Can We Achieve Zero Deaths on the Road?
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The monthly magazine for automotive electronics engineers Issue 05 May 2014 Can we achieve zero IN THIS deaths on the road? ISSUE Fisita congress to explore hot topic in Netherlands in June Page 2: Help to beat recalls How BMW and Euro biomechanics to sensors, Cliff De Locht from NCap are working to - electronics and software, Melexis in Belgium. Page 3: Commercial gether to achieve the vi - the advanced safety tech - The aim of the event is vehicle collaboration sion of zero deaths from nology sessions will re - to bring the international traffic accidents looks set veal the latest updates automotive engineering Page 5: Autonet and to be the hot topic at that are relevant for engi - community together to Visteon partnership June’s Fisita World Auto - neers around the world.” address the theme: “Intel - motive Congress in the The session will take ligent transport to solve Page 6: Autotronics Netherlands. place on Thursday 5 June our future mobility, safety report An executive track 2014 and the whole event and environmental chal - focussing on advanced will run from 2 to 6 June lenges and to address the Page 14: Assessing safety technologies will at the MECC Maastricht. most important issues and automotive radio be led by global safety The last day of the con - challenges being faced by timers experts Michiel van gress will include a the automotive industry.” Ratingen, secretary gen - keynote provided by The programme is Page 20: Guarding eral at Euro NCap, and Adrian Lund, president of made up of 59 presenta - connected cars Klaus Kompass, head of the Insurance Institute for tions covering: systems against hackers vehicle safety at BMW. Highway Safety and the for crash avoidance or “Following decades of Highway Loss Data Insti - mitigation; requirements, Page 24: Infra-red innovation in automotive tute in the USA. The title standards, regulations and sensors for air safety including vehicle will be: “Advanced safety consumer tests; pre-crash, conditioning structures, advanced ma - technologies and other in-crash and post-crash terials, crumple zones, guideposts on the road to accidentology in the light Page 28: Circuit occupant restraints and vision zero.” of safety; crashworthiness protection recent developments in Other speakers will in - and occupant protection; techniques crash avoidance technolo - clude Monica Pla from functional safety, engi - gies, the horizon is Idiada Automotive in neering methodology and Page 33: Product widening for engineers Spain, Jitendra Shah from software architecture; and news with an eye to the future,” Ford Forschungszentrum protection of vulnerable said van Ratingen. “From Aachen in Germany and road users. Page 38: Contact vehicle-electronics.biz details NEWS NEWS Workshop to help UQM and Kinetics integrate electric beat expensive recalls motor and transmission for CVs A half-day workshop to lenge for developers,” techniques such as live UQM Technologies and fewer engineering vari - the HD 220 with 700Nm transmission is a three- explain and demonstrate said Barry Lock, UK trace, code coverage and Kinetics Drive are collab - ables. Systems will use of peak torque and speed dual-clutch trans - how the more advanced manager of Lauterbach. code analysis. orating to offer a robust UQM Powerphase HD 220kW of peak power, mission that works with debug tools are enabling “Developing reliable “We ran a similar work - integrated electric motor electric motors and con - the HD 950T with the electric motor to re - developers to produce code is now a big issue, shop last year, and it and multi-speed transmis - trollers combined with 950Nm of torque and duce torque interruption higher performance code as the cost of failure in proved very popular,” sion system for commer - Kinetics Nexdrive trans - 140kW of peak power during gear shifting. It while speeding up reli - the field is so expensive. said conference organiser cial vehicle applications missions. and the HD 250, which is also enables the electric able code development Whether it is the damage Richard Blackburn. Franz Maidl that will benefit from a The Powerphase HD a high-voltage variant motor to operate at peak will be one of the high - to the brand of the prod - The events will include full system approach. electric motors and con - with 250kW of peak or near peak efficiency lights of this year’s series uct, or simply the cost of both software and hard - Altium joins This system is engi - trollers were developed power and 900Nm of for better battery per - of Device Developers’ the recall, investment in ware streams. Some key neered to provide com - for commercial vehicle torque. formance and vehicle Conferences. debug tools has become a topics for this year’s Autosar mercial vehicle manufact- applications, and include The Nexdrive EV3-850 range. The one-day events will critical business decision. event include Android de - urers with an efficient