Automotive technology and trades

This book surveys state-of-the-art research on and developments in lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

This book focuses on the design of efficient & dynamic methods to allocate divisible resources under various auction mechanisms, discussing their applications in power & microgrid systems and the V2G & EV charging coordination problems in smart grids.

This book presents the most recent description of rubber reinforcement, focusing on the network-like structure formation of nanofiller in the rubber matrix under the presence of bound rubber.

Starting from the fundamentals of brakes and braking, Braking of Road Vehicles covers car and commercial vehicle applications and developments from both a theoretical and practical standpoint.

On-Road Intelligent Vehicles: Motion Planning for Intelligent Transportation Systems deals with the technology of autonomous vehicles, with a special focus on the navigation and planning aspects, presenting the information in three parts.

Modelling, Dynamics and Control of Electrified Vehicles provides a systematic overview of EV-related key components, including batteries, electric motors, ultracapacitors and system-level approaches, such as energy management systems, multi-source energy optimization, transmission design and control, braking system control and vehicle dynamics control.

Measuring Road Safety Using Surrogate Events provides researchers and practitioners with the tools they need to quickly and effectively measure traffic safety.

This volume collects selected papers of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2018.

Written for students and practicing engineers working in automotive engineering, this book provides a fundamental yet comprehensive understanding of chassis systems and requires little prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

This volume includes selected and reviewed papers from the 4th International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering, held in Cluj, Romania, in September 2018.

This fully revised and updated third edition covers the physical and mathematical fundamentals of vibration analysis, including single degree of freedom, multi-degree of freedom, and continuous systems.

This textbook covers handling and performance of both road and race cars.

This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific problems.

This book describes the development of a new analytical, full-vehicle model with nine degrees of freedom, which uses the new modified skyhook strategy (SKDT) to control the full-vehicle vibration problem.

This book focuses on the theory and design methods for guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) in the context of spacecraft rendezvous and docking (RVD).

This book introduces the application of nonlinear dynamics theory for driving system of electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicle respectively.

This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive reference on the design and development of diesel engines.

This book provides a solid foundation from which most practical, theoretical problems related to sandwich structures can be derived and solved.

This book describes the current state of the art for simulating paint shop applications, their advantages and limitations, as well as corresponding high-performance computing (HPC) methods utilized in this domain.

This book presents selected and peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Thermofluids (KIIT Thermo 2020).

This book is an up-to-date text on rubber science and is a breakthrough among many rubber-related publications.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the 26th National Conference on IC Engines and Combustion (NCICEC) 2019 which was organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra under the aegis of The Combustion Institute-Indian Section (CIIS).

This is the sixth volume of a sub series on Road Vehicle Automation published within the Lecture Notes in Mobility.

This book describes the discusses advanced fuels and combustion, emission control techniques, after-treatment systems, simulations and fault diagnostics, including discussions on different  engine diagnostic techniques such as particle image velocimetry (PIV), phase Doppler interferometry (PDI), laser ignition.

The book includes the papers presented at the conference discussing approaches to prevent or reliably control knocking and other irregular combustion events.

Braking of Road Vehicles, Second Edition includes updated and new subject matter related to the technological advances of road vehicles such as hybrid and electric vehicles and "e;self-driving"e; and autonomous vehicles.

Self-driving vehicles are a rapidly growing area of research and expertise.

This textbook provides a guide to the fundamental principles of acoustics in a straightforward manner using a solid foundation in mathematics and physics.

This book provides a general overview of the various aspects of the properties, production, storage and application of hydrogen.

This book provides readers with expert knowledge on the design of fast charging infrastructures and their planning in smart cities and communities to support autonomous transportation.

The battery management system (BMS) optimizes the efficiency of batteries under allowable conditions and prevents serious failure modes.

The book covers a wide range of applied research compactly presented in one volume, and shows innovative engineering solutions for automotive, marine and aviation industries, as well as power generation.

This book presents the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) automotive applications.

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The increasing automation of driving functions and the electrification of powertrains present new challenges for the chassis with regard to complexity, redundancy, data security, and installation space.

  Will we really soon no longer be sitting behind the wheel of our own car, but will only be taken to our destination by driverless electric taxis?

The aim of this work, consisting of 9 individual, self-contained booklets, is to describe commercial vehicle technology in a way that is clear, concise and illustrative.

In this book, the reader learns the essential differences to the passenger car through the analysis divided according to assemblies.

Vehicle performance is largely controlled by the tire dynamic characteristics mediated by forces and moments generated at the tire-road contact patch.

This book proposes promising mmWave solutions to promoting safe and reliable vehicular communications.

This book focuses on the design of secure and efficient signature and signcryption schemes for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs).

Human-Machine Interaction for Automated Vehicles: Driver Status Monitoring and the Takeover Process explains how to design an intelligent human-machine interface by characterizing driver behavior before and during the takeover process.

Automotive design continues to evolve at a rapid pace.

This book uses automotive embedded systems as an example to introduce functional safety assurance and safety-aware cost optimization.

This book uses automotive embedded systems as an example to introduce functional safety assurance and safety-aware cost optimization.

An advanced level introductory book covering fundamental aspects, design and dynamics of electric and hybrid electric vehicles There is significant demand for an understanding of the fundamentals, technologies, and design of electric and hybrid electric vehicles and their components from researchers, engineers, and graduate students.

This book presents an analysis of the existing surveys in the literature of batteries, chargers, control systems, battery management systems, plugs, sockets, drives, and fuel-cell-based and plug-in smart electric and hybrid vehicles.