This document is responding to the MoBIES “Automotive Challenge Problems”. It is prepared by the Mobies Phase 1 Berkeley team, whose project is entitled “Process-Based Software Components for Networked Embedded Systems.” The problems posed in the “Automotive Challenge Problems” paper are addresses one by one and our views on the problems are presented.

Model-based development was introduced to implementation design of automotive electronic controllers. The goals and issues of implementation design were discussed, and a model-based approach of processor-in-the-loop simulation was proposed as a method to meet the design goals. An application example of electronic throttle control of automotive engines was demonstrated with the processor-model.

In 2010, over 20.3 million vehicles were recalled. Software issues related to automotive controls such as cruise control, anti-lock braking system, traction control and stability control, account for an increasingly large percentage of the overall vehicles recalled. There is a need for new and scalable methods to evaluate automotive controls in a realistic and open setting. We have developed Au...

The applications of Global Positioning System (GPS) are increasingly widespread in China. GPS positioning is more and more popular. Especially, the automotive navigation system which relies on GPS and Dead Reckoning technology is developing quickly because of the anticipated huge future market in China. In this paper a practical combined positioning model of GPS/DR is put forward. This model de...

Flat tube heat exchangers with louvered fins were applied in order to meet the performance requirements and compactness in automotive air conditioning systems. Experimental and simulation study focusing on the air side thermal hydraulic performance of automotive heat exchangers were performed in this article. Test results showed that the heat capacity of a condenser with 5.4 mm height louvered ...

The use of networks for communications between the Electronic Control Units (ECU) of a vehicle in production cars dates from the beginning of the 90s. The speci c requirements of the di erent car domains have led to the development of a large number of automotive networks such as LIN, J1850, CAN, FlexRay, MOST, etc.. This paper rst introduces the context of in-vehicle embedded systems and, in p...

For new automotive applications and services, information technology (IT) has gained central importance. IT-related costs in car manufacturing are already high and they will increase dramatically in the future. Yet whereas safety and reliability have become a relatively well-established field, the protection of vehicular IT systems against systematic manipulation or intrusion has only recently ...

Future high-resolution short-range automotive radar will have a higher false alarm probability than the conventional low-resolution radar has. In a high-resolution radar, the reception signal becomes sensitive to the difference between intended and unintended objects. However, automotive radars must distinguish targets from background objects that are the same order of size; it leads to an incr...

This paper provides a nutshell description of how the recently published proposal of a translation quality metric for automotive service information is applicable in an evaluation scenario that deploys multilingual human language technology (mHLT). This proposal is the result of the J2450 task force group of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). The main focus of the developed metric is on...