The present invention relates to a technical idea for providing a delivery service on regular and irregular roads using autonomous vehicles. More specifically, the present invention relates to technology in which, on a regular road, a lead vehicle and at least one droid vehicle are coupled to each other and a delivery service is provided based on autonomous driving; and on an irregular road, the coupling between the lead vehicle and the droid vehicle is automatically released and the droid vehicle provides a delivery service by remotely controlling the driving of the droid vehicle by the lead vehicle in the last mile delivery section corresponding to the irregular road. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for providing a delivery service using autonomous vehicles may provide a delivery service on an irregular road where entry of normal vehicles is not allowed and a regular road where entry of small and low-speed vehicles is not allowed and may include a droid vehicle for providing a delivery service using limited autonomous driving performance in a last mile delivery section corresponding to the irregular road; and a lead vehicle for providing a delivery service based on autonomous driving on the regular road, transporting the droid vehicle by being coupled to the droid vehicle on the regular road, and remotely controlling driving of the droid vehicle after being separated from the droid vehicle in the last mile delivery section.

The present disclosure provides to an apparatus for managing travel of a vehicle having an autonomous travel function. The apparatus executes the following steps. The apparatus sequentially acquires sensor information from a recognition sensor mounted on the vehicle. The apparatus sequentially generates prediction information showing a position of an object at a future time point based on the sensor information acquired sequentially. The apparatus transmits a remote support request to a remote support operator. The apparatus receives a remote support given in response to the remote support request by the remote support operator. The apparatus makes the vehicle autonomously travel in accordance with the remote support in response to confirming that an actual position of an object obtained from sensor information and a predicted position of an object obtained from prediction information correspond.

An apparatus including an indicator and a video sensor arranged to generate sensor data dependent on a state of the indicator, control circuitry configured to select the state of the indicator, to process instructions received in the apparatus from a remote driving station, to provide to the remote driving station the sensor data and to at least one of: provide to the remote driving station an indication of the indicator's selected state to enable the remote driving station to detect a malfunction in the sensor data, and obtain an observation of the state of the indicator, based on the sensor data, and determine whether the observation and the selected state of the indicator are consistent, to detect a malfunction in the sensor data, wherein the apparatus is a remotely operated vehicle, or configured to be installed in one.

An apparatus including an indicator and a video sensor arranged to generate sensor data dependent on a state of the indicator, control circuitry configured to select the state of the indicator, to process instructions received in the apparatus from a remote driving station, to provide to the remote driving station the sensor data and to at least one of: provide to the remote driving station an indication of the indicator's selected state to enable the remote driving station to detect a malfunction in the sensor data, and obtain an observation of the state of the indicator, based on the sensor data, and determine whether the observation and the selected state of the indicator are consistent, to detect a malfunction in the sensor data, wherein the apparatus is a remotely operated vehicle, or configured to be installed in one.

An example method to control an autonomous vehicle includes receiving a first signal and receiving a second signal. The first signal includes a first set of parameters that define a planned trajectory for the autonomous vehicle. The second signal includes a second set of parameters that define a planned trajectory for the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes generating a third signal by modifying the first set of parameters of the first signal to include the second set of parameters of the second signal. The method also includes outputting the third signal.

This disclosure provides systems and methods for controlling a vehicle by teleoperation based on a speed limiter. The method may include: receiving, at the autonomous vehicle, a teleoperation input from a teleoperation system, wherein the teleoperation input comprises a throttle control input for remotely controlling a speed of the autonomous vehicle; determining the speed of the autonomous vehicle; determining if the speed of the autonomous vehicle has reached a threshold speed below a speed limit; and upon determining that the speed of the autonomous vehicle has reached the threshold speed, reducing effect of the throttle control input from the teleoperation system such that an acceleration rate of the speed of the autonomous vehicle is reduced.

An embodiment method includes performing pilot authentication based on a first challenge-response process with an authentication server, transmitting first flight information to the authentication server, receiving a first authentication token provided in response to verification of the first flight information in the authentication server, transmitting the first authentication token to an aircraft system, receiving a second authentication token from the aircraft system, the second authentication token being transmitted by the aircraft system to the authentication server when authentication for a security manager boarding the aircraft succeeds based on a second challenge-response process performed between the aircraft system and the authentication server, wherein the second authentication token corresponds to that provided to the aircraft system in response to verification by the authentication server for second flight information, and sharing a session key and a message authentication code key with the aircraft system when mutual authentication succeeds.

A system for managing flight parameters of aircraft is parametrized with overarching flight cost objectives. For a first flight, parameters of a cost function for the first flight are determined relative, respectively, to different cost factors. Flight parameters are optimized so as to minimize the cost function. Avionics of an aircraft carrying out the first flight are programmed with the flight parameters. On detecting an event in flight requiring the flight parameters to be revised, the parameters of the cost function are recalculated, as well as the flight parameters, and the avionics are reprogrammed accordingly. The method is repeated for at least a second flight, taking into account the effective contribution of the first flight to the overarching objectives, and so on. Thus, an airline can carry out overarching multi-objective optimization on its flights.

Systems, methods, and autonomous vehicles may obtain sensor data associated with an environment surrounding an autonomous vehicle; provide the sensor data to a plurality of plugins; independently determine, with each plugin, based on the sensor data, whether to request a remote guidance session for the autonomous vehicle, each plugin of the plurality of plugins including a different model that is applied by that plugin to the sensor data to determine whether to request the remote guidance session; receive, from at least one plugin, a request to initiate the remote guidance session; and in response to receiving the request to initiate the remote guidance session, communicate with a computing device external to the autonomous vehicle to establish the remote guidance session.

In a marker detection system for a vehicle including a magnetic sensor to detect a magnetic marker laid in a road surface, the magnetic sensor can measures, for each axis, magnitudes of magnetic components acting along an axis in a vertical direction and an axis in a forwarding direction, and a detection unit identifies a candidate zone to which a possibility that the magnetic marker belongs is high, based on a change in a forwarding direction of the vehicle of a magnetic measurement value along any of the axes and determines whether the magnetic marker has been detected in accordance with a degree of synchronization between a first signal indicating a change of a magnetic measurement value regarding one axis in the candidate zone and a second signal indicating a change of a magnetic measurement value regarding the other axis in the candidate zone.