AUTOSAR supports the re-use of software and hardware components of automotive electronic systems. Therefore, amongst other things, AUTOSAR defines a software architecture that is used to decouple software components from hardware devices. This paper gives an overview about the different layers of that architecture. In addition, the upper most layer that concerns the application specific part of...

Assembly operations in many industries make extensive use of fixtures that are costly and inflexible. The goal of ‘‘robotic fixtureless assembly’’ (RFA) is to replace these fixtures with sensor-guided robots. In this paper, the development of a vision-guided RFA workcell for automotive components is described. Each robot is equipped with a multiple degree-of-freedom programmable gripper, allowi...

Within the automotive industry, software engineering becomes more and more important. Especially component-based design is a popular approach in order to specify large, complex and reusable software systems. The reuse of software components has become a major challenge for the automotive software development. By reusing components, manufacturers and suppliers can (i) revert to already tested so...

Modern vehicles consist of many interconnected, software-based IT components which are tested very carefully for correct functional behavior to avoid safety problems, e.g. the brakes suddenly stop working. However, in contrast to safety testing systematic testing against potential security gaps is not yet a common procedure within the automotive domain. This however could eventually enable a ma...

More than a decade ago, the term automotive software engineering was officially introduced in the software community addressing research challenges and technical issues encountering software development in the automotive domain. Today automotive manufacturers and suppliers design and implement complex applications by mechanisms that allow them to implement such functionality on integrated platf...

Yanli Song 1,2,3,*, Cheng Yu 1,2,3, Hailong Yu 3 and Chenyu Zhao 3 1 Hubei Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology of Automotive Parts, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China; [email protected] 2 Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Automotive Components Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China 3 School of Automotive Engineering, Wuhan University of T...

In recent 10 years, the city of Wuhan has built a big automotive industry cluster in China. The Wuhan automotive cluster is developing quickly, but scarcity of talent has become the bottleneck for its development. Recruiting talented worker is significant concern and the influence factors of talent flow have been explored. The questionnaire about influence factor of talent flow are designed and...

The design of in-vehicle embedded systems follows a complex multi-partner development process. Carmakers specify the whole system and have to integrate several parts of the system provided by different suppliers. Specification as well as integration are concerned with properties requirements (safety, performance, cost, etc.) and validation issues. On another hand, the economical aspects lead su...