference feature vectors generated by the feature generation model based on reference points within a reference image, wherein the reference image includes an reference object instance that corresponds to the target object; based on the comparing, identifying points of interest in the input image that correspond to the reference points; and determining a presence of the target object in the environment based on the comparing.

Abstract: A carbon composite for an electrode of a battery, a battery including the same, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The carbon composite comprises a porous carbon material, and vanadium nitride particles formed on a surface of the porous carbon material, and provides improved performance of the battery including the same. The method of manufacturing the same is capable of preparing catalyst particles uniformly distributed on the surface of the porous carbon material without using harmful gas or strong acid.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for use in a positive electrode of a lithium-sulfur battery is provided. The positive electrode active material includes a) particles A having a first porous carbon material, at least part of which is crystalline, and catalyst particles deposited on the first porous carbon material; and b) particles B having a second porous carbon material, at least part of which is crystalline, and sulfur infiltrated into the second porous carbon material, wherein the particles A and the particles B have different morphologies.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data-driven robotic control. One of the methods includes maintaining robot experience data; obtaining annotation data; training, on the annotation data, a reward model; generating task-specific training data for the particular task, comprising, for each experience in a second subset of the experiences in the robot experience data: processing the observation in the experience using the trained reward model to generate a reward prediction, and associating the reward prediction with the experience; and training a policy neural network on the task-specific training data for the particular task, wherein the policy neural network is configured to receive a network input comprising an observation and to generate a policy output that defines a control policy for a robot performing the particular task.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a contact lens for drug delivery with improved drug delivery efficiency and bioavailability. Since the contact lens for drug delivery according to the present disclosure is capable of stably releasing a drug, compared to ophthalmic solutions in the art, bioavailability may be expected to be enhanced by reducing the dosage and frequency of administration. In addition, the contact lens for drug delivery according to the present disclosure may be easily applied to various drugs, has little irritation to the ocular mucosa, and is useful for mass production because of its easy preparation method.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a carbon composite for use in a cathode of a lithium-sulfur battery and a method for preparing the same. The carbon composite material includes: a porous carbon support; a catalyst containing a transition metal; and a carbon layer coated on at least a portion of a surface of the catalyst, where the transition metal comprises at least one element of cobalt (Co) and iron (Fe), and where the carbon layer comprises a nitrogen (N)-containing carbon compound.

Abstract: A luggage board apparatus for a vehicle includes an upper board and a lower board. The upper board and the lower board are capable of moving together in a vertical direction, and the upper board is capable of moving in a front-rear direction with respect to the lower board. A shopping cart may be seated, loaded and stored on the luggage board by using a slide rail provided on the luggage board and a slide roller coupled to the slide rail on the luggage board.

Abstract: A torque control apparatus may include an input device, a driving device, a memory, and a controller. For example, the torque control apparatus may be configured to obtain an input related to acceleration of the host vehicle from a user by use of the input device, to determine user requirement torque based on the input, to generate a first requirement torque to be input to the driving device for the acceleration of the host vehicle based on at least part of the user requirement torque, to generate an estimation rate value through the first requirement torque by use of a pitch rate estimation model, and to generate a second requirement torque by use of at least one of the estimation rate value, a requirement rate value, the user requirement torque, or a combination of the estimation rate value, the requirement rate value, and the user requirement torque.

Abstract: A carbon composite for an electrode of a battery, method for manufacturing the same, an electrode including the same, and a battery including the same are provided. The carbon composite comprises a porous carbon material including an outer surface and pores comprising an inner surface, the porous carbon material being doped with a heteroelement, and a catalyst comprising a transition metal formed on the outer surface or the inner surface of at least a plurality of the pores, and provides improved kinetic activity in electrochemical reaction during charge and discharge of the battery and cost efficiency for commercialization of the battery.

Abstract: A liquid-cooling type double-sided cooler includes a first cooling portion and a second cooling portion. In the liquid-cooling type double-sided cooler, an end of the first cooling portion is formed with a first communication hole that is configured to penetrate a first cooling liquid path and an outside of the first cooling portion, and an end of the second cooling portion is formed with a second communication hole that is configured to penetrate a second cooling liquid path and an outside of the second cooling portion. In particular, the first cooling portion and the second cooling portion are positioned such that the first communication hole and the second communication hole face each other, and the first cooling liquid path and the second cooling liquid path are connected with each other.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data-driven robotic control. One of the methods includes maintaining robot experience data; obtaining annotation data; training, on the annotation data, a reward model; generating task-specific training data for the particular task, comprising, for each experience in a second subset of the experiences in the robot experience data: processing the observation in the experience using the trained reward model to generate a reward prediction, and associating the reward prediction with the experience; and training a policy neural network on the task-specific training data for the particular task, wherein the policy neural network is configured to receive a network input comprising an observation and to generate a policy output that defines a control policy for a robot performing the particular task.

Abstract: A vehicle speed controlling apparatus comprising a driving mode selector configured to receive a selection of a periodic-speed driving mode from a user, a driving strategy control unit including a speed profile generator configured to generate a periodic-speed driving speed profile with a period, an amplitude, and an average speed, and a driving assistance unit configured to output a required torque for a driving motor to follow the periodic-speed driving speed profile.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an action selection system using reinforcement learning techniques. In one aspect, a method comprises at each of multiple iterations: obtaining a batch of experience, each experience tuple comprising: a first observation, an action, a second observation, and a reward; for each experience tuple, determining a state value for the second observation, comprising: processing the first observation using a policy neural network to generate an action score for each action in a set of possible actions; sampling multiple actions from the set of possible actions in accordance with the action scores; processing the second observation using a Q neural network to generate a Q value for each sampled action; and determining the state value for the second observation; and determining an update to current values of the Q neural network parameters using the state values.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid-cooling type double-sided cooler, including a first cooling portion and a second cooling portion. In the liquid-cooling type double-sided cooler, another end of the first cooling portion is formed with a first communication hole that is configured to penetrate the first cooling liquid path and an outside of the first cooling portion, another end of the second cooling portion is formed with a second communication hole that is configured to penetrate the second cooling liquid path and an outside of the second cooling portion; and the first cooling portion and the second cooling portion are positioned such that the first communication hole and the second communication hole face each other, and the first cooling liquid path and the second cooling liquid path are connected with each other.

Abstract: A magnetic body, a curable composition comprising the same, and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a magnetic body includes magnetic particles, and a surface treatment agent bonded to the surface of the magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particles comprise crystals having a size in a range of 10 nm to 40 nm, wherein the magnetic particles have an average particle diameter in a range of 20 nm to 300 nm, and wherein the magnetic particles have a particle diameter variation coefficient in a range of 5% to 30%. The magnetic body may have an excellent calorific value, and at the same time, may maintain the calorific value uniformly. In the magnetic body, the calorific value characteristics may be freely adjusted. The curable composition of the present application can be easily cured by using a magnetic body that satisfies all the characteristics.

Abstract: Proposed is a federated learning system. The federated learning system comprises: a central server configured to transmit at least one global parameter of a global model to each client device, receive at least one local parameter of a local model trained from each of client devices, and update the global model using the at least one local parameter; and a plurality of client devices configured to train the local model by applying a loss between a predicted value of the global model and a predicted value of the local model possessed by itself to a loss function, and transmit at least one local parameter of the trained local model to the central server.