Abstract: A mining machine includes: a road gradient calculator that calculates a road gradient of a travel route based on a position and a speed measured by a GNSS receiver, a vehicle body posture measured by a vehicle body posture sensor, and an acceleration measured by an acceleration sensor; a traction coefficient calculator that calculates a traction coefficient based on the speed measured by the GNSS receiver, the acceleration measured by the acceleration sensor, a wheel speed measured by a wheel speed sensor, a steering direction measured by a steering angle sensor, a vehicle weight measured by a load sensor, and a driving torque measured by a driving torque sensor; and a target torque calculator that calculates a target torque based on the road gradient calculated by the road gradient calculator and the traction coefficient calculated by the traction coefficient calculator.

Abstract: An airport for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes three or more windbreak walls that extend radially about a reference axis, and three or more take-off and landing areas for the vertical take-off and landing aircrafts, which are partitioned by two adjacent windbreak walls among the three or more windbreak walls.

Abstract: Provided are a control device and a control method by which an airplane can maintain flight while maintaining a high level of safety, even if there is a conceivable abnormal event such as a communication failure or an obstacle. This control device is for an airplane, the control device being characterized by: comprising a setting unit that sets a main flight route, which is a normal flight route, and at least one secondary flight route, for each of a plurality of airplanes, and a management unit that prevents interference between a given main flight route and a given secondary flight route, and a main flight route and secondary flight route of another airplane; obtaining information about an airplane or the surrounding airspace; and when the information matches a preset prescribed condition, permitting the airplane to operate using the secondary flight route.

Abstract: Provided is an autonomous travel system capable of effectively suppressing generation of ruts. It is a further object to provide an autonomous travel system including unmanned vehicles that travel on a transportation path constituted of opposite lanes, which is capable of suppressing generation of ruts while preventing proximity to an on-corning vehicle. An in-vehicle control device 200 includes: an offset amount determination unit 202 adapted to, based on common offset information received via a wireless communication device 240, determine an offset amount of a travel path 60 based on map information 251 and generate a target track 62; and an autonomous travel control unit 201 adapted to output a travel instruction to control traveling of a body so as to track the target track 62 to which the offset amount has been added based on the target track 62 and an own-vehicle position.

Abstract: An operation management system is capable of safely and space-efficiently optimizing an operation path in accordance with various events. The operation management system manages a flight of an airframe such as a vertical take-off and landing plane. The system includes a 4D path planning unit that plans a 4D path, of the airframe, represented as a series of planned passing positions and time of the airframe. The system has an occupied space design unit for designing, as occupied spaces of the airframe prohibiting entry of other airframes, a movable occupied space that includes the airframe and that moves together with a mobile body and a fixed occupied space that includes the movable occupied space and that is along the 4D path. The 4D path planning unit re-plans the 4D path on the basis of a positional relationship between the movable and fixed occupied spaces during the flight of the airframe.

Abstract: To keep tracking performance of a hauling vehicle to a target trajectory while suppressing a decrease in vehicle speed, the travel system 200 for a hauling vehicle 20 includes: a position sensor 273 that measures a vehicle position of the hauling vehicle 20; a storage device 210 that stores a curvature of a target trajectory 11 for the hauling vehicle 20, which is calculated for each node 12 making up the target trajectory 11; and a control device 220 that controls travel of the hauling vehicle 20 based on the vehicle position and the curvature. The control device 220 includes: a target point setting section 230 configured to set a target point, which is a point through which the hauling vehicle 20 passes, on the target trajectory 11 ahead of the vehicle position; and a vehicle control section 250 configured to control the travel of the hauling vehicle 20 so that the hauling vehicle 20 travels from the vehicle position to the target point.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a work vehicle that allows detecting an error in an installation position of an antenna more flexibly than a conventional device. The work vehicle includes a control device 150. The control device 150 has a detection function F106, a calculation function F104, a calculation function F105, a calculation function F107, and an estimation function F110. The detection function F106 detects steady traveling based on a velocity, an acceleration, and an angular velocity of a vehicle. The calculation function F104 calculates a first vehicle direction based on installation information of a first antenna and a second antenna with respect to the vehicle. The calculation function F105 calculates a second vehicle direction based on a time change of position information of the first antenna when the steady traveling is detected. The calculation function F107 calculates a direction correction parameter for correcting the first vehicle direction based on the second vehicle direction.