be in Bristol, Cambridge, This workshop will give velopment, device-to- Altium has joined the Au - electric drive powertrain Harwin sponsors Munich Ecoteam Manchester and Scotland, engineers the chance to cloud technology, open tosar development part - while reducing develop - UK, on 20th and 22nd explore what they can ex - source software for criti - nership. The company‘s ment time for integration. May and 3rd and 5th pect from the higher end cal systems, and gui and offering for the automo - “As we work with mul - June, respectively. of debug technology.” HMI development.” tive industry comprises tiple partners in China German debug tool The workshop will in - Attendance at the con - the Tasking suite of em - and other regions of the company Lauterbach will volve delegates being ference, including the se - bedded tools and Altium world, it has become host the workshop. hands-on, using hardware ries of 40-minute Designer IDE. clear that for some the “As software has be - assisted debug tools at - technical presentations, is The Tasking develop - ability to offer a complete come far more complex tached to Arm Cortex-M free to engineers and ment tools are used by system will be a competi - and is running at ever hardware, running a real- project managers. The suppliers within the auto - tive advantage,” said Eric faster speeds, detecting time application. Dele - half-day workshops are motive industry to pro - Ridenour, president of bugs is now a major chal - gates will explore subject to a charge. gramme microcontroller UQM Technologies. based powertrain, driver “By collaborating with assistance and safety ap - Kinetics we are able to Hella and Vahle in wireless initiative Connector-maker Harwin is sponsoring the TUFast Ecoteam from plications. offer those customers a Technical University Munich (TU Munich) for the Shell Eco- Hella is working with America, said if inductive challenges still must be “Altium is working proven powertrain sys - Marathon this month in Rotterdam. The team uses several highly reli - German firm Paul Vahle charging coils were em - overcome. Energy trans - with the world’s leading tem. The combined able and rugged Datamate and Hotshoe connectors in its to develop wireless bedded in streets, electric fer over high-frequency automotive manufactur - strengths of our systems, energy-efficient race car. charging systems to spark vehicles could be fields on inductive sys - ers and truly appreciates our combined marketing The event challenges students to design, build and drive the most en - renewed consumer inter - recharged when stopped tems, for example, causes the importance of interna - power and our recent ergy-efficient car. At three events around the world, hundreds of teams est in electric and hybrid- at traffic lights or even heat to build up in metal tional software stan - ISO/TS 16949 registra - compete to travel the furthest on the equivalent of one litre of fuel. All electric vehicles. while being driven. objects which could lead dards,” said Franz Maidl, tion will expand our reach types of drive concepts and energy sources are allowed, including bat - Inductive or wireless "Wireless, inductive to safety issues. managing director of the in these important mar - tery, petrol and diesel, as well as bio fuel, hydrogen and solar. charging for cars will charging is a far more The impact wireless global Tasking business kets.” At the Rotterdam 2014 event, the cars must travel a fixed route of make it easier for drivers convenient way to charging has on other ve - at Altium. “Our align - Key advantages will be about 16.3km in a maximum allowed time of 39 minutes with an aver - to charge car batteries and recharge a vehicle's bat - hicle electronics such as ment with Autosar will a fully integrated and cal - age speed of at least 25km/h. The consumed energy is exactly meas - extend a vehicle's driving tery system," Rosenmayr navigation, infotainment, enable us to continually ibrated system that allows ured and converted to get the equivalent of kilometrage per one litre of range. said. driver-assistance and key - evolve our product offer - quicker time to market regular petrol. Marc Rosenmayr, CEO But he said technologi - less entry systems also ing in line with open in - and reduced development for Hella Electronics in cal and infrastructure needs to be studied. dustry standards.” time and cost, as well as Page 2, May 2014 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics May 2014, Page 3 NEWS NEWS University lands £2.85m to develop Autonet and Visteon partner low carbon vehicle technologies to hit connected car market The University of Not - be involved in helping to tingham in the UK has further improve the effi - Visteon is to integrate Au - lation rate of 50% by while being compatible been awarded £2.85m to ciency of the Ecoboost tonet Mobile’s telematics 2018,” said Marty Thall, with essential vehicle run two major engine re - engine.” technology into its next- Visteon’s president.