ENG09025 2020 ADAS and Autonomous System Architecture

Demonstrate an understanding of the automotive landscape, including its supply chain, and the associated roles and responsibilities.

Assess Automotive System Architectures, past, present and future. Create an accurate conclusion on where the technology is currently at, both from hardware and software viewpoints.

Apply the theory of Vehicle Networking to critically analyse the data flow of increasingly complex future vehicle networks.

Conduct an analysis of the design constraints within automotive and use this information to appraise the decision-making behind current design.

Effectively collaborate and communicate with the engineering community on what is topical in the automotive industry.

A lecture will be provided weekly. Up-to-date reading materials, for example relevant chapters in a
book, will be made available before the lecture with the intended purpose of providing foundation
knowledge for the lecture. Where relevant, further reading in the form of papers and patents will be
available for reading post-lecture.
The assessments, one individual and the other group, will be designed in such a way
as to develop life-long skills of the student in the areas of technical writing, presenting their findings and
interaction with the engineering community and with society at large.

Two assignments will be given to assess the module.
The individual assessment will be designed in such a way as to familiarise the student with the skills of
understanding an engineering issue in the automotive industry and evaluating its current solution.

A group assessment will be carries out on what is topical in the automotive industry. The group  will communicate their findings on their topic coherently to a wider engineering audience.

An opportunity to submit assessment work will be available for the repeat sitting.

• Overview of the automotive landscape and associated vocabulary (LO1)
• The supply chain, and associated roles and responsibilities (LO1)
• Difference between advanced driver assistance systems, automated driving and autonomous vehicles (LO1)
• Introduction to Automotive System architecture - understanding the traditional car, the modern version (ADAS), the emerging and the future (LO2)
• Current driving hardware architectures (LO2)
• Current driving software architectures (LO2)
• Characteristics of Vehicle networks, including bandwidth, latency, fault tolerance (LO3)
• CAN and FlexRay Overview (LO3)
• Networking trends, including V2 , V2X (LO3)
• Understanding the data flow and data flood associated with autonomous vehicles (LO3)
• Design constraints of Automotive as an embedded system, including cost, power availability, thermal dissipation, size and weight (LO4)
• Real-time systems when applied to automotive (LO4)
• RTOS vs. OS (LO4)
• Design considerations for real-time (LO4)
• Topical issues within automotive (LO5)