In this paper we explore the opportunities of improving the testing and verification phases of product development in the automotive industry, through a combination of broadband telematic services and tools and methods for distributed collaborative engineering. The development of a prototype system for remote vehicle testing is described, and experiences from experimental usage of the system at...

Increased safety, comfort and emission norms are pushing the complexity of vehicle systems up exponentially. Model-based development processes have increasingly been adopted for the development of automotive embedded control software to help implement the complex systems and reduce the development time. Model-based and autocode technology has become mature and brings many advantages in automoti...

In the competitive world, irrespective of vendors of automotive manufacturing, the concept of standardization becomes the key to success in the business as well as providing the quality of service to the customers. Increased and efficient functional capabilities of the vehicle functional domain, plays a major role and that decides the market of any vehicle. The standardization of automotive in-...

Battery second use-putting used plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) batteries into secondary service following their automotive tenure-has been proposed as a means to decrease the cost of PEVs while providing low cost energy storage to other fields (e.g., electric utility markets). To understand the value of used automotive batteries, however, we must first answer several key questions related to ba...

The use of selective industrial policy to re-integrate South Africa’s previously protected automotive industry into the global business is one of the few successful cases on the African continent in recent times. South Africa’s success provides a useful reference point for other African countries in which selective industrial policy is a key part of national development strategy. Despite the re...

Current trends in embedded systems software for the automotive domain aim at an increase of reusability, exchangeability and maintainability, and thus at a significant reduction of timeand costs-to-market. One way to reach these goals is the adaption of Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) for resource constrained embedded systems. The Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR), an up...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is expected to increase efficiency and transparency in the automotive supply chain. The lack of data standards in the automotive industry has been identified as one of the principal barriers for RFID adoption and diffusion in cross-company environments. At present the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) is reviewing the existing AIAG B-11 Item Level RFI...

Silicon W-band automotive radars have been an active areas of research and development in the past 12 years, and are in wide use by the automotive industry for collision avoidance and cruise control [1-4]. Recently, several silicon chips have been developed for automotive radars with scanning (or switch-beam capabilities), and the scanning systems are based on digital or RF beamforming techniqu...

A pool of competing modeling solutions have been proposed to cope with the problems induced by the growing complexity of automotive embedded systems, i.e. the E/E (Electric/Electronic) systems of automobiles. As the principal features of these solutions are axed around modularization and high level of abstraction, it is necessary to investigate their ability to support the implementation. An ob...

Automotive Systems A u to m o tive Sstem s Th e fuel pressure control system (FPCS) was developed to comply with increasingly strict fuel-effi ciency and emissions regulations by improving fuel economy and reducing emissions. It controls the discharge fl ow rate of the fuel pump and fuel injection pressure in accordance with engine operating conditions. Past fuel supply systems have operated th...