Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Daiki Yokoyama

Toshiya Hashimoto

Yoshihiro Sakayanagi

Hiroya Chiba

Yoshiyuki Kageura

Shuntaro Okazaki

Masaaki Sato

Shogo Tsuge

Eiki Kitagawa

Kazuhisa Matsuda

Tomohiro Kaneko

Hiroki Morita

Takahiro Hirano

Kouseki Sugiyama

Sui Kurihashi

Takahiro Suzuki

Hiroshi Otsuki

Yuki Takahashi

Makoto Ogiso

Shin Sakurada

Yuji Miyoshi

Hiroki Murata

Shingo Korenaga

Yushi Seki

Masato Ehara

Hiroshi Oyagi

Tomoyuki Kubota

Tomihisa Oda

Norimi Asahara

Yurika Tanaka

Yasuhiro Saito

Ryosuke Ikemura

Takashi Nishikiori

Genshi Kuno

Hiroyuki Sugihara

Masanori Shimada

Midori Sugiyama

Shota Tsukamoto

Rie Yayabe

Daiki Kawachino

Katsuya Kobayashi

Ryunosuke Yamashita

Hirotaka Saito

Keisuke Fukuoka

Yohei Hareyama

Harumi Gotou

Yoshiaki Miyazato

Tomoya Takahashi

Sachio Toyora

Keisuke Nagasaka

Shunsuke Kobuna

Jun Miyagawa

Katsuya Terahata

Keigo Ikeda

Kento Iwahori

Zidan Xu

Wenfeng Liang

Ryoko Hashimoto

Ryo Nakabayashi

Shuichi Sawada

Hideto Wakabayashi

Koseki Sugiyama

Hiroshi Ohtsuki

Sungmin Cho

Hayato Shirai

Takaharu Ueno

Kosuke Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Fujihara

Yoshifumi Hayashi

A power storage amount control device includes a processor configured to acquire a value of a parameter representing a predicted power consumption amount of a load, set target power storage amounts of a plurality of power storage devices based on the value of the parameter representing the predicted power consumption amount, transmit a signal to the power storage device such that the power storage amount of the power storage device is equal to or larger than the set target power storage amount, and set the target power storage amount of a first power storage device supplying the power to a first load higher than the target power storage amount of a second power storage device supplying the power to a second load of which the predicted power consumption amount is smaller than that of the first load.

Power storage amount control device and power storage amount control method with control based on power supply area

A server includes a processor and a communication device configured to acquire a transmitted power amount transmitted from a power facility during external charging of a vehicle participating in a DR. The processor is configured to calculate, when a plurality of vehicles participates in the DR, a standard reward that is a standard of a reward given from an aggregator to each of the vehicles, according to the transmitted power amount, decide, when a first vehicle participates in the DR, a first reward that is a reward given from the aggregator to the first vehicle, such that the first reward becomes the standard reward for the first vehicle, and decide, when a second vehicle participates in the DR, a second reward that is a reward given from the aggregator to the second vehicle, such that the second reward becomes higher than the standard reward for the second vehicle.

Server

A server including a processor configured to: receive a data set from a vehicle; create a plurality of learned models of different scales by performing machine learning using the data set; receive from the vehicle information on computing power of an electronic control unit that controls the vehicle by applying the learned model; and transmit the learned model to the vehicle, wherein the processor is configured to transmit the learned model of a larger scale to the vehicle equipped with the electronic control device having high computing power, than to the vehicle equipped with the electronic control device having low computing power.

Server, control device for vehicle, and machine learning system for vehicle

A system used in a factory for manufacture of a moving object comprises: a remote controller that moves the moving object by remote control, the moving object being movable in the factory during a course of manufacture in the factory, the moving object including a communication device having a communication function for the remote control and a driving controller that implements driving control over the moving object; a manufacturing status acquisition unit that acquires information about a manufacturing status in the factory including delay in a step; and a speed setting unit that sets a moving speed of the moving object using the acquired manufacturing status. The remote controller moves the moving object in a transport zone between steps at the set moving speed of the moving object by the remote control.

System, moving object, method of manufacturing moving object, and server

An inspection method for a moving object that can move by unmanned driving includes: a first step of giving an instruction to drive from a server to a moving object of an inspection target wherein an output value related to movement of the moving object is a predetermined target value; a second step of measuring the output value using an inspection device that inspects the moving object, and acquiring a measurement value; a maintenance information acquiring step of acquiring maintenance information related to a history of maintenance executed with respect to at least one target device of the server and the inspection device; and an abnormality specifying step of, when a difference between the target value and the measurement value is not within a predetermined reference range, specifying which one of the server, inspection device, and moving object of the inspection target has an abnormality using the maintenance information.

Inspection method for moving object

A vehicle receiving power from a ground power supplying apparatus by noncontact includes: a vehicle side first communication device for directly or indirectly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by utilizing wide area wireless communication; a vehicle side second communication device for directly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by utilizing short range wireless communication; and a control device for making the vehicle side first communication device transmit vehicle information tied with vehicle identification information to the ground power supplying apparatus and making the vehicle side second communication device transmit the vehicle identification information to the ground power supplying apparatus after the vehicle side first communication device transmits the vehicle information, when the vehicle receives power from the ground power supplying apparatus.

