Automotive technology and trades

Diese Neuauflage des Handbuches Kraftfahrzeugtechnik ist der Nachfolger des in den letzten Jahrzehnten so bekannten Taschenbuches der Professoren Heinrich Buschmann und Paul Koeßler.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Mobility series contains papers written by speakers at the 22nd International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2018) "e;Smart Systems for Clean, Safe and Shared Road Vehicles"e; that was held in Berlin, Germany in September 2018.

For the last century, the automotive industry has been dominated by internal combustion engines.

Providing a comprehensive overview of hot stamping (also known as 'press hardening'), this book examines all essential aspects of this innovative metal forming method, and explores its various uses.

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

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.

The book describes an approach to the multi-agent systems (MAS) design for applications of robotic soccer in the MiroSot category.

This book covers emerging energy storage technologies and material characterization methods along with various systems and applications in building, power generation systems and thermal management.

This book describes different methods that are relevant to the development and testing of control algorithms for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving functions (ADF).

The book provides the essential features necessary to understand and apply the mathematical-mechanical characteristics and tools for vehicle dynamics including control mechanism.

This volume gives an overview on recent developments for various applications of modern engineering design.

This monograph addresses problems of:* nonlinear control, estimation and filtering for robotic manipulators (multi-degree-of freedom rigid-link robots, flexible-link robots, underactuated, redundant  and cooperating manipulators and closed-chain robotic mechanisms); and* nonlinear control, estimation and filtering for autonomous robotic vehicles operating on the ground, in the air, and on and under water, independently and in cooperating groups.

This book presents the proceedings of the second Vehicle Engineering and Vehicle Industry conference, reflecting the outcomes of theoretical and practical studies and outlining future development trends in a broad field of automotive research.

This comprehensive text/reference presents an in-depth review of the state of the art of automotive connectivity and cybersecurity with regard to trends, technologies, innovations, and applications.

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

The book presents the results of the research project Fleets Go Green from different engineering disciplines.

This book discusses the needs of future energy systems with a focus on the electricity and transportation sectors.

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 thesis offers new insights into the fluid flow behavior of automotive centrifugal compressors operating under near-stall conditions.

Building on his decades of experience as a consultant and project manager in the automotive industry, the author develops comprehensive and pragmatic recommendations for action regarding the digital transformation of the automotive and supplier industries.

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

The asymptotic limit theorems of control and information theories make it possible to explore the dynamics of collapse likely to afflict large-scale systems of autonomous ground vehicles that communicate with each other and with an embedding intelligent roadway.

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

This book deals with novel advanced engine combustion technologies having potential of high fuel conversion efficiency along with ultralow NOx and particulate matter (PM) emissions.

This brief provides an overview on the most relevant nonlinear phenomena in internal combustion engines with a particular emphasis on the use of nonlinear circuits in their modelling and control.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Mobility series contains papers written by speakers and poster presenters at the 21st International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2017) "e;Smart Systems Transforming the Automobile"e; that was held in Berlin, Germany in September 2017.

The books presents latest information about new car developments, new or improved testing techniques and new or improved calculation procedures.

This book offers a snapshot of the latest research and developments in road and railway vehicle dynamics.

This new edition continues to focus on the nuts and bolts of wireless network access for devices on board vehicles.

This book presents recent advances in the development of biomaterials for industrial applications, and discusses the potential for substituting environmentally hazardous substances with environmentally friendly and degradable components.

The main goal of this book is to show how to modify and optimize the properties of the damping matrix in order to find the most beneficial way of adding damping to a given mechanical system.

This book is the second volume reflecting the shift in the design paradigm in automobile industry.

This book is the fourth volume of the sub series of the Lecture Notes in Mobility dedicated to Road Vehicle Automation.

This book introduces the concept of software architecture as one of the cornerstones of software in modern cars.

This book offers an advanced treatise of the mechanics of springs with focus on the springs for automotive industry.

This book details aluminum alloys with special focus on the aluminum silicon (Al-Si) systems - that are the most abundant alloys second only to steel.

This must-read text/reference introduces the fundamental concepts of convolutional neural networks (ConvNets), offering practical guidance on using libraries to implement ConvNets in applications of traffic sign detection and classification.

The book discusses the emerging topic of comprehensive energy management in electric vehicles from the viewpoint of academia and from the industrial perspective.

This intermediate textbook is appropriate for students in vehicle dynamics courses, in their last year of undergraduate study or their first year of graduate study.