Patents by Inventor Bernd Kast

Bernd Kast 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).

  • Publication number: 20230418249
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a computer-implemented method for executing a technical process comprising hierarchically structured tasks. The technical process includes modification of physical units. The method may include: providing dependency specifications for hierarchically structured tasks; deriving parallelization options from the dependency specifications; generating a first action sequence based on the parallelization options; and executing the first action sequence. The first action sequence implements the hierarchically structured tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sebastian Albrecht, Bernd Kast, Wendelin Feiten
  • Publication number: 20220226991
    Abstract: At least one robot is disclosed for object manipulation on the basis of a probabilistic approach without object detection by visual sensors, a probability distribution is determined approximately by an iterative, recursive application of a Bayes filter algorithm, wherein state transition probabilities obtained, in a nondeterministic motion model for system simulation, are multiplicatively linked with measurement probabilities obtained at the start of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Bernd Kast, Philipp Sebastian Schmitt, Florian Wirnshofer
  • Patent number: 11378924
    Abstract: Provided is a state data of the technical system are captured and fed into a controller, which is configurable by control parameters, in order to control the technical system on the basis of the state data. Furthermore, complexity data quantifying a present computation complexity for the controller are captured and transmitted to a control planner. The control planner takes the complexity data as a basis for ascertaining an updated control parameter that renders the control currently more performant, according to a predefined performance measure, than as a result of the previous control parameter. The controller is then reconfigured by the updated control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sebastian Albrecht, Bernd Kast, Armin Nurkanovic
  • Patent number: 11327474
    Abstract: Producing a product, differently detailed structural information about a structure of the product and digital machining information about a machining process are read in. The structural information is examined as to whether a respective item of structural information is given further detail by a respective other structure. A plurality of machining sequences are generated from the structural information and machining information so that an item of structural information from a first machining sequence is given detail by an item of structural information from a second machining sequence. The first machining sequence is transmitted to a first planning module and the second machining sequence is transmitted to a second planning module. The planning modules generate an action sequence as a planning result, which is considered by the second planning module during generation of the action sequence. Control signals are output by the action sequence generated by the second planning module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernd Kast, Sebastian Albrecht, Wendelin Feiten
  • Publication number: 20210333766
    Abstract: Provided is a state data of the technical system are captured and fed into a controller, which is configurable by control parameters, in order to control the technical system on the basis of the state data. Furthermore, complexity data quantifying a present computation complexity for the controller are captured and transmitted to a control planner. The control planner takes the complexity data as a basis for ascertaining an updated control parameter that renders the control currently more performant, according to a predefined performance measure, than as a result of the previous control parameter. The controller is then reconfigured by the updated control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Sebastian Albrecht, Bernd Kast, Armin Nurkanovic
  • Publication number: 20210247750
    Abstract: Producing a product differently detailed structural information about a structure of the product and digital machining information about a machining process are read in. The structural information is examined as to whether a respective item of structural information is given further detail by a respective other structure. A plurality of machining sequences are generated from the structural information and machining information so that an item of structural information from a first machining sequence is given detail by an item of structural information from a second machining sequence. The first machining sequence is transmitted to a first planning module and the second machining sequence is transmitted to a second planning module. The planning modules generate an action sequence as a planning result, which is considered by the second planning module during generation of the action sequence. Control signals are output by the action sequence generated by the second planning module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd Kast, Sebastian Albrecht, Wendelin Feiten
  • Patent number: 4135043
    Abstract: Polymers in powder form are manufactured by polymerizing water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomers, which form hydrophilic polymers, in a powder bed of polymers of water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated compounds in the presence of polymerization initiators and water as an auxiliary liquid, the water being entirely or partially removed from the polymerization zone by evaporation during the polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Kast, Joachim Stedefeder, Axel Sanner, Hans-Uwe Schenck, Richard Thoma, Hermann Fischer