Abstract: In an embodiment, an autonomous vehicle includes a sensor unit configured to detect surrounding environment of the vehicle, generate surrounding environment information, monitor a state of the vehicle, and generate vehicle state information. A processor is configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle based on one or both of the surrounding environment information and the vehicle state information, detect whether a failure occurs in a function required for autonomous driving of the vehicle based on the vehicle state information, determine one or both of a movable time and a movable distance, for indicating a fail-operational capability (FOC) of the vehicle, based on one or both of the vehicle state information and the surrounding environment information, and control the vehicle to be emergency stopped by performing a minimal risk maneuver based on one or both of the movable time and the movable distance.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged in numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system and each having a refractive power, wherein an entire field of view of the optical imaging system is 50° or greater, and TTL/f<1.0, where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system.

Abstract: An air compressor according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: a housing; a rotating shaft which is disposed in the housing; a compression unit which is connected to the rotating shaft to compress and discharge inlet air; a motor unit which drives the rotating shaft; a control board which controls the motor unit; and a filter unit which filters out noise from external power and supplies the external power to the control board, wherein the housing includes a first cooling flow channel for cooling the motor unit and a second cooling flow channel for cooling the filter unit, and the first cooling flow channel communicates with the second cooling flow channel.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes an uncoated portion at a long side end thereof and exposed out of the separator along a winding axis direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to form a bending surface region that includes overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and in a partial region of the bending surface region, the number of stacked layers of the uncoated portion is 10 or more in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: In some example embodiments, a back side illumination (BSI) image sensor may include a pixel configured to generate electrical signals in response to light incident on a back side of a substrate. In some example embodiments, the pixel includes, a photodiode, a device isolation film adjacent to the photodiode, a dark current suppression layer above the photodiode, a light shield grid above the photodiode and including an opening area of 1 to 15% of an area of the pixel, a light shielding filter layer above the light shield grid, a planarization layer above the light shielding filter layer, a lens above the planarization layer, and/or an anti-reflective film between the photodiode and the lens.

Abstract: The method for converting a near-infrared image into an RGB image includes: (a) receiving near-infrared image data to be converted into an RGB image and inputting the received data to the first network; (b) extracting, by the first network, feature data of a near-infrared image from the input near-infrared image data; and (c) outputting, by the first network, an estimated RGB image, which enables to convert the received near-infrared image data into an RGB image, using the extracted feature data of the near-infrared image, wherein the first network performs knowledge distillation learning by receiving knowledge, which enables to mimic the behavior of extracting the feature data of the near-infrared image and the feature data of the RGB image, from the second network which has received as input data not only near-infrared image data as learning data but also RGB image data taken at the same time as the near-infrared image.

Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one sensor, a controller configured to control operations of the vehicle; and a processor configured to be electrically connected to the at least one sensor and the controller, the processor configured to detect, based on surrounding environment information and vehicle state information collected from the at least one sensor, an event associated with a stop, identify, by the at least one sensor and based on the detected event, an area for the vehicle to stop, determine, based on a size of the identified area, a stop type, and cause, by the controller and based on the determined stop type, the vehicle to stop in the identified area.

Abstract: A method and a system thereof for producing a digital holographic screen based on multi-hogel printing are proposed. The system includes a light source unit including lasers, a dichroic mirror for RGB three color matching, mirrors, a beam splitter, and an optical shutter, an object beam unit including a spatial filter, a lens, and a mirror, a reference beam unit including a spatial filter, a lens, and a mirror, a diffuser fixing unit including a diffuser holder and a diffuser positioned between the object beam unit and a recording material and configured to scatter and diffuse the object beam, a photomask movement unit including a photomask holder, an XY-translation stage, and a photomask positioned between the reference beam unit and the recording medium and on which a grid-shaped on/off binary pattern is printed, and a controller configured to control the optical shutter and the XY-translation stage.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, the uncoated portion of an electrode includes a segment region divided into a plurality of segments, and the segment region includes a plurality of segment groups separated by a group separation pitch along a winding direction. One end of the electrode assembly includes a plurality of segment alignments. In winding turns corresponding to the plurality of segment alignments, group separation pitches of segment groups disposed in a same winding turn are substantially identical, and separation pitches of the segment groups is greater in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly than in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle for autonomous driving is capable of performing a minimum risk maneuver. The vehicle includes: at least one sensor, a processor and a controller, where the processor may detect whether a minimum risk maneuver (MRM) is required based on at least one of surrounding environment information and vehicle state information during autonomous driving of the vehicle, determine an MRM type based on a possibility of colliding with a neighboring vehicle when the MRM is required, and control to stop the vehicle based on the determined MRM type.

