Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Kenichi Kitahama

Shinya Kawamata

Masato Endo

Ryuji Funayama

Hisashi Iizuka

Yasuhiro Yoshida

Ryo Murakami

Yasukata Yokochi

Mitsunori Hosokawa

Susumu Oikawa

Toshiyuki Matsubara

Hiroyuki Nakatani

Luc Van Gool

Konrad Schindler

Tomoaki Handa

Andreas Ess

Bastian Leibe

In a physical distribution system, a delivery controller is configured to acquire package information; generate a delivery schedule; calculate tentative delivery time of a package estimated based on the delivery schedule; send a delivery confirmation request notification requesting confirmation of the tentative delivery time to a consignee linked to the package; receive a response to the delivery confirmation request notification; control the autonomous mobile robot based on the delivery schedule generated most recently; and when confirmed time confirmed by the consignee in the response to the delivery confirmation request notification is different from the tentative delivery time, update the delivery schedule in such a manner that delivery of the package is completed at the confirmed time.

Physical distribution system, physical distribution control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing physical distribution control program

A road stud includes a terminal storage unit, a light emission unit, a moving body detection unit, a radio communication unit, and a terminal control unit. The terminal storage unit stores preset unique fixed position information. The light emission unit emits a preset light to the surroundings. The moving body detection unit generates a detection signal indicating that a nearby moving body has been detected. The radio communication unit receives, based on fixed position information, an instruction signal for an operation of the light emission unit from a predetermined control system and transmits a detection signal to the control system. The terminal control unit controls a light emission unit based on the instruction signal.

Road stud, road stud system, method for controlling road stud, and control program preliminary class

In a road stud system, a road stud includes a terminal storage unit, a light emission unit, and a radio communication unit. The light emission unit emits a light having a first color tone or a second color tone in a first or second direction. The radio communication unit receives an instruction signal for an operation of the light emission unit. A control system that controls a plurality of road studs includes a determination unit and an instruction unit. The determination unit determines whether an overlapping area is in a first state in which passage of a pedestrian is prioritized or a second state in which passage of an automobile is prioritized. The instruction unit sends an instruction signal, in accordance with the result of the determination, regarding the direction of the light emission and the color tone to each of the road studs.

Road stud system, method for controlling road stud, and control program of road stud

The present disclosure provides an automated driving vehicle management system, a management method, an automated driving vehicle, and a program that are capable of appropriately managing the automated driving vehicle. The automated driving vehicle management system including: a map information storage unit that stores map information; an imaginary line management unit that manages an imaginary line imaginarily generated for a road included in the map information; and a communication unit that transmits imaginary line information about the imaginary line to a plurality of automated driving vehicles traveling along the imaginary line.

Automated driving vehicle management system, method, and program

It is possible to manage information on a city area in a centralized manner and reduce a processing load. A management system includes: information acquisition means that is provided in infrastructure of a predetermined city area and acquire information on the city area; service providing means sending instructions to respective mobile bodies for providing a plurality of different conveyance services, each of the mobile bodies including a sensor configured to detect the information on the city area and moving in the city area based on the information detected by the sensor, thereby providing each of the conveyance services; and instruction means for sending an instruction to the service providing means based on the information on the city area acquired by the information acquisition means.

Management system and management method

A vehicle is provided with a button that is depressed by a driver at any time for inputting intention information indicating an intention of approving a condition or an intention of rejecting the condition. The intention information inputted by the depressing operation of the button is transmitted to an information providing center. The intention information is transmitted together with position information indicating a point where the button is depressed and time information indicating a time. In the center, a server provides related information related to the transmitted intention information as a feedback. The server also supposes the reason why the transmitted intention information is inputted, and transmits the supposed reason to a closed SNS or an open SNS with a response form. The server then determines a reason of input based upon a response in accordance with the response form, and accumulates the determined reason in an information storage section so as to be retrievable in association with the intention information.

Information inputting apparatus, information providing apparatus, and information providing system provided with these apparatuses

A movement trajectory generator that generates a movement trajectory of a vehicle is provided, which includes traveling environment recognition means for recognizing a traveling environment, movement strategy generation means for generating movement strategies for positioning in a road area according to the traveling environment that is recognized by the traveling environment recognition means, presenting means for presenting a passenger setting information of the movement strategies, setting means for receiving an operation for the passenger to set the movement strategies based on the setting information of the movement strategies presented by the presenting means, and movement trajectory generation means for generating the movement trajectory based on the movement strategies set by the setting means.

