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A look at the creation and distribution of automotive navigation software at TomTom shows how automotive software has changed and might further change.
Market readiness of on-board automotive software-intensive systems is tightly linked to the availability of appropriate certification schemes aimed at keeping the car makers confident and the consumers safe - especially in the context of Autonomous Driving, which is the next frontier of the automotive industry. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are going to be pervasively used in modern automobiles...
Modern passenger cars are no longer mechanically dominated systems; their customer value and physical behavior are greatly influenced by electric/electronic systems and software. Therefore technical and economic importance of electric and electronic functions is increasing in the automotive industry over the last few years. Today's demands on infotainment- and driver assistance systems and the ambition...
Motor vehicle theft has caused massive economic loss over the world. This paper proposes an embedded vision system to detect automotive interior intrusion. The system uses a fusion of an acceleration module and a vision module to meet the requirement of low power consumption for most motor vehicles. Furthermore, an effective intrusion detection algorithm is developed for the on-board vision module...
The aim of this paper is to describe the current status and future utilization of multi band automotive radar sensors. One of the major struggles is to find a reasonable tradeoff between maximal ambiguity in range and range resolution. The content of the paper consists of the state-of-the-art as well as an application of a new approach using a multiband radar sensor. Measurement results of a multiband...
An always-growing number of cars are equipped with radars, mainly used for drivers and passengers' safety. In particular, according to European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) one specific frequency band is dedicated to automatic cruise control long-range radar operating around 77 GHz (W-band). After the discussion of the Mie scattering formulation applied to a weather radar working...
Nowadays, common cars are equipped with set of sensors, systems and technologies commonly used to improve car and passengers' safety and comfort. These cars are often referred to with the innovative conception of “car as a sensor”. A car can be also thought as a moving integrated weather sensor since it can provide meteorological information along specific tracks, exploiting all the information acquired...
This work aims to provide an overview and updates, compared to the existing or previous literature in the same field, on vehicular antennas and related services. Current trends and future possible implications stemming from the evolving demand of antennas and connectivity in automobiles, light and heavy trucks, and other vehicles, are investigated and synthesized. Antennas for professional, public,...
Automotive systems are constantly increasing in complexity and size. Beside the increase of requirements specifications and related test specification due to new systems and higher system interaction, we observe an increase of redundant specifications. As the predominant specification language (both for requirements and test cases) is still natural text, it is not easy to detect these redundancies...
Component and Connector (C&C) view specifications, with corresponding verification and synthesis techniques, have been recently suggested as a means for formal yet intuitive structural specification of C&C models. In this paper we report on our recent experience in applying C&C views in industrial practice, where we aimed to answer questions such as: could C&C views be practically...
Flat panel displays in automobiles have a long history, starting with simple segment displays for the depiction of HVAC information, radio station or odometer in the instrument panel. The first full color active matrix LCD has been introduced in cockpits more than 20 years ago, in order to show information of navigation systems or an integrated board computers (e.g. phone, climate, infotainment)....
Modern driver assistance systems are often using a wide range of equipped sensors as primary data source. The reliability of each sensor is specified by the manufacturer and influences the system reliability distinctly. To prevent potential fatal system failures, diverse failure prevention mechanisms are included. Nevertheless, a certain level of reliability of the system has to be guaranteed to meet...
Modern automotive vehicles with their included sensors, recording environmental parameters and also a multitude of car- and traffic-related data have developed into complex mobile systems in the time of Internet of Things and Big Data. These data recorded can be characterized as “spatio-temporal” by their nature and can, thus, be classified as “geodata”, which enables comprehensive analysis and visualizations...
Internet's mature has changed the behavior of consumers. Most of consumers before purchase will queries opinion on the Internet. Vehicle is high priced and durable merchandise, so consumer would be more prudent to view Internet opinion before they buy. Past research has pointed out eWOM (electronic Word-of-Mouth) and customer satisfaction will influence purchasing decision, 70% of consumers believe...
In this paper, we propose and implement two electronic control unit (ECU) architectures for real-time automotive cyber-physical systems that incorporate security and dependability primitives with low resources and energy overhead. These ECUs architectures follow the multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) design paradigm wherein the ECUs have multiple heterogeneous processing engines with specific functionalities...
Meta-modeling has been a topic of interest in the modeling community for many years, yielding substantial number of papers describing its theoretical concepts. Many of them are aiming to solve the problem of traditional UML based domain-specific meta-modeling related to its non-compliance to the strict meta-modeling principle, such as the deep meta-modeling approach. In this paper, we show the practical...
Drowsy driving is the primary cause of motor vehicle accidents and is a risk factor that leads to the loss of human life, remaining as a challenge for the global automotive industry. Recently, drowsy monitoring system has been actively studied for prediction system based machine learning. However, the challenges of automotive real-time constraints and flexibility should be taken into consideration...
The Automotive industry is changing rapidly, as classical automotive engineering and information and communication technologies (ICT) converge. Digitization, new mobility concepts, e-mobility, and autonomous driving require a permanent connection with the Internet and transform the car into a very complex cyber-physical system. However, with this connectivity the car becomes vulnerable to cyber attacks...
The aim of the paper is to give an overview on the existing eCall solutions for autonomous car accident detection. The requirements and expectations for such systems, considering both technological possibilities, legal regulatory criteria and market demands are discussed. Sensors utilized in e-call systems (crash sensing, systems for positional and velocity data, and communication solutions) are overviewed...
Automotive Machine Type Communication (MTC) features three groups of applications: safety, road traffic efficiency and infotainment. The concrete set of automotive applications is yet uncertain. This application uncertainty and, thus communication traffic uncertainty, directly translates into the need for a highly flexible traffic model. Traffic model is required in order to chose appropriate communication...
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