Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Yuji Igarashi

Hidetoshi Ikeda

Masahiko Ikawa

Kazushi Shirasawa

Takanori Matsunaga

Takashi Irie

Takashi Maeda

Yukio Goto

Kiyoshi Maekawa

Hisashi Sugawara

Takatoshi Tosa

Hiroyuki Sekiguchi

Takashi Iwasaki

Yuji Hamada

Shigeki Morita

Masatoshi Fujii

Hiroyuki Kumazawa

Yuko Ota

Takashi Tamada

Kentaro Daikoku

Akio Saito

Hiroshi Araki

Masashi Watanabe

Masayuki Fujita

Takashi Isoda

Koichiro Ueda

Yoichi Okubo

Tatsuya Kawase

Yoshitsugu Sawa

Kei Terada

Akinobu Sugiyama

Shuya Sano

Hiroki Konaka

Yoshihiro Marushita

Yoshiaki Adachi

Masahiko Tanimoto

Yuko Ohta

Yoshito Nishita

Katsuya Kawai

Takeshi Hatanaka

Hiroto Takei

Teruo Higashino

Shoya Kitagawa

Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Kengo Yokoyama

A conveyance system includes: a plurality of conveyance path units constituting a conveyance path on which a conveyance body moves, each of the conveyance path units including a plurality of drive units that each generate a thrust for moving the conveyance body by a current flowing therethrough; and a controller including a current command generator that generates a current command for controlling a current flowing through the plurality of drive units. Each of the plurality of conveyance path units controls the current flowing through each of the plurality of drive units in accordance with the current command. The current command generator generates a current command for performing current control of all of the plurality of drive units of each of the conveyance path units at each control cycle when the current command is generated.

Conveyance system

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a technique for estimating position information of a moving device without it being possible for a sensor installed in the environment to observe the moving device. On the bases of first position information, which is acquired by a first moving object acquisition receiver and which is position information of one or more first moving bodies present in the periphery of a first sensor (an autonomous sensor), and second position information, which is acquired by a second moving object acquisition receiver and which is position information of one or more second moving bodies present in the periphery of a second sensor (an infrared sensor), the information processing device compares the positional relation between the first moving object and the second moving object and estimates the position information of the moving device.

Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium for estimating position information of a moving device

With an object of notifying a peripheral vehicle or a person of a travel plan of an own vehicle at an appropriate timing, and providing a safe automatic driving system, a travel plan information distribution system is characterized by including a travel plan information compilation unit that, based on information output by a positional information and frontal road shape information acquisition unit and a sensor information acquisition unit, compiles travel plan information including a travel plan category and a time at which travel is to be started or a position from which a travel plan is to be started, a wireless communication device that transmits travel plan information to a peripheral vehicle, and a travel plan information distribution control unit that selects and outputs necessary details of travel plan information at a safe and necessary timing.

Travel plan information distribution system

A motor drive system includes motor drive control devices supplying first and second powers to first and second coils, respectively. The first motor drive control device includes: a detector communication unit acquiring a mover movement detection value; a position and speed control unit generating a thrust command to cause the movement detection value to follow a time-series movement target value received from an external device; and a current control unit supplying, to the first coils, the first power to cause thrust generated on the mover to follow the thrust command, and generating data on third power to be supplied to the second coils and transmitting the data to the second motor drive control device when the mover moves from the first coil to the second coil. The second motor drive control device supplies the second power calculated using the data on the third power to the second coils.

Motor drive system

An object is to provide a technique capable of appropriately notifying a driver of information on an estimated destination even when the estimated destination is relatively far from the current position. The notification control apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires passage probability information and current position information. The control unit makes the notification unit notify of a content within a range defined by a distance previously associated with a probability of the passage probability information and a current position of the current position information based on the passage probability information and the current position information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Notification control apparatus and notification control method

A vehicle position estimation apparatus according to the present invention includes a painted line recognition result processing unit configured to calculate whether the vehicle has made a lane change and a direction of the lane change when the vehicle has made the lane change, a vehicle lateral position calculating unit configured to calculate a lane where the vehicle is in travel and a vehicle lateral position that is a lateral position of the vehicle in the lane based on whether the vehicle has made the lane change, the direction of the lane change, and a lane connection relation, and an on-map vehicle position calculating unit configured to calculate an on-map position of the vehicle on the road based on a map information, the lane where the vehicle is in travel, the vehicle lateral position, and a forward travel distance.

Vehicle position estimation apparatus

A travel-lane estimation system includes: a GNSS receiver; a vehicle-speed calculator; an angular-velocity measurement mechanism; a subject-vehicle-position positioner calculating a vehicle's reference coordinate and reference orientation from a GNSS coordinate, and calculating time series data of vehicle's positions; a map information storage storing positional information about a division line of each lane; and a lane estimator calculating, as an optimal correction amount, an error pattern having a highest posterior probability among plural error patterns, correcting the time series data using the optimal correction amount, and comparing the corrected time series data with the division line, to estimate a vehicle's travel lane, the posterior probability calculated with the product of prior occurrence probability of the time series data by the plural error patterns and a likelihood calculated, under condition that the error pattern has occurred, based on a relative positional relationship between the corrected time series data and the division line.

