Abstract: A safety system for a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to determine, based on a friction prediction model, one or more predictive friction coefficients between the ground and one or more tires of the ground vehicle using first ground condition data and second ground condition data. The first ground condition data represent conditions of the ground at or near the position of the ground vehicle, and the second ground condition data represent conditions of the ground in front of the ground vehicle with respect to a driving direction of the ground vehicle. The one or more processors are further configured to determine driving conditions of the ground vehicle using the determined one or more predictive friction coefficients.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to facilitate generation of database queries are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a generator to generate a global importance tensor. The global importance tensor based on a knowledge graph representative of information stored in a database. The knowledge graph includes objects and connections between the objects. The global importance tensor includes importance values for different types of the connections between the objects. The example apparatus further includes an importance adaptation analyzer to generate a session importance tensor based on the global importance tensor and a user query, and a user interface to provide a suggested query to a user based on the session importance tensor.

Abstract: A safety system for a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to determine, based on a friction prediction model, one or more predictive friction coefficients between the ground and one or more tires of the ground vehicle using first ground condition data and second ground condition data. The first ground condition data represent conditions of the ground at or near the position of the ground vehicle, and the second ground condition data represent conditions of the ground in front of the ground vehicle with respect to a driving direction of the ground vehicle. The one or more processors are further configured to determine driving conditions of the ground vehicle using the determined one or more predictive friction coefficients.

Abstract: A communication device for a vehicle to communicate features about the vehicle's environment includes one or more processors configured to receive a communication from another device, wherein the communication includes a global reference coordinate system for an area covered by the other device and a number of allowed transmissions to be sent from the vehicle; transform stored data about the vehicle's environment based on the global reference coordinate system; divide the transformed stored data into a plurality of subsets of data; and select one or more subsets of data from the plurality of subsets for transmission according to the number of allowed transmissions.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a configuration for a microarchitecture are described herein. An example system includes a proposal generator to generate a first candidate configuration of parameters for the microarchitecture, a machine learning model to process the first candidate configuration of parameters to output estimated performance indicators for the microarchitecture, an uncertainty checker to determine whether the estimated performance indicators are reliable, and a performance checker. In response to a determination that the estimated performance indicators are reliable, the performance checker is to determine whether the estimated performance indicators have improved toward a target. Further, if the estimated performance indicators have improved, the performance checker is to store the first candidate configuration of parameters in a memory as a potential solution for a microarchitecture without performing a full simulation on the first candidate configuration of parameters.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to facilitate generation of database queries are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a generator to generate a global importance tensor. The global importance tensor based on a knowledge graph representative of information stored in a database. The knowledge graph includes objects and connections between the objects. The global importance tensor includes importance values for different types of the connections between the objects. The example apparatus further includes an importance adaptation analyzer to generate a session importance tensor based on the global importance tensor and a user query, and a user interface to provide a suggested query to a user based on the session importance tensor.

Abstract: Vehicle navigation control systems in autonomous driving rely on the accuracy of maps which include features about a vehicle's environment so that a vehicle may safely navigate through its surrounding area. Accordingly, this disclosure provides methods and devices which implement mechanisms for communicating features observed about a vehicle's environment for use in updating maps so as to provide vehicles with accurate and “real-time” features of its surroundings while taking network resources, such as available frequency-time resources, into consideration.

Abstract: An exemplary method includes obtaining vehicle data comprising environmental perception data indicating a risk assessment regarding one or more perceived elements of an environment surrounding a vehicle; obtaining driver perception data regarding a driver inside the vehicle; determining an integrated risk assessment based on the vehicle data and the driver perception data; and determining an Operational Design Doman (ODD) compliance assessment of the vehicle at least based on the determined integrated risk assessment.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for object manipulation via action sequence optimization. An example method disclosed herein includes determining an initial state of a scene, generating a first action phase sequence to transform the initial state of the scene to a solution state of the scene by selecting a plurality of action phases based on action phase probabilities, determining whether a first simulated outcome of executing the first action phase sequence satisfies an acceptability criterion and, when the first simulated outcome does not satisfy the acceptability criterion, calculating a first cost function output based on a difference between the first simulated outcome and the solution state of the scene, the first cost function output utilized to generate updated action phase probabilities.

Abstract: A device may determine a plurality of link settings for a communication link within a time sensitive network. The device may determine a threshold value for the communication link based on the plurality of link settings. The device may determine a current value of a parameter of the communication link based on the plurality of link settings. The device may compare the current value of the parameter to a threshold value. Responsive to the current value of the parameter being less than the threshold value, the device may successively update a link setting of the plurality of link settings to cause the current value of the parameter to approach the threshold value.

