Methods and apparatus for controlling two or more vehicles travelling in formation. Selected vehicles may be fully or partially autonomously controlled; at least one vehicle is partially controlled by a human driver. Information is collected at each vehicle and from the drivers and it is shared with other vehicles and drivers to create a shared world model. Aspects of the shared world model may be presented to the human driver, who may then respond with a control input. Autonomy systems and the drivers on the vehicles then collaborate to make a collective decision to act or not to act and execute any such action in a coordinated manner.

An aircraft includes one or more LRUs including one or more processors. The aircraft also includes one or more actuators coupled to one or more flight control surfaces. The actuator(s) are communicatively coupled to at least one of the LRU(s) to receive control signals. The aircraft also includes one or more sensors coupled to at least one of the LRU(s) and configured to generate sensor data indicative of a trajectory of the aircraft. While in a manual flight mode, the processor(s) are configured to generate trajectory guidance data based on one or more trajectory setpoints. The processor(s) are also configured to, while in the manual flight mode, determine an error metric indicating deviation between the trajectory of the aircraft and the trajectory guidance data and send a control signal based on the error metric to the one or more actuators.

A system for flight control in electric aircraft includes a flight controller configured to provide an initial vehicle torque signal including a plurality of attitude commands. The system includes a mixer configured to receive the initial vehicle torque signal and a vehicle torque limit, receive prioritization data including a prioritization datum corresponding to each of the plurality of attitude command, determine a plurality of modified attitude commands as a function of the vehicle torque limit, the attitude commands, and the prioritization data, generate, as a function of modified attitude commands, an output torque command including the initial vehicle torque signal adjusted as a function of the vehicle torque limit, generate, as a function of the output torque command, a remaining vehicle torque. The system includes a display, wherein the display is configured to present, to a user, the remaining vehicle torque and the output torque command.

A control system for a vehicle includes a first controller, a second controller, and an auto-tuner. The first controller is configured to generate an optimal trajectory of the vehicle along a path. The second controller is configured to, based on the optimal trajectory generated by the first controller, generate motoring and braking commands to a motoring and braking system of the vehicle for controlling the vehicle to travel along the path. The auto-tuner includes a processor configured to solve a real-time optimization problem to determine at least one parameter of at least one of the first controller or the second controller.

A system and method for protecting a rotorcraft from entering a vortex ring state, the method including monitoring a vertical speed of a rotorcraft, comparing the vertical speed to a vertical speed safety threshold, and performing vortex ring state (VRS) avoidance in response to the vertical speed exceeding the vertical speed safety threshold. The performing the VRS avoidance includes determining a power margin available from one or more engines of the rotorcraft, limiting the vertical speed of the rotorcraft in response to the power margin exceeding a threshold, and increasing a forward airspeed of the rotorcraft in response to the power margin not exceeding the threshold.

A movement control system (1) according to the present disclosure includes a first processing unit (121) and a second processing unit (220) that communicate with each other, in which the first processing unit generates route information used to control a movement route of a mobile device using sensor information acquired from the second processing unit, on the basis of non-real-time processing with no constraint of a response time required for processing, and the second processing unit controls movement of the mobile device along the route information generated by the first processing unit, on the basis of real-time processing with a constraint of the response time required for the processing.

A remote control disabling device includes: a determination unit that determines part of functions that are targets to be switched between an enabled state and a disabled state among a plurality of functions of a moving object to be executed by remote control; and a transmission unit that transmits a signal for causing the moving object to switch between the enabled state and the disabled state of the part of the functions.

This document describes techniques and systems for autonomous parking in locations without cellular coverage. A system can include a processor that obtains a request to autonomously park in a parking environment. The system can then determine whether parking space information indicating an available space was obtained. In response to determining that parking space information was obtained, the system can autonomously operate the host vehicle to navigate to and park in the available space. The system determines whether a communication system of the host vehicle has a cellular connection available to aid in the navigation. In response to a determination that the cellular connection is not available, the system communicates the location of the host vehicle to the processor via a proxy vehicle with an operable cellular connection. By utilizing a mesh network among vehicles to share their cellular connections, autonomous parking features may remain available in locations without cellular coverage.

Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide map data for autonomous vehicles. In particular, a method may include accessing subsets of multiple types of sensor data, aligning subsets of sensor data relative to a global coordinate system based on the multiple types of sensor data to form aligned sensor data, and generating datasets of three-dimensional map data. The method further includes detecting a change in data relative to at least two datasets of the three-dimensional map data and applying the change in data to form updated three-dimensional map data. The change in data may be representative of a state change of an environment at which the sensor data is sensed. The state change of the environment may be related to the presence or absences of an object located therein.

This automatic takeoff/landing system for a vertical takeoff/landing aircraft comprises: a relative wind information acquisition unit that acquires the direction of relative wind at a moving object; and a control unit that executes takeoff/landing control to cause the vertical takeoff/landing aircraft to takeoff/land at a landing target point provided on the moving object. The control unit, during takeoff/landing of the vertical takeoff/landing aircraft, executes the takeoff/landing control on the basis of the direction of the relative wind acquired by the relative wind information acquisition unit, in a state in which the aircraft heading of the vertical takeoff/landing aircraft is caused to face the direction of the relative wind.