A system and method of clearing a lump of cut crop material from an internal conveyor of the feeder house of an agricultural combine and an auger conveyor of a belt pickup mounted on the feeder house by ejecting the lump of cut crop material to a position forward of the auger conveyor, then shredding the lump of cut crop material by the auger conveyor and feeding the shredded portions of the lump of cut crop material into the internal conveyor, and then accelerating a belt conveyor on the belt pickup located immediately in front of the auger conveyor to its full harvesting speed.

A system and method for airside activity management using video analytics are disclosed. In one embodiment, video data of a survey area is obtained, in real time, from one or more video cameras. Further, time stamps associated with one or more airside activities of an aircraft from touchdown to takeoff are determined by applying video analytics on the obtained video data to manage the one or more airside activities.

A system and method for airside activity management using video analytics are disclosed. In one embodiment, video data of a survey area is obtained, in real time, from one or more video cameras. Further, time stamps associated with one or more airside activities of an aircraft from touchdown to takeoff are determined by applying video analytics on the obtained video data to manage the one or more airside activities.

A system of autonomous vehicles for forming a team of autonomous vehicles to perform a designated set of tasks. Each vehicle stores data representing its own capabilities that match the tasks, data representing needed capabilities for the team to perform the tasks, and data representing the capabilities of all current team members. Each of the vehicles is equipped with a communications system operable to send and receive join request messages and join response messages. All join request message contain the capabilities of the sending vehicle. All join response messages contain current team capabilities data. Upon receipt of a join request message, a vehicle compares needed capabilities data to the received capabilities data, and if there are matched capabilities, it updates the team capabilities data and transmits a join response message. Upon receipt of a join response message, if the message indicates the sending vehicle has joined the team, the receiving vehicle updates the team capabilities list.

There is provided a moving body including: an optical wireless communication unit configured to execute an optical wireless communication with another moving body; an object detection unit configured to detect an object around an own moving body; an object information transmission unit configured to transmit, to the other moving body, first object information including location information of the object, by the optical wireless communication or a radio wave communication; an object information receiving unit configured to receive, from the other moving body, second object information including location information of an object around the other moving body, by the optical wireless communication or the radio wave communication; and a movement control unit configured to control, based on the first object information and the second object information, a movement of the own moving body such that an object is not located on an optical axis of the optical wireless communication.

A system includes a communication system for wireless communication with a vehicle, and one or more processors coupled to the communication system. The one or more processors are configured to determine that a first portion of vehicle information for the vehicle is altered from a first value to a second value that is different than the first value, route the first portion of the vehicle information (that is altered to the second value), route a second portion of the vehicle information that is not altered (i.e., not altered to the second value), store the first portion and the second portion in a vehicle record that represents a status of the vehicle, and generate control signals, for communication over the communication system to the vehicle, to control movement of the vehicle based on the first portion and the second portion stored in the vehicle record.

A system includes a communication system for wireless communication with a vehicle, and one or more processors coupled to the communication system. The one or more processors are configured to determine that a first portion of vehicle information for the vehicle is altered from a first value to a second value that is different than the first value, route the first portion of the vehicle information (that is altered to the second value), route a second portion of the vehicle information that is not altered (i.e., not altered to the second value), store the first portion and the second portion in a vehicle record that represents a status of the vehicle, and generate control signals, for communication over the communication system to the vehicle, to control movement of the vehicle based on the first portion and the second portion stored in the vehicle record.

A diagram creating method includes a first step and a second step. The first step includes generating a group of candidates for departure times at a first spot with reference to a temporal distribution of demand for movement to a second spot at the first spot and a minimum capacity among capacities of available vehicles. The second step includes creating a diagram from the first spot to the second spot by determining a type of vehicle which departs at one departure time from a group of types of the available vehicles for each candidate for a departure time belonging to the group of candidates for departure times. The group of types includes a type of vehicle indicating that the type of vehicle does not depart at the departure time.

A diagram creating method includes a first step and a second step. The first step includes generating a group of candidates for departure times at a first spot with reference to a temporal distribution of demand for movement to a second spot at the first spot and a minimum capacity among capacities of available vehicles. The second step includes creating a diagram from the first spot to the second spot by determining a type of vehicle which departs at one departure time from a group of types of the available vehicles for each candidate for a departure time belonging to the group of candidates for departure times. The group of types includes a type of vehicle indicating that the type of vehicle does not depart at the departure time.

The present disclosure describes an autonomous warehouse package delivery system. The system includes a warehouse, a plurality of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), a plurality of UAVs, and a plurality of servers. The warehouse includes a U-shaped conveyor belt, a plurality of shelving units, a plurality of package stacks, a first plurality of robots, and a second plurality of robots. Each UGV autonomously pick-ups a package from a shelf, navigates to the UAV landing pads, and places the package on the UAV landing pad. The plurality of UAVs travel to the UAV landing pad and pick up a package, autonomously fly to a package delivery address and release the package at the package delivery address. A real-time data distribution middleware network is connected to the U-shaped conveyor belt, the first plurality of robots, the second plurality of robots, the plurality of UGVs, the plurality of UAVs and a plurality of servers.