Automotive Design and Production

MAY 2017

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MOBILITY FLEXConnect.AI system. This allows the driver and vehicle occupants to have a sense of what's ahead. Another company MEAA is working with is Movimento ( movimentogroup.com ). That company provides over- the-air updates. Think of it as updating your smart phone, but in this case you're updating various systems in your vehicle. Connectivity can occur via the embedded modem in the car or with a Wi-Fi connection (e.g., when the car is parked in your garage, it can connect with the home Wi-Fi system or a smart phone can be set up to serve as a hot-spot). The vehicle makes a secure connection to the cloud, there is a check made of the vehicle's VIN number to assure that it is the vehicle in question, and necessary downloads are made to the required components in the vehicle (or the updates can be scheduled for convenience). These updates could be for a variety of things including infotainment, navigation and the powertrain. Or for presenting the information of what the car is "seeing" to the vehicle occupants, as in adding labels to the objects (e.g., "pedestrian"). Getting data on the screens is something that MEAA is working on, too, says Mark Rakowski, executive director of Sales and Engineering for the organization. "We have a variety of ADAS [advanced driver assistance systems] products, such as for automated parking, lane-keeping assist and lane departure warning. Another division is working on mobile mapping." They're producing radar and ultrasonic sensors. They are developing ECUs for ADAS applications (working with processor suppliers like Qualcomm and Renesas, NVIDIA and Intel). While they don't make LiDAR sensors, Rakowski says they're looking to partner with companies that do. Rakowski says that the systems development is occurring at an unprecedented speed. "People are designing systems around chips that aren't even available yet. From an automo- tive standpoint, we never did that. The computer industry did." He explains that a company will tell MEAA what its next chip will do, and that they'll provide samples in six months. "We used to wait for the samples," Rakowski says. "Now we're designing around something that's just on paper." While he thinks that it will take some time for there to be a significant number of fully autonomous vehicles ("A lot of people are talking about 2021, but how much of the fleet will that be?"), he thinks that when it comes to the safety, comfort and convenience that ADAS can provide, this will continue to make big strides. "Costs will keep coming down as you have more sensor fusion and deep learning takes over," he says, pointing out, "This is not going to be technology just for luxury cars, but it will be in trim lines for every vehicle." PERFORMANCE COMBINED WITH REWARDED DESIGN. SCHULER SERVOLINE WITH SERVODIRECT TECHNOLOGY. Presslines by Schuler prove impressive since 2010, when the first ServoLine was installed. Since then, these modern presslines have succeeded through high performance and flexibility. The new design creates added value through faster service and simplified operation. www.schulergroup.com/automotive 26

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