Abstract: A lidar device having an integrated optics that has a beam deflecting unit having an optical phase array that has a multiplicity of antennas that are set up to emit electromagnetic radiation at a prespecified angle of radiation. The angle of radiation covers a prespecified field of view of the lidar device. The angle of radiation has a first angle of radiation subregion, in which electromagnetic radiation is emitted having a polarization A, and has a second angle of radiation subregion, in which electromagnetic radiation is emitted having a polarization B.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a first vehicle terminal (NN1; NN2, NN3; NN4) for a wireless communications network, the method comprising: determining a resource pattern within a resource pool, the resource pattern comprising a plurality of wireless resources of a data channel within the resource pool; and sending, on a control channel, an item of control information which indicates the resource pattern and a group of at least two vehicle terminals associated with the resource pattern.

Abstract: A method for determining an eye position using a laser device for a set of smart glasses. The method includes emitting light for scanning an eye along at least one scan line; detecting a plurality of reflection beams of the light reflected along the scan line in order to obtain a plurality of light intensity values, the light intensity values representing intensities of the reflection beams; generating a two-dimensional image of the eye along the scan line using the light intensity values, a high light intensity value being assigned or being assignable to a reflection beam reflected at the retina and a light intensity value low in comparison to the high intensity value being assigned or being assignable to a reflection beam reflected outside the retina of the eye; and determining the eye position of the eye within the image using amplitudes of the light intensity values.

Abstract: An operating method for a LIDAR system. An optical multipulse signal with multiple temporally separate peaks and temporally superimposed peak flanks of temporally directly succeeding peaks is generated on the transmitter side, and is emitted into a visual field as an optical transmission signal. A corresponding control unit, a LIDAR system, and a working device, in particular a vehicle, are also described.

Abstract: An electromechanically drivable brake pressure generator for a hydraulic brake system of a vehicle. The brake pressure generator including a spindle drive unit for converting a rotary movement on the drive side into a translational movement for the purpose of actuating a piston of a hydraulic piston-and-cylinder unit. A gear unit is arranged between the spindle drive unit and an electric drive motor. A drive motor axis and an axis of the spindle drive unit are arranged radially offset from one another. The piston-and-cylinder unit and the electric drive motor are arranged on axially opposite sides of the gear unit.

Abstract: An object recognition device for vehicles, including a sensor, a filter device and an analysis device. Signals from an object are detectable by the sensor. The detected signals are filterable by the filter device and then feedable to the analysis device. The analysis device is configured to recognize the object by analyzing the filtered signals. The filter device includes an averaging unit, which averages the profile of the amplitudes of the detected signals, and a non-linear filter unit, which is provided based on a linear low-pass filter with a variable time constant and filters the detected signals. A value profile corresponding to the difference between the averaged amplitude profile and the filtered signals is feedable to the analysis device for analyzing and recognizing the object. The variable time constant is establishable based on the difference between the filtered signals and the detected signals and based on the averaged amplitude profile.

Abstract: The invention relates to an evaluation device (6) for analysing a public address system (1), the public address system (1) comprising at least one loudspeaker (3a-3d) and at least one audio signal output unit (4), the loudspeaker (3a-3d) having an impedance plot (10), the evaluation device (6) comprising a neural network (11), the neural network (11) being trained to determine a loudspeaker type on the basis of an impedance plot (10), the evaluation device (4) being provided with the impedance plot (10) of the loudspeaker (3a-3d) and an additional parameter, and the evaluation device being designed to analyse the loudspeaker (3a-3d) and/or determine the loudspeaker type by means of the neural network (11) on the basis of the provided impedance plot (10) and the additional parameter.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a cleaning vehicle, in particular a street sweeper capable of being operated in automated fashion, by a control device. A trajectory is calculated and control commands are produced for a longitudinal guiding and transverse guiding of the cleaning vehicle during travel of the calculated trajectory. Measurement data are received from at least one sensor in order to ascertain a cleaning region. At least one actuator is controlled, based on the received measurement data, in order to position a cleaning device of the cleaning vehicle in the longitudinal direction and/or transverse direction relative to a direction of travel of the cleaning vehicle, in order to clean the cleaning region. A control device, a computer program, and a machine-readable storage medium are also described.

Abstract: A battery pack having a specified number of battery cells connected to one another and having a monitoring unit, in particular of the type of an SCM circuit, for the individual battery cells. The monitoring unit has a passive input circuit, and is designed to recognize various electrical faults within the passive input circuit using a time measuring unit allocated to the monitoring unit, in particular on the basis of a measurement of rise times of a voltage.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular an impact drill, is disclosed. The hand-held power tool includes a housing in which a drive unit for driving an output spindle is arranged. A catch mechanism is associated with the drive unit. The catch mechanism has a first crown disk which is connected to the output spindle for conjoint rotation, and a second crown disk which is arranged in the housing for conjoint rotation. In a first position, the first and second crown disks contact each other via associated catch geometries. In a second position, the second crown disk is arranged spaced apart from the first crown disk along a rotation axis of the output spindle. An annular friction element is arranged without friction in the first position, and generates a specified frictional force between the first and second crown disk in the second position.

