Abstract: To achieve a brake hydraulic pressure control system for a vehicle which makes it possible to reduce its size as compared to existing ones. A motor (40) of a brake hydraulic pressure control system (70) according to the present invention is a brushless motor, and is disposed in a space surrounded by a substrate (80) and a housing (85). A stator (41) of the motor (40) includes a coil (42) and a mold part (43) covering the coil (42) with a mold member. The mold part (43) is in contact with a motor housing (50) of the motor (40). The brake hydraulic pressure control system has such a configuration that heat generated by the coil (42) is transmitted to an object, which is in contact with the motor housing (50), by way of the mold part (43) and the motor housing (50).

Abstract: A method for providing calibration data for calibrating a camera. The method includes reading in image data provided by the camera from the camera. The image data represent a camera image of at least one predefined point-symmetric region. The method also includes determining at least one center of symmetry of the at least one point-symmetric region using the image data and a determination rule, performing a comparison of a position of the center of symmetry in the camera image with a predefined position of a reference center of symmetry in a reference image in order to determine a positional deviation between the center of symmetry and the reference center of symmetry, and ascertaining displacement information for at least a subset of pixels of the camera image relative to corresponding pixels of the reference image, using the positional deviation. The calibration data are provided using the displacement information.

Abstract: A method for operating an electrochemical energy storage system with a plurality of energy storage strings which comprise a plurality of electrochemical energy stores. The energy storage strings can be electrically connected in parallel by means of first switches.

Abstract: A method to operate a transmitting radio device of a radio communications network is provided, wherein the method comprises: transmitting, to a receiving radio device, first data according to a first transmit mode; determining a first transmit mode time period of the first transmit mode so that the first transmit mode time period does not exceed a survival time period of the transmitting radio device; determining a last reception time when an acknowledgment was received from the receiving radio device, wherein the acknowledgement indicates a successful reception of the transmitted first data at the side of the receiving radio device; and transmitting, to the receiving radio device, second data according to a second transmit mode, wherein the second transmit mode is activated upon expiry of the first transmit mode time period since the determined last reception time.

Abstract: A method for detecting characteristic cells in a sample includes performing a first lysis of a sample to yield a first lysate wherein nuclei of the cells of the sample remain intact. Freely available RNA in the first lysate is extracted and classified to ascertain the amounts of various types of RNA in the first lysate. A second lysis operation on the previously lysed sample is performed to yield a second lysate wherein the cell nuclei of the cells in the sample are destroyed. DNA freely available in the second lysate is extracted and a total cell count of cells in the provided sample is calculated on the basis of the amount of extracted DNA. The number of cells having individual cell markers in the provided sample is calculated using the ascertained amounts of various types of RNA and the calculated total cell count.

Abstract: A method and a control unit for checking an exhaust gas system in a vehicle. A control unit in the vehicle receives data from sensors of the vehicle and sends out control commands to final control elements of the vehicle. The control unit is in communication connection with an external computer located outside of the vehicle. The external computer causes the control unit to make an active intervention in the exhaust gas system by actuating final control elements of the vehicle. The control unit receives sensor data from the exhaust gas system, which it forwards to the external computer. Based on the sensor data from the sensors, the external computer rates the exhaust gas system as “OK” or “manipulated”.

Abstract: A method for performing a data transmission between a control device and an electronics unit. A microcontroller and an Ethernet transceiver are provided in the control unit, and a microcontroller and an Ethernet transceiver are also provided in the electronics unit. For data transmission, the two Ethernet transceivers are first synchronized, taking into account a common clock cycle, and, for data transmission, an Ethernet connection is used as a physical route, and the data transmission is carried out with a serial protocol.

Abstract: A method for recognizing the breakdown of an energy reserve device of at least two energy reserve devices of a device for protecting the occupants of a vehicle. The method includes: charging the at least two energy reserve devices to a test voltage level; ascertaining an ambient temperature of the at least two energy reserve devices; acquiring the (overall) capacitance of the at least two energy reserve devices; recognizing the breakdown of an energy reserve device as a function of a floating mean value, which is a function of the ascertained ambient temperature, for the (overall) capacitance and of the acquired (overall) capacitance; updating a floating mean value as a function of the ascertained ambient temperature and the acquired overall capacitance.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a transmit power of at least one active vehicle surround sensor of a vehicle driven in an at least partially automated manner, at least one automated driving function of the vehicle being implemented on the basis of surroundings data acquired by the active vehicle surround sensor and/or on the basis of data received from an infrastructure. The method includes: receiving at least one first message from an infrastructure; generating, depending on information in the received first message, control signals for reducing the transmit power of an active vehicle surround sensor, and outputting the control signals; verifying, on the basis of surroundings conditions, whether the transmit power of the active vehicle surround sensor can be increased again; generating, depending on the verification, control signals for increasing the transmit power of the active vehicle surround sensor, and outputting the control signals.

Abstract: A machine learning system, in particular a deep neural network. The machine learning system includes a plurality of layers that are connected to one another. The layers each ascertain an output variable as a function of an input variable and at least one parameter that is stored in a memory. The parameters of those layers that are connected to a further, in particular preceding, layer are each stored in the memory using a higher resolution than the parameters of those layers that are connected to a plurality of further, in particular preceding, layers. In addition, A method, a computer program, and a device for creating the machine learning system, are described.

