Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for calibrating a radar system to compensate for a channel offset. In one example, a method is disclosed for processing radar signals with a radar device. The method includes including receiving respective radar signals from respective virtual receive channels, wherein each virtual receive channel corresponds to a combination of a transmit antenna element and a receive antenna element of an antenna element array. Respective received radar data is generated from the respective radar signals and the radar date is processed to identify one or more stationary objects. Based on the radar data, an estimated radar device motion relative to the one or more stationary objects is determined. A difference between the estimated radar device motion and an expected motion of the radar device is determined and a correction vector is determined based on the difference. The correction vector to is applied to subsequent radar data.

Abstract: A woven fibrous preform of a hollow aerodynamic profile of a turbomachine vane or blade, has a non-interlinked trailing edge and a draping of two 3D woven fibrous textures.

Abstract: A radar device is provided that is arranged for conducting an interference detection and mitigation based on received and sampled radar signals and storing interference-mitigated data; conducting an FFT on the interference-mitigated data and storing FF-transformed data; conducting a compression on the FF-transformed data into compressed data; and storing the compressed data in a memory. Also, a method for operating such radar device is suggested.

Abstract: A woven fibrous preform of a hollow aerodynamic profile of a turbomachine vane or blade, has a non-interlinked trailing edge and a draping of two 3D woven fibrous textures.

Abstract: A method for the use in a radar system comprises: receiving an RF radar signal; down-converting the received RF radar signal into a base band using a frequency-modulated local oscillator signal including a scanning chirp having a higher bandwidth than a regular chirp bandwidth; generating a digital base band signal based on the down-converted RF radar signal, the digital base band signal including a sequence of samples associated with the scanning chirp; identifying, in the sequence of samples, impaired samples, which are affected by interference; and selecting—based on the position of the impaired samples within the sequence of samples—a sub-band, which has the regular chirp bandwidth, for transmitting chirps of chirp frame used for measurement data acquisition.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbine nozzle vane made of ceramic matrix composite material, wherein the vane is manufactured using a first fibrous preform including a hollow central section intended to form a fibrous reinforcement of an airfoil of the vane to be obtained, and a pair of second fibrous preforms each having an opening with a shape of the airfoil of the vane to be obtained.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to parenteral nutrition formulations, including ready-to-use parenteral nutrition formulations which are reconstituted from multi-chamber containers and amino acid formulations. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to formulations comprising butyrate derivatives, specifically arginine butyrate, for use with adult or pediatric patients. The disclosure further provides for methods of reducing or preventing systemic and local inflammation of patients receiving parenteral nutrition, and methods of maintaining or ameliorating their systemic immunity and local immunity, as well as the patients' gut barrier functions.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for compressing radar data. In one example, a method includes storing radar data in a memory, the radar data being stored in a data cube having a slow-time dimension, a fast-time dimension, and a channel dimension. The data cube is divided into one or more zones. For each zone a number of data matrices is selected based on a compression factor. Sets of data matrices containing the number of data matrices are formed and, for each set of data matrices, for each data matrix, the data vectors are coded to generate a coded data matrix. A coding for data vectors in a data matrix is the same and a coding for different data matrices is different. The coded data matrices are combined to generate a compressed data matrix for the zone and the compressed data matrices for the one or more zones are stored.

Abstract: The disclosure provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the disclosure provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbine nozzle vane made of ceramic matrix composite material, wherein the vane is manufactured using a first fibrous preform including a hollow central section intended to form a fibrous reinforcement of an airfoil of the vane to be obtained, and a pair of second fibrous preforms each having an opening with a shape of the airfoil of the vane to be obtained.

Abstract: A processor having a hardware decompressor configured to pad a non-equidistant data set, which is data received at irregular time intervals, with one or more of a predefined value, wherein the data is radar or optical sensor data; and a Fourier transform engine configured to receive the padded non-equidistant data set directly and continuously per data set from the hardware decompressor, and to FFT process the received padded non-equidistant data set.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to parenteral nutrition formulations, including ready-to-use parenteral nutrition formulations which are reconstituted from multi-chamber containers and amino acid formulations. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to formulations comprising butyrate derivatives, specifically arginine butyrate, for use with adult or pediatric patients. The disclosure further provides for methods of reducing or preventing systemic and local inflammation of patients receiving parenteral nutrition, and methods of maintaining or ameliorating their systemic immunity and local immunity, as well as the patients' gut barrier functions.