Movement trajectory generator

Disclosed is a spectrum measuring apparatus for shortening such a measurement time period for an object being measured including two or more mutually different measurement portions as is required for the spectrum measurements of the lights from individual measurement portions. The spectrum measuring apparatus comprises a slit group having two or more slits, a spectroscope for separating the lights extracted by the slit group, for the individual slits, and a measuring unit for measuring the intensities of the individual components, which are separated by the spectroscope, for the slits. The individual slits extract such ones of the lights coming from an object being measured including two or more mutually different measurement portions, as come from the individual measurement portions.

Spectrum measuring apparatus

A movement trajectory generatorthat generates a movement trajectory of a vehicle is provided, which includes traveling environment recognition means, andfor recognizing a traveling environment, movement strategy generation meansfor generating movement strategies for positioning in a road area according to the traveling environment that is recognized by the traveling environment recognition means, presenting means, andfor presenting a passenger setting information of the movement strategies, setting meansandfor receiving an operation for the passenger to set the movement strategies based on the setting information of the movement strategies presented by the presenting means, and movement trajectory generation meansfor generating the movement trajectory based on the movement strategies set by the setting means.

A movable body spectrum measuring apparatus including a dictionary data storing unit for storing spectrum data containing wavelength information and light intensity information of an object being measured, and a limitation information storing unit for storing limitation information to regulate the wavelength information into partial wavelength information. The movable body spectrum measuring apparatus further including a discrimination level setting unit for setting selectively the limitation information corresponding to the discrimination level required of the object being measured, a restricting unit for restricting the spectrum data regarding the observation light to the spectrum data composed exclusively of the wavelength information limited by the limitation information, and a discrimination unit for discriminating the object being measured based on the comparison between the restricted spectrum data and the spectrum data regarding the dictionary data storing unit.

Spectrum measuring apparatus for mover

Provided is a movable body spectrum measuring apparatus, which can discriminate a measuring object with high precision by photographic data from a spectrum sensor mounted on a movable body such as a vehicle and can process the photographic data in real time. A movable body spectrum measuring apparatus discriminates the measuring object around a vehicle on the basis of the spectrum data from an observation light. A spectrum sensor can measure wavelength information and light intensity information. The movable body spectrum measuring apparatus comprises a dictionary data storing unit storing, as dictionary data, the spectrum data containing the wavelength information and the light intensity information regarding a plurality of predetermined measuring objects, and an arithmetic device for discriminating the measuring object on the basis of comparison computation to compare the spectrum data of the observation light and the spectrum data stored in the dictionary data storing unit. The arithmetic device performs the computation to compare the spectrum data of the observation light with reference to only a partial wavelength band of the spectrum data stored as the dictionary data.

Traveling environment information, which is information on a traveling environment around a vehicle, is obtained. If the automation level of the vehicle, which is set according to the traveling environment information, is decreased, the driving assistance level is decreased in a stepwise manner to execute a driving assistance control.

Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method

When an autonomous mobile apparatus moves autonomously along near a master and there is an object in the surrounding environment recognized by a camera and a communication device and the like, a danger level detecting portion detects a danger level of the object to the master, and an actuator controlling portion and an electric motor move the autonomous mobile apparatus based on the danger level. As a result, the autonomous mobile apparatus moves autonomously along near the master, as well as detects the danger level to the master and moves based on the danger level. Accordingly, the autonomous mobile apparatus can move in a manner so as to ensure the safety of the master taking this danger level into account.

Autonomous mobile apparatus and method of mobility

A motion estimating device first detects mobile objects Oi and Oi' in continuous image frames T and T&#x2032;, and acquires image areas Ri and Ri&#x2032; corresponding to the mobile objects Oi and Oi&#x2032;. Then, the motion estimating device removes the image areas Ri and Ri&#x2032; corresponding to the mobile objects Oi and Oi&#x2032; in the image frames T and T&#x2032;, extracts corresponding point pairs Pj of feature points between the image frames T and T&#x2032; from the image areas having removed the image areas Ri and Ri&#x2032;, and carries out the motion estimation of the autonomous mobile machine between the image frames T and T&#x2032; on the basis of the positional relationship of the corresponding point pairs Pj of feature points.

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Kenichi Kitahama