Patents by Inventor Achim Feyerabend

Achim Feyerabend has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11392804
    Abstract: A method and a labeling system for generating a label object for the symbolic description of an object of an environment of a mobile device, e.g., a robot or a vehicle. The label object includes at least one attribute of an object at a first point in time, from observations of this object. The method includes selecting, from the observations, a first observation recorded at a first point in time, a second observation recorded at a second point in time, the second point in time being a point in time before the first point in time, as well as a third observation recorded at a third point in time, the third point in time being a point in time after the first point in time; and ascertaining, by using the selected observations, the at least one attribute of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Feyerabend, Elena Pancera, Heinz Hertlein, Oliver Pink, Thomas Goeppel
  • Patent number: 11262738
    Abstract: A method and a device for the functional testing and evaluation of a control system. The method for functional testing of sensors, actuators, and/or a control logic system of a control system controlled in at least a partly automated manner has the following: sending at least one stimulus to a sensor, an actuator, and/or to the control logic system of the control system; reading out at least one reaction of the control system from the sensor, from the actuator, from the control logic system, and/or from a connection between these components; and using a metric module to compare the reaction with a stored expected reaction, the metric module determining a metric according to which deviations of the read-out reaction from the expected reaction are to be evaluated with respect to the intended function of the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Feyerabend, Elena Pancera, Heinz Hertlein, Oliver Pink, Thomas Goeppel
  • Publication number: 20210224646
    Abstract: A method for generating labels for a data set. The method includes: providing an unlabeled data set comprising a number of unlabeled data; generating initial labels for the data of the unlabeled data set; providing the initial labels as nth labels where n=1; performing an iterative process, where an nth iteration of the iterative process comprises the following steps for every n=1, 2, 3, . . . N: training a model as an nth trained model using a labeled data set, the labeled data set being given by a combination of the data of the unlabeled data set with the nth labels; predicting nth predicted labels for the unlabeled data of the unlabeled data set by using the nth trained model; determining (n+1)th labels from a set of labels comprising at least the nth predicted labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Achim Feyerabend, Alexander Blonczewski, Christian Haase-Schuetz, Elena Pancera, Heinz Hertlein, Jinquan Zheng, Joscha Liedtke, Marianne Gaul, Rainer Stal, Srinandan Krishnamoorthy
  • Publication number: 20210061285
    Abstract: A method for generating a reference representation of the surroundings of an at least semi-automated mobile platform is provided. The method includes ascertaining at least one third-party platform for receiving reference data for the reference representation of the surroundings of the mobile platform; establishing a communication channel of the mobile platform to the at least one third-party platform; receiving the reference data of the at least one third-party platform for the reference representation of the surroundings; ascertaining the received reference data that are relevant to the generation of the reference representation; storing the relevant reference data of the at least one third-party platform for the generation of the reference representation of the surroundings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Achim Feyerabend, Heinz Hertlein, Oliver Pink, Thomas Goeppel
  • Patent number: 10741069
    Abstract: A method for controlling a motor vehicle, including steps of scanning an object in the area of the motor vehicle; of determining a present specific embodiment of the object; of comparing the present specific embodiment with different predetermined specific embodiments of the object; of selecting a predetermined specific embodiment that corresponds to the present specific embodiment; and of determining the local area in which the motor vehicle is located on the basis of a local area that is associated with the selected specific embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Muehlmann, Achim Feyerabend, Dominik Maucher
  • Publication number: 20200175342
    Abstract: A method and a labeling system for generating a label object for the symbolic description of an object of an environment of a mobile device, e.g., a robot or a vehicle. The label object includes at least one attribute of an object at a first point in time, from observations of this object. The method includes selecting, from the observations, a first observation recorded at a first point in time, a second observation recorded at a second point in time, the second point in time being a point in time before the first point in time, as well as a third observation recorded at a third point in time, the third point in time being a point in time after the first point in time; and ascertaining, by using the selected observations, the at least one attribute of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Achim Feyerabend, Elena Pancera, Heinz Hertlein, Oliver Pink, Thomas Goeppel
  • Publication number: 20200174461
    Abstract: A method and a device for the functional testing and evaluation of a control system. The method for functional testing of sensors, actuators, and/or a control logic system of a control system controlled in at least a partly automated manner has the following: sending at least one stimulus to a sensor, an actuator, and/or to the control logic system of the control system; reading out at least one reaction of the control system from the sensor, from the actuator, from the control logic system, and/or from a connection between these components; and using a metric module to compare the reaction with a stored expected reaction, the metric module determining a metric according to which deviations of the read-out reaction from the expected reaction are to be evaluated with respect to the intended function of the control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Feyerabend, Elena Pancera, Heinz Hertlein, Oliver Pink, Thomas Goeppel
  • Publication number: 20200094849
