During research on solving multidisciplinary problems in flight control design [1], functional level design tools like Ctrl-C®, MatriX® and later Matlab® were developed. These generic tools permitted to easily combine models from different engineering disciplines and e.g. permitted to improve the accuracy of navigation alignment filters by more than a factor 100 and reduced the alignment time b...

This paper focuses on the use of switched-mode power electronics to enhance the power, efficiency, and transient performance of Lundell alternators. The application of power electronics in conjunction with both the alternator field and armature are explored. It is shown that the combination of a foil field winding and improved field control electronics enable substantial improvements in field p...

With the rapid development of aviation, aerospace, navigation, automotive, electronics and other fields, demand for light alloys components is increasing, performance requirements are becoming higher higher, especially large complex [...]

Risk assessment is a standard tool in health care systems which is used to improve patient safety. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) as a powerful risk assessment tool for safety and reliability widely applied by industries such as aerospace, nuclear, automotive, chemical, mechanical, medical technologies, and electronics. FMEA is popular technique, but it has some substantial deficienci...

In industrial plants and motor vehicles basic environmental pollutants and trained human factors play a significant role for the reduction of pollution. This paper briefly describes the effect of chemical science, for the various stages used in the automotive technology training, in the Vocational Higher School in Turkish Higher Education System. The methodology used to improve the learning pro...

1 20 years of automotive networking and diagnostics The fast growth of electronic functions in vehicles during the second half of the 1980s at first led to many insular solutions that prevented comprehensive concepts from taking hold in the area of electrical/electronic architectures. At the beginning of the 1990s a consolidation phase began that was marked by development of electrical/electron...

This work was supported by the JESSI project AE11. Abstract Using on-chip fault detection measures the Fail-Stop Controller AE11 was developed for safety critical applications aiming at high volume production of automotive and railway electronics. The trade-off between high defect coverage, short reaction time to faults and low chip area overhead results in a combination of Concurrent Checking,...

Xiaogang Wu 1,2,*, Wenwen Shi 1,3 ID and Jiuyu Du 3 1 College of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China; [email protected] 2 State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China 3 State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua Unive...

Automotive electronics systems are becoming increasing complex and essential to the proper and safe operation of cars and trucks as vehicle controls for basic operation and safety functions are increasingly being implemented by electronic modules. The ability of these electronic systems to function reliably is becoming a greater aspect of vehicle safety that was dramatically demonstrated by the...

The superior properties of Silicon Carbide (SiC) power devices compared to Silicon (Si) power devices are expected to have a significant impact on the next-generation power electronics systems. Some of these benefits include a large reduction in the size, weight, and cost of the power conditioning and/or thermal systems and passive components. In this paper, Si and SiC diode models will be deri...