2 Foreword Foreword How can the automotive-specific language EAST-ADL contribute in solving present challenges in the development of automotive systems? Cornerstones of high quality embedded systems are mature engineering techniques using model-based development and standardized, reliable architectures. Industrial experience shows that model-based development techniques are required in the auto...

Silver is a tool used by automotive development engineers to integrate and test control software virtually us ing simulation on Windows PCs. Silver provides built-in support for automotive standards such as A2L, MDF, CAN, and XCP to perform co-execution of control software and vehicle simulation models. In this paper, we describe Silver and its application to automotive software development.

Automotive multiplexing allows sharing information among various intelligent modules inside an automotive electronic system. In order to achieve an optimum functionality, the information should be exchanged among various electronic modules in real time. Data-reduction techniques are used to send the data over a transmission medium at a high speed. They can be employed in automotive multiplexing...

The verification of complex mixed-signal integrated circuit products in the automotive industry accounts for around 60%–70% of the total development time. In such scenario, any effort to reduce the design and verification costs and to improve the time-to-market and the product quality will play an important role to boost up the competitiveness of the automotive industry. The aim of the HARMONIA...

Without further advances in standardization it no longer be possible to master the growing complexity of automotive electronics. In the 1990s automotive OEMs such as DaimlerChrysler went to great efforts to establish the OSEK[1] embedded operating system as a binding standard for in-house developments and supplier components. Today the real-time and multitasking capable operating system is used...

Automotive radar systems utilizing the millimeterwave band have been developed 2) since they can detect targets even in bad weather. In the automotive radar systems, linear polarization inclined 45 degrees is utilized in order to avoid mutual radio interference between them. The antenna for the automotive radar systems is required to have high efficiency, which means high gain against for an ap...

In this paper an H∞ controller is designed for a hydraulically actuated active suspension system of a half-modeled vehicle in a cascade feedback structure. Using the proposed structure the nonlinear behavior of actuator is reduced significantly. In the controller synthesis, a proportional controller is used in the inner loop, and a robust H∞ controller forms the outer loop. Two H∞ controllers a...

In this paper, we propose an overview and a benchmark of the most classic semi-active suspension control laws. Based on a recent result where the optimal semi-active performance trade-off was derived (see Poussot-Vassal et al. (2010)), here, a complete benchmark to evaluate the main semi-active suspension control design methods is proposed. The present paper gives a quick picture of the present...