Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Bridgestone Corporation

Clarion Co

Kddi Corporation

Asahi Denso Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Col, Ltd.

Masayuki Hashimoto

Takahiro Nakano

Tsuyoshi Wakasa

Akira Yasugi

Kazutaka Nakatsuchi

Takemitsu Honda

Hatsuo Shimizu

Hisanobu Shinoda

Takumi Nakashima

Tsutomu Nakamura

Noriyuki Fujimori

Katsuya Suzuki

Seiichiro Kimoto

Takatoshi Matsushita

Ayako Nagase

Tatsuya Orihara

Atsushi Koike

Kazunari Ide

Toshiaki Shigemori

Tetsuo Minai

Katsuyoshi Sasagawa

Hiroshi Suzushima

Yu Kobayashi

Masahiro Kuroki

Yukio Yamashita

Yasuyuki Nakajima

Shuhei Fujiwara

Shinji Arinaga

Yoshiyuki Kono

Seiichi Kato

Kentaro Hayashi

Atsushi Yuge

Kohei Suzuki

Naotoshi Takemura

Ryohei Kitamura

Yoshikatsu Ikawa

Yusuke Yashiro

Takehiro Naka

Kenji Matsuo

Yoshihiro Namiki

Takashi Toyohara

Keisuke Kawashima

Akifumi Yamashita

Shigeki Kamo

Masaki Toyoda

Wataru Ogawa

Masahiro Houjo

Sho Sugimoto

Akinori Tou

Eriko Shinkawa

A control parameter calculation device comprises an integration unit that calculates the target value of combined power obtained by summing a first power and a second power by smoothing the first power on the basis of the value of a predetermined control parameter and calculates charge/discharge power when charging and discharging are performed so as to achieve the target value; a smoothing performance calculation unit that calculates a smoothing performance evaluation index of the combined power on the basis of the charge/discharge power calculated over an evaluation period; a lifetime calculation unit that calculates a lifetime evaluation index of the battery during the evaluation period on the basis of the calculated charge/discharge power; and an evaluation unit that evaluates the value of a control parameter on basis of the smoothing performance evaluation index and the lifetime evaluation index which are calculated repeatedly while varying the value of the control parameter.

Control parameter calculation device, power supply system, control parameter calculation method, and program

Provided is a smoothing-target-value calculation device that is capable of calculating a smoothing target value with which it is possible to suppress battery degradation. The present invention provides a smoothing-target-value calculation device that calculates a smoothing target value, which is a target value for the sum of first power generated by a renewable-energy power generation system and second power charged into and discharged from a battery, the smoothing-target-value calculation device including: a predicted-value acquisition unit that acquires a predicted value for the first power; a predicted-value correction unit that corrects the predicted value; and a smoothing-target-value calculation unit that calculates a smoothing target value by smoothing the corrected predicted value.

Smoothing-target-value calculation device, power supply system, smoothing-target-value calculation method, and program

An on-vehicle communication system of an embodiment includes: an antenna that is provided on a vehicle and performs a close-range communication with a user terminal device present in a communication area around the vehicle; and a control portion that is provided on the vehicle and executes a predetermined authentication process when a radio wave strength of a signal received from the user terminal device via the antenna or a signal received by the user terminal device from the antenna is equal to or more than a threshold value, wherein the control portion notifies a user of information on a target communication position at which the user terminal device should be located when registering the threshold value by using a notification portion.

On-vehicle communication system, saddle riding vehicle, and program

A rotary knob that rotates in a pushed state includes an extending portion extending in a rotation direction of the rotary knob, and the extending portion includes a cutout portion cut out so as to prevent a first switch that detects that the rotary knob is pushed in from being pressed in a case where the rotary knob is in an intermediate range in which the rotary knob is in a pushed state.

Vehicle operation device

An adaptive cruise control device () follows a designated preceding vehicle according to information gained by an image capturing unit () and an object measurement unit (), and further includes a license plate recognition unit () which selects an image processing area (A) from each object detected by the object measurement unit, and, if the detected object is a vehicle, recognizes a plate number from image processing area. If the plate number matches a stored plate number of the designated vehicle to be followed, the detected object is authenticated as the designated vehicle to be followed.

Adaptive cruise control device

The present electric power generation control device includes: an event detection unit which detects an event attributable to a deterioration in the balance between a torque input to a generator and an effective power output by the generator, the deterioration being caused by a reduction in a set value of the effective power received from the generator by an electric power converter when the electric power converter has detected a failure necessitating interruption of electric power transmission from the generator by a direct-current (DC) power transmission unit, the DC power transmission unit transmitting DC power, the electric power converter connecting a generator to the DC power transmission unit; and a torque command reduction unit which causes a reduction in a torque command to a motor when the event detection unit has detected the event attributable to the deterioration in the balance, the motor outputting the torque input to the generator.

