Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH

A tele-operation assistance system includes: a motion acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a motion of an operator operating an end effector; an intention understanding unit configured to estimate a target object to be operated by the end effector and a task which is a method of operating the target object; an environmental situation determination unit configured to acquire environmental information of an environment in which the end effector is operated; and an operation amount determination unit determine an operation amount of the end effector. The operation amount determination unit estimates an operation distance to the target object based on information of the target object and the motion of the operator, determines an operation state of the end effector according to the estimated operation distance, and changes an input mode of an assistance to a tele-operation according to the operation state.

An automated driving vehicle 2 a, 2 b, 2 c, 2 d includes: an external information acquisition device configured to acquire external information regarding a state of surroundings of the automated driving vehicle as a vehicle of interest; an on-board communication device configured to receive a risk area notification regarding a high-risk area in a target traffic area 9 a ; an action plan formulation device configured to formulate an action plan for the vehicle of interest such that a behavior of the vehicle of interest is prevented from exceeding a predetermined behavior allowable range; and a travel control device configured to operate a travel actuator based on the action plan to cause the vehicle of interest to automatically travel. In a case where the vehicle of interest is moving within the high-risk area, the action plan formulation device sets the behavior allowable range to a range associated with the risk area notification.

The invention regards an assistance system and a method for assisting a user of such an assistance system including a display displaying representations of one or more objects in the environment of the display. In a first step, information on an environment of the display, is determined and presence of objects in the environment is determined. Then, a representation of the environment including representations of the objects determined in the environment is generated. For at least one of the determined and displayed objects, a starting point for an indicator line is calculated from a direction of the object relative to the display, and, for each determined starting point, an indicator line connecting the starting point with the displayed representation of the real world object is drawn.

A predictor 62 of a traffic safety support system includes a movement state information acquirer 620 configured to acquire movement state information of the prediction target, a surrounding state information acquirer 621 configured to acquire surrounding state information, a first movement state predictor 624 configured to predict a first predicted movement state on the basis of the movement state information, a second movement state predictor 625 configured to predict a second predicted movement state on the basis of the driver state information, a collision risk calculator 626 configured to calculate a first collision risk value for the first predicted movement state and a second collision risk value for the second predicted movement state, and a support controller 65 configured to execute support control for the prediction target in a case where at least one of the first and second collision risk values is greater than a predetermined threshold value.

A computer-implemented method comprises sensing an environment of the ego-agent that includes at least one other agent. The method predicts possible behaviors of the at least one other agent based on the sensed environment, and plans trajectories of the ego-agent for each possible behavior of the at least one other agent to generate a set of planned trajectories. The method proceeds with determining an actual trajectory of the ego-agent, and comparing the determined actual trajectory of the ego-agent with each of the planned trajectories of the ego-agent and determining a planned trajectory with a largest similarity to the actual trajectory of the ego-agent. Subsequently, a perceived situation as perceived by the ego-agent based on a particular predicted possible behavior of the predicted possible behaviors corresponding to the planned trajectory with the largest similarity is determined. The method executes an action in an assistance system based on the determined perceived situation.

Disclosed is a method and corresponding system for assisting an operator in operating a telerobot system. The telerobot system comprises a robot, at least one sensor, a processing unit and an operator interface. First the system physically senses a working area of the robot by the at least one sensor. Based on the sensor information, the system detects objects and estimates at least one of an object property, object state and object relation to another object. Further, the system estimates, for at least one object, an actual scene uncertainty related to the object, and predicts a modified scene uncertainty related to the object assuming a scene modification. Finally, it determines whether the modified scene uncertainty has improved compared to the actual scene uncertainty and, if an improvement is determined, communicates the corresponding scene modification using the operator interface.

A method and corresponding system for creating an annotated object model of a real world object. The method comprises providing an initial object model for an object for which an annotated object model shall be created, predicting properties of the object, visualizing a representation of the object based on the initial object model wherein the predicted object properties are displayed associated with the representation, and obtaining selection information based on at least one of a user gesture, user pointing operation, user speech input, and user gaze perceived by a user perception device. The method determines a portion of the object corresponding to the selection information, receives property information from a user input and associates the input property information with the corresponding portion of the object.

A computer implemented method for obtaining one or more optimal solutions to a given classical constraint linear or non-linear optimization problem is provided. Each solution is specified and identified by a set of parameters and the one or more optimal solutions provide optimal values of a cost function that is a linear or non-linear function of one or more decision variables. The one or more optimal solutions fulfill one or more constraints comprising a set of equality constraints and/or a set of inequality constraints, where each equality constraint and each inequality constraint comprises a linear or non-linear complex functional form. A quantum computation component and a classical computation component of the hybrid quantum-classical computer system are used together to solve the classical constraint optimization problem by iteration. While performing the method, the quantum computation component executes a parameterized quantum circuit with surrogate phase operators and with the set of parameters.

A method and teleoperation system, includes provision of first information on an environment of a teleoperated device by at least one sensor module that is included in the teleoperated device and prediction of an action intended by the operator based on an input of the operator by an action predictor module that is included in the information gathering assistant module. It is determined whether first information on an environment is sufficient to execute the intended action in the environment by a reasoning agent module. Then second information on the environment is determined, which is suitable to enhance the environment information which is useful to execute the intended action in the environment by the reasoning agent module. Provision of second information is controlled by at least one information provision unit, and the first and second information on the environment is fused by an information fusion module.

A computer-implemented method for designing a multimodal transport network, the method comprising steps of generating an optimized transport network design by optimizing a multimodal communicability measure by adapting active edges of at least one of the layers of the transport network; and outputting the optimized transport network design.