MRTC research projects

DRIVE

Leader:	Joakim Fröberg
Members:	Joakim Fröberg, Christer Norström Former: Kristian Sandström
Lab:	Division of Software Engineering
Keywords:	automotive, electronic architecture, distributed, integration
Status:	finished , start date: 2001-01-01 , End date: 2007-12-19
Partners:	Volvo Construction Equipment for the main part, but also cooperation with Volvo Trucks, Volvo Busses, Volvo Cars.Results from The DRIVE project are imputted into Volvo projects: Commonality, NG-VNA, NG-ESWA, and VESE.
Funding:	Volvo CEC, the KK-foundation
Web:	Official university web page (in Swedish)

Overview

On-board automotive electronic systems present a special problem formulation within in the domain of embedded systems in terms of reliability, cost, safety, and maintenance. At the same time, automotive industry faces challenges related to incleasingly complex systems. This project aims at providing guidance for analysing the business needs for a given organisation and providing guidance for design of architecture, selection of technology and methods for designing automotive on-board electronics. Especially, architectural and technical solutions for integration of electronic components will be addressed by a series of studies in automotive industry.

Latest project publications [ Show all publications ]

Engineering Automotive Electronic Systems: Decision Support for Successful Integration, Joakim Fröberg, Ph D Thesis, MRTC, October, 2007

Key Factors for Achieving Project Success in Integration of Automotive Mechatronics, Joakim Fröberg, Mikael Åkerholm (former), Kristian Sandström (former), Christer Norström, Journal of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, vol 11334 2007/3/16, p15, Springer, March, 2007

Towards Quality Assessment in Integration of Automotive Software and Electronics: An ATAM approach, Joakim Fröberg, Peter Wallin (former), Jakob Axelsson, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Software Engineering and Practice in Sweden, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, October, 2006

Results achieved

-Licentiate thesis defence april 04- -2 Workshops on system architecture with industrial partners.- -Phd defence 20071219-

Future work

- Focus on issues of electronic component integration in vehicle systems- PhD Thesis 07

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