Abstract: In order to achieve the above objects, according to the present invention, an information processing system includes a wind-condition estimation unit that estimates wind-condition information in a predetermined space region, and an evaluation unit that evaluates flight difficulty or economic efficiency of an aircraft based on the estimated wind-condition information. According to the present invention, an information processing method includes estimating wind-condition information in a predetermined space region, and evaluating flight difficulty or economic efficiency of an aircraft based on the estimated wind-condition information.

Abstract: Provided is a conveying vehicle that ensures efficiently travelling while suppressing vehicle slip. A dump truck 100 includes a vehicle body 101 provided with wheels 103 and a vehicle control device 300 and travels on a travel route. The vehicle control device 300 calculates and stores slip limit values at a plurality of positions on the travel route, reads out the slip limit values to calculate at least one of a maximum acceleration and a maximum deceleration of the dump truck 100 at which the wheels 103 is capable of maintaining a grip state against a road surface, and sets a target travel speed at a travel position between the dump truck 100 and a target position according to a target speed at the target position and at least one of the maximum acceleration and the maximum deceleration.

Abstract: Provided is a control system for hauling vehicle capable of suppressing slippage of a hauling vehicle while suppressing a decrease in travel speed of the hauling vehicle. A control system for hauling vehicle causes a hauling vehicle 100 to travel based on a control target including a target route. The control system generates a control target based on the map information, which includes information on the travel path WP along which the hauling vehicle 100 travels and information on a plurality of travel sections TS obtained by dividing the travel path WP; the loading quantity on the hauling vehicle 100 in each travel section TS; and a slippage index indicating the slipperiness of the travel path WP in each travel section TS.

Abstract: The purpose is to provide a mobile body control system that can more appropriately perform control of a mobile body capable of vertical takeoff and landing. Comprised are a ground monitoring device (10), and a mobile body control device (20) that can communicate with the ground monitoring device (10). The mobile body control device (20) controls the flight of mobile bodies (51, 61, 71) that are capable of vertical takeoff and landing. The ground monitoring device (10) allocates flight routes (52, 62, 72) when the mobile bodies (51, 61, 71) do takeoff and landing, and is also characterized in that when there is an interference space (80) between one flight route (62) and another flight route (72), unless the one fight route (62) is reserved, flight is not permitted on that flight route.

Abstract: A measurement sensor that measures, as three-dimensional point cloud information having a plurality of vertically-adjacent layers, a surface position of an object around the work machine; and an object sensor that senses an object around the work machine on a basis of information from the measurement sensor are included, and the object sensor acquires three-dimensional point cloud information by measurement by the measurement sensor; senses, as point data, a point where microparticles are measured, based on a relation between distances, from the measurement sensor, of point data of vertically-adjacent layers and variations of distance differences, regarding a plurality of pieces of point data included in the three-dimensional point cloud information; deletes the point data of the point sensed as the point where the microparticles are measured, from the three-dimensional point cloud information; and senses an object around the work machine on a basis of the three-dimensional point cloud information.

Abstract: A mining machine includes: a road gradient calculator that calculates a road gradient of a travel route based on a position and a speed measured by a GNSS receiver, a vehicle body posture measured by a vehicle body posture sensor, and an acceleration measured by an acceleration sensor; a traction coefficient calculator that calculates a traction coefficient based on the speed measured by the GNSS receiver, the acceleration measured by the acceleration sensor, a wheel speed measured by a wheel speed sensor, a steering direction measured by a steering angle sensor, a vehicle weight measured by a load sensor, and a driving torque measured by a driving torque sensor; and a target torque calculator that calculates a target torque based on the road gradient calculated by the road gradient calculator and the traction coefficient calculated by the traction coefficient calculator.

