A remote support system performs a remote support of a moving body. The remote support system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire, via communication, a first video shot with a first infrastructure camera installed in a target area in which the moving body moves. The processing circuitry is configured to present the first video to a remote supporter to perform the remote support for the moving body. When an abnormality occurs in the first video, the processing circuitry is configured to execute an abnormality handling process to resolve the abnormality in the first video or to present a substitute video to the remote supporter instead of the first video.

The present disclosure relates to a path planning apparatus, and includes: a travelable region calculation unit configured to calculate a travelable region of a moving body, based on surrounding information of the moving body; a target state calculation unit configured to calculate target state quantity including at least a target position of the moving body; a state prediction unit configured to predict at least current state quantity of the moving body and state quantity of the moving body at one or more positions between a current position and the target position of the moving body, and thereby generate one or more path candidates; a predicted state evaluation unit configured to evaluate the one or more path candidates based on the target state quantity and the travelable region, and output evaluation results; and a path generation unit configured to generate a path from the one or more path candidates based on the evaluation results, and output the path to a motion controller configured to control the moving body based on the path.

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for facilitating remote user airspace communication. For instance, the method may include: connecting with a user device associated with and remote from a first vehicle in a shared air traffic control sector; receiving voice communication data from at least one of the user device, a second vehicle in the shared air traffic control sector, and an air traffic control station in the shared air traffic control sector; generating analog data or digital data based on the received voice communication data; determining a recipient for the generated analog data or generated digital data in the shared air traffic control sector; transmitting the generated analog data or generated digital data to the recipient; and terminating the connection with the user device as the first vehicle leaves the shared air traffic control sector.

A remote operation control method for controlling a remote operation of a moving body is provided. A video captured by a camera mounted on the moving body is transmitted to a remote operator terminal on a side of a remote operator remotely operating the moving body. The remote operation control method includes: setting an upper limit speed of the moving body during the remote operation to be lower as a quality of the video transmitted from the moving body to the remote operator terminal becomes lower or as an encoding and decoding time of the video becomes longer; and limiting a speed of the moving body during the remote operation to the upper limit speed or less regardless of an operation amount input by the remote operator.

A system and a method for operating an aircraft during a climb phase of flight include a control unit configured to receive data regarding one or both of a current flight or one or more previous flights of the aircraft from one or more sensors of the aircraft. The control unit is further configured to determine efficient climb phase parameters for the aircraft based on the data. The aircraft is operated during the climb phase of one or both of the current flight or one or more future flights according to the efficient climb phase parameters.

An electronic control system is configured to control a vehicle operating in a convoy by determining a vehicle motion reference parameter (VMRP) in response to a convoying control input (CCI), determining a braking capability of the vehicle including at least a regenerative braking capability, determining a minimum following distance between the vehicle and a forward vehicle of the convoy based at least in part upon the braking capability, and arbitrating among a plurality of control options including preforming a first modification of the VMRP determined to provide operation of the vehicle satisfying the minimum following distance and controlling motion of the vehicle using the first modification of the VMRP, performing a second modification of the VMRP determined to provide improved operating efficiency of the vehicle controlling motion of the vehicle using the second modification of the VMRP, and performing no modification of the VMRP and controlling motion of the vehicle using the VMRP without modification.

A system includes a vehicle and a control device. The vehicle includes a reception unit for receiving an instruction related to remote control from the control device, a vehicle control unit for executing any one of first vehicle control and second vehicle control, the first vehicle control being control based on the instruction related to the remote control, and the second vehicle control being control determined by the vehicle itself in accordance with a traveling environment, and a transmission unit for notifying a predetermined control result to the control device when the second vehicle control is executed by the vehicle control unit. The control device includes a remote control unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. When the control result is notified from the vehicle, the remote control unit of the control device executes the remote control based on a content of the control result.

A system and method for interfacing an autonomous or remote control drive-by-wire controller with a vehicle's control modules. Vehicle functions including steering, braking, starting, etc. are controllable by wire via a control network. A CAN architecture is used as an interface between the remote/autonomous controller and the vehicle's control modules. A CAN module interface provides communication between a vehicle control system and a supervisory, remote, autonomous, or drive-by-wire controller. The interface permits the supervisory control to control vehicle operation within pre-determined bounds and using control algorithms.

A method of selecting a location of a tracking point for a vehicle unit of a vehicle includes dynamically adapting the location of the tracking point based on a vehicle speed. In some examples, the location of the tracking point for a relatively high speed is located (along the vehicle unit) in front of the location of the tracking point for a relatively low speed. Also disclosed is a method of determining a reference location of the tracking point for a reference speed. The method comprises evaluating vehicle motion behavior for a plurality of candidate locations of the tracking point, and selecting one of the candidate locations as the reference location based on vehicle motion behavior metric values acquired through the evaluation.

There is provided an information processing system for remotely steering a mobile body, the information processing system including an information acquisition unit (104) that acquires information concerning the mobile body and information concerning a periphery of the mobile body and an information generation unit (122) that generates, based on the acquired information, tactile information for performing the remote steering and presents the generated tactile information to an operator who performs the remote steering via an interface corresponding to the tactile information.