Electric power generation control device for causing a reduction in a torque command, electric power generation control method and program

A client is provided which is connectable to multiple mobile units while reducing or eliminating inconvenience to be given to a user. A clientis a clientwhich is connectable to multiple mobile unitsand, and includes: a client output unitconfigured to output information; a client communication unitconfigured to perform communication; and an output controller. When connection is made to one mobile unit of the mobile unitsandthrough the client communication unit, the output controlleroutputs pieces of mobile unit identification image information Pto P, Mand Mwhich can identify the connected mobile unit, on the basis of communication with the connected mobile unit, to the client output unit

Client and program

An information output system is provided which allows a user to recognize information appropriately while reducing or eliminating inconvenience given to the user. A content output system includes a content output controllerwhich selects output candidate content on the basis of the movement mode of the user and the content position, causes an output unitto output supplementary information on the output candidate content when the relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies a predetermined first condition, and causes the output unitto output the output candidate content when the relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies a predetermined second condition.

Content output system and method

An information output system includes an output unit () configured to output information, an information recognizing unit () configured to recognize first information according to designation operation by a user, and an output control unit () configured to cause, on condition that a present OFF period of a moving body () is started, the output unit () to output, in a form recognizable by the user, an interface for requesting an input of second information that should be associated with the first information recognized after a start of a present ON period of the moving body () and information indicating one or both of the location and the time point.

Information output system and information output method

A wind-turbine control device controls a wind turbine generator in which a rotor having a plurality of blades receives wind and rotates. The generator generates electrical power through the rotation of the rotor. The electrical power is supplied to a utility grid, and electric energy to be supplied to the utility grid can be changed according to a change in the frequency of the utility grid. The wind-turbine control device includes a subtracter to calculate a frequency change, which is the difference between a measurement value of the frequency of generated output power of the wind turbine generator and a set value of the frequency of the generated output power of the wind turbine generator. The wind-turbine control device further includes a limiter to limit a change in the electrical power corresponding to the frequency change calculated by the subtracter, based on the rotational speed of the generator.

Wind-turbine-generator control apparatus, wind turbine generator system, and wind-turbine-generator control method

A wind power generator generates power through a rotation of a rotor and is interconnected, and operated with its power generation output previously limited in order to be able to further supply the power to a power system in response to a decrease in system frequency. Thus, a concentrated control system derives a required restricted amount corresponding to a power generation output required to respond to the decrease in system frequency, derives a value by subtracting an amount corresponding to a latent power generation output with which the power generation output can be increased, from the required restricted amount, and sets a restricted amount of the power generation output in each wind power generator to perform the operation with the power generation output previously limited to respond to the decrease in system frequency, based on the above value.

Control system of wind power generator, wind farm, and method for controlling wind power generator

An assistive power control apparatus for a motor-assisted bicycle controls a motor to generate an assistive torque depending on the pedaling force of a rider. The assistive power control apparatus detects a rotating torque value of a crankshaft rotated when a rider steps on pedals by a torque sensor, controls a motor to generate an assistive power determined using the rotating torque value, calculates a rotation angle of the crankshaft when a present rotating torque value is detected from a time period from a timing of detection of a peak position of the rotating torque value to a timing of detection of the rotating torque value, calculates a pedaling force applied when the rider steps on the pedals from the calculated rotation angle of the crankshaft and the detected present rotating torque value, and determines the assistive power of the motor according to the calculated pedaling force.

Assistive power control apparatus for motor-assisted bicycle

To prevent disconnection of wind turbine generators due to changes in wind conditions even if the wind turbine generators is operated to limit the power output. A plurality of wind turbine generators that generate electric power by the rotation of rotors are provided in a wind farm are interconnected and are operated while the power outputs are limited in advance so as to be able to further supply electric power to a utility grid in response to a decrease in the frequency or voltage of the utility grid. The rotational speed of the rotor, which is a physical quantity related to increase and decrease in the power output of the wind turbine generator, is measured for each of the wind turbine generators by a wind-turbine control system, and the limitation amount of the power output of the wind turbine generator is set for each of the wind turbine generators by a central control system on the basis of the rotational speed of the rotor measured.

Wind farm control system, wind farm, and wind farm control method

Yaw control is performed such that a nacelle faces into an actual main wind direction. The actual wind direction is estimated by detecting the main wind direction with an anemoscope (wind direction detecting means), assuming the actual wind direction by assuming a wind direction offset value, which is a deviation between the main wind direction and the actual wind direction, which is a direction of wind which blows in actual use, at a predetermined wind speed with a wind direction assuming unit (wind direction assuming means), calculating an average generator output power for a predetermined period of time in the assumed actual wind direction with an average-generator-output-power calculation unit (average-generator-output-power calculation means), approximating the average generator output power with respect to the assumed wind direction offset value to a quadratic curve with an actual wind direction estimation unit (actual wind direction estimation means), and estimating the wind direction offset value at the time when the average generator output power is the maximum in the approximated quadratic curve to be an actual offset value.

Wind turbine generator and method of estimating wind direction in wind turbine generator

It is an object to enable stable operation of a wind turbine and to change a control parameter of the wind turbine at an appropriate timing. A dynamic-characteristics model of a wind turbine is identified for each of a plurality of ranges that are determined in accordance with wind speed, and the identified dynamic-characteristics model is monitored for each of the ranges.

Wind-turbine-dynamic-characteristics monitoring apparatus and method therefor

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Masayuki Hashimoto