Abstract: Disclosed is a method of controlling the operation of a fuel cell triple cogeneration system configured to supply power and cooling heat to a data center, the method including detecting change in a power load or a cooling heat load of the data center and adjusting electrical energy and cooling capacity of the fuel cell triple cogeneration system.

Abstract: An electronic device including a display panel including a plurality of light emitting elements, and an input sensor on the display panel. The input sensor includes a transmission electrode including a plurality of first transmission patterns arranged in a first direction, and a reception electrode crossing the transmission electrode and including a plurality of first reception patterns arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the first transmission patterns extends in the first direction and has a zigzag shape, and each of the first reception patterns extends in the second direction and has a zigzag shape.

Abstract: An autonomous driving control apparatus includes a sensor device, a memory storing instructions, and a controller. The autonomous driving control apparatus obtains first sensing data about a driving path of a driving device using a first sensor, identifies a first specified object included in the first sensing data and meeting a specified condition, identifies a first sampling rate to be applied to a first point cloud data corresponding to the first specified object, obtains second sensing data about the driving path using a second sensor, identifies a second specified object included in the second sensing data, identifies a second sampling rate to be applied to second point cloud data corresponding to the second specified object, and samples the first sensing data and the second sensing data respectively using the first sampling rate and the second sampling rate.

Abstract: A service robot and a method for providing a delivery service thereof are provided. The service robot includes a camera, a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor, a driving device including a robotic arm, a processor, and storage. The processor: obtains an image by capturing the outside of the service robot; detects a target vehicle from the image; compares an image of the detected target vehicle with the reference vehicle image; recognizes a type of the target vehicle; recognizes vehicle information; recognizes a distance from the target vehicle; compares the LiDAR data with the vehicle information; recognizes at least one relative direction of the target vehicle; determines a target position and a path; controls the service robot to move to the target position along the path; and controls the service robot to deliver the delivery product to the target vehicle.

Abstract: An autonomous driving device and a driving control method thereof are provided. The autonomous driving device includes at least one sensor, a processor, and storage including a database. The processor is configured to detect, using the at least one sensor, an obstacle that is present on a passage in a first driving path, of the first autonomous driving device, to a destination; determine whether there is a need for the first autonomous driving device to cross paths with the obstacle to pass through the passage; determine a time to collision by the first autonomous driving device with the obstacle; determine whether the obstacle is a second autonomous driving device; identify a driving rule corresponding to the second autonomous driving device; determine, based on the driving rule, a second driving path for passing through the passage; and control the first autonomous driving device to drive on the passage along the second driving path.

Abstract: A control device and a method for controlling an autonomous driving device thereof are provided. The control device includes a communication device, a processor, and storage. The processor receives a driving path request from a first external autonomous driving device, receives information associated with a second external autonomous driving device and information associated with a passage, determines a driving path of the first external autonomous driving device and a driving path of the second external autonomous driving device, provides the first external autonomous driving device and the second external autonomous driving device with the determined driving paths, transmits a control request for allowing the second external autonomous driving device to drive along the determined driving path to an external control device, receives a response to the control request, and provides the first external autonomous driving device with the determined driving path or a corrected driving path.

Abstract: Disclosed is an autonomous driving control apparatus which includes a sensor device, a communication device, a memory storing instructions, and a controller. For example, the autonomous driving control apparatus controls a mobility device to a specified place and obtains image data about at least one vehicle in the specified place using the sensor device, detects location information about each of the at least one vehicle using the image data, receives identification information corresponding to each of the at least one vehicle from a server, using the communication device, and calibrates the sensor device using any one of the location information, the identification information, an error between the location information and the identification information, or a combination thereof, when the error between the location information and the identification information is out of a specified range.

Abstract: An autonomous driving control apparatus includes a sensor device, a communication device, a memory storing instructions, and a controller. The autonomous driving control apparatus receives a control signal including user vehicle information from a server using the communication device; controls a mobility device to a specified place based on the control signal; obtains at least one piece of image data about at least one vehicle in the specified place using the sensor device; detects at least one of 2D data, 3D data, or a combination thereof for each of the at least one vehicle based on the at least one piece of image data; and searches for a user vehicle among the at least one vehicle based on at least one of the at least one piece of image data, the 2D data, the 3D data, the user vehicle information, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A server may include one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the server to, collect, from a first mobile device, location information associated with a specified area, store reference data, associated with a relative location between a second mobile device and the specified area, determine, based on at least one of the location information or the stored reference data, whether an error calculated satisfies a threshold value, generate, based on the determination, new reference data, and cause, based on the new reference data and the location information, the second mobile device to adjust driving direction.

