Abstract: A method for operating a TSN communication system, which includes at least one TSN communication device, in particular a TSN switch. The method include: ascertaining operating parameters for at least one further communication device, which is designed to transfer first data via the TSN communication system, preferably for multiple further communication devices, which are designed to transfer data via the TSN communication system, the operating parameters being associated with at least one operating phase of the particular communication device or communication devices; ascertaining a schedule for the at least one TSN communication device; transferring the schedule to the at least one TSN communication device.

Abstract: A battery system for a motor vehicle. The battery system includes an actuating unit, a main control unit, multiple sub-control units, and multiple battery cells. The actuating unit is in signal communication with the sub-control units for data acquisition from the sub-control units. Each sub-control unit is in signal communication with a battery cell for data acquisition from the assigned battery cell. The main control unit is electrically connected to the sub-control units supplying power to the sub-control units. A method for operating a battery system is also described.

Abstract: In order to prevent rotation of a piston of a hydraulic unit of a hydraulic vehicle braking system, a sleeve is provided having axially parallel cylindrical pins constituting rotation prevention elements on its inner circumference, the rear ends of which elements are pressed into axially parallel holes in an inwardly projecting flange of the sleeve, and the front ends of which are inserted into axially parallel blind holes in a diameter step in a mouth of the cylindrical hole in a hydraulic block of the hydraulic unit. A method for assembling the hydraulic unit thus configured is also described.

Abstract: A method for adjusting a fuel mass to be injected into an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine including an intake tract, at least one cylinder, and an exhaust tract. In the method, an air mass introduced into the internal combustion engine is ascertained and a fuel mass to be injected into the internal combustion engine is determined. An air-fuel ratio in the exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine is determined which is adjusted in time. Based on the time-adjusted air-fuel ratio and the calculated fuel mass to be injected, a first wall film fuel mass is calculated and the fuel mass to be injected is adjusted based on the first wall film fuel mass.

Abstract: A method for integrating interface devices into a network, the network including at least one central software-based controller, which logically separates a data plane from a control plane using multiple interface devices. The method includes: a receiving of a first recognition message of the central controller at a terminal of an interface device; a checking of whether a previous recognition message has been received at another terminal of the interface device within a predefined time period prior to the receipt of the first recognition message; and a forwarding of the first recognition message to all network users connected to the interface device, if no previous recognition message has been received at another terminal within the predefined time period.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for calculating a trajectory of a mobile platform. An optimization problem whose total cost function depends on one or several boundary cost functions is solved. A first boundary cost function is, in at least one portion, a continuous and non-constant function of the position of the mobile platform. By way of continuous boundary cost functions, it is possible to achieve a continuous total cost function by which abrupt changes in the motion control of the mobile platform can be avoided. The boundary cost functions can be based on different elementary cost functions that make possible simple and flexible configuration of the motion control system.

Abstract: An imaging device, in particular a time-of-flight camera. In imaging device has at least one luminous element, which is designed to emit electromagnetic radiation, and at least one image acquisition element, which is set up to acquire reflected electromagnetic radiation. The imaging device includes at least one beam splitter unit, which is provided to image at least two different fields of view onto the image acquisition element.

Abstract: A micromechanical component, whose diaphragm is supported and has support structures on its inner diaphragm side. Each of the support structures includes a first and second edge element structure, and at least one intermediate element structure positioned between the first and second edge element structures. For each of the support structures, a plane of symmetry is definable, with respect to which at least the first edge element structure of the respective support structure and the second edge element structure of the respective support structure are specularly symmetric. In each of support structures, a first maximum dimension of its first edge element structure perpendicular to its plane of symmetry and a second maximum dimension of its second edge element structure perpendicular to its plane of symmetry are greater than the maximum dimension of its intermediate element structure perpendicular to its plane of symmetry.

Abstract: Devices and methods, in particular computer-implemented methods, for the communication of participants in a traffic infrastructure. A state channel, associated with a distributed ledger technology system, to a second participant is set up at a first participant, and a channel, associated with the state channel, to a third participant is set up at the first participant. A first instruction is sent to the third participant via the channel, such that if a second instruction of the third participant is received via the channel, and if the second instruction fulfills a condition that is a function of the first instruction, the first participant and/or the third participant are controlled as a function of the first instruction or as a function of the second instruction.

Abstract: A method for processing sensor data. The method including: providing surroundings data of a vehicle; assigning the surroundings data to corresponding locating data; and transferring the locally assigned surroundings data to a processing device, the transfer of the surroundings data between a sensor unit and a control unit and/or the transfer of the locally assigned surroundings data between the control unit and the processing device being carried out according to a defined data limiting criterion.

Abstract: The present invention obtains a controller and a control method capable of appropriately executing adaptive cruise control of a straddle-type vehicle. In the controller and the control method according to the present invention, when braking forces are generated on at least one of wheels of the straddle-type vehicle during the adaptive cruise control, in which the straddle-type vehicle is made to travel according to a distance from the straddle-type vehicle to a preceding vehicle, motion of the straddle-type vehicle, and a rider's instruction, at a braking start time point at which the braking force starts being generated on at least one of the wheels, braking force distribution between the front and the rear wheel is brought into an initial state where the braking force is generated on the front wheel.

