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...

Local automobile garage workers carry out daily workshop operations, which sometimes lead to accidents and injuries. Therefore, this study was carried out to establish a relationship between automobile workshop operations causing accidents and safety practices among local garage workers in Ghana. Three main data collection approaches were used in the study namely focus group discussions (10 FGD...

Over the past five years, there has been considerable growth and established value in the practice of modeling automotive software requirements. Much of this growth has been centered on requirements of software associated with the established functional areas of an automobile, such as those associated with powertrain, chassis, body, safety and infotainment. This paper makes a case for modeling ...

Computer has become the most significant helper and tool around the world. It is used in all kinds of electronic devices and improves their usability much. Automobile is a great example in this topic to show how computer changes the way people interact with an item. During the past decades, more and more mechanical devices in automobile are replaced by electrical substitutions and the interface...

The present study compares the safety-related content of automobile advertising with government-sponsored crash test evaluations. It examines all major automakers and their respective divisions and observes the claims made regarding specific vehicle models in relation to their individual crash test scores. This comparison facilitates analysis regarding the relationship between automakers’ state...

This paper proposes remote vehicle diagnostic system with handset, which has same functionality of conventional scanner, automobile diagnosis device. It consists of remote server, mobile handset application and a connecting device. Remote server has vehicle diagnosis database. Mobile handset application relays automobile signals and controls the flow of data packets. Using connecting device, us...