Vehicle, ground power supplying apparatus, and noncontact power supplying system

A vehicle control system includes an imaging device configured to capture an image of an outside of a host vehicle to generate an image and a control device. The control device is configured to determine a road type of a road on which the host vehicle is traveling by recognizing a specific object in the image, and take a determination measure for determining the road type of the road on which the host vehicle is traveling when the specific object cannot be recognized.

Determining road types with imaging and non-imaging determination measures

An elevating operation apparatus includes: an obtaining device configured to obtain a first information and a second information, wherein the first information indicates whether or not one vehicle, which has a power receiving unit for wireless electric power supply, includes an elevating mechanism for moving the power receiving unit in a height direction of the one vehicle, and the second information indicates whether or not a power supply apparatus, which is installed outside the one vehicle and which has a power transmitting unit for wireless electric power supply, includes an elevating mechanism for moving the power transmitting unit in the height direction; and a determining device configured to determine to move at least one of the power receiving unit and the power transmitting unit in the height direction on the basis of the first information and the second information.

Elevating operation apparatus and operation method

A remote controller includes: an acquisition unit; a detection unit; a control value generation unit; and a transmission unit. The control value generation unit generates a retreat control value if at least either one of a first case and a second case applies. The first case includes two or more moving objects overlapping each other in the sensor information. The second case includes establishing an expectation before sensor information acquisition that the two or more moving objects overlap each other when the sensor information is acquired. The retreat control value defines the running motion of at least any of the moving objects establishing a locational relationship allowing a detection subject moving object of the moving objects as a subject of detection using the sensor information to be detected by the detection unit without causing an overlap of the detection subject moving object with a different one of the moving objects.

Remote controller, remote control system, and remote control method

A power feed mat includes a substrate including a power transmission coil capable of transmitting electric power to a power reception coil mounted on a vehicle and a cover sheet that covers the power transmission coil and at least one functional layer that can be provided at at least one of a position above the substrate and a position below the substrate and performs a prescribed function.

Power feed mat

An electric power supply and demand system used in a factory for manufacturing a vehicle includes: an on-vehicle secondary battery, in a manufacturing process of a factory, mounted on a vehicle capable of running in a factory by remote control; a central storage battery configured to be capable of supplying electric power to an equipment in the factory; a charging device configured to be capable of supplying electric power stored in the central storage battery to the on-vehicle secondary battery; a power receiving device configured to be capable of supplying electric power stored in the on-vehicle secondary battery to the central storage battery; and a power generating facility located in the factory and configured to be capable of supplying the generated electric power to the central storage battery.

Power supply and demand system

A charging control system includes: a charging apparatus including a first processor, the charging apparatus being configured to store electric power to be supplied in a predetermined area; a charging stand provided in the predetermined area and including a second processor, the charging stand being configured to supply the electric power supplied from the charging apparatus to one or more electric vehicles in the predetermined area; and a charging control apparatus including a third processor, the third processor being configured to calculate number of the one or more electric vehicles in the predetermined area, calculate a charging amount of the charging apparatus based on the calculated number of the one or more electric vehicles, and perform charging control of the charging apparatus based on the calculated charging amount.

Charging control system, charging control apparatus, and computer readable recording medium

The power supply system includes a plurality of power supply apparatuses configured to transmit power to vehicles by non-contact. The plurality of power supply apparatuses includes a first power supply apparatus installed in a first region positioned on a road directly connected to an exit of an area in which operation of internal combustion engines is prohibited or restricted and where an amount of traffic of vehicles at least temporarily becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, and a second power supply apparatus installed in a second region different from the first region. An amount of power supplied from the first power supply apparatus to a vehicle is made greater than an amount of power supplied from the second power supply apparatus to a vehicle.

Power supply system, power supply apparatus, and power supply method

A power management system includes a vehicle and a charging or discharging lane. The charging or discharging lane configured to execute at least one of charging or discharging of the vehicle in a non-contact manner. The vehicle is configured to acquire contract contents including a charging or discharging amount and a charging or discharging period. The vehicle is configured to execute the contract contents in a charging or discharging lane that is different from electric vehicle supply equipment set in the contract contents and is reachable before the charging or discharging period when the vehicle is predicted to, before a start of the charging or discharging period, be unable to execute the contract contents in the set electric vehicle supply equipment.

Power management system, vehicle, and management server

Submitted is an abnormality detection device including a processing unit, and a communication unit that can communicate with a ground electric power supply device that transmits electric power to a vehicle in a non-contact manner. The processing unit is configured to detect electricity theft or electricity leakage in the ground electric power supply device, based on a time dependent change pattern of an electric power supply amount of the ground electric power supply device or a parameter that is correlated to the electric power supply amount, the time dependent change pattern being a time dependent change mode.

Abnormality detection device and abnormality detection method thereof

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Gotemba, Japan

Daiki Yokoyama