Towards Functional Safety in Drive-by-Wire Vehicles

✍ Scribed by Peter Johannes Bergmiller (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents approaches to address key challenges based on a vehicle level view and with a special emphasis on Drive-by-Wire systems. The design and testing of modern vehicle electronics are becoming more and more demanding due to increasing interdependencies among components and the safety criticality of tasks. The development towards Drive-by-Wire functionalities in vehicles with multiple actuators for vehicle control further increases the challenge. The book explicitly takes into account the interactions between components and aims at bridging the gap between the need to generate additional customer benefits and the effort to achieve functional safety.
The book follows a twofold approach: on the one side, it presents a toolchain to support efficient further development of novel functionalities for Drive-by-Wire vehicles. The toolchain comprises appropriate software tools and scaled and full-scale experimental vehicles. On the other side, development towards functionally safe and flexible Drive-by-Wire vehicles is addressed by proposing a top-down designed architecture for vehicle electronics that is enabled by suitable mechanisms. The resulting goal achievement with regard to functional safety is evaluated based on a novel hierarchical approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Vehicle Electronics: A Challenge for the Automotive Industry....Pages 3-4
Redesigning Vehicle Electronics: A Systems Engineering Approach....Pages 5-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Experimental Vehicles as Development Tools....Pages 17-24
Structure and Elements of the Toolchain....Pages 25-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
The EE Architecture of the Experimental Vehicle MOBILE....Pages 41-60
A Tailored Approach to Functional Safety Evaluation1 ....Pages 61-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Tactical Safety Measures....Pages 85-113
Strategic Failure Prevention....Pages 115-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Functional Safety of MOBILE1 ....Pages 173-180
A Step Towards Functional Safety in Drive-by-Wire Vehicles....Pages 181-183
Erratum to: Towards Functional Safety in Drive-by-Wire Vehicles....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 185-233

✦ Subjects

Automotive Engineering; Control; Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering