Topics on the field of vehicle mechatronics

Component level design

• modeling
• qualitative specifications (trajectory following, driving stability, comfort, fuel, exhaust emissions),
• robust control methods and algorithms

Cooperative control

Ensure the cooperation of the vehicles with the goals of (reducing fuel consumption and emissions).

Effects of the V2I/V2V communication:

• Transport (average speed, vehicle density, waiting time)
• Driving assistance (parking and lane/object detection)
• Safety (detecting potentially dangerous situations, safety/hazards of changing lanes, warning of rapid deceleration/stop)

Intergated control design

Coordinated control of the influencing dynamic active actuators to prescribe operational requirements, in order to guarantee and increase safety and reliability.

• Priority: ensuring the hierarchy between the actuators
• Reconfigurable: guarantee of the changed quality tasks
• Fault-tolerance control: manages the possible failure of the component

Coordinating the control system of the vehicle with the driver and the infrastructure

Factors of the Multi-criteria design task

• travelling and shipping
• energy demand, consumption
• topography
• restrictive boards, prescript
• transporting vehicles
• exhaust emissions
• driver demands

Communication

Collecting vehicle state information, this information is safely used for developing new functions

Vehicle networks

• CAN, LIN, FlexRay
• Wireless data transfer

V2V and V2I communication

• ad-hoc networks between vehicles

Cloud computing

• Vehicle gateways
• Smartphone platforms
• Vehicle fleet management

Embedded systems

Developing future functions, requirements, and architecture of automotive electronic control units.

• Automotive microcontroller architectures
• Hardware design
• Software design
• Environmental resistance testing, automotive quality assurance standards
• Sensorfusion
• Autonomous functions
• Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing and simulations.