Abstract: A drive assembly (10) comprising a first electric machine (12) having a first drive shaft (14), a second electric machine (16) having a second drive shaft (18), an output shaft (20), wherein the first drive shaft (14) and the second drive shaft (18) are coupled or couplable to the output shaft (20) in such a way that the output shaft (20) can be driven by the first drive shaft (14) and/or the second drive shaft (18), wherein the second drive shaft (18) comprises a first one-way clutch (22) by which the second drive shaft (18) is coupled or couplable to the output shaft (20) and a second one-way clutch (24), wherein the first one-way clutch (22) and the second one-way clutch (24) are configured so as to act in opposite directions of rotation, wherein, by the second one-way clutch (24) and an intermediate gearwheel (27), the second drive shaft (18) is coupled or couplable to the output shaft (20).

Abstract: A method to compensate for projection errors when outputting images using a smart-glasses system. At least one image is produced using an arithmetic logic unit of the system. The image produced or an image to be output is transmitted by the arithmetic logic unit to a micro-electromechanical output unit, particularly smart glasses, of the system. Before the image is output by the output unit, a correction algorithm is executed to generate a corrected image to be output. Image regions of the corrected image to be output are assigned at least one stored position within the produced image via at least one stored transformation function depending in each case on a position within the corrected image to be output. At least one image-region parameter is ascertained for the image regions to be generated depending in each case on the stored position assigned to the respective image region to be generated.

Abstract: Radar sensor for motor vehicles. The radar sensor has a high-frequency part, which is configured to transmit sequences of modulated radar pulses and to receive the corresponding radar echoes, and an electronic evaluation part, which is configured to take distance and angle measurements using a synthetic aperture, and includes a scanning module, an FFT module for performing fast Fourier transforms to calculating a two-dimensional distance/velocity radar image, a transform module configured to transform the raw data, while simultaneously correcting migration effects, into a format that can be processed by the FFT module, by applying a transform function defined by a number N of coefficients, and a coefficient module for preparing the coefficients for the transform module. The coefficient module including a memory, in which there is stored an initial set of coefficients comprising fewer than N coefficients, and a recursion module, for recursive calculation of the remaining coefficients.

Abstract: A method for obtaining coverage-guided fuzzing of software on a hardware target. The hardware target includes a breakpoint register, and is designed to stop an execution of the software prior to execution of an instruction of the software if the instruction is reached during the execution of the software; a memory address of the instruction is set in the breakpoint register. The method includes setting a first breakpoint prior to a first instruction of the software; executing or continuing a fuzzing iteration of the software; first checking whether the first breakpoint is reached while executing or continuing the fuzzing iteration; storing a piece of log information that includes that the first instruction in the fuzzing iteration has been reached, and optionally deleting the first breakpoint if the first check is positive. The coverage-guided fuzzing of the software includes the piece of log information.

Abstract: A method for setting operating parameters of a system, in particular, a manufacturing machine, with the aid of Bayesian optimization of a data-based model, which (in the Bayesian optimization) is trained to output a model output variable, which characterizes an operating mode of the system, as a function of the operating parameters. The training of the data-based model takes place as a function of at least one experimentally ascertained measured variable of the system and the training also taking place as a function of at least one simulatively ascertained simulation variable. The measured variable and the simulation variable each characterize the operating mode of the system. The measured variable and/or the simulation variable is transformed during training with the aid of an affine transformation.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for ascertaining an output signal, which characterizes an object detection of an object of an image. The method includes: ascertaining a plurality of object detections with respect to the image; ascertaining a graph based on the plurality of object detections, object detections of the plurality of object detections being characterized by nodes of the graph and overlaps between two object detections each being characterized by edges of the graph; ascertaining a cluster of the graph based on the nodes and on the edges of the graph with the aid of a density-based clustering method; ascertaining an object detection based on the cluster and providing the object detection in the output signal.

Abstract: A subscriber station for a serial bus system and a method for communication. The subscriber station has a communication control device controlling a communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system and generating a transmit signal. The communication control device generates the transmit signal according to a frame and to insert a field having a rising edge and a subsequent falling edge into the frame for the transition from a first communication phase to a second communication phase. The field has a predetermined length between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge such that a sampling time at which a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system will sample the first bit of the second communication phase is situated between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge.

Abstract: An inverter. The inverter includes a first and second transistors, which are a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor of the inverter, and control electronics configured to trigger a first switching operation, in which the first transistor is switched on, wherein the second transistor is in a switched-off state, wherein a parasitic capacitance of the first transistor is discharged during the first switching operation, to trigger a second switching operation, in which the first transistor is switched off or switched on again, wherein the second transistor simultaneously remains in the switched-off state, wherein the parasitic capacitance of the first transistor is already discharged in the second switching operation, to record a time difference which describes a difference between a duration of the first switching operation and a duration of the second switching operation, and to determine a characteristic operating parameter of the first transistor based on the time difference.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing data which are associated for example with a signal transmittable and/or transmitted via a bus system, for example of a vehicle, including: at least intermittent provision of reference data for a statistical model which characterizes at least one average of at least one characteristic of the signal on the basis of a first average determined, for example dynamically, over a predefinable unweighted first number of values for the characteristic, and at least intermittent modification of the reference data at least in part on the basis of a second average determined, for example dynamically, over a predefinable weighted second number of values for the characteristic.

Abstract: A method for lossily compressing a sequence of video frames into a representation, wherein each video frame comprises pixels that carry color values. The method includes: segmenting each video frame into superpixels, wherein these superpixels are groups of pixels that share at least one predetermined common property; assigning, to each superpixel in each video frame, at least one attribute derived from the pixels belonging to the respective superpixel; and combining superpixels as nodes in a graph representation, wherein superpixels in a same video frame are connected by spatial edges associated with at least one quantity that is a measure for a distance between these superpixels; and in response to superpixels in adjacent video frames in the sequence meeting at least one predetermined relatedness criterion, these superpixels are connected by temporal edges.