A system, apparatus, and method for use in delivery of items to a storage unit. The storage unit can include one or several storage receptacles and a control unit that controls and monitors the status of the one or several storage receptacles. The storage unit may be included in a storage unit system that can include one or several storage units and a central control unit. The central control unit can communicate with the one or several storage units, and can receive status and availability updates from the one or several storage units.

Methods and apparatus to control aircraft horizontal stabilizers are described herein. One described method includes calculating, using a processor, a desired movement of a horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft to counteract a pitching moment of the aircraft, and controlling the horizontal stabilizer based on the desired movement.

A method for optimizing a power requirement of a motor vehicle that includes a speed control system for a drive unit and a temperature control system for a cooling circuit of the drive unit. A first power requirement of the drive unit to be expected and a second power requirement of the cooling circuit to be expected are determined based on at least one route parameter. A driving strategy corresponding to the route parameter is initially selected, and the first power requirement corresponding to the driving strategy and the second power requirement corresponding to the driving strategy are determined. Based on the determined first and second power requirements, the driving strategy is then adjusted in such a way that an overall power requirement of the motor vehicle is minimized.

The automatic steering device comprises a target rudder angle calculating unit, a target rudder angle storage unit, and a steering command unit. The target rudder angle calculating unit calculates a target rudder angle of a steering based on a heading and a target course. The target rudder angle storage unit stores a target rudder angle at a time of a previous steering command. The steering command unit outputs a steering command for instructing the steering to steer based on a newest target rudder angle calculated by the target rudder angle calculating unit and the target rudder angle at the time of the previous steering command stored by the target rudder angle storage unit.

A vehicle control system including a mobile device and an onboard device is provided. The onboard device performs vehicle control when the onboard device receives an authentication code from the mobile device located within an effective area. The mobile device measures reception strength of a vehicle signal from the onboard device and stores strength information indicating characteristics of the reception strength corresponding to a target distance to the onboard device. The mobile device determines whether or not the mobile device is located within an effective area, based on the reception strength and the strength information. The mobile device acquires correction information indicating characteristics of the reception strength corresponding to a mobile state quantity and corrects the strength information based on the mobile state quantity and the correction information.

A communication system for vehicles includes a plurality of communication devices integrated into a road. The communication devices are operable to wirelessly communicate with communication systems of vehicles traveling on the road. The communication devices may be electrically powered by solar power. The communication devices wirelessly communicate with a remote server of the communication system. The remote server receives information via the communication devices pertaining to the vehicles traveling on the road and, responsive at least in part to the received information, the remote server communicates information to the vehicles traveling on the road via the communication devices.

Techniques for determining whether data associated with an autonomous operation of an unmanned vehicle may be trusted. For example, the data may be analyzed in light of a capability of the unmanned vehicle. The analysis may indicate an operation of the unmanned vehicle. If the operation is unsupported by the capability, the data may be determined to be untrusted. Accordingly, the autonomous navigation may be directed independently of the untrusted data.

Techniques for determining whether data associated with an autonomous operation of an unmanned vehicle may be trusted. For example, the data may be analyzed in light of a capability of the unmanned vehicle. The analysis may indicate an operation of the unmanned vehicle. If the operation is unsupported by the capability, the data may be determined to be untrusted. Accordingly, the autonomous navigation may be directed independently of the untrusted data.

A requirement capture device for a centralized maintenance system for aircraft is composed of a means for capturing and parametrizing the various characteristics of the centralized maintenance system. It allows the various parties to the fine tuning of the CMS system to define the data set specific to their domain in a common framework. User profiles are defined for each of the users affording them configuration possibilities specific to their domain. After validation of the parameters input, a configuration file is generated.

A method (400), control device (240) and measuring unit (230) for adapting a control algorithm having at least one driver-dependent parameter, which control algorithm governs the control of a vehicle convoy (200) in which at least a first vehicle 220A with a first driver (210A) and a second vehicle 220B with a second driver (210B) are included. The method includes measurement (401) of at least one physical characteristic of the first driver (210A), determination (402) of the stress level of the driver based on the performed measurement (401), and adaptation (403) of the control algorithm to the determined (402) stress level of the driver.