Abstract: A method for processing raw data recorded from the real world with the aid of a sensor into test data for stimulating a control unit, including: providing recorded raw data from the real world; ascertaining real objects detected by the sensor from the raw data, and generating route data sets, which each describe a scene including images of these real objects at consecutive points in time. providing a library of synthetic objects; assigning synthetic objects to detected images of the real objects, replacing the detected images with synthetic objects; supplementing temporally consecutive route data sets with supplementary data sets before the first route data set; and generating test data by converting the route data sets supplemented by the supplementary data sets into raw data that would have been recorded in the real world by the sensor during the introductory period and the recording period.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatically annotating frames of sensor data includes: receiving the frames of sensor data; grouping the frames into a plurality of packets based on at least one condition attribute, wherein the at least one condition attribute describes at least one environment condition that existed while a respective frame of sensor data was being recorded; annotating frames from a first packet using a neural network, wherein the annotating comprises assigning at least one data point to each frame, wherein the first packet comprises frames for which the at least one condition attribute is in a selected value range; selecting a first sample of one or more frames from the first packet and determining a quality measure for data points of the first sample; and ascertaining that the quality measure for the first sample is below a predefined threshold.

Abstract: A method for testing at least one electronic control device as a virtual control device on a simulator, which includes at least one simulator computing unit. The electronic control device has a hardware configuration with at least one computing unit (and an external interface for exchanging data. A software configuration is assigned to the hardware configuration. The electronic control device is mapped to the virtual control device in that the internal functionality of the software configuration of the electronic control device is taken over as the internal functionality of a software configuration of the virtual control device. External interface functionality of the electronic control device is replaced by a data transfer functionality of the software configuration of the simulator computing unit. The software configuration of the virtual control device being translated into executable code for the simulator computing unit and executed on the simulator.

Abstract: A method for changing a bitwidth of an FPGA configuration for an FPGA, the FPGA configuration having a plurality of at least 2n bit-containing data signals with n? and ?3, and the method having the step: when a threshold of a current consumption and/or a temperature of the FPGA is exceeded and/or a replacement signal is present, replacing k least significant bits of the data signals in each case with a zero with k? and ?2 during an execution of the FPGA configuration on the FPGA.

Abstract: A transmitter/receiver for transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic signal. The electromagnetic signal is provided for exchange with a sensor for object detection. The transmitter/receiver has an analog part which is set up to: convert a first signal at least at one intermediate frequency level into a second signal at a transmission frequency level and output the second signal as an electromagnetic signal via an output; receive a third signal as an electromagnetic signal via an input; and/or convert the third signal at the transmission frequency level into a fourth signal at the at least one intermediate frequency level. The third signal can be derived from the second signal. The transmitter/receiver is set up to generate a test signal and feed it into the analog part as the first signal and to test the analog part by comparing the test signal and the fourth signal.

Abstract: A method for programming an FPGA, wherein a library, which includes elementary operations and a particular latency table for each of the elementary operations of the library is provided. Each latency table indicates the latency of the particular operation for a plurality of clock rates of the FPGA and for a plurality of input bit widths of the particular operation during the execution on the FPGA, depending on the input bit width of the particular operation and the clock rate of the FPGA. A data path indicating a consecutive execution of at least two elementary operations of the library on the FPGA is defined. The latencies given for the particular input bit width of the particular elementary operations of the data path for a plurality of different clock rates in the latency tables are detected and added, then one of the clock rates is selected.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for simulating a multiphase electric drive having energizable strings, using a hardware-in-the-loop simulator for testing a power electronic control device with an integrated inverter is provided. The simulator, based on a mathematical model of the electric drive, computes the string currents in the strings of the drive, and an electrical reactive potential of the potential-free string terminal resulting from the drive reaction. The potential-free string terminal is set to the reactive potential by a voltage emulator. The method reduces the influence of inaccurately computed reactive potentials on the simulation by supplementing the mathematical model of the electric drive in the strings in each case by a virtual switch. The virtual switches in the open state reduce the influence of the measured string voltages on the computed current flows. The virtual switches in the strings of the electric drive are opened and/or closed by a switching logic.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a control program for a target platform from a graphical control model of a development platform, wherein the development platform comprises a definition database for storing information on the graphical control model and is designed to support matrix operations. Annotation information for the structure of matrices used in the graphical control model can be stored in the definition database and that when the control program for the target platform is generated, the stored annotation information is taken into account in such a way that a) on the target platform, when implementing a processing order that involves at least one matrix, the computing speed is increased and/or b) on the target platform, when saving the matrices, the memory requirement is reduced.

Abstract: A method for checking a graphics file is provided. A graphics file is provided having graphics information, which leads to a graphical representation, corresponding to the graphics information, of graphics elements on a display device of the computer system. The graphics file has in each case a predefined annotation for at least some of the graphics elements and the graphics file has predefined graphics structure information that specifies, at least for some of the graphics elements, which of these graphics elements must be displayed as connected to one another during the graphical representation on the display device. A modified version of the graphics file is received in which at least one piece of graphics information has been modified such that it leads to a different graphical representation on the display device. The modified version of the graphics file is thereafter checked.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating disturbed input data for a neural network for analyzing sensor data, in particular digital images, of a driver assistance system, in which a first metric is defined which indicates how the magnitude of a change in sensor data is measured, a second metric is defined which indicates where a disturbance of sensor data is directed, an optimization problem is generated from a combination of the first metric and second metric, the optimization problem is solved by means of at least one solution algorithm, wherein the solution indicates a target disturbance of the input data, and disturbed input data is generated from sensor data for the neural network by means of the target disturbance.

