Abstract: A method detects electrical fault states of a removable battery pack and/or an electrical device, in particular a charging device, a diagnostic device or an electrical consumer, that can be connected to the removable battery pack, using a first monitoring unit integrated in the removable battery pack. The method includes measuring a charging or discharge current using a first current measuring apparatus integrated in the electrical device and transmitting the measured current directly or as a converted voltage value to the first monitoring unit of the removable battery pack, and determining, using the first monitoring unit, based on the charging or discharge current and/or the voltage value calculated therefrom, whether the removable battery pack is operating in a permissible operating range.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an electrically conductive conductor strand (1) which comprises at least one carbon conductor (3), having the steps of: a) producing or providing a conductor strand (1) as an intermediate product comprising at least one carbon conductor (3), which comprises in particular graphite, pyrolytic graphite, graphene, graphin, and/or carbon nanotubes, b) introducing the conductor strand (1) and one or more intercalating substances (2), in particular either one or more metal halides or one or more organoalkali metals, into a gas phase or liquid phase of a reactor volume (5), the intercalating substance being suitable for intercalation into the material of the at least one carbon conductor (3) of the conductor strand (1), and c) carrying out a thermal treatment of the conductor strand (1), in which the reactor volume (5) is brought to a process temperature to initiate an intercalation (4), in which atoms or molecules of the intercalating substance (2) are embedded in t

Abstract: A method for determining an object's position using different items of sensor information includes: a) reading the sensor information into a Kalman filter, b) merging the sensor information with the Kalman filter, with the Kalman filter supplying as a result estimated values for states and information associated with the estimated values regarding the accuracy of the estimates, c) monitoring the results of the Kalman filter by estimating a probability of accuracy, with which the estimation error lies within an error band, with the probability of accuracy being determined on the basis of a plurality of conditional probabilities, the conditions for which each relate to estimation errors from at least one earlier series.

Abstract: A method for communicating between a motor vehicle and an infrastructure. The method includes: ascertaining a requirement vector for at least one function to be carried out with the aid of the motor vehicle and/or the infrastructure, the requirement vector indicating which characteristics of a communication link between the motor vehicle and the infrastructure should simultaneously be satisfied for an execution of the function; ascertaining a communication state, which indicates which communication possibilities exist for a communication link between the motor vehicle and the infrastructure; ascertaining a radio channel between the motor vehicle and the infrastructure based on the requirement vector and based on the ascertained communication state; establishing a communication link between the motor vehicle and the infrastructure using the ascertained radio channel to carry out the at least one function using the established communication link.

Abstract: The present invention obtains a controller capable of handling special travel made by a straddle-type vehicle. The present invention also obtains a rider-assistance system including such a controller. The present invention further obtains a control method capable of handling special travel made by a straddle-type vehicle. Surrounding environment information of a straddle-type vehicle (100) is acquired on the basis of output of at least one surrounding environment detector (11). Then, based on the surrounding environment information, presence or absence of slip-by travel between rows of vehicles made by the straddle-type vehicle (100) is analyzed. As a result, rider-assistance operation that corresponds to the analysis result is executed.

Abstract: A method for checking intended pressure medium-conducting contacting of circuit branches, associated with one another, of separate brake circuits of an electronically slip-controllable power brake system with two actuator units, contacted for conducting pressure medium, for generating and controlling brake pressure, in particular for a motor vehicle, and an electronic control unit for such a power brake system.

Abstract: A micromechanical component for a sensor or microphone device, including a substrate, a frame structure, which is situated on the substrate surface and/or at least one intermediate layer, and a diaphragm, which spans an inner volume, which is at least partially framed by the frame structure. The micromechanical component includes a bending beam structure, which is situated in the inner volume and includes at least one anchoring area, which is attached to the frame structure, to the substrate surface and/or to the at least one intermediate layer, and at least one self-supporting area, which is connected via at least one coupling structure to the diaphragm inner side of the diaphragm in such a way that the at least one self-supporting area is bendable by way of a warping of the diaphragm.

Abstract: A method for actuating an actuable deflection device of an optical system for a virtual retinal display. A first eye status of the user of the virtual retinal display, detected and/or determined using an eye status detection device of the optical system, is received by way of a control unit of the optical system at a first time. In addition, first actuation signals are generated for the actuable deflection device using the control unit, in such a way that the scanning region of the deflection device is adjusted in accordance with the detected and/or determined first eye status of the user.

Abstract: A method and device for longitudinal control of a vehicle as a function of a target trajectory, which specifies a series of target positions to be assumed by the vehicle over time. A controller actuating acceleration for trajectory control is determined based on an actual state of the vehicle. When the vehicle is following the target trajectory, a curvature of the target trajectory at a current position of the vehicle is determined from a local course of the target trajectory. Furthermore, when the vehicle is following the target trajectory, a longitudinal acceleration resulting from the target trajectory is determined as the current trajectory acceleration at the current position of the vehicle and the controller actuating acceleration is limited to a value that corresponds at most to a sum of the current trajectory acceleration and the acceleration offset. The vehicle is accelerated in accordance with the limited controller actuating acceleration.

