Compliant assemblies are widely used in automobiles and airplanes etc. In order to simplify the complex assembly sequence planning problem of compliant assemblies involving dimensional variation caused by deformation, a two-step assembly sequence planning method is proposed in this paper. Meanwhile, an example of a wingbox assembly is used to explain the principle of the method. In the first st...

Present Automobiles are being developed by more of electrical parts for efficient operation. Generally a vehicle was built with an analog driver-vehicle interface for indicating various vehicle status like speed, fuel level, Engine temperature etc., This paper presents the development and implementation of a digital driving system for a semi-autonomous vehicle to improve the driver-vehicle inte...

The architectures of modern automobiles are heterogeneous distributed integrated architectures that integrate multiple heterogeneous processing units and network buses with a central gateway. Modern automotive embedded systems combine the related characteristics of real-time, cyber-physical, mixed-criticality, and heterogeneous distributed systems; moreover, such systems must meet specific func...

Based on our experience in the DARPA Urban Challenge and on current trends in consumer automobiles, we believe that driver assistance systems can be significantly improved by new techniques in control and sensing that have been developed for fully-autonomous driving. In particular, from the control community, real-time Model Predictive Control (MPC) can be used as the next generation of cruise ...