Abstract: A method for controlling a satellite configured to exchange data with a plurality of vehicles positioned in a visibility zone of the satellite. The method includes estimating a number of vehicles eligible for a specific service present in the visibility zone using a global data receiver module configured to receive data from all of the visibility zone; and activating, depending on the estimated number of vehicles eligible for the specific service in the visibility zone, the global data receiver module or all or some of the local data receiver modules, configured to receive data from a respective sub-zone of the visibility zone, for reception of data.

Abstract: A brake system for a motor vehicle, comprises a first assembly, in which a first electrically actuable pressure source and a master brake cylinder can be actuated by means of a brake pedal. A second assembly, in which a second electrically actuable pressure source and electrically actuable inlet valves are arranged for each wheel brake. The second electrically actuable pressure source being hydraulically connected to the inlet valves, wherein the first assembly comprises a single pressure port for transmitting brake pressure for actuating the wheel brakes to the second assembly. The first pressure source and the master brake cylinder are connected to the pressure port via a system pressure line.

Abstract: A vehicle antenna module including a first main printed circuit board seated horizontally in a housing, at least one second printed circuit board including a radio frequency antenna mounted vertically on the first printed circuit board and projecting from an upper face of the housing, a cover mounted on the housing and designed to cover at least the second printed circuit board. The antenna module being such that the cover includes a shell and an elastic element. The elastic element being designed to exert a pressure on the upper edge of the second board when the cover is in place on the housing in order to provide an electrical contact between the lower edge of the second board and at least one flexible contact element on the surface of the first board.

Abstract: A method for operating a brake system assembly includes evaluating input data and downgrading from a first mode to a second mode according to the result of the evaluation. The input data is a performance curve of the first mode and determining the performance curve includes using a torque-speed curve, a first mode-dependent characteristic curve with at least one mathematical formula. Evaluating the input data includes comparing an ascertained performance capability of the first mode according to the calculated performance characteristic with the performance capability of the second mode.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a ladar system includes a laser transmitter with at least one semiconductor laser having a pulsed laser light output. A laser drive circuit is connected to said at least one semiconductor laser and adapted to electrically drive said at least one semiconductor laser in a predetermined sequence. A laser beam steering mechanism is adapted to scan the pulsed laser light output sequentially through the field of view. A two-dimensional array of light sensitive detectors receive reflected light and an integrated circuit calculates a direct time of flight distance measurement.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling a graphical user interface on a display of a vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a current driving mode, wherein, if the current driving mode corresponds to high or full automation, the method comprises receiving driver-side image data, comprising an image of a driver-side rear field of view; receiving passenger-side image data, comprising an image of a passenger-side rear field of view; displaying the driver-side and passenger-side image data in the driver-side digital rearview mirror area such that said data are displayed less obviously than in a manual driving mode; identifying objects in the driver-side and the passenger-side image data; checking whether at least one trigger object has been identified in the objects, wherein, if at least one trigger object has been identified, adapting the graphical user interface, and displaying the adapted graphical user interface on the display of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for activating a vehicle function using an activation device, having at least two transceivers communicating with a portable user appliance and communicating with each other via ultra-wideband communication. The method includes: transmitting using a first transceiver; computing a radius of a circle centered around the first transceiver as a function of the time of flight of the waves reflected by the portable appliance, and determining a perimeter of the circle; comparing a profile of received reflected waves originating from the second transmitter with a predetermined received wave profile; detecting a presence as a function of the result of the comparison; computing, if a presence is detected, a distance between the second transceiver and the presence; locating the portable appliance by computing an intersection between the distance and the perimeter; and activating the vehicle function as a function of the location.

Abstract: A method and device for vehicle camera autocalibration during vehicle travel for driver assistance systems and automated driving. A vehicle camera images a region of vehicle surroundings through a window. The method includes: providing a vehicle camera projection model including multiple extrinsic parameters, at least one intrinsic vehicle camera parameter and at least one window parameter; capturing a sequence of camera images during vehicle cornering; determining a curve type during the cornering; estimating the parameters using pixels in the sequence of images of stationary objects in the vehicle surroundings, the current vehicle movement, and the determined curve type, by minimizing an error function indicating the deviation between pixels which correspond to stationary objects in the vehicle surroundings and which are established from the sequence of images and pixels of the stationary objects which are projected by the projection model; and outputting at least one of the estimated parameters.

Abstract: Disclosed subject matter relates to field of autonomous vehicles that discloses method and system for training a lane tracking system and lane tracking for an autonomous vehicle. During training phase, lane tracking system receives ground truth and measured values corresponding to lane boundary detection points and determines ground truth and measured clothoid points. Thereafter, coefficient values of clothoid parameters are determined for measured clothoid points to model lane boundaries and then Kalman filter parameters are determined for coefficient values to track lane boundaries, using at least one neural network. Further, coefficient values of clothoid parameters are updated using Kalman filter parameters, using which, measured clothoid point is reconstructed, and used to track lane boundaries. Further, training error is obtained by L2 norm between clothoid points and not by coefficients, thereby enhancing training error minimization.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display element with disappearance technology and to a method for producing such a display element. The display element has a display assembly with a display panel and a backlight arranged behind the display panel. The display element also has a stabilization assembly with a cutout for accommodating the display assembly, and a decorative film, which is attached at least to a top side of the stabilization assembly and extends over the cutout for the display assembly.

