Abstract: A control system for a mobile object includes: a first sensor; a second sensor, different from the first sensor, that is mounted in the mobile object and is configured to detect an object by causing the mobile object to contact or approach the object; and a control device configured to recognize circumstances of the mobile object on the basis of a detection result from the first sensor and to control movement of the mobile object on the basis of the circumstances. The control device assumes that a second object which is not recognizable or hard to recognize is present at a reference position which is determined on the basis of a position of a prescribed first object when the first object has been recognized and causes the mobile object to move to a position at which the second sensor is able to detect the second object.

Abstract: A control system (10) includes: a manual operating device (1) that generates an operation signal in accordance with rotation of a dial (11) by an operator; a machine tool controller (4) and a robot controller (5) that are connected in such a manner as to be communicable with each other and that control a machine tool (6) and a robot (7), respectively, based on the operation signal; and an operational-target setting unit (2, 3) that sets an operational target for the manual operating device (1) selectively between the machine tool (6) and the robot (7). The manual operating device (1) is connected to one of the controllers (4, 5) and inputs the operation signal to the one of the controllers. When the operational-target setting unit (2, 3) sets the operational target as a control target (6) or (7) to be controlled by the other of the controllers (4, 5), the one of the controllers (4, 5) transmits the operation signal or a signal based on the operation signal to the other of the controllers.

Abstract: The present invention is to solve the breaking of memory consistency caused by disturbance of packet arrival order in an environment in which a plurality of computers are interconnected via a plurality of data links and the plurality of computers perform communication synchronization by MBCF with each other. A transmission-side process includes a transmission number-counting unit that counts the number of transmission of the operation request packet for each reception-side process and attaches a count number before or after counting-up of the operation request packet to the operation request packet, a reception-side process includes a reception number-counting unit that counts the number of reception of the operation request packet for each transmission-side process, and a transmission destination computer performs processing of the operation request packet when a count number of the reception number-counting unit and the count number attached to the operation request packet are consecutive.

Abstract: To provide a vehicle control system which can reduce dependence on determination of an automatic driving vehicle and can make the automatic driving vehicle perform evacuation driving under control of the vehicle control system, at the time of occurrence of an evacuation cause. A vehicle control system acquires traveling nodes for automatic driving which makes the object vehicle perform automatic driving from the travel node storage unit, and transmits it to the object vehicle; and irrespective of a presence or absence of occurrence of an evacuation cause for evacuating the object vehicle, acquires the evacuation nodes corresponding to the travel nodes for automatic driving from the evacuation node storage unit, and transmits to the object vehicle.

Abstract: A maintenance assist apparatus includes a timing determination unit to determine whether or not it is a timing to acquire a filter image obtained by photographing a filter of an air conditioning machine, and transmit to control equipment, an image acquisition request, when it is determined that it is the timing to acquire the filter image. The control equipment includes a photographing assist unit to display the image acquisition request on display equipment and assist a user in photographing the filter, when the image acquisition request is received. The maintenance assist apparatus includes an image registration unit to acquire the filter image photographed by the user and accumulate the filter image in a storage unit.

Abstract: Electron density map specifying circuitry is configured to accurately reproduce an electron density map of a macromolecule in a solution having a dynamically fluctuating structure. For example, the electron density map circuitry generates a plurality of electron density maps from a measured X-ray scattering profile acquired by measuring a sample, calculates an index representing a degree of coincidence between an X-ray scattering profile calculated from each of the plurality of electron density maps and the measured X-ray scattering profile, and selects a representative electron density map from the plurality of electron density maps based on the calculated index.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light source device includes: disposing bumps containing a first metal on a first substrate which is thermally conductive; disposing a bonding member on the bumps, the bonding member containing Au—Sn alloy; disposing a light emitting element on the bumps and the bonding member; and heating the first substrate equipped with the bumps, the bonding member, and the light emitting element.

Abstract: A mobile object control device of an embodiment includes a partition line candidate recognizer that recognizes candidates for partition lines for partitioning a traveling lane in which a mobile object travels from a first image including the vicinity of the mobile object captured by an image capturer, and a partition line searcher that selects a partition line candidate closest to a past partition line for partitioning the traveling lane of the mobile object before a predetermined time, among the partition line candidates recognized by the partition line candidate recognizer, as a partition line for partitioning a current traveling lane of the mobile object.

Abstract: A mobile object control device of an embodiment includes a lane marking candidate recognizer configured to recognize candidates for a lane marking that demarcates a traveling lane in which a mobile object travels from an image including surroundings of the mobile object captured by an imaging unit, a virtual line setter configured to set at least one or more virtual lines outside of the lane marking recognized in the past as a lane marking that demarcates the traveling lane, when viewed from the mobile object, and a lane marking searcher configured to search for a lane marking that demarcates a current traveling lane of the mobile object on the basis of the lane marking candidates recognized by the lane marking candidate recognizer and the one or more virtual lines.