Abstract: A patrol system for performing a night patrol using an indoor robot includes at least one robot and a control device that controls the at least one robot. The control device performs a night patrol for a patrol target using the at least one robot, receives a request to identify an unidentified moving object from a first robot among the at least one robot during the night patrol, selects a second robot to identify the unidentified moving object among the at least one robot in response to the request, and identifies the unidentified moving object using the second robot.

Abstract: Disclosed is an autonomous driving control apparatus which includes at least one sensor, one or more processors, and memory. The autonomous driving control apparatus obtains, using the at least one sensor and while a driving device is being autonomously controlled, data about a driving route of the driving device, stops a movement of the driving device based on a comparison between the cumulative quantity of the edge pairs identified along the driving route and edge pair data previously stored in the memory, obtains, using the at least one sensor, at least one image, and determines, based on the at least one image, that the driving device has reached a destination.

Abstract: An embodiment path planning apparatus includes a sensing device configured to detect obstacles in an electronic map stored in a memory, wherein a location of a robot and a destination are marked on the electronic map, and a controller configured to independently generate a robot tree in which the location of the robot is a first root node and a destination tree in which the destination is a second root node, in consideration of the obstacles in the electronic map, to search for an initial path based on the robot tree and the destination tree, and to optimize the initial path such that a final path from the location of the robot to the destination has a shortest distance.

Abstract: A robot path planning apparatus includes: a storage configured to receive an obstacle occupancy grid map, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate a cost map in which a cost corresponding to a separation distance from an obstacle to a movement area to which a robot is able to move is assigned, based on the obstacle occupancy grid map, determine a first path from a current location of the robot to a destination, and determine a second path by calibrating the first path based on the cost map.

Abstract: An embodiment path planning apparatus includes a sensing device configured to detect obstacles in an electronic map stored in a memory, wherein a location of a robot and a destination are marked on the electronic map, and a controller configured to independently generate a robot tree in which the location of the robot is a first root node and a destination tree in which the destination is a second root node, in consideration of the obstacles in the electronic map, to search for an initial path based on the robot tree and the destination tree, and to optimize the initial path such that a final path from the location of the robot to the destination has a shortest distance.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating multiple paths for a mobile robot includes a multi-path generation module that detects “n” multiple waypoints located at a maximum straight line distance without collision with an obstacle in a space within a predetermined radius in “n” directions centered on the mobile robot, and plans “n” multiple paths to a destination by passing through each of the multiple waypoints as an initial waypoint, and an optimal path selection module that selects a path satisfying a preset cost function requirement among the “n” multiple paths, which are planned, as an optimal path, making it possible to select the optimal path suitable for various driving situations of the mobile robot by simultaneously generating multiple paths along which the mobile robot is to travel from its current location to its destination.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a position of a target may include a particle generator to generate a plurality of particles on a map, a particle selector to calculate position accuracy of each of the plurality of particles, based on data sensed related to a position of a target, and select, as a reference particle, at least one of the plurality of particles, based on the position accuracy, and a position determining device to determine the position of the target, based on the reference particle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma diagnosing system and method, and more particularly, to a system and a method for diagnosing plasma in real time using a change in a capacitance sensed by an electrode using a reference waveform having a frequency different from a plasma discharging frequency band region. The sensed capacitance varies before and after discharging plasma and the plasma is diagnosed using the change in capacitance in real time.

Abstract: A touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface may be provided. The touch input device includes: a display module; and a pressure sensor which is disposed at a position where a distance between the pressure sensor and a reference potential layer is changeable according to the touch on the touch surface. The distance is changeable according to a pressure magnitude of the touch. The pressure sensor outputs a signal including information on a capacitance which is changed according to the distance. The pressure sensor includes a plurality of electrodes to form a plurality of channels. The pressure magnitude of the touch is detected on the basis of a change amount of the capacitance detected in each of the channels and an SNR improvement scaling factor assigned to each of the channels.

Abstract: A touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface may be provided that includes: a display module; and a pressure sensor which is disposed at a position where a distance between the pressure sensor and a reference potential layer is changeable according to the touch on the touch surface. The distance is changeable according to a pressure magnitude of the touch. The pressure sensor outputs a signal including information on a capacitance which is changed according to the distance. The pressure sensor includes a plurality of electrodes to form a plurality of channels. The pressure magnitude of the touch is detected on the basis of a change amount of the capacitance detected in each of the channels. According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a pressure sensor for pressure detection, a touch input device including the same, and a pressure detection method using the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma diagnosing system and method, and more particularly, to a system and a method for diagnosing plasma in real time using a change in a capacitance sensed by an electrode using a reference waveform having a frequency different from a plasma discharging frequency band region. The sensed capacitance varies before and after discharging plasma and the plasma is diagnosed using the change in capacitance in real time.