Abstract: A driver assistance system includes a first measuring device for determining the distances to a water surface, which includes at least two distance sensors. A first distance sensor measures a first distance to a water surface, in that the distance is determined perpendicularly downward from the first sensor to the water surface, and the second distance sensor measures a second distance to a water surface, in that the distance is also determined perpendicularly downward from the second sensor to the water surface. A second measuring device determines an instantaneous pitch angle of the vehicle. A processing unit is coupled to the first and second measuring devices. The processing unit determines an instantaneous water surface plane as a function of the first distance, the second distance, and the instantaneous pitch angle of the vehicle. A display unit indicates the instantaneous water surface plane in relation to the vehicle.

Abstract: A multipulse LIDAR system, including: a transmitting device for generating a transmission laser beam from a temporal sequence of single laser pulses; a receiving device with a detection surface, including a subdetector system made up of multiple subdetectors, for receiving the transmission laser beam that is reflected/scattered on objects in an observation area, the receiving device imaging a sampling point on the detection surface in the form of a pixel; a scanning device generating a scanning movement for successive sampling of the observation area along multiple sampling points situated in succession, the scanning movement to image a pixel on the detection surface, in each case shifted along the subdetector system; and a control device for determining distance information of the sampling points based on propagation times of the particular single laser pulses, the control device grouping subdetectors to form a macropixel individually associated with the particular pixel, for shared evaluation.

Abstract: A vehicle for collecting image data of a target object for generating a classifier. The vehicle includes an image sensor and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to determine a plurality of potential trajectories of the vehicle, determine, for each of the plurality of potential trajectories of the vehicle, a total number of views including the target object that would be captured by the image sensor as the vehicle moved along the respective trajectory, and determine a key trajectory of the vehicle from the plurality of potential trajectories based on the total number of views including the target of the key trajectory.

Abstract: A method for determining a predicted state of health of an electrical energy storage unit in a machine includes providing a data-based or hybrid state of health model, the data-based state of health model is trained, depending on operating variables of the electrical energy storage unit and/or operating features derived from the operating variables, to indicate a state of health and to indicate a model uncertainty of the indicated state of health, ascertaining a state of health characteristic and the associated model uncertainty of the energy storage unit based on the operating variables using the state of health model, and generating at least one random constructed state of health characteristic candidate that corresponds to constructed state of health characteristics within characteristic of confidence intervals, the characteristic of confidence intervals defined by the model uncertainties of the states of health of the ascertained state of health characteristic.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting low impact collisions for a vehicle (100). The system includes at least one sensor (99, 110, 111, 115, 120-123, 125-136, 140, 141) and an electronic controller (150). The electronic controller (150) is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor (99, 110, 111, 115, 120-123, 125-136, 140, 141) and determine one or more features of the sensor data received from the at least one sensor. The electronic controller (150) is further configured to determine if a collision has occurred based upon the one or more features of the sensor data, and take at least one action in response to determining that the collision has occurred.

Abstract: A cruise control system for a motor vehicle. The system includes a setpoint value generator for generating a setpoint value determining the vehicle speed, and an actuating device that controls the speed of the vehicle to a setpoint speed through intervention into the drive and/or braking system. The system automatically adapts the setpoint speed to a predicted roadway curvature. The setpoint value generator includes at least two modules working independently from one another, including a base module for generating a base setpoint value and a curve module for generating a curve setpoint value that represents a maximum speed at which a curve having a given curvature may be negotiated without exceeding a predefined limiting value for the lateral acceleration of the vehicle, and includes a fusion module that forms a final setpoint value for the actuating device from the base setpoint value and the curve setpoint value through minimum selection.

Abstract: A circuit system for measuring an electrical voltage. The circuit system includes a voltage divider, an integrating element and an evaluating unit. The voltage divider receives, at an input, a first signal that represents the electrical voltage to be measured, and has a first switching element and a second switching element, and is capable of assuming a first state, in which the first switching element is conductive and the second switching element is non-conductive, and a second state in which the first switching element is non-conductive and the second switching element is conductive, and outputs a second signal at an output that is situated between the first switching element and the second switching element. The integrating element is designed to receive the second signal and to output a third signal. The evaluating unit being set up to accept and to evaluate the third signal in order to determine a value for the electrical voltage.

Abstract: A device and method for activating a conveyor device. An actual value for a pose of a device movable by the conveyor device by a magnetic force action is received. Depending on the actual value for the pose, as a function of a setpoint value for a torque, as a function of a setpoint value for a force, and as a function of a model, a setpoint value for the activation of at least one actuator of the conveyor device is determined. The model is trained to determine setpoint values for the activation of the at least one actuator as a function of actual values for poses of the device and as a function of setpoint values for torques and setpoint values for forces, using which the device is to be moved.

Abstract: A micromechanical component. The micromechanical component includes: a mount; a displaceable part; and a first serpentine spring and a second serpentine spring which is embodied mirror-symmetrically with respect to the first serpentine spring in terms of a first plane of symmetry; a first actuator device and a second actuator device being embodied in such a way that by way of the first actuator device and the second actuator device, periodic deformations, mirror-symmetrical in terms of the first plane of symmetry, of the first serpentine spring and of the second serpentine spring are excitable; the micromechanical component also encompassing a first torsion spring and a second torsion spring that each extend along a rotation axis; and the displaceable part being displaceable, at least by way of the periodic and mirror-symmetrical deformations of the first serpentine spring and of the second serpentine spring, around the rotation axis with respect to the mount.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining the pose of an object. The method includes recording a first and a second camera image of the object, ascertaining a correspondence between camera pixels of the camera images and vertices of a 3D model of the object, and ascertaining the pose of the object from a set of poses by minimizing, across the set of poses, a loss function, the loss function for a pose being provided by accumulation of distance measures between projections of the object in the pose onto the respective camera image plane and the corresponding pixels of the respective camera image.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for monitoring rides in a vehicle in which a driver of the vehicle picks up a rider at a pickup location and drives the rider to a drop-off destination. The system includes at least one sensor arranged in the vehicle and configured to capture sensor data during the rides, a transceiver configured to communicate with a personal electronic device of a driver of the vehicle, a non-volatile memory configured to store data; and a processor. The system captures sensor data during a ride, receives a ride identifier from the personal electronic device that uniquely identifies the ride, and stores the sensor data captured during the ride with the ride identifier as metadata.

