A system for generating a costmap for use in planning a path through an environment, the system including one or more suitably programmed processing devices configured to obtain a map of the environment, acquire traversal data indicative of an ability to traverse parts of the environment, for each part of the environment, calculate a traversal indicator indicative of the ability to traverse the part, the traversal indicator being calculated in a colour space, and colourise the map using the traversal indicators to thereby generate a colourised costmap indicative of an ability to traverse the environment, the colourised costmap allowing path planning to be performed.

A method and system for managing contextual views within an application interface are disclosed. The method includes displaying a first view within an application interface that provides information about a user selected vehicle. The method also includes displaying a second view within an application interface that provides information about an environment. The second view may present an interactive three-dimensional model that provides an immersive experience. The application may switch between the first view and the second view according to user input.

A ride positioning service providing method includes: by service providing server, receiving starting position and destination along with call request from user terminal, receiving non-preference option for specific road type from driver terminals, determining each of the driver terminals as walking ride group or general ride group according to whether a road to which the starting position belongs is the non-preference option, determining the starting position as general ride point of the taxi, and one position selected from an area within a certain range based on the starting position as a walking ride point of the taxi, and requesting a call to the driver terminal forming at least one group among the walking ride group and the general ride group based on at least one ride point among the walking ride point and the general ride point based on weather information of a position of the user terminal.

An information processing device includes a display configured to display a mesh of mesh information based on longitude and latitude. A mesh is composed of a plurality of blocks. The mesh information includes area information about a traveling area where a moving body can travel. The area information is the additional information added to each of the plurality of blocks. The additional information is the display information that is weighted and sorted, based on the number of overlapping points of the plurality of locus logs.

A chatbot check-in platform includes a salon application associated with a messenger chatbot, wherein a user requests via the chatbot an appointment for a salon service. The platform includes a location service in communication with the salon application for finding a salon nearby a user; a salon services API in communication with the salon application for finding a requested salon service and time for appointment for the salon; and a database interface responding to a request for making an appointment with the salon. A method of using a chatbot check-in platform includes instructions, when executed by a processor, that cause the processor to execute actions including: receiving, by a first processor, a request received via an associated messenger chatbot for booking an appointment for a service provided by a salon, wherein the first processor is a processor of a device, the device includes machine readable memory accessible by the first processor; finding a salon and service, by the first processor in response the request; prompting, by the first processor, a booking for the salon and service via an associated chatbot; and upon receiving, by the first processor, a confirmation from the user via the chatbot, booking the salon and service.

An evaluation computing system may implement techniques to validate a vehicle controller, such as based on a detection of a systematic fault. The evaluation computing system may access data (e.g., log data and/or map data) associated with an operation of the vehicle in an environment as controlled by the controller. The evaluation computing system may modify a portion of the map data representative of a simulated change associated with a portion of the environment. The evaluation computing system may run a simulation with a simulated environment, generated based on the modified map data, to determine whether the controller detects and/or mitigates the simulated change in a sufficient manner. Based on a determination of whether or not the controller detects and/or mitigates the simulated change in a sufficient manner, the evaluation computing system may determine an error associated with the controller or may validate the controller.

Provided is a system including a position acquisition unit that acquires a designated position; and an output control unit that causes an output unit to output cluster information based on a result of clustering target objects to be clustered by using a feature amount corresponding to each of the target objects, in which the target objects are a plurality of objects about a plurality of facilities, the cluster information being information on clusters to which objects about associated facilities belong, in which the facilities are associated with the position.

A matching algorithm and device for data with different scales based on global road network features are provided. The method includes: loading data of different maps, constructing crossroad groups in each map, and extracting information on attributes of the crossroad groups; allocating, according to the importance degree of the attribute information, weights for each attribute of the crossroad groups, and comprehensively evaluating confidence values of matching between two crossroad groups in different maps; and constructing, according to the confidence values, matched road networks, calculating total confidence values of the matched road networks, and selecting a road network with the highest total confidence value as an optimal matching solution, namely a matching result.

Section information of a traveling route is provided appropriately to a driver.

Traveling route information and traffic information relating to the traveling route are acquired, and on the basis of the information, a driver intervention requiring section and an automatic driving available section of the traveling route are displayed on a reach prediction time axis from a current point on an instrument panel, a tablet, or the like. For example, the driver intervention requiring section includes a manual driving section, a takeover section from automatic driving to manual driving, and a cautious traveling section from the automatic driving.

A map generation device extracts, by inputting an image in which a road is represented to a classifier that outputs, for each pixel of the image, a type of a feature object on the road represented by the pixel, a pixel representing a boundary feature object that represents a boundary of a lane among feature objects on the road, calculates a Voronoi boundary by Voronoi-dividing the image with each pixel representing the boundary feature object as a generating point, detects each of the calculated Voronoi boundaries as one lane, and generates map information representing each of the detected lanes.