Abstract: In some methods, sampled values based on a reception signal are stored in rows and columns of a memory array. A first 1-dimensional (1D) detector is moved in a first direction over the memory array. The first 1D detector includes a first cell under test and first and second training cells on opposite sides of the first cell under test. The first cell under test and the first and second training cells of the first 1D detector being aligned in the first direction. A second 1D detector is moved over the memory array. The second 1D detector includes a second cell under test and third and fourth training cells on opposite sides of the second cell under test. The second cell under test and the third and fourth training cells of the second 1D detector are aligned in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A radar sensor is described herein. In accordance with one example embodiment the radar sensor includes a transmitter for transmitting an RF signal and a receiver configured to receive a respective back-scattered signal from at least one radar target and to provide a corresponding digital radar signal. The radar sensor further includes a processor configured to convert the digital radar signal into the frequency do-main thus providing respective frequency domain data and to compress the frequency domain data. A communication interface is configured to transmit the compressed frequency domain data via a communication link operably coupled to the communication interface. Furthermore, respective and related radar methods and systems are described.

Abstract: An apparatus for light detection and ranging is provided. The apparatus includes a reflective surface configured to oscillate about a rotation axis, and a plurality of light sources each configured to controllably emit a respective light beam via an optical system onto the reflective surface. Further, the apparatus includes a controller configured to control emission times of the plurality of light sources so that the reflective surface emits a plurality of light beams to an environment according to a first sequence of beam directions for a first measurement, and according to a second sequence of beam directions for a subsequent second measurement.

Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a signal input circuit configured to receive a sensor signal from a radar sensor or from a lidar sensor and a processing circuit configured to determine a first condition based on a first representation of the sensor signal, and to generate an activation signal in response to the first condition.

Abstract: A radar device is disclosed including an input DMA module, at least one processing module, and an output DMA module. The input DMA module is arranged to access a memory and supply data from the memory to the at least one processing module, wherein each of the processing modules is arranged to be enabled or disabled. The at least one processing module that is enabled is arranged to process at least a portion of the data supplied by the input DMA module, and the output DMA module is arranged to store the data that are processed by the at least one processing module that is enabled in the memory. Also, a method for processing data by a radar device is provided.

Abstract: A radar device is disclosed that includes an input DMA module, at least one processing module, a histogram module, and an output DMA module. The input DMA module is configured to access a memory and supply data from the memory to the at least one processing module and/or to the histogram module. Each of the processing modules is configured to be enabled or disabled, wherein the at least one processing module that is enabled is configured to process at least a portion of the data supplied by the input DMA module, wherein the histogram module is fed by data from the at least processing module that is enabled and/or by the input DMA module. The output DMA module is configured to store the data that are processed by the at least one processing module that is enabled in the memory. Also, an according method is provided.

Abstract: A method for processing a radar signal is provided. The method may include receiving chirps of a radar signal, sampling the radar signal, dividing the samples that correspond to the chirp of the radar signal into at least two virtual chirps, and processing the radar signal based on the at least two virtual chirps. Also, a corresponding device is provided.

Abstract: A radar system is described. In accordance with one example implementation, the radar system comprises a passive coupler arrangement and also a first radar chip, a second radar chip and a third radar chip. The radar chips each comprise at least one external RF contact and also a local oscillator designed to generate an RF oscillator signal at least in a switched-on state. The external RF contacts of the radar chips are coupled via the coupler arrangement in such a way that, in a first operating mode, the RF oscillator signal can be transferred from the first radar chip via the coupler arrangement to the second radar chip and the third radar chip, and that, in a second operating mode, the RF oscillator signal can be transferred from the second radar chip via the coupler arrangement to the third radar chip.