Harald Deiss

Electronic networking of driveline and chassis

Electronically controlled driveline and chassis systems provide a means of optimizing driving characteristics depending on the specific driving situation. Furthermore, an effective combination of driveline, steering and chassis systems allow more than ever before a flexible distribution of tire forces. This results in new possibilities for vehicle dynamics control beyond the brake intervention. ZF Friedrichshafen AG explores this extension to “torque vectoring” in several development projects in order to enhance steering response, general performance, and road safety by an optimal usage of the tire force potential.

The efficiency of automatic production code generation in transmission control systems

For more than ten years, ZF Friedrichshafen AG has been using tools for Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) in developing software for electronic control systems. Toolsupported software engineering was first used in pre-development projects. Meanwhile, this technology is also being employed in production projects. On the basis of such applications, ZF has gained interesting findings regarding the efficiency of development tools.

Leistungsfähigkeit automatischer Seriencodegenerierung bei Getriebesteuerungen

Zur Entwicklung von Software fur elektronische Steuerungen setzt die ZF Friedrichshafen AG seit mehr als zehn Jahren auch Werkzeuge fur Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) ein. Die toolunterstutzte Software-Entwicklung wurde zuerst bei Vorentwicklungsprojekten eingefuhrt. Inzwischen wird diese Technik auch bei Serienprojekten eingesetzt. Aus diesen Anwendungen hat die ZF aufschlussreiche Erkenntnisse zur Leistungsfahigkeit der Entwicklungstools gewonnen.