Future Automotive Systems
Our aims are simple: Safe, clean and economic products for cars. Creating them is a demanding challenge, since the car systems are becoming ever more complex. All components must interact. If developers turn a screw at one end, a series of parameters will change elsewhere. The challenge is to find technically complex solutions using interdisciplinary teams.
The dynamics of vehicular operation are a good example. The ESP® Electronic Stability Program prevents the car from skidding in a sharp turn – always within the limits of physics. Some more recent electronic stability program systems also have other functions, such as preventing the vehicle from swerving during braking on varied road surfaces while also shortening the braking distance. Both varieties of electronic stability control are based on the same basic design, which couples the various active systems such as brakes, steering and suspension to provide new functions. The engineers and scientists at Corporate Research are exploring ways of enabling new functions by integrating innovative, active systems, or by expanding existing systems.
Driving tests for more safety
Tests at the Boxberg proving ground check the functions of the Electronic Stability Program ESP® on the road.
Fields of competence
- Driver Information Systems
- Drivetrain Systems and Auxiliaries
- Engine Management Systems
- Vehicle Motion Systems
