Abstract: A vehicle includes a storage device configured to store an estimation algorithm configured to output a degree of deterioration of a component mounted on the vehicle in response to an input of a value of a parameter related to the component, a sensor configured to detect the value of the parameter, and a control device. The control device is configured to execute a performance test by autonomous driving of the vehicle, acquire data indicating performance of the component during the performance test, and update the estimation algorithm by using the data acquired during the performance test.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ferrite particles for bonded magnets and a resin composition for bonded magnets which can provide a bonded magnet molded product capable of realizing a high magnetic force and a complicated multipolar waveform owing to such a feature that the ferrite particles are readily and highly oriented against an external magnetic field in a flowing resin upon injection molding, as well as a bonded magnet molded product obtained by injection-molding the above composition. According to the present invention, there are provided ferrite particles for bonded magnets which have a crystallite size of not less than 500 nm as measured in an oriented state by XRD, and an average particle diameter of not less than 1.30 ?m as measured by Fisher method; a resin composition for bonded magnets; and a molded product obtained by injection-molding the composition.

Abstract: A computer includes a diagnosis unit configured to, for a vehicle in which an abnormality has occurred and continuing traveling by autonomous driving is impossible, determine whether or not the vehicle is able to be restored on a spot and whether or not the vehicle is able to travel by manual driving. Such a computer may be mounted on a vehicle, a server, and a mobile terminal.

Abstract: A store terminal executes a process including a step S500 for determining whether or not to receive the allocation fee and a step S502 for determining whether or not there is a request for termination of use, and further including, when the allocation fee is received (YES in S500) and it is determined that there is a request for termination of use (YES in S502), a step S504 for acquiring a usage time, a step S506 for setting a discount amount, a step S508 for setting a usage fee, and a step S510 for executing a checkout process.

Abstract: An abnormality is more quickly resolved when the abnormality occurs in a storage device. An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a controller configured to control a vehicle with the storage device mounted thereon in which a user is able to deposit or pick up baggage, wherein the controller generates a route for the vehicle before an occurrence of a predetermined event so that the route passes through a deposit point of the baggage or a pick-up point of the baggage and a predetermined area including a predetermined location where the predetermined event is able to be resolved if the predetermined event related to storage of the baggage occurs in the storage device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a controller configured to control a vehicle that is equipped with a storage device in which baggage can be deposited by a user, and a storing section for storing cushioning material that can be used by the user when the user deposits the baggage in the storage device, wherein the controller performs to generate a command for replenishment of the cushioning material in the storing section when a remaining amount of the cushioning material in the storing section is less than a predetermined amount.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire information indicating an attribute of a recipient of a package, acquire information indicating a location for placing the package in a vehicle, and present a depositor of the package with the information indicating the location for placing the package and the information indicating the attribute of the recipient.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a relaxation facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire stress information regarding a worker working at a workplace, and command the vehicle to move to the workplace based on the acquired stress information.

Abstract: A notification method includes: determining candidate destinations for a vehicle from among a plurality of facilities requesting for electric power, using first information about the vehicle and second information about the plurality of facilities; and transmitting the candidate destinations to a user terminal of the vehicle. The first information includes a power generation type of an electric power stored in a power storage device included in the vehicle. The second information includes a power generation type of the electric power requested by each of the plurality of facilities.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a cafeteria facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire dispatch destination information including a designated location and a designated time period, and command the vehicle to be dispatched to the designated location in the designated time period.

Abstract: An information processing method, for an information processing apparatus including a controller, includes a first step, by the controller, of acquiring positional information indicating a change over time in positions of a plurality of users, a second step, by the controller, of predicting a number of the users who will gather at a specific time at a boarding/alighting point to board/alight from a vehicle based on the change over time in the positions of the plurality of users indicated by the positional information, and a third step, by the controller, of determining a vehicle dispatch schedule for the vehicle to the boarding/alighting point based on the number of users predicted to gather at the specific time at the boarding/alighting point.

Abstract: A store terminal executes a process including a step S500 for determining whether or not to receive the allocation fee and a step S502 for determining whether or not there is a request for termination of use, and further including, when the allocation fee is received (YES in S500) and it is determined that there is a request for termination of use (YES in S502), a step S504 for acquiring a usage time, a step S506 for setting a discount amount, a step S508 for setting a usage fee, and a step S510 for executing a checkout process.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate via the communication interface with at least one mobile object that has a changing room. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to the mobile object to move to a specified location by a specified time.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate, using the communication interface, with a mobile object having a facility for executing one or more processes in a plurality of processes to be executed sequentially to manufacture a product. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to a first mobile object to travel to a meeting point with a second mobile object for executing a second process that follows a first process to be executed in the first mobile object, the instruction being for delivering the product being manufactured to the second mobile object at the meeting point.

Abstract: A power management system includes: a server that manages a status of reservation for use of a shop by a user who uses an electrically powered vehicle in which a battery is mounted and that performs supply/demand adjustment for power in a power grid connected to the shop; and a power charging/discharging station installed in a parking lot of the shop and connected to the power grid. The server performs the supply/demand adjustment using the battery of the electrically powered vehicle while the battery and the power charging/discharging station are connected to each other after the reservation for the use of the shop is made by the user.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, identify, based on the acquired profile data, a facility from among the plurality of facilities at which each of the users is to get off the vehicle, and perform control of operating the vehicle along a route including the identified facility.

Abstract: A management support apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a manager, and a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each user when each user gets on a vehicle to be operated with multiple users on board to a factory, identify, based on the acquired profile data, that each user has already been on board, upon detecting a user who has not been on board among users scheduled to get on the vehicle, generate proposal data with reference to process data indicating a process of which the detected user is scheduled to be in charge in the factory, the proposal data proposing a schedule change for the process, and transmit the generated proposal data to the terminal apparatus of the manager via the communication interface.

Abstract: A parking lot management method for managing a parking lot includes requesting energy management to a vehicle parked in a parking slot and displaying a remaining time until a parking time limit of the vehicle. Displaying the remaining time includes increasing the remaining time when the vehicle executes the energy management as compared with the remaining time when the vehicle does not execute the energy management.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.