    Abstract: A method for quantitatively characterizing at least one temporal-sequence (TS) of an object-attribute-error of an object, for at least one scenario of a plurality of scenarios; the object having been detected by a sensor of a plurality of sensors; including: providing at least one TS of sensor-data of a plurality of TSs of sensor-data of the sensor, for the at least one scenario; determining a TS of at least one object-attribute of the object with the TS of sensor-data; providing a sequence of a reference-object-attribute of the object of the scenario, corresponding to the TS of the object-attributes; determining a sequence of object-attribute-difference by comparing the sequence of the object-attribute to the sequence of the reference-object-attribute of the object; generating an error-model for describing TSs of object-attribute-errors of objects; the object having been detected by the sensor, with the TS of the object-attribute-difference, to quantitatively characterize the object-attribute-error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Achim Feyerabend, Lars Wagner, Thomas Grosser
  • Publication number: 20190122550
    Abstract: A method for controlling a motor vehicle, including steps of scanning an object in the area of the motor vehicle; of determining a present specific embodiment of the object; of comparing the present specific embodiment with different predetermined specific embodiments of the object; of selecting a predetermined specific embodiment that corresponds to the present specific embodiment; and of determining the local area in which the motor vehicle is located on the basis of a local area that is associated with the selected specific embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Karsten Muehlmann, Achim Feyerabend, Dominik Maucher
  • Patent number: 10241206
    Abstract: A sensor system for a vehicle for detecting bridges and tunnels is described, which includes a lateral LIDAR sensor, which is located on a first side of the vehicle and has a detection area covering a lateral surrounding area of the vehicle, and a control unit for evaluating the measuring data from the lateral LIDAR sensor. The lateral LIDAR sensor is positioned rotated about a vertical axis so that part of the detection area of the lateral LIDAR sensor at the front in the travel direction detects an upper spatial area located at a predefined distance ahead of the vehicle. The lateral LIDAR sensor is tilted about its transverse axis with respect to the horizontal, so the detection area of the lateral LIDAR sensor detects the remote upper spatial area at a predefined height above the vehicle using its part which is at the front in the direction of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Pink, Axel Buettner, Dominik Maucher, Achim Feyerabend, Christoph Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10043394
    Abstract: A sensor system for a vehicle for recognizing adjacent vehicles, situated in an adjacent lane, with protruding or exposed objects, is described which includes a first lateral LIDAR sensor. The first lateral LIDAR sensor is tilted about a first transverse axis with respect to the horizontal, so that the first detection range, with its front portion in the travel direction, detects a first upper spatial area laterally ahead of the vehicle, at a height above the installed position of the first lateral LIDAR sensor. The second lateral LIDAR sensor is tilted opposite to the tilt direction of the first LIDAR sensor about a second transverse axis with respect to the horizontal, so that the second detection range, with its rear portion in the travel direction, detects a second upper spatial area laterally behind the vehicle, at a height above the installed position of the second LIDAR sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Pink, Axel Buettner, Dominik Maucher, Achim Feyerabend, Christoph Schroeder
  • Publication number: 20170162056
    Abstract: A method for a vehicle equipped with a surroundings sensor system for generating an evaluation signal representing the trafficability of at least one route section to be traveled by the vehicle, the evaluation signal being ascertained as a function of surroundings data which are gathered with the aid of the surroundings sensor system, the evaluation signal being further ascertained as a function of at least one piece of surroundings information from an elevation map representing the topology of the at least one route section and/or at least one movement value of the vehicle representing a pitch and/or roll angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Achim Feyerabend, Alexander Thompson, Christoph Schroeder, Dominik Maucher, Oliver Pink
  • Publication number: 20170023678
    Abstract: A sensor system for a vehicle for detecting bridges and tunnels is described, which includes a lateral LIDAR sensor, which is located on a first side of the vehicle and has a detection area covering a lateral surrounding area of the vehicle, and a control unit for evaluating the measuring data from the lateral LIDAR sensor. The lateral LIDAR sensor is positioned rotated about a vertical axis so that part of the detection area of the lateral LIDAR sensor at the front in the travel direction detects an upper spatial area located at a predefined distance ahead of the vehicle. The lateral LIDAR sensor is tilted about its transverse axis with respect to the horizontal, so the detection area of the lateral LIDAR sensor detects the remote upper spatial area at a predefined height above the vehicle using its part which is at the front in the direction of travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Oliver Pink, Axel Buettner, Dominik Maucher, Achim Feyerabend, Christoph Schroeder
  • Publication number: 20170025019
    Abstract: A sensor system for a vehicle for recognizing adjacent vehicles, situated in an adjacent lane, with protruding or exposed objects, is described which includes a first lateral LIDAR sensor. The first lateral LIDAR sensor is tilted about a first transverse axis with respect to the horizontal, so that the first detection range, with its front portion in the travel direction, detects a first upper spatial area laterally ahead of the vehicle, at a height above the installed position of the first lateral LIDAR sensor. The second lateral LIDAR sensor is tilted opposite to the tilt direction of the first LIDAR sensor about a second transverse axis with respect to the horizontal, so that the second detection range, with its rear portion in the travel direction, detects a second upper spatial area laterally behind the vehicle, at a height above the installed position of the second LIDAR sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Oliver Pink, Axel Buettner, Dominik Maucher, Achim Feyerabend, Christoph Schroeder