Abstract: A powertrain for an electric vehicle includes: a planetary gear having a first rotating element, a second rotating element, and a third rotating element, wherein a first rotating element is connected to a first shaft and the second rotating element is connected to a second shaft; a first motor configured to selectively supply power to the first shaft at two or more gear ratios; a first shift assembly configured to transfer power of the first motor to the first shaft through one of two or more external engagement gear trains having different gear ratios; and a second motor configured to selectively supply power to the first shaft and the second shaft. The third shaft is fixedly disposed on a transmission housing, and any two shafts among the first, second and third shafts restrain each other.

Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate; a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode arranged on the base substrate to be spaced apart from each other; a pixel defining film on the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode and including a first opening exposing the first pixel electrode, a second opening exposing the second pixel electrode and spaced apart from the first opening, and a third opening exposing the third pixel electrode and spaced apart from the first opening and the second opening; a first organic layer on the first pixel electrode exposed by the first opening; a second organic layer on the second pixel electrode exposed by the second opening; and a third organic layer on the third pixel electrode exposed by the third opening.

Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle back beam capable of maximizing impact performance and reducing product weight; and a vehicle including same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a vehicle back beam which includes: a back beam body; and a back beam reinforcing part which is formed in at least one section of the back beam body and composed of a highly deformable composite material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle which supports a minimal risk maneuver. The vehicle performs driving, perform the minimal risk maneuver when a specific event occurs during the driving, eliminates the risk of the vehicle in accordance with the initiation of the minimal risk maneuver, ends the minimal risk maneuver when the risk of the vehicle is eliminated, and performs the driving again after ending the minimal risk maneuver.

Abstract: An embodiment method for operating a vehicle includes monitoring a state of the vehicle, determining a type of a minimum risk maneuver based on the state of the vehicle, wherein the type of the minimum risk maneuver comprises a straight-ahead stopping type in which the vehicle stops after driving straight ahead only and a lane change stopping type in which the vehicle stops after changing a lane, and executing the determined type of the minimum risk maneuver.

Abstract: An embodiment method of operating a vehicle includes generating a minimal risk maneuver request of the vehicle in response to a determination that there is an abnormality in a state of the vehicle, in response to the minimal risk maneuver request being generated, selecting a minimal risk maneuver type from among a plurality of minimal risk maneuver types based on the state of the vehicle, and performing a minimal risk maneuver based on the selected minimal risk maneuver type.

Abstract: An embodiment method for operating a vehicle includes monitoring a state of the vehicle, determining a type of an emergency stop from a plurality of types of emergency stops based on the state of the vehicle, and executing the determined type of the emergency stop. An embodiment vehicle includes sensors, a processor configured to control automated driving of the vehicle based on state information of components of the vehicle and surrounding environment information of the vehicle detected by the sensors, and a controller configured to control an operation of the vehicle based on a control of the processor, wherein the processor is further configured to monitor a state of the vehicle, determine a type of an emergency stop from a plurality of types of emergency stops based on the state of the vehicle, and execute the determined type of the emergency stop by controlling the controller.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle which supports a minimal risk maneuver. The vehicle performs driving, perform the minimal risk maneuver when a specific event occurs during the driving, eliminates the risk of the vehicle in accordance with the initiation of the minimal risk maneuver, ends the minimal risk maneuver when the risk of the vehicle is eliminated, and performs the driving again after ending the minimal risk maneuver.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle which supports a minimal risk maneuver. The vehicle performs driving, perform the minimal risk maneuver when a specific event occurs during the driving, eliminates the risk of the vehicle in accordance with the initiation of the minimal risk maneuver, ends the minimal risk maneuver when the risk of the vehicle is eliminated, and performs the driving again after ending the minimal risk maneuver.