Abstract: An unmanned vehicle 20 is a vehicle that drives an electric motor by electric power generated in a power generator to travel by driving of the electric motor and includes a position sensor 240 that detects a position of the unmanned vehicle 20, a speed sensor 250 that detects a speed of the unmanned vehicle 20, and a vehicle control device 220 that controls the unmanned vehicle 20.

Abstract: Provided is an autonomous travel system capable of effectively suppressing generation of ruts. It is a further object to provide an autonomous travel system including unmanned vehicles that travel on a transportation path constituted of opposite lanes, which is capable of suppressing generation of ruts while preventing proximity to an on-corning vehicle. An in-vehicle control device 200 includes: an offset amount determination unit 202 adapted to, based on common offset information received via a wireless communication device 240, determine an offset amount of a travel path 60 based on map information 251 and generate a target track 62; and an autonomous travel control unit 201 adapted to output a travel instruction to control traveling of a body so as to track the target track 62 to which the offset amount has been added based on the target track 62 and an own-vehicle position.

Abstract: Provided is a traffic control server, a traffic control system, and a display device capable of wirelessly communicating with the traffic control server that are capable of realizing both safety securement for a manned vehicle and an unmanned vehicle traveling in a mine and prevention of reduction in productivity by controlling interference between the manned vehicle and the unmanned vehicle. An interference control part of the traffic control server generates warning information for performing at least one of displaying a warning screen or making a warning sound to the manned vehicle in accordance with an overlap (interference) among a stop trigger region of the manned vehicle, a travel-permitted section set for the unmanned vehicle, a next travel-permitted section that is the travel-permitted section to be subsequently set for the unmanned vehicle, and a warning region set for the travel-permitted section, and a server-side communication control part transmits the warning information to the manned vehicle.

Abstract: A kinematic positioning system configured to determine position coordinates of moving bodies by receiving positioning signals from positioning satellites, comprises an on-vehicle device configured to calculate the position coordinates of one of the moving bodies based on carrier wave phases of the positioning signals received from the positioning satellites, and a ground management device configured to transmit correction data used to calculate the position coordinates to the on-vehicle device in response to a request from the on-vehicle device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a work vehicle that allows detecting an error in an installation position of an antenna more flexibly than a conventional device. The work vehicle includes a control device 150. The control device 150 has a detection function F106, a calculation function F104, a calculation function F105, a calculation function F107, and an estimation function F110. The detection function F106 detects steady traveling based on a velocity, an acceleration, and an angular velocity of a vehicle. The calculation function F104 calculates a first vehicle direction based on installation information of a first antenna and a second antenna with respect to the vehicle. The calculation function F105 calculates a second vehicle direction based on a time change of position information of the first antenna when the steady traveling is detected. The calculation function F107 calculates a direction correction parameter for correcting the first vehicle direction based on the second vehicle direction.

Abstract: Provided is a conveying vehicle that ensures efficiently travelling while suppressing vehicle slip. A dump truck 100 includes a vehicle body 101 provided with wheels 103 and a vehicle control device 300 and travels on a travel route. The vehicle control device 300 calculates and stores slip limit values at a plurality of positions on the travel route, reads out the slip limit values to calculate at least one of a maximum acceleration and a maximum deceleration of the dump truck 100 at which the wheels 103 is capable of maintaining a grip state against a road surface, and sets a target travel speed at a travel position between the dump truck 100 and a target position according to a target speed at the target position and at least one of the maximum acceleration and the maximum deceleration.

Abstract: A kinematic positioning system configured to determine position coordinates of moving bodies by receiving positioning signals from positioning satellites, comprises an on-vehicle device configured to calculate the position coordinates of one of the moving bodies based on carrier wave phases of the positioning signals received from the positioning satellites, and a ground management device configured to transmit correction data used to calculate the position coordinates to the on-vehicle device in response to a request from the on-vehicle device.