Abstract: A steering system of a vehicle, including an operation member to be operated by a driver, a steering device configured to steer a wheel, and a controller configured to control the steering system, wherein the controller is configured to parallelly execute a main process including a process in which the controller controls the steering device to perform steering of the wheel in accordance with an operation of the operation member and an auxiliary process relating to an operation of the steering system and configured to decrease an execution ratio of the main process and increase an execution ratio of the auxiliary process when a condition that a running speed of the vehicle is not lower than a threshold speed is satisfied.

Abstract: A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle, including: a wheel brake device configured to generate a braking force based on a pressure of a working fluid; a first brake system including a high-pressure source device including an accumulator and a first pump device that is driven intermittently such that a pressure of the working fluid in the accumulator is not lower than a set lower limit pressure and not higher than a set upper limit pressure; a second brake system including a second pump device; and a main power source that supplies electricity to the first and second brake systems, wherein the hydraulic brake system includes an auxiliary power source that supplies electricity to the first brake system when a failure occurs in the main power source, and wherein the first pump device is continuously driven when the failure occurs irrespective of the pressure in the accumulator.

Abstract: A vehicle brake system, including: a first-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a first braking force, a second-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a second braking force, an abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in an abnormal state, a pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in a pseudo abnormal state in which the first-braking-force control mechanism is suspected to be in the abnormal state, and a controller including a pseudo abnormal state controller configured to control the second-braking-force control mechanism in an operating state of the first-braking-force control mechanism so as to control the second braking force when the pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device detects that the first-braking-force control mechanism is in the pseudo abnormal state.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device. The information processing device receives identification information that identifies prescribed commodities that a user desires to purchase at a plurality affiliated stores, and specifies a commodity group that the user desires to purchase based on the identification information. When receiving indication information to indicate settlement of the commodity group, the information processing device is configured to execute settlement processing for the specified commodity group.

Abstract: A center server including a CPU is provided. The CPU instructs a vehicle to transport a product from a manufacturer of the product to a transportation destination, and instructs, after the vehicle has transported the product, the vehicle to transport an article related to the product from the transportation destination to the manufacturer, based on a demand for the article.

Abstract: A center server including a CPU is provided. The CPU instructs a vehicle to transport a part from a supplier of the part to a supply destination, instructs, after the vehicle has transported the part, the vehicle to move from the supply destination to a stopover and to load another part at the stopover, and instructs the vehicle to deliver the other part to one or more delivery points located in a direction from the stopover toward the supplier.

Abstract: A transportation system is equipped with at least one self-propelled pallet that can move and that is loaded with a piece of luggage, a vehicle that accommodates the at least one self-propelled pallet, and an administrative server that commands the self-propelled pallet loaded with the piece of luggage to move to a place of reception of the piece of luggage, and that commands the self-propelled pallet loaded with no luggage to move to the vehicle after the piece of luggage is unloaded at the place of reception.

Abstract: A delivery system includes a moving apparatus on which a parcel to be transferred to a predetermined region is loaded and that is capable of moving the parcel along a circulation route along which the moving apparatus circulates in the region. The delivery system acquires delivery information including position information about a delivery destination of the parcel, generates a delivery plan for delivering the parcel to the delivery destination, based on the acquired delivery information, and controls the moving apparatus such that the moving apparatus moves the parcel to the delivery destination on the circulation route based on the delivery plan and fulfills the transfer of the parcel when permission information indicating that the transfer of the parcel is permitted has been received.

Abstract: An information processing device receives identification information for identifying a predetermined cargo handling operation which is performed at a base for loading or unloading cargo, identifies a user who is able to accept the cargo handling operation based on the identification information, and generates request information which is displayed to the identified user based on the identification information.

Abstract: A vehicle instruction device includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire inventory information pertaining to an inventory of a commodity at a delivery destination, a delivery schedule pertaining to delivery of the commodity to the delivery destination by a delivery vehicle, and delivery information pertaining to a delivery status of the delivery vehicle, update the delivery schedule based on the inventory information and the delivery information, generate instruction information for entry to the delivery destination based on a priority level for receiving the commodity in the delivery schedule that has been updated, and notify the delivery vehicle of the instruction information.

Abstract: A position finding method including capturing respective images of multiple locations on a movement route of a moving body at the multiple locations, associating the respective images of the multiple locations with respective position information relating to the multiple locations, storing the respective images on a storage medium in association with the respective position information, capturing an image of a current position of the moving body from the moving body while the moving body is moving along the movement route, performing image matching between the current position image and the respective images stored on the storage medium, and finding the current position of the moving body based on a result of the image matching.

Abstract: A position locating system for locating a current position of a mobile terminal includes an imaging section, an image acquisition section, a matching section, and a position locating section. The imaging section is configured to capture a surroundings image of surroundings of the mobile terminal using a camera provided at the mobile terminal. The image acquisition section is configured to acquire over a network images similar to the surroundings image and associated with position information regarding an imaging location. The matching section is configured to perform image matching between the surroundings image and the images acquired by the image acquisition section so as to find a single image that is a match for the surroundings image. The position locating section is configured to locate the current position of the mobile terminal from the position information associated with the single image.

