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The SIRPA project aims at developing a multifunction automotive sensor with the integration, on a single CMOS array, of several sensing functions presently provided by different sensors. Such multifunctional sensor will be used to detect a number of critical environmental parameters, such as the luminance of the background and the visibility (in the presence of fog, rain and windshield dimming), while...
To improve driving safety it is of outmost importance to guarantee that the windshield never starts fogging by means of an automatic and reliable procedure. To reach this goal and keeping always in mind comfort and fuel consumption, a fogging condition estimation algorithm has been developed. It requires a Mean Radiant Temperature (MRT) sensor and a humidity sensor. The MRT sensor is placed on the...
With its 375 million road users, mobility and transport is a concern for citizens throughout Europe. Modern society depends on mobility as an efficient transport system is the engine of our economy. The transport sector employs more than 10 million people with expenditure of more than 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Europe. The automotive sector manufactures about 17 million vehicles per...
Next generation car architecture will be marked by seamless component integration. The „Mechatronics Concept“ enables composable architectures in the car and will lead to increased development quality. The upcoming of LIN™ and FlexRay™ based networking systems in the car is in line with this new development paradigm, marked by model based system development, where the system design is supported by...
Modern in-vehicle telematics systems typically integrate a broad range of entertainment features, like AM/FM radio, TV, and CD/MP3/ DVD players, with advanced navigation and communication features and present them to the user through a consistent automotive-adequate interface. In the future, passengers will be able to access and control these features independently through their own consoles. For...
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), based on the Eureka-147 specification is rapidly gaining a foothold in the consumer market, with an increasing number of broadcasters in many countries promoting the new services that DAB offers, as well as the excellent audio reproduction made possible through digital transmission. Additionally, DAB offers significant extra capability for in-car infotainment...
The purpose of this paper is to show how starting from the customer specifications the basic methodologies of software development have been applied to the realizations of two ATE (Automatic Testing Equipments) for the functional verification and validation of two automotive devices with specific complex constraints in the functional and real time domains, with body/comfort and HMI functionalities...
Digital convergence, in recent history, has been prevalent in the consumer equipment domain and the design engineers in this area have been struggling with a plethora of emerging standards and protocols. What lessons can we learn from their struggle? The same dilemmas now exist in in-vehicle telematics and infotainment systems but with the added issues of extremes of temperature, safety, security...
The development of new powertrain functions has many goals: more power and torque, low fuel consumption and emission, best driving performance and a brand specific acoustics. In the future the accuracy of control in Motor Control Units (MCU) will increase more and more. For this reason open loop control will replaced by closed loop control. New and/or other values are needed for better algorithms...
A new European On Board Diagnostic system (EOBD) for real time monitoring of emissions from gasoline engines has been developed, set up and applied in order to satisfy the Euro 3 and Euro 4 regulations. The new system has been required in order to control the performances of fuel injection, closed-loop control and three-way catalyst [1]. The EOBD system has been legislated by the Directives...
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