Automotive technology and trades

Vehicle rollover accidents have been a serious safety problem for the last three decades.

Ever stringent vehicle safety legislation and consumer expectations inspire the improvement of vehicle dynamic performance, which result in a rising number of control strategies for vehicle dynamics that rely on driving conditions.

Thanks to the potential of reducing fuel consumption and emissions, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have been attracting more and more attention from car manufacturers and researchers.

As public attention on energy conservation and emission reduction has increased in recent years, engine idling has become a growing concern due to its low efficiency and high emissions.

X-by-wire Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) have been attracting increased attention for various civilian or military applications.

The number of heavy-duty construction vehicles is increasing significantly with growing urban development causing poor air quality and higher emissions.

The purpose of this book is to cover essential aspects of vehicle suspension systems and provide an easy approach for their analysis and design.

This book provides an in-depth understanding of tyre dynamics.

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

This book discusses the importance of transitioning from conventionally fuelled, electric and hydrogen personal vehicles towards low carbon electric and hydrogen public transport.

This book provides readers with a hands-on guide to system architecture design and platform development strategies for electronic systems.

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

This book provides comprehensive discussion on key topics related to the usage and deployment of AI in urban transportation systems including drones.

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 introduces the Internet access for vehicles as well as novel communication and computing paradigms based on the Internet of vehicles.

This book systematically introduces fast winding-based discharge strategies used for permanent magnet synchronous machine-based drives in electric vehicles (EVs) after a crash.

To support smart vehicular services especially in the future driverless era, the vehicular networks are expected to support high-bandwidth content delivery and reliable accessibility of multifarious applications.

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

The book provides easy interpretable explanations for the key technologies involved in Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles.

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 focuses on the use of natural fiber composites (NFCs) in the automotive industry.

Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications: Design Engineering Problems examines the latest applications of nonlinear approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific problems.

This book provides an insight into the design, modeling, control, and application of multiphase hybrid permanent magnet machines for electrified powertrains in electric and hybrid electric vehicles.

This book examines the fundamentals of vehicle dynamics, as well as the recent trends in the field, such as torque vectoring control, vehicle state estimation, and autonomous vehicles.

This book summarizes research being pursued within the Research Unit FOR 2089, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the goal of which is to develop the scientific base for a paradigm shift towards dimensioning, structural realization and maintenance of pavements, and prepare road infrastructure for future requirements.

This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the control of marine vehicles, from fundamental to advanced concepts, including robust control techniques for handling model uncertainty, environmental disturbances, and actuator limitations.

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 contains selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Motor Systems (EEMODS'19), held in Tokyo, Japan from 17-19 September 2019.

This book gathers papers from the 23rd International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2020) held online from Berlin, Germany, on May 26-27, 2020.

The Magnesium Technology Symposium, the event on which this collection is based, is one of the largest yearly gatherings of magnesium specialists in the world.

This book presents the most up-to-date accomplishments in gear design and gear production, detailing theory of gearing and its application.

This book presents simple design paradigms related to lightweight design, that are derived from an in-depth and theoretically sound analysis based on Pareto theory.

This book is a compilation of the recent technologies and innovations in the field of automotive embedded systems with a special mention to the role of Internet of Things in automotive systems.

This book begins by discussing the problems caused by transportation emissions, the various types of emissions, and the impacts they have on public health, agricultural production, and climate change.

This book highlights the mechanics of the elastic elements made of steel alloys with focus on the metal springs for automotive industry.

The book provides background information about technical solutions, processes and methodology to develop future automated mobility solutions.

In this book, the authors highlight multiple aspects of and views on comprehensive automotive interior comfort for future mobility.

This book explores the part that electric vehicles can play in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

This book explores computational fluid dynamics applied to ship hydrodynamics and provides guidelines for the future developments in the field based on the Tokyo 2015 Workshop.

This book focuses on smart results in the field of smart automotive mobility concentrating on (semi-)autonomous cars.

This volume explains the dramatic effect of cross-correlations in forming the structural response of aircraft in turbulent excitation, ships in rough seas, cars on irregular roads, and other dynamic regimes.

In this monograph, the authors demonstrate how the integration of adaptability, operability, and re-configurability in the design of complex systems is indispensable for the further digitization of engineering systems in smart manufacturing.

This textbook draws on the authors' experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.

This textbook draws on the authors' experience gained by teaching courses for engineering students on e.

The Magnesium Technology Symposium, the event on which this collection is based, is one of the largest yearly gatherings of magnesium specialists in the world.

This book presents deep analysis of machine control for different applications, focusing on its implementation in embedded systems.

This textbook offers a comprehensive review of tractor design fundamentals.

This book presents an up-to-date overview on the main classes of metallic materials currently used in aeronautical structures and propulsion engines and discusses other materials of potential interest for structural aerospace applications.

This book elaborates the science and engineering basis for energy-efficient driving in conventional and autonomous cars.