A collision avoidance method and system for a mobile robot crossing a road. When a mobile robot approaches a road, it senses road conditions via at least one first sensor, and initiates road crossing if the road conditions are deemed suitable for crossing. As it crosses the road, the mobile robot senses, via at least one second sensor, a change in the road conditions indicating the presence of at least one hazardous moving object. In response to determining that at least one hazardous object in present, the mobile robot initiates a collision avoidance maneuver. A mobile robot configured to avoid collisions while crossing a road includes: at least one first sensor configured to sense road conditions, at least one second sensor configured to sense road conditions, and a processing component configured to carry out one or more collision avoidance maneuvers.

A learning system (1) for vehicles for learning a neutral point of a measurement sensor equipped in a vehicle by using a magnetic marker disposed in a traveling road includes a sensor unit (11) which detects the magnetic marker and measures a lateral shift amount of the vehicle with respect to the magnetic marker, a route information acquiring part which acquires route information indicating a shape of the traveling road, and a learning determination part which determines whether a learning condition as a condition for performing learning of the neutral point of the measurement sensor is satisfied, wherein a fluctuation range of a lateral shift amount measured by the sensor unit (11) when the vehicle is traveling a learning road as a traveling road in a constant shape is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold is set at least as the learning condition.

Methods and a system are described for prioritizing the upload of connected vehicle map data in a central mapping system. A central mapping unit includes a central server which receives and processes data uploads by priority order, from highest priority to lowest priority. The uploaded data is compared to central map data to determine whether the central map requires updating. When the central mapping unit determines that there is not enough information to update the central map in a region, a priority list is updated to give high priority to data collection in the region. The updated priority list is pushed to connected vehicles travelling in the region, which have external sensors for data collection in the surrounding environment. When a connected vehicle enters the region, its external sensors collect data regarding the region, which is uploaded to the central mapping unit with highest priority.

In an exemplary method, a traffic monitoring subsystem receives mobile device attribute data from a plurality of mobile devices over a network, selectively aggregates the mobile device attribute data, the selectively aggregating including identifying anomalous data in the mobile device attribute data and excluding the anomalous data from the aggregated mobile device attribute data, and generating traffic condition data based at least in part on the aggregated mobile device attribute data, the traffic condition data representative of a traffic condition. In certain examples, the traffic monitoring system provides the traffic condition data to at least one of the mobile devices.

The invention relates to a method for determining traffic information with the aid of a central monitoring device which is in communication with a plurality of fleet vehicles in order to obtain traffic information from the fleet vehicles, wherein within communication with the fleet vehicles the monitoring device transmits targeted measurement requests to the fleet vehicles. In one exemplary aspect, the invention proposes that during the transmission of targeted measurement requests, the monitoring device takes account of the quality of sensors with which the individual fleet vehicle are equipped.

A vehicle-to-X communications system for a vehicle, includes first antenna, a second antenna, a first transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal, the first transceiver electrically connectable to the first antenna via a first antenna interface, a second transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal, the second transceiver electrically connectable to the second antenna via a second antenna interface, a control device connectable to the first transceiver via a first communications interface and to the second transceiver via a second communications interface. The first transceiver and the second transceiver are configured to communicate with the control device independently of one another and, further, to transmit and receive a signal independently of one another via their first antenna and the second antenna.

A vehicle rearview warning system has a rearview-mirror monitor, a front image-capturing device outputting a front driving image, a rear image-capturing device outputting a rear driving image, and an edge computing device signally connected to the rearview-mirror monitor, the front image-capturing device, and the rear image-capturing device. The edge computing device receives the front driving image and the rear driving image respectively, recognizes a vehicle object from the front driving image or the rear driving image, and determines whether to activate the rearview-mirror monitor to display a warning image according to the vehicle object.

The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for assisting a customer retrieve a package from an autonomous vehicle. In an example procedure, the autonomous vehicle may detect the customer waiting at a first spot and may determine that the first spot is unsuitable/unsafe for the customer to retrieve a package from a locked compartment in the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may therefore instruct the customer to move to a second spot that is safer and closer to the compartment and may then execute an authentication procedure to authenticate the customer and unlock a door of the compartment. In an alternative approach, the autonomous vehicle may travel to a parking spot that is safer and closer to where the customer is waiting (rather than instructing the customer to move) before authenticating and unlocking the door of the compartment to allow the customer to retrieve the package.

A control apparatus is for controlling notification data presented to an occupant of a movable object having an automated driving function, including an outside world information obtaining unit for obtaining outside world information of the movable object, a failure detection unit for detecting a failure of the movable object, a setting unit for setting a point associated with the failure based on the outside world information, and setting a scheduled time instant at which the point is reached, and a notification plan generation unit for generating a notification plan for setting an order for presenting predetermined notification data to the occupant according to the point and the scheduled time instant, wherein the notification plan generation unit is for estimating an information intensity of the notification data, and deciding an order for presenting detection information of the failure and the notification data in a predetermined period according to the information intensity.

Systems and methods for vehicle-to-vehicle communications are provided. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining, by a computing system onboard a first autonomous vehicle, sensor data associated with an environment of the first autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining, by the computing system, an intermediate environmental representation of at least a portion of the environment of the first autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the sensor data. The method includes generating, by the computing system, a compressed intermediate environmental representation by compressing the intermediate environmental representation of at least the portion of the environment of the first autonomous vehicle. The method includes communicating, by the computing system, the compressed intermediate environmental representation to a second autonomous vehicle.