Abstract: A compensating element having a first and a second assembly, wherein a locking mechanism is provided which can be switched over between a first and a second operating state. In the first operating state, the first assembly is connected fixedly to the second assembly and, in the second operating state, the first and second assemblies are connected to each other via a spring mechanism in such a manner that they are movable relative to each other. The locking mechanism includes an electric motor that can be used to switch over between the first and the second operating state. A locking ring is or is not braced against at least three balls depending on its rotational position with respect to a center axis. The locking ring is connected in terms of rotary drive to the electric motor via a torsion spring which is elastic with respect to the center axis.

Abstract: A method for monitoring emissions in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine in a vehicle, comprising carrying out (520) multiple successive emission measurements for at least one component in the exhaust gas, wherein each of the emission measurements is respectively performed after a driving distance of predefined length is covered by the vehicle; storing (540) a distance-related emission value (Ei), which was obtained (530) on the basis of the measurement, in a memory element (42, 200, 400) for each of the emission measurements; and forming (550) a smoothed emission level for a current point in time on the basis of multiple of the previously stored distance-related emission values, wherein more recent emission values are taken into consideration more strongly than emission values lying farther back in time in the formation of the smoothed emission level.

Abstract: A micromechanical sensor unit, including: a substrate and an edge layer, which is situated on the substrate and laterally frames an inner area above the substrate; at least one diaphragm, which spans the inner area and forms a covered cavity above the substrate; at least one support point, which is situated between the substrate and the diaphragm inside the cavity and attaches the diaphragm to the edge layer and/or to the at least one support point. The support point separates the diaphragm into at least one measuring area that is movable through force action and at least one reference area that is not movable through force action. The substrate and the diaphragm, inside the cavity, include electrodes, which face one another in the measuring area and the reference area.

Abstract: A method for operating a system for ascertaining a state of charge of a battery of a motor vehicle includes providing operating variables of the battery, providing a calculated state of charge in the motor vehicle using a state-of-charge model that indicates a calculated state of charge depending on at least one battery model parameter of the state-of-charge model for the battery, and ascertaining a reference state of charge using a reference state-of-charge model depending on the operating variables. The reference state-of-charge model is trained to indicate the reference state of charge depending on the operating variables and/or a predefined aging state. The method further includes performing a correction of the at least one battery model parameter depending on a difference between the reference state of charge and the calculated state of charge in order to adapt the calculated state of charge to the reference state of charge.

Abstract: A method for identifying head-shaking gestures and nodding gestures by using an accelerometer arrangement of a device that is worn on the head, the accelerometer arrangement providing acceleration signals for three linearly independent directions in space. The method includes the following steps: calculation of a norm of total acceleration with the aid of the acceleration signals provided by the accelerometer arrangement; and identification of head-shaking gestures and nodding gestures using the calculated norm of total acceleration; identification of a head-shaking gesture being performed as a function of a comparison between the calculated norm of total acceleration and a predetermined threshold value; and identification of a nodding gesture being performed as a function of identifying an oscillation of the calculated norm of total acceleration about a predetermined acceleration value.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a driving dynamics control unit for influencing the braking of wheels of a motor vehicle. The driving dynamics control device having a pump, which includes at least two pump elements for the supply of brake fluid, and an electric motor, which includes a rotor and a stator for driving the pump elements. The method includes the following steps: detecting the position of the rotor relative to the stator, and adjusting an ideal position of the rotor relative to the stator, the sum of the torques for moving the pump elements lying below a predefined torque limit value, in particular being minimal, in the ideal position.

Abstract: The present invention obtains a controller capable of improving safety of a motorcycle. The controller that controls vehicle body behavior of the motorcycle includes: an acquisition section that acquires trigger information generated in accordance with peripheral environment of the motorcycle; and an execution section that initiates a control mode making the motorcycle execute an automatic brake operation in accordance with the trigger information acquired by the acquisition section and makes the motorcycle generate a braking force. The acquisition section further acquires deceleration resistance information that is information related to a driver's driving posture on the motorcycle, and the execution section changes a control command that is output in the control mode in accordance with the deceleration resistance information acquired by the acquisition section.

Abstract: A production method for a micromechanical component for a sensor or microphone device. The method includes: patterning a plurality of first trenches through a substrate surface of a monocrystalline substrate made of at least one semiconductor material using anisotropic etching, covering the lateral walls of the plurality of first trenches with a passivation layer, while bottom areas of the plurality of first trenches are kept free or are freed of the passivation layer, etching at least one first cavity, into which the plurality of first trenches opens, into the monocrystalline substrate using an isotropic etching method, in which an etching medium of the isotropic etching method is conducted through the plurality of first trenches, and by covering the plurality of first trenches by epitaxially growing a monocrystalline sealing layer on the substrate surface of the monocrystalline substrate made of the at least one identical semiconductor material as the monocrystalline substrate.

Abstract: A micromechanical sensor device and a corresponding manufacturing method are described. The micromechanical sensor device is fitted with a substrate including a front side and a rear side; a micromechanical sensor chip including a sensor area attached to the front side of the substrate; and a capping unit attached to the front side of the substrate, which is formed at least partially by an ASIC chip. The capping unit surrounds the micromechanical sensor chip in such a way that a cavity closed toward the front side of the substrate is formed between the sensor area of the micromechanical sensor chip and the ASIC chip. A mold package is formed above the capping unit.