Authors: Werner Kober, Martin Ehmann and Torsten Butz The increasing number of vehicle dynamics control systems in modern vehicles requires a fully integrated concept, which considers the different controller functions and adjusts them with respect to each other. The modelbased development and the verification of the global chassis controller of Magna Steyr is presented with reference to the co...

The Current Steering Data Converter with Thermometer technique is designed and analyzed utilizing 180nm technology in Cadence Virtuoso Simulation tool along with power supply of 1. 8 V. Implementation of DAC is accomplished in such a manner that the output results subsume less non-linearities and less glitches. A novel design is proposed to ameliorate the differential non-linearities and glitch...

Message from the Steering Committee Chair Program Chair's Message Conference Chairs Keynote Address: 21st Century Gigascale Integration (GSI) Reviewers List Panel: Low Power versus High Speed: Can you have both? Uniform Area Timing-Driven Circuit Implementation p. 2 Optimization Using Implicit Techniques for Industrial Designs p. 8 Optimal Technology Mapping for Single Output Cells p. 14 A Diff...

This paper presents a 12-bit 150-MHz current steering DAC with hierarchical symmetrical switching sequence that compensates gradient errors. The circuit of the DAC employs segmented architecture; the least significant bits (LSBs) steer a binary weighted array, while the most significant bits (MSBs) are thermometer decoded and steer a unary array. The measured differential nonlinearity and integ...

A fully mobile remote-sensing system based on the lidar principle is described. With this system, atmospheric probing using Mie scattering, differential absorption, or Raman techniques can be performed yielding information on atmospheric pollutants or general atmospheric parameters. The system incorporates a powerful Nd:YAG laser pumping a dye laser and is equipped with a fixed Newtonian telesc...

This note proposes a model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for the solution of a robust control problem for continuous-time systems. Discontinuous feedback strategies are allowed in the solution of the min–max problems to be solved. The use of such strategies allows MPC to address a large class of nonlinear systems, including among others nonholonomic systems. Robust stability conditions to ...

This paper describes a motion controller for differential drive vehicles with a compensation for castor wheel turn forces. The controller has been developed for electric wheelchairs with two front castor wheels, which require large steering forces to move into the direction given by the joystick in situations where a sharp turn of the castor wheels is needed. It computes the required forces to ...

Visual control of locomotion typically involves both detection of current egomotion as well as anticipation of impending changes in trajectory. To determine if there are distinct neural systems involved in these aspects of steering control we used a slalom paradigm, which required participants to steer around objects in a computer simulated environment using a joystick. In some trials the whole...