Abstract: A cup-shaped cover of a pedal travel simulator, hydraulic accumulator, or a damper chamber, using a radially resilient connecting ring, which protrudes into a groove of the cover and into an opposing groove of a receptacle of a hydraulic block of a traction slip controller of a hydraulic vehicle braking system, to fasten inseparably at the hydraulic block.

Abstract: A module, including at least one first component in the form of a semiconductor component including multiple stress measuring cells situated in a distributed manner for detecting stress measured values at different measuring positions of the semiconductor component, at least one second component which is mechanically coupled to the semiconductor component, and an evaluation unit, which is designed to ascertain at least one location-dependent stress distribution in the semiconductor component based on the stress measured values detected at one measuring point in time, and to ascertain a deformation state of the at least one second component at the measuring point in time on the basis of the at least one ascertained location-dependent stress distribution in the semiconductor component. A corresponding method for monitoring environmental influences on a module is also described.

Abstract: A device, particularly a hand-held power tool management device, for monitoring and/or managing a plurality of objects, particularly hand-held power tools, includes a communication unit configured to communicate with the objects and a computing unit configured to process electronic data received by the communication unit. The computing unit is configured to output, as a function of swarm information from a swarm that comprises at least some of the objects, commands to at least one of the objects of the swarm and/or information to at least one operator, particularly at least one of the objects of the swarm.

Abstract: A method for detecting and re-identifying objects using a neural network. The method includes the steps: extracting features from an image, the features comprising information about at least one object in the image; detecting the at least one object in the image using an anchor-based object detection based on the extracted features, classification data being determined by a classification for detecting the object with the aid of at least one anchor and regression data being determined by a regression; and re-identifying the at least one object by determining embedding data based on the extracted features, the embedding data representing an object description for the at least one feature of the image.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting anomalous communications in a service oriented communication system. The method includes providing at least one decoy service, hosted by a decoy server communicably coupled to the service oriented communication system, wherein the at least one decoy service is addressable using a corresponding decoy service identifier; detecting, at the decoy server, a request to consume at least one instance of the at least one decoy service, wherein the request originates from a client communicably coupled to the decoy server via the service oriented communication system; and performing, at the decoy server, a response to the request to consume the at least one instance of the at least one decoy service.

Abstract: A method for controlling a brake system. The brake system includes an actuating device, a master brake cylinder, a brake circuit, a wheel brake, and a brake pressure generator. The brake pressure generator and the master brake cylinder are capable of being contacted, parallel to one another, to the brake circuit. A pressure generator control valve controls a first pressure medium connection between the brake pressure generator and the brake circuit. A brake circuit control valve controls a second pressure medium connection between the brake circuit and the master brake cylinder. The brake system is operated in an operating state during which the pressure generator control valve assumes an open position without a brake pressure prevailing in the brake circuit and without a buildup of brake pressure being carried out. During this operating state, the brake circuit control valve is controlled to assume an open position.

Abstract: A micromechanical component for a capacitive pressure sensor device, including a diaphragm that is stretched with the aid of a frame structure in such a way that a cantilevered area of the diaphragm spans a framed partial surface, and including a reinforcement structure that is formed at the cantilevered area. A first spatial direction oriented in parallel to the framed partial surface is definable in which the cantilevered area has a minimal extension, and a second spatial direction oriented in parallel to the framed partial surface and oriented perpendicularly with respect to the first spatial direction is definable in which the cantilevered area has a greater extension. The reinforcement structure is present at a first distance from the frame structure in the first spatial direction, and at a second distance in the second spatial direction, the second distance being greater than the first distance.

Abstract: A user station for a serial bus system. The user station includes a communication control device for controlling a communication of the user station with at least one other user station, and a transceiver device to serially transmit a transmission signal, generated by the communication control device, onto a bus, and serially receive signals from the bus. The communication control device generates the transmission signal according to a frame and inserts into the frame two check sums that include different bits of the frame in the computation. The communication control device inserts dynamic stuff bits into the frame in such a way that an inverse stuff bit is inserted into the bit stream of the frame after 5 identical bits in succession. The communication control device computes the two check sums so that a maximum of one of the two check sums includes the dynamic stuff bits in the computation.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for dielectrophoretic capture of particles. The device includes at least one electrical contact and at least one layer. The at least one layer includes a top layer side, a bottom layer side, and a barrier structure. The barrier structure is configured such that a fluid comprising the particles can flow through the barrier structure which is disposed on the top layer side. The barrier structure spaces the top layer side apart from the bottom layer side of at least one of the same layer and a second of the at least one layer.

Abstract: A method for applying a spray, in particular a plant protection product, onto a field, including: detecting plants in a field section of the field with the aid of an optical and/or infrared detection unit; identifying at least one plant row in the detected field section; defining a plant area encompassing the at least one identified plant row and a weed area, different from the plant area, in the detected field section; ascertaining a plant identifier of the weed area; and applying spray onto the weed area, in particular onto the field section, depending on the ascertained plant identifier with the aid of a spraying device.