Systems and methods for automatically soliciting the purchase of a first or second machine-related resource in a forward market, wherein the first resource and the second resource are distinct instances of the same type of resource, are described. A sample system may include a fleet of machines, each having a resource requirement comprising at least two of: a compute resource, a spectrum resource, or a network bandwidth resource. The system may include an circuits to aggregate data corresponding to the machine-related resources from at least a behavioral data source, to determine a substitution cost of a second resource; to determine a machine-related resource acquisition value; and to automatically solicit a purchase, in a forward market, of one of the first resource or the second resource in response to the determined substitution cost of the second resource.

A rider interface for a vehicle includes a data processor configured to facilitate communication between a rider using the rider interface and the vehicle, the vehicle and the rider interface communicating location and orientation of the vehicle. An augmented reality system with a display is disposed to facilitate presenting an augmentation of content in an environment of the rider using the rider interface, the augmentation responsive to a registration of the communicated location and orientation of the vehicle, wherein at least one parameter of the augmentation is determined by machine learning on at least one input relating to at least one of the rider and the rider interface.

A rider satisfaction system for optimizing rider satisfaction, the rider satisfaction system includes an electronic commerce interface deployed for access by a rider in a vehicle, and a rider interaction circuit that captures rider interactions with the deployed interface. The rider satisfaction system also includes a rider state determination circuit that processes the captured rider interactions to determine a rider state, and an artificial intelligence system trained to optimize, responsive to the rider state, at least one parameter affecting operation of the vehicle to improve the rider state.

System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to self-supervised training of a depth model for monocular depth estimation. In one embodiment, a method includes processing a first image of a pair according to the depth model to generate a depth map. The method includes processing the first image and a second image of the pair according to a pose model to generate a transformation that defines a relationship between the pair. The pair of images are separate frames depicting a scene of a monocular video. The method includes generating a monocular loss and a pose loss, the pose loss including at least a velocity component that accounts for motion of a camera between the training images. The method includes updating the pose model according to the pose loss and the depth model according to the monocular loss to improve scale awareness of the depth model in producing depth estimates.

A method for predicting conditions associated with a coal stock pile is described. The method includes collecting aerial data for a site including one or more coal stock piles. Using the aerial data, the method includes performing localization of the site to identify boundaries of the coal stock piles and extracting multi-spectral features. The method also includes obtaining additional data associated with the coal stock piles from at least one data source and merging the aerial data with the additional data. Using the merged data and the extracted multi-spectral features, the method includes analyzing a status of the coal stock piles by a prediction module to predict at least one of an impending combustion event or a severe condition associated with the coal stock piles. In response to the predicted at least one impending combustion event or severe condition, the method includes implementing a response.

Methods for providing provable access to a distributed ledger with a tokenized instruction set are disclosed. A method may include accessing a distributed ledger including an instruction set, tokenizing the instruction set, interpreting an instruction set access request, and in response to the instruction set access request, providing a provable access to the instruction set.

Systems and methods for machine forward energy transactions optimization are disclosed. A transaction-enabling system may include a resource requirement circuit to aggregate a resource requirement for a fleet of machines to perform a task, a forward resource market circuit to access a forward market for energy, and a controller. The controller may include an artificial intelligence (AI) circuit to configure a transaction on the forward market for energy in response to the aggregated resource requirement and a machine resource acquisition circuit to automatically solicit the configured transaction on the forward market for energy. The AI circuit may also iteratively improve the configured transaction to improve a task outcome of the fleet of machines.

Systems and methods for fleet forward energy and energy credits purchase are disclosed. An example transaction-enabling system may include a resource requirement circuit to aggregate a resource requirement for a fleet of machines to perform a task; a forward resource market circuit to access a forward market for energy; and a machine resource acquisition circuit to execute a transaction on the forward market for energy in response to the aggregated resource requirement.

Systems and methods for machine forward energy and energy storage transactions are disclosed. An example transaction-enabling system may include a resource requirement circuit to aggregate a resource requirement for a fleet of machines to perform a task, wherein the resource requirement comprises an energy storage capacity requirement, a forward resource market circuit to access a forward market for energy, and a machine resource acquisition circuit to execute a transaction on the forward market for energy in response to the aggregated resource requirement.

Transportation systems have artificial intelligence including neural networks for recognition and classification of objects and behavior including natural language processing and computer vision systems. The transportation systems involve sets of complex chemical processes, mechanical systems, and interactions with behaviors of operators. System-level interactions and behaviors are classified, predicted and optimized using neural networks and other artificial intelligence systems through selective deployment, as well as hybrids and combinations of the artificial intelligence systems, neural networks, expert systems, cognitive systems, genetic algorithms and deep learning.