Abstract: A method determines support points for estimating a progression of roadside development of a road. The method determines a position of a first support point in the surroundings of a vehicle; determines a plurality of regions in a travel direction and/or counter to the travel direction of the vehicle on the basis of the position of the first support point; and determines support points of roadside development for each of the determined regions in the travel direction, counter to the travel direction and left and right of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method and a device for optimal use of windable material during winding up onto and/or unwinding from storage drums operates in conjunction with feeding to winding machines. The windable material can be a textile web, a fabric web, a wire or the like. A counterforce necessary for keeping the tension force acting on the windable material constant is maintained until all of the windable material has been fed into subsequent processing. The counterforce may be maintained by a connecting element that is connected to the windable material and to the storage drum, is able to be wound up, and is of lower quality than the windable material. In the device, controllable means generate the counterforce counteracting the tension force until all of the windable material has been drawn into the subsequent processing device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting one or more objects in an environment of a vehicle, the environment being bounded by a perimeter, the method comprising: segmenting the environment into a plurality of segments such that each segment of the plurality of segments is at least partially bounded by the perimeter of the environment; detecting one or more detection points based on the one or more objects in the environment of the vehicle; combining the one or more detection points into one or more clusters based on a spatial proximity of the one or more detection points; and assigning a state to each of the segments of the plurality of segments based on the one or more detected detection points and/or based on the one or more combined clusters. The present disclosure further relates to a system for detecting one or more objects in a vehicle environment and a vehicle comprising the system.

Abstract: A method determines support points for estimating a progression of roadside development of a road. The method determines a position of a first support point in the surroundings of a vehicle; determines a plurality of regions in a travel direction and/or counter to the travel direction of the vehicle on the basis of the position of the first support point; and determines support points of roadside development for each of the determined regions in the travel direction, counter to the travel direction and left and right of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method and a device for optimal use of windable material during winding up onto and/or unwinding from storage drums operates in conjunction with feeding to winding machines. The windable material can be a textile web, a fabric web, a wire or the like. A counterforce necessary for keeping the tension force acting on the windable material constant is maintained until all of the windable material has been fed into subsequent processing. The counterforce may be maintained by a connecting element that is connected to the windable material and to the storage drum, is able to be wound up, and is of lower quality than the windable material. In the device, controllable means generate the counterforce counteracting the tension force until all of the windable material has been drawn into the subsequent processing device.