The integration of modern IT technologies into vehicles brings up several new challenges in automotive systems engineering. While current technology aspires an exclusive use of electrical and electronic control systems for relevant functions, such as engine control or X-by-wire systems, growing dependency on electronic systems increases the vulnerability of modern cars to both accidental and in...

In-car electronics plays an important role in many automotive applications, such as, for example, steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire, and is expected to gradually replace mechanical or hydraulic means to control these systems. The number of electronic components in a car has therefore significantly grown up, thus leading important implications on the vehicle engineering process. In particular, in-...

Associative Data elds in Automotive Control by Manfred Schmitt1 , Thorsten Ullrich2 and Henning Tolle3 Abstract This work presents an associative data eld structure that has been developed for automotive control applications by the Institute of Control Engineering, Department of Control Systems Theory and Robotics at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Robert Bosch GmbH. In contrast t...

Todays in-vehicle IT architectures are dominated by a large network of interactive, software driven digital microprocessors called electronic control units (ECU). However, ECUs relying on information received from open communication channels created by other ECUs or even other vehicles that are not under its control leaves the doors wide open for manipulations or misuse. Thus, especially safety...

The publication of the ISO 26262 (”Road vehicles – Functional safety”) as Draft International Standard (DIS) and its expected release as international standard in 2011 has a substantial impact on the development of automotive software. By defining the current state of technique for the development of safe automotive software, the lack of or inadequate use of these techniques has severe legal co...