Abstract: A test arrangement for stimulating an infrared camera-based surroundings detection system for test purposes. Included is a holding device in which an infrared camera is fixable as a test object. An infrared light source and a computer-controlled imaging device are also provided. The infrared light source, the imaging device, and the recording device are arranged in such a way that an optical path leads from the light source, through the computer-controlled imaging device, to the test object.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method provides for terminating a scenario-based test process of a driver assistance system. The test process comprises a cycle and includes determining critical test cases and parameter combinations thereof. The method includes: performing at least one test of the driver assistance system after each iteration n of the cycle and determining a set of critical test cases; establishing, on that basis, a distance between a first set of critical test cases in the iteration n and a second set of critical test cases from the iteration n?1 or a distance between the first set of critical test cases in the iteration n and a predefined set of critical test cases; and terminating or continuing the cycle of the test process on the basis of a difference between the distance between the first set and the second set and a preset limit.

Abstract: A method and replay unit for sending secured messages via a messaging system to a receiver ECU to be tested, wherein the replay unit is connected to the device under test via the messaging system, wherein the replay unit is set up to receive first secured messages to be replayed, to remove from the first secured messages a first counter value and a first authenticator, and to generate a second authenticator by means of a second counter value, an encryption algorithm and a key, and wherein the replay unit is set up to generate second secured messages by adding the second counter value and the second authenticator to the first messages, and wherein the replay unit is further adapted to send the second secured messages to the recipient device under test via the messaging system.

Abstract: A method for delayed cyclic forwarding of messages by a system includes: receiving, by an input side of the system, the messages to be forwarded; and sending, by an output side of the system, the messages to be forwarded to a receiving device. A check is performed to determine whether the difference between a current system time and a receive time of a message under consideration is greater than or equal to the delay time. In the event that the difference is greater than or equal to the delay time, the message that has been in the buffer memory for the next longest time being checked in the same manner, and the checking of the messages is continued until a difference smaller than the specified delay time is found for a message.

Abstract: A device for testing a lidar sensor, the lidar sensor being configured to emit first light. A trigger detector is configured to receive the first light on a first optical path, the trigger detector being configured to generate a trigger signal as a function of the received first light. At least one transmitting device that is configured to emit second light as a function of the trigger signal. The second light being receivable on a second optical path by the lidar sensor. A movement device is configured to move the at least one transmitting device.

Abstract: A method is provided for carrying out a simulation on a real processor of a first processor type, the simulation including at least one simulation model which is compiled for the first processor type. The simulation model is compiled for the first processor type on the real processor of the first processor type as an emulation of the processor of the first processor type. This provides a possibility for achieving a great flexibility in selecting the models as well as in selecting the target platform of the simulation.

Abstract: A device for testing a lidar sensor. The lidar sensor being configured to emit first light having a first wavelength. The device comprising a trigger detector that is configured to receive the first light on a first optical path. The trigger detector being configured to generate a trigger signal as a function of the received first light. At least one transmitting device is configured to emit second light having a second wavelength, as a function of the trigger signal. The second light being receivable on a second optical path by the lidar sensor. An optical element is configured to separate the first optical path from the second optical path.

Abstract: A device for testing a lidar sensor. The lidar sensor being configured to emit first light having a first wavelength. A trigger detector is configured to receive the first light on a first optical path, the trigger detector being configured to generate a trigger signal as a function of the received first light. At least one transmitter is configured to emit second light, having a second wavelength, as a function of the trigger signal, the second light being receivable on a second optical path by the lidar sensor. A first optical element is configured to separate the first optical path from the second optical path. A second optical element is situated in the second optical path and is configured to apply a diffuse reflection and/or transmission to the second light.

Abstract: A protection circuit for a simulated battery cell having an output comprising an output voltage includes: at least one MOSFET connected to the output of the simulated battery cell for short-circuiting the output of the simulated battery cell; a capacitor connected to a gate electrode of the at least one MOSFET; an overvoltage detection device configured to charge the capacitor with the output voltage based on an overvoltage limit of the output voltage being exceeded; and a threshold voltage detection device configured to release the gate electrode based on a threshold value of a voltage at the capacitor not being reached.

Abstract: A method for dividing a graphical simulation model up into a first sub-model and a second sub-model includes: identifying at least one first block as belonging to the first sub-model and identifying at least one second block as belonging to the second sub-model based on a sampling time and/or a resource allocation; searching for cyclic groups of blocks, wherein a cyclic group whose blocks all have the same sampling time is deemed to be atomic; identifying non-cyclic groups of blocks; allocating individual blocks from the cyclic groups of blocks and the non-cyclic group of blocks to either the first sub-model or the second sub-model, wherein all blocks of an atomic cyclic group are allocated to the same sub-model; generating program code for the processor from the first sub-model; and generating a configuration bitstream for the programmable logic module from the second sub-model.