Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including a surrounding circumstances detector detecting surrounding circumstances of a self-driving vehicle and an electric control unit including a microprocessor configured to perform generating an action plan of the self-driving vehicle based on the surrounding circumstances and controlling the engine and the transmission so that the self-driving vehicle travels by self-driving in accordance with the action plan. The generating includes generating a first action plan and a second action plan, the first action plan including target position data of the self-driving vehicle, the second action plan including an acceleration instruction to a target vehicle speed not including the target position data, and the controlling includes controlling the engine and the transmission, so that the self-driving vehicle accelerates to the target vehicle speed at a target torque minimizing a fuel consumption quantity per unit travel distance when the second action plan is generated.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including a surrounding circumstances detector detecting surrounding circumstances of a self-driving vehicle and a microprocessor generating an action plan including a target path of the self-driving vehicle based on the surrounding circumstances detected and controlling a driving component so that the self-driving vehicle travels by self-driving in accordance with the action plan. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a hindrance time a first action plan is hindered when a second action plan is generated, determining whether the hindrance time is shorter than a predetermined time period, and controlling the driving component to keep a first state according to the first action plan when the hindrance time is shorter than the predetermined time period, while to change to a second state according to the second action plan when the hindrance time is longer than or equal to the predetermined time period.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including an electric control unit including a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to generate an action plan of the self-driving vehicle and control a drive power source and a transmission so that a self-driving vehicle travels by self-driving in accordance with the action plan. The action plan includes a target vehicle speed after continuously increasing or decreasing beyond a unit time and a target time from a present time to a time when the target vehicle speed is achieved, and the microprocessor is configured to control the drive power source and the transmission so that the self-driving vehicle travels at a target vehicle acceleration set based on the target time and a vehicle speed change amount from the vehicle speed at the present time to the target vehicle speed.

Abstract: A vehicle transmission control apparatus including a manual shift instructing portion outputting a manual shift instruction for upshifting or downshifting a transmission, and an electric control unit including a microprocessor and a memory to control a shift operation. The microprocessor controls the shift operation in accordance with a first shift chart stored in the memory based on vehicle information before the manual shift instruction is output, controls the shift operation in accordance with the manual shift instruction when the manual shift instruction is output, and controls the shift operation in accordance with a second shift chart stored in the memory based on the vehicle information when a predetermined mode switch condition is established after the manual shift instruction is output.

Abstract: A driving system includes: a motor; a power transmission device; a motor controller; an application force controller; and an application force acquiring device. When the motor controller receives a request for generation of power in such a state that the motor generates no power, the motor controller controls to permit and/or prohibit the generation of power of the motor based on the current application force and a necessary application force which is an application force of the power transmission device that is needed to transmit a maximum generation power of the motor in a current rotating state quantity which is a rotating state quantity that the motor is currently having.

Abstract: A transmission device of a signal transmission system multiplexing and transmitting a plurality of 8B10B-coded information sequences, which includes: conversion units the number of which is identical to the number of the information sequences, to perform 8B10B-decoding of each of the information sequences, receive one of the information sequences after the decoding, scramble the received information sequence, and add a synchronous pattern indicating a head of a frame to the scrambled information sequence; and a multiplexing unit to multiplex the information sequence outputted from each of the conversion units.

Abstract: A communication device includes a barrel shifter shifting an information sequence according to a code word number; an error correction coding circuit encoding the shifted information sequence to generate a code word; and a transmitter transmitting a frame with N rows and M columns in the order of the row numbers. One code word is disposed in a row of the frame. The row number of the frame corresponds to the code word number. When a code word number is N, the error correction coding circuit encodes an information sequence of a second size smaller than the first size and fixed data of a third size, which is the difference between the first size and the second size, and disposes them in a row of the frame such that the error correction parity follows the information sequence of the second size and the fixed data follows the error correction parity.

Abstract: A transmission device of a signal transmission system multiplexing and transmitting a plurality of 8B10B-coded information sequences, which includes: conversion units the number of which is identical to the number of the information sequences, to perform 8B10B-decoding of each of the information sequences, receive one of the information sequences after the decoding, scramble the received information sequence, and add a synchronous pattern indicating a head of a frame to the scrambled information sequence; and a multiplexing unit to multiplex the information sequence outputted from each of the conversion units.

Abstract: A delay measuring device of a communication system that includes the delay measuring device sequentially transmitting and receiving frames having a known frame length, and a measurement object device serving as an object for measuring a round trip time by the delay measuring device, includes: an RTT measuring unit to measure a round trip time with respect to the measurement object device a number of times using information for delay measurement in the frame; an RTT change detection unit to detect a change of a value of the round trip time based on the values of the round trip time thus measured; and an RTT determination unit to determine a value of the round trip time to be adopted, from among the values of the round trip time, based on the change of a value of the round trip time.

Abstract: A driving system includes: a motor; a power transmission device; a motor controller; an application force controller; and an application force acquiring device. When the motor controller receives a request for generation of power in such a state that the motor generates no power, the motor controller controls to permit and/or prohibit the generation of power of the motor based on the current application force and a necessary application force which is an application force of the power transmission device that is needed to transmit a maximum generation power of the motor in a current rotating state quantity which is a rotating state quantity that the motor is currently having.

Abstract: A likelihood generation apparatus for acquiring a likelihood of a 16QAM signal includes a first likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of two bits of a 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal from a relationship of each of an I-axis component and a Q-axis component with a likelihood when the 16QAM signal point is mapped on a constellation diagram, and a second likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of remaining two bits other than the two bits of the 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal based on a position of the 16QAM signal point in a lookup table, which is configured to input the I-axis component and the Q-axis component of the 16QAM signal point as arguments, and includes regions acquired by dividing the constellation diagram based on a possible value of each of the bits.