Abstract: A computer-implemented prediction method of making time-series predictions for controlling and/or monitoring a computer-controlled system, such as a semi-autonomous vehicle. The method uses a time series of one or more observed states. A state comprises values of measurable quantities of multiple interacting objects. Based on the observed states, values of time-invariant latent features for the multiple objects are determined, for example, according to an encoder model. A decoder model is then used to predict at least one next state. This involves applying a trained graph model to obtain a first prediction contribution based on an object's interactions with other objects, and applying a trained function to obtain a second prediction contribution based just on information about the object itself. Based on the predicted next state, output data is generated for use in controlling and/or monitoring the computer-controlled system.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method predicts a modeled state of health of an electrical energy store having at least one electrochemical unit in a technical device. The method includes providing a data-based state of health model, based on a characteristic of at least one operating variable of the electrical energy store up to a time, to assign the electrical energy store a corresponding state of health for the time and to indicate a corresponding modeling uncertainty, and predicting the characteristic of the at least one operating variable starting from a present time into the future based on a usage pattern model that is determined by a user-specific or usage-specific usage pattern. The method further includes predicting a characteristic of the state of health based on the data-based state of health model and the predicted characteristic, generated in a model-based manner, of the at least one operating variable.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for training a neural network including a neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) block. A first ODE solver may be used to train the neural ODE block. A second ODE solver may be used to train and verify that the neural ODE block describes an ODE as an ODE flow. During a forward pass of an iteration of training, a first performance value is obtained by applying the first ODE solver to the neural ODE block and a second performance value is obtained by applying the second ODE solver to the neural ODE block. An accuracy parameter of the first ODE solver is adjusted based on the difference between the first performance value and the second performance value.

Abstract: A handheld processing tool includes (i) a housing, (ii) at least one handle connected to the housing for guiding the processing tool, and (iii) a suspension mechanism configured to suspend the processing tool. The suspension mechanism is arranged, with an axial displacement region and a suspension region extending substantially transversely thereto, around at least part of a contour of the handle such that the suspension mechanism, in a first locking position, is inserted into the housing in a largely surface-neutral manner and, in at least one second locking position, is ejected out of the housing. The suspension region, in the at least one second locking position, can be rotated by at least one opening angle of at least 90° with respect to the first locking position in a tangentially locking manner.

Abstract: Training a Gaussian process state space model, which describes a correlation between selected control parameters of a plurality of control parameters for controlling a robotic device and output variables of the robotic device assigned in each case.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of calibrating a trained classification model. The trained classification model is trained to classify input samples according to a plurality of classes and to provide associated prediction probabilities, and includes a plurality of hidden layers and at least one activation layer. The method includes accessing the trained classification model and accessing a plurality of validation samples, each validation sample having a ground-truth label, the ground-truth label indicating a ground-truth class. The method further includes applying the trained classification model to the plurality of validation samples, obtaining, for each validation sample, an output logit vector from a layer of the trained classification model preceding a last activation layer, and training a calibration module. The calibration module is trained to adjust prediction probabilities, the prediction probabilities being derived from the output logit vectors.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing cache utilization of at least a first processor when sharing a cache with a further processor. The method includes: executing, during a first regulation interval, a first application on a first processor, wherein the first application causes at least one block to be mapped from an external memory to a shared cache according to a cache utilization policy associated with the first application; monitoring a utilization of the shared cache by the first processor during the first regulation interval; comparing the utilization of the shared cache by the first processor to a cache utilization condition associated with the first processor; and adjusting the cache utilization policy associated with the first application, when the utilization of the shared cache by the first processor exceeds the cache utilization condition associated with the first processor.

Abstract: A controller that controls operation of the motorcycle, to which a surrounding environment detector is mounted, includes: an acquisition section that acquires information on the surrounding environment of the motorcycle on the basis of output of the surrounding environment detector during travel of the motorcycle; and an adaptive cruise operation performing section that makes the motorcycle perform adaptive cruise operation on the basis of the surrounding environment information acquired by the acquisition section. The acquisition section acquires other vehicle travel state information that is information on a travel state of an other vehicle acquired by a different vehicle from the motorcycle via wireless communication. The controller further includes a safety operation performing section that makes the motorcycle currently performing the adaptive cruise operation perform safety operation on the basis of the other vehicle travel state information acquired by the acquisition section.

Abstract: A generative adversarial network. The generative adversarial network includes: a generator configured for generating an image and a corresponding label map; a discriminator configured for determining a classification of a provided image and a provided label map, wherein the classification characterizes whether the provided image and the provided label map have been generated by the generator or not and determining the classification comprises the steps of: determining a first feature map of the provided image; masking the first feature map according to the provided label map thereby determining a masked feature map; globally pooling the masked feature map thereby determining a feature representation of the provided image masked by the provided label map; determining a classification of the image based on the feature representation.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting anomalous activity in a computer system by monitoring at least one decoy application programming interface. The method includes: detecting, in at least one decoy API hosted in a computer system, a function call to the at least one decoy API from an element of the computer system; and transmitting an intrusion message from the at least one decoy API to an intrusion detection system signifying that a function call to the at least one decoy API has been made.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for analysing the relevance of visual parameters for training a computer vision model. Upon adjusting the set of visual parameters to increase their relevance, a new set of visual data and corresponding groundtruth results that can be used in (re)training and/or testing the computer vision model.