Abstract: An object recognition device having a distance measurement sensor mounted on an own vehicle and detects the distance to the object an own vehicle location detector that detects an own vehicle position an object detector that detects the object position based on the distance data and the own vehicle position, and an object distinguisher that distinguishes whether the object is a static object or a moving object based on a distance data, a vehicle position, and an object position wherein the static object distinguished by the object distinguisher is recognized as a static object to be detected, it is possible to reduce the annoyance given to a human such as a driver before guiding the vehicle to the target parking position without erroneously recognizing the target parking space.

Abstract: Provided is a mobile object control device including a storage medium that stores computer-readable commands and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable commands to: generate a target trajectory indicating a path along which a mobile object is to travel in the future based on division line information represented in a space obtained by converting an image, which is photographed by a camera mounted on the mobile object and represents a surrounding situation of the mobile object, into a bird's-eye view coordinate system; calculate a curvature of the target trajectory; estimate the curvature by applying a correction filter for correcting the curvature to the estimated curvature; generate a speed plan indicating a future target speed of the mobile object based on the corrected curvature; and cause the mobile object to travel according to the speed plan.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchange body having a plurality of flat tubes arranged and spaced from each other in a horizontal direction; an upper header provided at an upper end of the heat exchange body; a lower header provided at a lower end of the heat exchange body; and a partition plate provided in at least one of the upper and lower headers to partition the heat exchange body into a plurality of regions in a horizontal direction. The partition plate is provided such that in each of the regions, refrigerant flows in the opposite direction to the flow direction of the refrigerant in an adjacent one of the regions, and is provided such that regarding the regions, the more downward the region in the flow of the refrigerant when the heat exchanger operates as a condenser, the smaller a flow passage cross-sectional area of the region.

Abstract: A method of pre-coating a carbon film by plasma in a processing container, includes: pre-coating an inner wall of the processing container with a first carbon film by plasma of a first carbon-containing gas under a first pressure; and processing the first carbon film with the plasma under a second pressure.

Abstract: An example embodiment includes a large observation device that observes the object using a quantum beam; a reproduction device that is installed in the large observation device and reproduces an input to the object in a state where the object can be observed by the large observation device; a dynamic state observation device that observes a dynamic state of a functional object functioning by a combination of a plurality of elements; a first information acquisition unit that functionally decomposes the functional object up to an element corresponding to the object and acquires first information that is input information to the element corresponding to the object; and a transmission unit that transmits the first information to the reproduction device, in which the reproduction device reproduces the input to the object on the basis of the first information.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technique capable of controlling a shape of an SAM. Provided is a method of forming a target film on a substrate, wherein the method includes preparing a substrate including a layer of a first conductive material formed on a surface of a first region, and a layer of an insulating material formed on a surface of a second region; forming carbon nanotubes on a surface of the layer of the first conductive material; and supplying a raw material gas for a self-assembled film to form the self-assembled film in a region of the surface of the layer of the first conductive material in which the carbon nanotubes have not been formed.

Abstract: A refrigerant distributor includes an outer pipe, an inner pipe, and a structural part. The refrigerant outflow hole is provided such that an angle ? between a lower end of the inner pipe on a vertical line passing through a center of the inner pipe and a position of presence of the refrigerant outflow hole as seen from the center of the inner pipe falls within a range of 10 degrees???80 degrees. The refrigerant outflow hole comprises a sole refrigerant outflow hole provided in a vertical cross-section of the inner pipe at a position where the refrigerant outflow hole is provided.

Abstract: There is provided a rearing apparatus for rearing an organism includes: a box-shaped rearing case; at least one perching member that is held in the rearing case and that is capable of perching the organism; and a separating member that is provided in the rearing case and that is movable along the perching member. The separating member is configured to separate the organism perched at the perching member from the perching member by the separating member moving along the perching member.

Abstract: A film forming method includes: a loading process of loading a substrate into a processing container; a first process of forming an interface layer having an amorphous structure or a microcrystalline structure on the substrate by plasma of a first mixed gas including a carbon-containing gas; and a second process of forming a graphene film on the interface layer by plasma of a second mixed gas including the carbon-containing gas.

Abstract: An air-sending device includes a housing including an inlet air passage communicating with an air inlet and an outlet air passage communicating with an air outlet, a first partition plate partitioning an interior of the housing into the inlet air passage and the outlet air passage, a bell mouth disposed around an opening defined in the first partition plate, and an impeller disposed over the first partition plate across the bell mouth and having a rotation axis that extends in a direction that intersects the first partition plate. The impeller suctions air into the inlet air passage from the air inlet, and blows out air from the air outlet through the outlet air passage. The inlet air passage guides air from the air inlet to the opening along the first partition plate, and has an air-passage wall.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes: a carry-in step of carrying a substrate having a silicon-containing film on a surface of the substrate into a processing container; a first step of forming an adsorption layer by supplying an oxygen-containing gas into the processing container and causing the oxygen-containing gas to be adsorbed on a surface of the silicon-containing film; a second step of forming a silicon oxide layer by supplying an argon-containing gas into the processing container and causing the adsorption layer and the surface of the silicon-containing film to react with each other with plasma of the argon-containing gas; and a third step of forming a graphene film on the silicon oxide layer by supplying a carbon-containing gas into the processing container with plasma of the carbon-containing gas.