Disclosed are a control method of a mobile robot, a mobile robot, and a storage medium. The method includes: when distance information obtained by a laser radar has an effective distance change, predicting an inclination angle of a forward road section relative to a current road surface where the mobile robot is currently located; determining a slope of the forward road section based on the inclination angle and a pitch angle; controlling movement of the mobile robot based on the slope and a result of comparison between the slope and a slope threshold preset by the mobile robot; and marking the forward road section as a slope area on a slope map, where the slope map is used to control, based on the slope area when the mobile robot passes by the slope area, the mobile robot to send climbing warning information.

A change rate of in-vehicle carbon dioxide concentration at an optional time point when the vehicle is in a parked state is estimated on the basis of detection signals of a CO.sub.2 concentration sensor at two different time points when in the parked state; and on the basis of a detection signal of the CO.sub.2 concentration sensor at the optional time point, a preset time constant of concentration change of the in-vehicle carbon dioxide concentration, and the estimated change rate, the in-vehicle carbon dioxide concentration at a time point when a predetermined time according to the time constant has elapsed since the optional time point is estimated (steps S4 to S7). A detection target organism is determined to be present in the vehicle when the estimated in-vehicle carbon dioxide concentration is equal to or more than a threshold value set according to the detection target organism (steps S8 and S9).

A collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system for a large passenger vehicle such as commuter bus, which includes one or more exterior and/or interior sensing devices positioned strategically around the exterior and interior of the vehicle for recording data, method for avoiding collisions and/or detecting pedestrians, and features/articles of manufacture for improving same, is described herein in various embodiments. The sensing devices may be responsive to one or more situational sensors, and may be connected to one or more interior and/or exterior warning systems configured to alert a driver inside the vehicle and/or a pedestrian outside the vehicle that a collision may be possible and/or imminent based on a path of the vehicle and/or a position of the pedestrian as detected by one or more sensing devices and/or situational sensors.

Various technologies described herein pertain to controlling an autonomous vehicle to provide indicators to distinguish the autonomous vehicle from other autonomous vehicles in a fleet. The autonomous vehicle includes a vehicle propulsion system, a braking system, a notification system, and a computing system. The notification system outputs an indicator that is perceivable external to the autonomous vehicle. The computing system receives data specifying an identity of a passenger to be picked up by the autonomous vehicle. Moreover, the computing system controls at least one of the vehicle propulsion system or the braking system to stop the autonomous vehicle for passenger pickup. Further, the computing system controls the notification system to output the indicator; a characteristic of the indicator outputted by the notification system is controlled based on the identity of the passenger to be picked up and whether the autonomous vehicle is stopped for passenger pickup.

Described herein are systems, methods, and computer readable media for capturing image data of one or more regions of a vehicle (e.g., a cargo area of an autonomous vehicle) at various particular times and assessing the image data to determine whether a past vehicle occupant has left behind one or more belongings of value in the vehicle. If it is determined that a former vehicle occupant has left behind an article of value, an audible message may be outputted from a speaker of the vehicle to inform the former occupant of the presence of the article in the vehicle or a notification may be sent to a mobile device of the former occupant. The audible message may be outputted, for example, while the former occupant is beyond a predetermined distance from the vehicle, but still within range of hearing the message.

An autonomous vehicle control device controls an autonomous vehicle provided with a warning sound output device. The autonomous vehicle control device prohibits transition to a traveling mode when an abnormality occurs in the warning sound output device. Before traveling, the autonomous vehicle control device may execute sound output control to cause the warning sound output device to output a warning sound, and determine whether the abnormality occurs based on output data of the warning sound output by the warning sound output device.

Systems, apparatus and methods implemented in algorithms, software, firmware, logic, or circuitry may be configured to process data and sensory input to determine whether an object external to an autonomous vehicle (e.g., another vehicle, a pedestrian, a bicyclist, etc.) may be a potential collision threat to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may include a light emitter positioned external to a surface of the autonomous vehicle and being configured to implement a visual alert by emitting light from the light emitter. Data representing a light pattern may be received by the light emitter and the light emitted by the display may be indicative of the light pattern. The light pattern may be selected to gain the attention of the object (e.g., a pedestrian, a driver of a car, a bicyclists, etc.) in order to avoid the potential collision or to alert the object to the presence of the autonomous vehicle.

A vehicle monitoring system and a vehicle monitoring method, the vehicle monitoring system comprising: a camera module, used for photographing one or more first images and one or more second images after a vehicle starts, the first images being obtained by photographing embarking passengers, the second images being obtained by photographing disembarking passengers; a processing module, connected to the camera module, and used for performing facial analysis on the first images to determine the passengers embarking the vehicle, performing facial analysis on the second images to determine the passengers disembarking the vehicle, and sequentially matching the embarking passengers with the disembarking passengers; a reminder module, connected to the processing module, and used for pushing a left-behind passenger message to a driver if there is an embarking passenger who cannot be matched with a disembarking passenger, to warn the driver that there is a passenger currently left behind in the vehicle.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for controlling an unmanned vehicle, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium. In this method, the computer device of the unmanned vehicle determines occurrence of an event associated with physical discomfort of a passenger in the vehicle. The computer device also determines a severity degree of the physical discomfort of the passenger. The computer device further controls a driving action of the vehicle based on the determined severity degree.

Example embodiments relate to pedestrian countdown signal classification to increase pedestrian behavior legibility. An example embodiment includes a method that includes obtaining, by a computing system of a vehicle, a camera image patch. The method further includes determining, by the computing system, using the camera image patch and a pedestrian countdown signal classifier model, a state of a pedestrian countdown signal. The method also includes determining, by the computing system based on the state of the pedestrian countdown signal, a prediction of whether a pedestrian will enter a crosswalk governed by the pedestrian countdown signal. And the method includes, based on the prediction, causing, by the computing system, the vehicle to perform an invitation action that invites a pedestrian to enter the crosswalk.