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In a method for controlling a robot arm, which is particularly suitable for use in medical applications, a robot arm (10) with a redundant number of joints is used. A torque acting in at least one joint (12a, 12b) is sensed. By means of a control device, the torque acting in this joint (12a, 12b) is controlled to become substantially 0.

A method is proposed for automatically moving a vehicle (10, 50) from a handover zone (18) to an assigned parking place (24) within a predefined parking space (20) and for automatically driving the vehicle (10, 50) out of a parking space and moving said vehicle to a pick-up zone (19), wherein the vehicles (10, 50) travelling within the predefined parking space (20) are located by means of a parking place monitoring system comprising at least one sensor unit (30) arranged in a stationary manner and information about the current vehicle position is transmitted to a central control unit (15). The central control unit (15) transmits information to the vehicle (10, 50) so that the vehicle (10, 50) can be guided autonomously within the parking space (20) along a trajectory (40, 45) based on the information. According to the invention, the sensor units (30) are arranged such that certain regions (32) of the parking space are monitored with a high accuracy by the sensor units (30) and other regions of the parking space (31) are monitored with a lower accuracy by the sensor units, wherein overlapping regions (42, 44) of trajectories of other vehicles are determined with the trajectory of the central control unit (15), and the trajectory (40, 45) is adjusted such that an overlapping region (42, 44) in a region (32) of the parking space (20) which is monitored with high accuracy by the sensor units (30) comes to rest.

An apparatus for monitoring one or more target objects in an environment external to a host vehicle by means of at least one sensor, the apparatus being arranged to trigger at least one action responsive to the detection of prescribed relative movement between the host vehicle and the one or more target objects. The apparatus is arranged to determine whether the at least one sensor is correctly aligned with respect to the host vehicle whereby, when the apparatus commences monitoring of the environment, the apparatus is arranged not to trigger the at least one action until the apparatus has determined that the at least one sensor is correctly aligned.

An aircraft engine attachment configured to be inserted between an engine and an EMS, the attachment including a clevis connected to a first fixing device including an end fitting with two arms and a pin passing through the clevis and the two arms, in each of which an orifice is formed including a first ring and a second ring respectively holding the pin. The first ring includes a bottom acting as a stop for a first end of the pin, and the first attachment device includes a mechanism to stop the pin in translation cooperating with a second end of the pin.