Integration between unmanned aerial system and unmanned ground robotic vehicle are disclosed herein. One variation of a robotic system may generally comprise an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), and a base station configured to receive the UAV and replace a spent power supply cartridge from the UAV and further having a charging mechanism configured to wirelessly transfer power to the UGV when the UGV is positioned in proximity to the charging pad.

A method for managing energy consumption in a vehicle along a first route from a source location to a first target destination includes estimating an energy consumption, E.sub.PC, of the vehicle travelling from the source location to the first target destination along the first route. In case the amount of energy, E.sub.TOTAL, available in the vehicle is not on a level above E.sub.C that ensures arrival of the vehicle at the first target destination according to a first determined level of certainty, an estimated energy consumption, E.sub.AUX, of each auxiliary system on-board the vehicle for the first route, and an energy utilization information, EU.sub.INFO, indicating a priority level of each auxiliary system on-board the vehicle for the first route is obtained. An energy consumption adaption sequence of the auxiliary systems is determined for the first route based on the obtained E.sub.AUX and EU.sub.INFO of each auxiliary system such that E.sub.TOTAL is maintained on a level above E.sub.PC that ensures arrival of the vehicle at the first target destination according to a second determined level of certainty.

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a travelable information display unit that displays before a discharge, regarding motor-driven movable bodies of a discharge source and a discharge destination driven by using electric power of batteries, information about places to which the motor-driven movable body of the discharge source can move using electric power of the battery left after the discharge by assuming, when information about a discharge amount discharged from the battery of the motor-driven movable body of the discharge source toward the motor-driven movable body of the discharge destination that receives power supply is input, a case in which the discharge amount is discharged from the battery.

A server according to the disclosure is a server that can communicate with an electrically-driven vehicle. The server demands that the electrically-driven vehicle disclose vehicle information including positional information on the electrically-driven vehicle and a remaining amount of energy in the electrically-driven vehicle upon receiving a request for the feeding of electric power in the event of a disaster, acquires the vehicle information from the electrically-driven vehicle as to which an approval of the demand for disclosure is obtained from a user of the electrically-driven vehicle, instructs the electrically-driven vehicle to be fed with electric power based on the acquired vehicle information, and notifies the user of the end of acquisition of the vehicle information when the request for the feeding of electric power is ended.

A regenerative braking control system of an AWD (all-wheel-drive) hybrid vehicle including a front wheel HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) powertrain and a rear wheel EV (electric vehicle) powertrain is provided. The control system includes a manipulating instrument mounted to a steering wheel for manual shifting and regenerative braking control by a driver's manipulation, and a controller for adjusting a regenerative braking amount and controlling a shift pattern of each of a front wheel motor of the front wheel HEV powertrain and a rear wheel motor of the rear wheel EV powertrain by receiving a (−) or (+) manipulation signal or a hold manipulation signal of the manipulating instrument.

To obtain a vehicle control device capable of creating a route that facilitates tracing by a vehicle in autonomous driving and improving positional accuracy of the vehicle at the time of tracing. A vehicle control device (520) of the present invention includes an oversteer angle determination unit (508) that determines whether or not a steering angle of a vehicle (10) is an oversteer angle, a stationary steering determination unit (509) that determines whether or not stationary steering operation is performed on a vehicle, a route storage mode detection unit (505) that determines whether or not a route storage mode is set, a specific operation detection unit (507) that determines whether a steering angle is the oversteer angle or the stationary steering operation is performed in the route storage mode, and an output unit that outputs a control command of steering angle restriction control that restricts steering operation of a driver in the route storage mode in a case where the specific operation detection unit determines that a steering angle is the oversteer angle or the stationary steering operation is performed.

The present invention provides a management system for managing a battery mounted on a vehicle, comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire rank information indicating a product rank set by a user as a reuse destination of the battery; and a notification unit configured to notify the user of restriction item information indicating an item for restricting a function of the vehicle such that a deterioration state of the battery at a predetermined time satisfies a request state of the product rank, based on the rank information acquired by the acquisition unit.

A vehicle includes: a controller; a power receiving device that contactlessly receives power from a power transmitting facility; a battery chargeable using the power received by the power receiving device; and a power transmitting device that contactlessly outputs, to another vehicle, the power received by the power receiving device. The other vehicle contactlessly receives power from each of the power transmitting facility and the power transmitting device. When the other vehicle is unable to contactlessly receive the power from the power transmitting facility, the controller controls the power transmitting device to contactlessly output the power received by the power receiving device to the other vehicle in accordance with a request from the other vehicle.

A battery management system includes one or more processors, a battery comprising a plurality of cells, an output device, an input device, and a memory having an input module, a battery characteristic prediction module, and an output module. The input module includes instructions that cause the one or more processors to receive a mode selection from a user via the input device. The battery characteristic prediction module includes instructions that cause the one or more processors to predict a characteristic of the battery based on the mode selection using an active machine learning model to predict the characteristic of the battery. The output module includes instructions that cause the one or more processors to output an estimated cost to the output device based on the characteristic of the battery determined by the active machine learning model.

A management apparatus includes an acquirer configured to acquire vehicle usage state information about a usage state of a vehicle, and a processing unit configured to apply the vehicle usage state information to a model which outputs feature amounts when vehicle usage information is input thereto to acquire the feature amounts, to select a secondary battery recommended to be mounted in the vehicle for which the vehicle usage state information is acquired from secondary batteries providable as the secondary battery to be mounted in the vehicle and storing electric power for travel on the basis of the acquired feature amounts, and to present the selected secondary battery.