This paper gives an overview of the current industry based projects in the field of vehicle modeling and simulation in the Duisburg Mechatronics Laboratory. It shows the wide range of research fields covered in Duisburg, including vehicle systems, vehicle dynamics, occupant safety, adaptive cruise control, power steering, hardware in the loop, fault tolerant real time systems and tolerance anal...

Interest in robotics in the domain of manufacturing industry has shown an outstanding growth recently in scenarios where human beings and robots are present simultaneously. Humans and robots often share the same workspace and this poses a lot of threats to the human safety issues [1] e.g. in manufacturing industry, in automobile industry where automobile components are integrated, in medical in...

This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of demand in the German automobile industry. Our primary goal is to refine the existing literature on that topic by exploring the impact of uniqueness seeking behaviour of individuals on the demand schedule. Using a dataset on the segment of compact cars in the German market, we show that consumers have an intrinsic need for uniqueness seeking, a...