Abstract: Electrohydraulic actuator device for a motor vehicle brake system, comprising a cylinder housing, within which a pressure piston is displaced in a translational manner by a rotating threaded spindle, wherein the threaded spindle is driven via a transmission device by a rotor shaft of an electric motor, wherein the actuator device comprises an electronic unit, and a brake system for a motor vehicle having such an electrohydraulic actuator device and a pressure generator, a pressure modulation valve device for the wheel-individual generation of brake pressure at wheel brakes of the brake system, an electronic control device, which is designed for controlling the pressure generator and the pressure modulation valve device, and having a driver's brake actuation device.

Abstract: A tire having a tread with profile rib traversed by sipes, which extend parallel to one another and at an angle of 0° to 50° relative to the axial direction and have a width of 0.4 mm to 3.0 mm. Each sipe has a sipe main portion extending over the majority of its extent and via a respective sipe edge portion leads into each circumferential groove delimiting the profile rib. The sipe main portion and the sipe edge portion have a respective depth in which the depth of the sipe main portion is less than the depth of the sipe edge portion. In the interior of the profile rib, the sipe edge portion over its entire extent leads into a cavity that extends from the circumferential groove and is made wider than the sipe.

Abstract: A method for producing a circuit board arrangement includes: providing a first circuit board substrate, providing a second circuit board substrate, arranged substantially planar-parallel to the first circuit board substrate, the first circuit board substrate having an underside and the second circuit board substrate having an upper face, the upper face and the underside being arranged opposite one another, providing first terminal contacts, applied to the underside of the first circuit board substrate, providing second terminal contacts, applied to the upper face of the second circuit board substrate, applying solder paste cylinders to the first terminal contacts, the solder paste cylinders applied to the first terminal contacts by a solder-paste application process with solder paste, the applied solder paste cylinders having in each case a solder-paste-cylinder upper face, and arranging the second terminal contacts of the second circuit board substrate on the solder-paste-cylinder upper faces of the solder p

Abstract: A brake actuating device for a motor vehicle brake system comprising a hydraulic unit having a side face, on which an electric motor is arranged, wherein the electric motor drives a pressure generator, located in the hydraulic unit, for conveying a hydraulic fluid, wherein the hydraulic unit comprises a number of outlet openings in the side face, wherein an adapter unit which comprises a number of inlet openings is arranged on the side face, wherein the outlet openings of the hydraulic unit are connected in fluid communication via a respective connecting tube with the corresponding inlet openings of the adapter unit.

Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire with sidewalls and a tread with at least one shoulder-side profile rib delimited by a circumferential groove with a rib outer surface and a shoulder flank extending to the respective sidewall. The shoulder-side profile rib is provided with depressions, which proceed from the shoulder flank and have an opening on the rib outer surface. The opening of the depression when viewed from above, is elongate-rectangular in the axial direction or elongate-trapezoidal in the axial direction.

Abstract: A method of processing images captured within a motor vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises modulating, by way of an illumination source, a continuous wave (CW) light wave to an image module and receiving, by way of the image module, at least three image beams, each of the at least three image beam containing a content of an interior of a motor vehicle captured in at least a different frequency. An image processing unit executes the step of correlating by way of an image processing unit, a location measurement of the at least three image beams captured by the image module, wherein each of the three image beams is captured in a different frequency and creating a three-dimensional (3D) image in response to the location measurement correlated. A system, computer program product and a computer-readable medium is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for processing time-sensitive data in a time-sensitive network includes acquiring a first time, a second time and a third time. The first time is a time when the data is actually scheduled, the second time is a time when a gate control operation of the data is planned to begin, and the third time is a duration of a gate control operation of the data. The method also includes identifying whether the data enters a sending queue abnormally based on the first time, the second time and the third time acquired. If the data enters a sending queue abnormally, inform a sender of the data to adjust a sending time.

Abstract: A compound having the following formula I): wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of xi) aromatic radicals, wherein the aromatic radicals optionally bear substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen radicals, cyano radicals, ester radicals, ketone radicals, ether radicals and thioether radicals, and xii) linear, branched and cyclic aliphatic C3- to C12-radicals, wherein R1 is optionally a divalent radical bonded to the benzene ring with one valence; and wherein R2 is selected from the group consisting of linear, branched and cyclic aliphatic C1- to C12-radicals optionally bearing one or more halogen substituents, aryl radicals optionally bearing one or more halogen substituents and halogen radicals, wherein fluorine, bromine and chlorine are preferred, cyano radicals, ester radicals, ketone radicals, ether radicals and thioether radicals; and wherein m assumes the value 0 or 1 or 2 or 3.

Abstract: A process for producing a vulcanizable composite material, including the steps of: a) producing or providing a textile strength member, b) treating the textile strength member with an aqueous dispersion for adhesive activation of the textile strength member and to obtain an adhesion-activated textile strength member, and c) introducing the adhesion-activated textile strength member into a crosslinkable rubberization mixture to obtain the vulcanizable composite material, wherein the aqueous dispersion is essentially free of free resorcinol and resorcinol precondensates, especially resorcinol-formaldehyde precondensates, and is free of free formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing substances, wherein the textile strength member in step a) has filaments, wherein the filaments contain one or more materials selected from the group consisting of a1) recycled polymers and a2) biobased polymers.