Abstract: An unmanned conveying system includes: plural unmanned conveying vehicles that can convey cargo; a cargo priority order deciding section that decides upon a priority order in which the cargo are to be conveyed, in accordance with conditions of the cargo; and a traveling route setting section that decides upon traveling routes of the unmanned conveying vehicles on the basis of the priority order.

Abstract: A vehicle self-driving system includes: a communication section provided separately from an unmanned self-driving vehicle configured to travel unmanned within a predefined area and a manned driven vehicle that has entered the predefined area and has completed a handover of driving authority, the communication section being configured to perform two-way wireless communication with the unmanned self-driving vehicle and the manned driven vehicle; and a control section configured to be handed driving authority from the manned driven vehicle by the wireless communication and to control respective movements of the unmanned self-driving vehicle and the manned driven vehicle based on the wireless communication, and further configured to effect control such that a communication cycle of the wireless communication with at least one of the unmanned self-driving vehicle or the manned driven vehicle is lengthened in cases in which a communication traffic volume of the wireless communication has exceeded a predefined value

Abstract: A steering system for a vehicle according to an example in the present disclosure includes a steering mechanism, which is mechanically disconnected from the steering wheel, to cause a turning wheel to be turned by a turning motor, and a control device that provides a motor command value to the turning motor. The control device has a control system including a feed-forward model for converting a target turning angle to a feed-forward value of a motor command value, and a disturbance observer including a inverse model of a model of a steering motor. Transfer functions respectively describing the feed-forward model and the model of the disturbance observer include a variable coefficient. The control device changes the variable coefficient based on information about road reaction force.

Abstract: A linear drive mechanism which moves a detector having sensitivity in a first axial direction, relatively to a workpiece in a second axial direction orthogonal to the first axial direction, the linear drive mechanism includes: a drive shaft extending in the second axial direction; a mover which is supported in a non-contact fashion by the drive shaft and configured to move along the drive shaft integrally with the detector or the workpiece; a guide provided at a position deviated relative to the drive shaft in a third axial direction orthogonal to both the first axial direction and the second axial direction, the guide parallel to the drive shaft; and a resistance force generator which is provided on one of the mover and the guide, and is in contact with the other of the mover and the guide, the resistance force generator generates a resistance force which resists against movement of the mover.

Abstract: The hydraulic pressure generating device includes a regulator (spool valve) formed by a cylinder body, a spool which slidably moves within the cylinder body, a pilot chamber in which a pilot pressure which is a hydraulic pressure moving the spool along in an axial direction is inputted and an output chamber out of which an output pressure which is a hydraulic pressure corresponding to the pilot pressure is outputted, wherein the hydraulic pressure generating device further includes a spool position obtaining portion which obtains a relative position of the spool relative to the cylinder body and a pilot pressure controlling portion which controls the pilot pressure based on the relative position obtained by the spool position obtaining portion.

Abstract: The vehicle braking device performs a control which makes an actual value of physical quantity associated with a braking force follow a target value thereof when the actual value is outside a dead zone and a control which suppresses a change of the actual value when the actual value is within the dead zone and includes a judging portion which judges whether or not the actual value passes through the dead zone with a value beyond the upper limit threshold value and a setting portion which sets a second upper limit threshold value more closely approximated than a first upper limit threshold value when the actual value is judged not to pass through the dead zone, as the upper limit threshold value, when the actual value is judged to pass through the dead zone by the judging portion.

Abstract: A linear drive mechanism which moves a detector having sensitivity in a first axial direction, relatively to a workpiece in a second axial direction orthogonal to the first axial direction, the linear drive mechanism includes: a drive shaft extending in the second axial direction; a mover which is supported in a non-contact fashion by the drive shaft and configured to move along the drive shaft integrally with the detector or the workpiece; a guide provided at a position deviated relative to the drive shaft in a third axial direction orthogonal to both the first axial direction and the second axial direction, the guide parallel to the drive shaft; and a resistance force generator which is provided on one of the mover and the guide, and is in contact with the other of the mover and the guide, the resistance force generator generates a resistance force which resists against movement of the mover.

Abstract: A steering system for a vehicle according to an example in the present disclosure includes a steering mechanism, which is mechanically disconnected from the steering wheel, to cause a turning wheel to be turned by a turning motor, and a control device that provides a motor command value to the turning motor. The control device has a control system including a feed-forward model for converting a target turning angle to a feed-forward value of a motor command value, and a disturbance observer including a inverse model of a model of a steering motor. Transfer functions respectively describing the feed-forward model and the model of the disturbance observer include a variable coefficient. The control device changes the variable coefficient based on information about road reaction force.