Robert Gee
Continental Automotive Systems
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Convergence | 2010
Robert Gee
The interdisciplinary and structured integration of subsystems into a functioning whole is at the root of Systems Engineering. Until recently in the automotive market, much of this has been specific to an automotive sub-domain such as Telematics, Infotainment, Chassis Control, or Engine Management Systems. In the realm of Telematics and Connected Vehicles, the recent trend has been outward from the vehicle, focusing on expanding connectivity and data sources. Systems Engineering for Telematics now includes multiple transports spanning PAN, WLAN, and WAN communications, and beyond that has grown to include entities on the far side of the network link, including data servers, aggregation portals, and network security. Although it was not trivial for Continental to develop the embedded Telematics connectivity subsystems for products such as GM/OnStar®, Ford SYNC®, BMW AssistTM, and Mercedes Tele Aid®, consumer and regulatory expectations are rendering inadequate the artificial boundary of an embedded connectivity domain for new automotive systems. For example, reducing vehicle weight is a common approach in the effort to improve fuel efficiency, and weight targets have been cascaded down to each subsystem and module. However, for each 100 pound weight reduction for passenger vehicles (and without corresponding changes to other vehicles or additional safety technologies), NHTSA and other studies have indicated the effect of hundreds of additional fatalities per year [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] in the United States. With both safety goals and US CAFE fuel efficiency goals to meet, the design and interaction of many previously unrelated subsystems in the vehicle become key factors, and in particular, the new interaction between vehicle connectivity subsystems with vehicle safety and performance subsystems. For this discussion, we take a systems view of the evolving field of vehicle connectivity, review the historical trends, introduce a framework to analyze several human constraints, and use the framework to identify ideal characteristics in a modern vehicle system.
Archive | 2008
Ulrich Stählin; Marc Menzel; Robert Baier; Bettina Erdem; Thomas Willnecker; Robert Gee; Ulrich Möller; Maik Schäfer; Oleg Dr. Bauer; Markus Aunkofer
Archive | 2009
Ulrich Stählin; Robert Gee; Marc Menzel
Archive | 2009
Ulrich Stählin; Thomas Grotendorst; Robert Gee
Archive | 2008
Markus Aunkofer; Robert Baier; Oleg Dr. Bauer; Bettina Erdem; Robert Gee; Marc Menzel; Ulrich Möller; Maik Schäfer; Ulrich Stählin; Thomas Willnecker
Archive | 2009
Ulrich Stählin; Thomas Grotendorst; Robert Gee
Archive | 2010
Robert Gee
Archive | 2011
Robert Gee; Shafer Seymour
Archive | 2009
Robert Gee; Marc Menzel; Ulrich Stählin; Mattias Strauss
Archive | 2012
Robert Gee; Shafer Seymour