An autonomous driving assistance system is a system for assisting driving of vehicles, and includes a service server that provides services relating to the vehicles to operation terminals, a vehicle connection server connected to the vehicles via wireless communication routes, and a plurality of control servers each communicating with the vehicles by handover and respectively controlling travel of the vehicles in different areas. When calling a vehicle parked in a predetermined area in accordance with the service provided by the service server, a control server that is associated with the predetermined area among the control servers causes the vehicle connection server connected to the vehicle to notify the vehicle of an end point, the end point being information indicating the location of the control server as a connection destination.

A vehicle control device includes a communication unit configured to be communicable with an autonomous driving vehicle that autonomously travels, a determination unit configured to determine whether there is a possibility that communication between the autonomous driving vehicle and the vehicle control device is disconnected, based on information indicating a communication status between the autonomous driving vehicle and the vehicle control device, and a travel instruction unit configured to transmit, when there is the possibility that the communication between the autonomous driving vehicle and the vehicle control device is disconnected, a travel instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle via the communication unit before the communication between the autonomous driving vehicle and the vehicle control device is disconnected. The travel instruction matches conditions associated with travel control of the autonomous driving vehicle.

A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.

The present invention relates to a method and system for communicating information between an automated vehicle (20) and a remote terminal (10), comprising providing (102) information (12, 22) to be communicated between the automated vehicle and the remote terminal, packaging (104) said information as a sequence (30) of N data packets (P), wherein each data packet is provided with a unique data packet number (6) ranging from 1 to N indicating the position of each data packet in the sequence of data packets, transmitting (106) the sequence of N data packets via at least a first (A) and a second (B) communications link between the automated vehicle and the remote terminal, assembling (108) a complete sequence of N unique data packets after each unique data packet has been successfully communicated via either said at least a first or a second communications link, wherein the sequence of N data packets is transmitted via said at least a first communications link in an order of ascending data packet numbers and via said at least a second communications link in an order of descending data packet numbers.

There is provided a system and the like capable of assisting remote operation of a work machine performed by a remote operator in such a way that contact between the work machine and an actual machine operator and other unfavorable situations can be avoided. Even in a situation in which a first evaluation result is affirmative and a work machine 40 can be remotely operated via a remote operation apparatus 20, but in a situation in which a second evaluation result is affirmative and it is highly probable that a worker carrying a portable terminal 60, such as an actual machine operator OP2, is so close to the work machine 40 or on the work machine 40 that short-range wireless communication between the work machine 40 and the portable terminal 60 is established, remote operation of the work machine 40 is inhibited.

A remote operation device that remotely operates a mobile object by communication includes processing circuitry configured to acquire information on non-prime remote operation devices that are allowed to remotely operate the mobile object by the communication; detect a communication delay time in the communication with the mobile object; determine whether or not the detected communication delay time exceeds a delay time determination threshold; determine, when it is determined that the communication delay time exceeds the delay time determination threshold, a switching destination remote operation device from among the non-prime remote operation devices depending on whether or not a switching determination condition is satisfied on a basis of the acquired information on the non-prime remote operation devices; and output switching instruction information for remotely operating the mobile object to the determined switching destination remote operation device.

A controller of a work machine includes: a service request generation unit that generates and transfers information for requesting a remote service; a service execution condition management unit that confirms and manages the condition for executing the remote service; and an operating mode management unit that manages the operating mode and the operation status of the work machine. The service request generation unit generates service request information containing function types of a plurality of remote services, the operating mode of the vehicle, and the communication performance of the communication network, and transfers it to the data center. For each function type included in the service request information, the service execution condition management unit outputs service execution information containing the execution possibility, the condition for operating mode, and the condition for communication performance.

The present application describes one or more map data transmission methods, cleaning devices and storage media. A method may comprise obtaining a first map data corresponding to a current cleaning position and a second map data corresponding to a previous cleaning position. Both the first and second map data may be divided into at least two map layers. The method may further comprise extracting a first map layer data from the first map data and extracting a second map layer data from the second map data. The method may further comprise obtaining the changed first map layer data with respect to the second map data of the same map layer; and sending the changed first map layer data to a computing device (e.g., a cloud server).

A common command and control architecture (alternatively termed herein as a “universal control architecture”) is disclosed that allows different unmanned systems, including different types of unmanned systems (e.g., air, ground, and/or maritime unmanned systems), to be controlled simultaneously through a common control device (e.g., a controller that can be an input and/or output device). The universal control architecture brings significant efficiency gains in engineering, deployment, training, maintenance, and future upgrades of unmanned systems. In addition, the disclosed common command and control architecture breaks the traditional stovepipe development involving deployment models and thus reducing hardware and software maintenance, creating a streamlined training/proficiency initiative, reducing physical space requirements for transport, and creating a scalable, more connected interoperable approach to control of unmanned systems over existing unmanned systems technology.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may transmit, to a controller, a request to join a platoon. The mobile station may receive, from the controller, a confirmation that the mobile station has joined the platoon. The confirmation may further indicate an assignment of the mobile station to a sub-platoon within the platoon. Accordingly, the mobile station may transmit a handshake to, or receiving a handshake from, a primary anchor device associated with the platoon. The mobile station may additionally transmit a handshake to, or receiving a handshake from, a secondary anchor device associated with the sub-platoon. The sub-platoon may divide and reassemble based at least in part on one or more environmental conditions. Numerous other aspects are described.