Abstract: A micromechanical pressure sensor device including a semiconductor base substrate of a first doping type on which an intermediate layer of the first doping type is situated, a cavity sealed by a sealing layer of a second doping type and including a reference pressure, a first grating of the second doping type, suspended inside the cavity on a buried connection region of the second doping type, the buried connection region laterally extending away from the cavity into the semiconductor base material, a second grating of the second doping type, situated on a side of the diaphragm region pointing to the cavity and suspended on the diaphragm region, the first grating and the second grating being electrically insulated from each other and forming a capacitance, a first connection electrically connected to the first grating via the buried connection region, and a second connection electrically connected to the second grating.

Abstract: A method for generating training data for a recognition model for recognizing objects in sensor data of a sensor. Objects and object attributes are recognized in auxiliary sensor data of an auxiliary sensor mapping at least one overlapping area using a trained auxiliary recognition model, and the object attributes of the objects recognized in the overlapping area being transferred to the sensor data mapping at least the overlapping area in order to generate training data.

Abstract: A method for providing data for creating a digital map. The method includes: detecting surroundings sensor data of the surroundings during a measuring run of a physical system, preferably a vehicle, the surroundings sensor data capturing the surroundings in an at least partially overlapping manner, first surroundings sensor data including three-dimensional information, and second surroundings sensor data including two-dimensional information; extracting, with the aid of a first neural network situated in the physical system, at least one defined object from the first and second surroundings sensor data into first extracted data; and extracting, with the aid of a second neural network situated in the physical system, characteristic features including descriptors from the first extracted data into second extracted data, the descriptors being provided for a defined alignment of the second extracted data in a map creation process.

Abstract: A method, device, and computer-readable medium for checking whether a rolling chassis on which a vehicle body is arranged, is being used admissibly is provided. A first specification signal is received which represent a first specification of the rolling chassis. The first specification comprises stipulations for admissible use of the rolling chassis in a motor vehicle. A motor vehicle state signal is received which represent a motor vehicle state. The rolling chassis is checked to determine whether the rolling chassis is being used in accordance with the stipulations for admissible use based on the first specification and the motor vehicle state. A result signal is generated which represent a result of the check, and the generated result signal is output.

Abstract: A portable power tool includes an electromotive drive with an output shaft defining a first axis and having a first end portion and a second opposite end portion. The first end portion is between a mounted machining tool and the second end portion. The electromotive drive is received in a first power tool housing portion and includes a stator having a first stator end defining a first plane and a second stator end defining a second plane, the first plane is located between the first end portion and the second plane. A second power tool housing portion defines a handle gripping portion with a first surface defining a third plane which intersects the output shaft at a location whereat the first plane is between the third plane and the second plane. A second surface portion opposite the first surface portion defines a fourth plane parallel to the third plane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tank device (1) for a gaseous medium, comprising a valve device (2) and a tank (10), wherein the valve device (2) has a valve housing (20) with a longitudinal axis (11). The valve housing (20) is equipped with an inner chamber (7), in which a main valve element (16) is arranged in a movable manner along the longitudinal axis (11), said main valve element (16) interacting with a first valve seat (40) and thus forming a main valve (43). An actuation valve element (18) which can be moved along the longitudinal axis (11) is arranged coaxially to the main valve element (16), said actuation valve element (18) interacting with a second valve seat (41) in order to open and close an inlet opening (160) and thus forming an actuation valve (44). The valve device (2) additionally comprises a magnet coil (14).

Abstract: A method for safely ascertaining infrastructure data for driving a motor vehicle in at least partially automated fashion. The method includes receiving data signals, which represent infrastructure sensor data generated by at least one infrastructure sensor and/or motor vehicle data generated by at least one source motor vehicle, receiving safety condition signals, which represent at least one safety condition for safely ascertaining infrastructure data based on the data, checking whether the at least one safety condition is fulfilled, ascertaining infrastructure data, on the basis of which it is possible to drive a destination motor vehicle in at least partially automated fashion, based on the data as a function of a result of the check as to whether the at least one safety condition is fulfilled, generating infrastructure data signals, which represent the ascertained infrastructure data, outputting the generated infrastructure data signals.

Abstract: A microelectromechanical structure, including a functional element situated in a cavity of the microelectromechanical structure. The functional element includes an aluminum nitride layer. The cavity is closed by a cap layer. The cap layer includes epitaxial silicon. A method for manufacturing a micromechanical structure is also described.

Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust burner with a secondary air system downstream of a combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The method includes: activating an ignition device as a function of a release condition, the ignition device being heated up to a specifiable target temperature; metering fuel at a first time point into a combustion chamber of the exhaust burner at a first injection frequency using an injection valve, and the combustion chamber not being actively supplied with air; setting a first target air-mass flow using a secondary air system at a further, second time point, wherein the air-mass flow is increased strictly monotonically; controlling the air-fuel ratio to a first target air-fuel ratio as a function of a lambda sensor starting from the second time point, and metering fuel at a second injection frequency; setting a second target air-mass flow at a further, third time point.