Abstract: A rear wheel driving device includes first and second electric motors, a wet multi-plate type hydraulic brake provided on motive power transmission paths between the first and second electric motors and rear wheels Wr and causing the drive source side and the wheel side to become disconnected state or connected state by being released or fastened, and a control device that controls switching between the disconnected state and the connected state of the hydraulic brake and controls a vehicle speed. The rear wheel driving device further includes a viscosity acquisition unit that acquires a viscosity correlation amount of oil provided to cool plates of the wet multi-plate type hydraulic brake, and the control device fastens the hydraulic brake or maintains fastening thereof and controls the vehicle speed to lower than a first speed in a case where the viscosity correlation amount is a first prescribed value or higher.

Abstract: A likelihood generation apparatus for acquiring a likelihood of a 16QAM signal includes a first likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of two bits of a 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal from a relationship of each of an I-axis component and a Q-axis component with a likelihood when the 16QAM signal point is mapped on a constellation diagram, and a second likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of remaining two bits other than the two bits of the 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal based on a position of the 16QAM signal point in a lookup table, which is configured to input the I-axis component and the Q-axis component of the 16QAM signal point as arguments, and includes regions acquired by dividing the constellation diagram based on a possible value of each of the bits.

Abstract: A rear wheel driving device includes first and second electric motors, a wet multi-plate type hydraulic brake provided on motive power transmission paths between the first and second electric motors and rear wheels Wr and causing the drive source side and the wheel side to become disconnected state or connected state by being released or fastened, and a control device that controls switching between the disconnected state and the connected state of the hydraulic brake and controls a vehicle speed. The rear wheel driving device further includes a viscosity acquisition unit that acquires a viscosity correlation amount of oil provided to cool plates of the wet multi-plate type hydraulic brake, and the control device fastens the hydraulic brake or maintains fastening thereof and controls the vehicle speed to lower than a first speed in a case where the viscosity correlation amount is a first prescribed value or higher.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus that accommodates client signals in a line signal, includes: an OPUn mapper unit that receives and maps the client signals; and a mapping control unit that determines the number of pieces of client data to be mapped to a payload portion and determines the timing to insert client data and information on the number of pieces of client data into the payload portion to control mapping performed in the OPUn mapper unit.

Abstract: A delay measuring device of a communication system that includes the delay measuring device sequentially transmitting and receiving frames having a known frame length, and a measurement object device serving as an object for measuring a round trip time by the delay measuring device, includes: an RTT measuring unit to measure a round trip time with respect to the measurement object device a number of times using information for delay measurement in the frame; an RTT change detection unit to detect a change of a value of the round trip time based on the values of the round trip time thus measured; and an RTT determination unit to determine a value of the round trip time to be adopted, from among the values of the round trip time, based on the change of a value of the round trip time.

Abstract: An optical transport system includes: uplink transponders opposed to construct an uplink transport path, to transport an OTU frame, redundant uplink transponders opposed to construct a redundant system uplink transport path, to transport the OTU frame, downlink transponders opposed to construct a downlink transport path, to store maintenance information in the OTU overhead of the OTU frame and transport this OTU frame when a failure occurs in the uplink transport path; optical switches to connect between client transport devices, and the uplink transport path and the redundant system uplink transport path such that switching between these uplink transport paths can be performed, to switch from the uplink transport path to the redundant system uplink transport path on the basis of the maintenance information.

Abstract: Provided is an optical communication cross-connection device for exchanging an OTN signal through optical communications, including: a plurality of OTN signal processing units (OTNsp units) for asynchronously conducting OTN signal processing; and a space switch connected between the plurality of OTNsp units, for conducting bidirectional signal exchange for the OTN signal, in which a first and a second OTNsp units that conduct signal transmission among the plurality of OTNsp units subject the OTN signal to skew processing on one side and deskew processing corresponding to the skew processing on another side between the first and second OTNsp units or between a communicating end-side one of the first and second OTNsp units and a communicating end-side OTNsp unit of an optical communication cross-connection device of a communication counterpart destination for the optical communication cross-connection device, and share a clock for the signal transmission therebetween.

Abstract: A communication device includes a barrel shifter shifting an information sequence according to a code word number; an error correction coding circuit encoding the shifted information sequence to generate a code word; and a transmitter transmitting a frame with N rows and M columns in the order of the row numbers. One code word is disposed in a row of the frame. The row number of the frame corresponds to the code word number. When a code word number is N, the error correction coding circuit encodes an information sequence of a second size smaller than the first size and fixed data of a third size, which is the difference between the first size and the second size, and disposes them in a row of the frame such that the error correction parity follows the information sequence of the second size and the fixed data follows the error correction parity.

Abstract: A multilevel modulation optical transceiver for distributing an OTN frame defined by ITU-T to a plurality of lanes for transmission, the multilevel modulation optical transceiver including: an MLD transmission unit; and a data replication unit, further including a data rearrangement unit arranged at a preceding stage of the MLD transmission unit, for performing data rearrangement processing of replicating, in advance, a frame synchronization pattern of an overhead of the OTN frame before being subjected to the lane rotation processing from a first lane that has the overhead to another lane that does not have the overhead, and of saving a payload to be overwritten with the frame synchronization pattern to a reserved area of the overhead to enable the payload to be restored on a reception side.