Travel-lane estimation system

A vehicle air-conditioning system capable of reducing energy consumed during traveling while preventing a significant uncomfortable feeling of a user. An inside-vehicle environment predicting unit calculates, by using inside-vehicle sensor information and outside-vehicle sensor information being output from an environmental sensor device and a predicted travel time acquired by a predicted travel information acquisition unit, at least one predicted environmental characteristic which is an environmental characteristic inside a vehicle after a predicted travel time on an assumption that an air-conditioning device is operated in each of at least one candidate mode which has lower intensity than intensity of a selection mode among a plurality of operation modes. A mode controller resets the selection mode to one of the at least one candidate mode, in which the predicted environmental characteristic being within the allowable range is calculated by the inside-vehicle environment predicting unit.

Vehicle air-conditioning system

A technique controlling transmission and display of terminal information in accordance with a movement state and an operation state. A communication unit transmits terminal information including at least movement information of a communication apparatus to another communication apparatus, and receives other terminal information including at least movement information of the other communication apparatus from the other communication apparatus. A terminal information controller controls transmission of the terminal information from the communication unit to the other communication apparatus based on the movement state estimated by a movement-state estimation unit and the operation state managed by an operation-state management unit, and when it is determined on the basis of the terminal information and the other terminal information received by communication unit that an attention calling state has occurred, controls display information that causes a display to display attention calling information on the basis of the movement state and the operation state.

Communication apparatus, operation assistance apparatus, and operation assistance system

An electric motor is driven using a power stored in a storage battery as a power source. A power management system includes a power management device and a travel control device. The power management device includes a travel control planning unit and a section valid road slope information storage unit. The section valid road slope information storage unit stores section road slope information including information about a slope of a road section where a vehicle travels. On the basis of section valid road slope information read from the section valid road slope information storage unit, the travel control planning unit creates a travel control plan for traveling the vehicle. The travel control device performs travel control of the vehicle on the basis of the travel control plan. One of the section valid road slope information which shows a downward slope in traveling of the vehicle has a slope steeper than a predetermined slope depending on the vehicle.

Power management device, power management system, and motor vehicle

A motor-control device includes: a command generation unit; an operation detection unit; a drive control unit outputting a drive control signal, a speed signal, and a drive force signal; a current control unit outputting a drive current and the drive current detection value; a mechanical characteristic estimation unit outputting a mechanical characteristic estimation value; an integration unit outputting an integrated drive time or drive amount integrated value of a drive unit; a set period determination unit outputting a signal indicating a set period for a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold output unit; a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold output unit outputting a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold; and a mechanical characteristic abnormality detection unit detecting a mechanical characteristic abnormality.

Electric motor control device

A method, for use in a charging system including a vehicle in which a battery is installed, a charging facility, and an information terminal, for changing a charging schedule of the battery after creating the charging schedule without re-inserting a charging cable includes: receiving a request for a change of the charging schedule; acquiring, from the charging facility, a charging parameter applied in a case where the charging schedule is changed in response to the request for the change of the charging schedule as received; and creating a charging schedule after the change using the charging parameter acquired from the charging facility.

Apparatus, charging control apparatus, and information input/output apparatus

A vehicle power management device managing: a vehicle path information generation device generating a vehicle travel path; a drive assembly consuming power to drive the vehicle; a power generator; an electrical load device group; a high-voltage storage device storing power for driving the vehicle; a low-voltage storage device storing power for operating the electrical load device group; and a DC voltage conversion and output device converting voltage of power stored in the high-voltage storage device to generate DC voltage for operating the electrical load device group, and outputting the DC voltage, and controlling electric energy flow in the vehicle. The vehicle power management device controls output of the DC voltage conversion and output device so that a filling rate of the low-voltage storage device is between lower and upper limits of a range in which a charge and discharge speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined value.

Vehicle power management device

An in-vehicle information processing device capable of efficiently processing information by extracting an event that exists outside of a travel route but can possibly reach the travel route. The in-vehicle information processing device includes a map database, a traffic information database, a vehicle position determination mechanism, a driving assist information extraction mechanism for extracting driving assist information, and a driving assist information database for storing the driving assist information. An aid information extraction mechanism includes a travel route determination mechanism for determining a vehicle travel route based on a vehicle position. The driving assist information extraction mechanism extracts the driving assist information from map information and traffic information on the travel route.

In-vehicle information processing device and driving assist device

A motor control apparatus includes a reference model unit configured to generate a model output, a feedback unit configured to generate a feedback, and an adder configured to add up the model input and the feedback and generate a control input to the controlled object. The reference model unit includes a storing unit configured to retain, as a vector, a present value of the target value and one or a plurality of past values of the target value, a numerical model configured to simulate a characteristic of the controlled object and generate the model output and a state variable on the basis of the model input, a model controller configured to generate the model input and a controller determining unit configured to determine the model controller.

Motor control apparatus

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Yuji Igarashi