Abstract: A localization system includes a first sensor, configured to detect a vibration and generate a first electrical signal in response to the detection of the vibration; a second sensor, configured to detect a vibration and generate a second electrical signal in response to the detection of the vibration; a third sensor, configured to detect a vibration and generate a third electrical signal in response to the detection of the vibration; and a processor, configured to determine a position of a source of the vibration based on the first electrical signal, the second electrical signal, and the third electrical signal.

Abstract: A device may include a processor. The processor may receive sensor data representative of an environment of a vehicle. The processor may also generate task data using the sensor data in accordance with a perception task. In addition, the task data may include a plurality of features of the environment. The processor may identify a latent representation of a negative effect of the environment within the sensor data. Further, the processor may estimate an error distribution for the task data based on the identified latent representation, the task data, and the perception task. The processor may generate output data. The output data may include a normalized distribution of the plurality of features based on the estimated error distribution and the task data.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and software for implementing dual Bayesian encoding-decoding for text-to-code transformations. In one aspect, a multi-model probabilistic source code model employing dual Bayesian encoder-decoder models is used to convert natural language (NL) inputs (aka requests) into source code. An NL input is processed to generate a Probabilistic Distribution (PD) of Source code (SC) tokens in an SC token sequence and a PD of Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) tokens in an AST token sequence, wherein each SC token is associated with a respective AST token, and each of the SC and AST tokens have a respective PD. One or more fixing rules are applied to one or more tokens SC tokens that are identified as needing fixing, wherein the fixing rule are selected in consideration of the PDs of the SC tokens and the PDs of their associated AST tokens.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for object manipulation via action sequence optimization. An example method disclosed herein includes determining an initial state of a scene, generating a first action phase sequence to transform the initial state of the scene to a solution state of the scene by selecting a plurality of action phases based on action phase probabilities, determining whether a first simulated outcome of executing the first action phase sequence satisfies an acceptability criterion and, when the first simulated outcome does not satisfy the acceptability criterion, calculating a first cost function output based on a difference between the first simulated outcome and the solution state of the scene, the first cost function output utilized to generate updated action phase probabilities.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) system may include a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon. The AV system may include a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to read and execute the computer-readable instructions to perform or control performance of operations. The operations may include receive an instruction text vector representative of a command for an AV provided by a user. The operations may include receive an environment text vector representative of a spatio-temporal feature of an environment of the AV. The operations may include generate a sense set that includes words based on the instruction text vector and the environment text vector. The operations may include compare the words of the sense set to navigational instructions (NIs) within a corpus and identify a NI that corresponds to the words based on the comparison. The operations may also include update a trajectory of the AV based on the NI.

Abstract: Devices and methods for a vehicle are provided in this disclosure. A device for controlling an active seat of a vehicle may include a processor and a memory. The memory may be configured to store a transfer function. The processor may be configured to predict an acceleration of the active seat of the vehicle based on a first sensor data and the transfer function. The first sensor data may include information indicating an acceleration of a vibration source for the vehicle. The processor may be further configured to generate a control signal to control a movement of the active seat at a first instance of time based on the predicted acceleration.

Abstract: A human-robot collaboration system, including at least one processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: predict a human atomic action based on a probability density function of possible human atomic actions for performing a predefined task; and plan a motion of the robot based on the predicted human atomic action.

Abstract: Technologies for management of data layers in a heterogeneous geographic information system (GIS) map are disclosed. A compute device may maintain a GIS database that includes geo-quads that represent physical locations of various scales. Data layers and layer tracks may be dynamically added to the GIS database at different scales, allowing for an extensible framework that enables a mechanism for integrating additional functionality. In the illustrative embodiment, a graph database is used to store the GIS database, allowing for a flexible structure. In some embodiments, entries in layer tracks may include binary large objects that may have properties and associated methods, allowing for application-specific functionality.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to automatically generate code for graphical user interfaces are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a textual description analyzer to encode a user-provided textual description of a GUI design using a first neural network. The example apparatus further includes a DSL statement generator to generate a DSL statement with a second neural network. The DSL statement is to define a visual element of the GUI design. The DSL statement is generated based on at least one of the encoded textual description or a user-provided image representative of the GUI design. The example apparatus further includes a rendering tool to render a mockup of the GUI design based on the DSL statement.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify and interpret code. An example apparatus includes a natural language (NL) processor to process NL features to identify a keyword, an entity, and an intent of an NL string included in an input retrieved from a user; a database driver to transmit a query to a database including an ontological representation of a version control system, wherein the query is a parameterized semantic query including the keyword, the entity, and the intent of the NL string; and an application programming interface (API) to present to the user a code snippet determined based on the query, the code snippet being at least one of uncommented or non-self-documented.