18th - 19th Nov 2020
What started once in 2017 in Malaga was expected to be finalized at the same location with a project’s famous demonstrator – the IRIZAR bus. However, it has reached its end online with the same positive spirit. On the 18th and 19th of November, the 3rd Super Final AutoDrive Review took place in a virtual meeting via WEBEX. The partners had a chance to recap what has been achieved during the project’s life cycle of 3 years and present it to the project reviewers, including the special guests like: executive director of ECSEL JU, Mr. Bert de Colvenaer, Anton Chichkov from Lighthouse Mobility, Patrick Vandenberghe NS Berta Ferrer ECSEL Program Officers, Karlheinz Topp from Bosch, Thomas Harder from the European Center for Power Electronics, Dr. Markus Gaaß and Florian Tornette from VDI/VDE innovation and Francis Deprez from VLAIO. The event has started with an introductory word by the project coordinator Reiner John (director of R&D funded projects at Infineon Technologies), followed by a market overview and product introductions from different project partners from different supply chans, and results achieved presented by the work package 6,7 and 8 leaders.
25th - 26th Nov 2020
AutoDrive representatives were participating in the annual European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems. For two consecutive days from the 25th to 26th of November, stakeholders from the ESC field shared their expertise and know-how on the current COVID19 crisis and what Global position Europe holds in recovery plans. Moreover, what funding instruments will be put in place and the lessons learned from Horizon 2020. Likewise, what the novel Horizon Europe will hold.
It was made clear by now the key priorities on the European Level are smart cities and adaption to climate change. Therefore, our project team is proud to combine its forces in 2017 and become a part of the digital future.
These two days were full of useful information for the visitors and project partners. We would also like to thank everyone for asking questions in the AutoDrive project booth.
We hope you learned a lot of new information when choosing to participate in EFECS 2020. Hopefully, we will see you next time and be able to say hello in person.
8th Oct 2020
We are delighted and want to announce that our project's three years of work are crowned with this playful informative video. We tried to put together all the key highlights of what was created and achieved with the AutoDrive project over three years from 2017 to today.
Safety is the biggest challenge of autonomous driving. The AutoDrive partners developed advanced fail-aware, fail-safe, and fail-operational electronic components, systems, and architectures for highly and fully automated driving, providing the implementation of safety in nine demonstrators in different cities and countries across Europe.
The AutoDrive project brought together an innovative pan-European ecosystem consisting of 61 partners representing leading semiconductor companies, vehicle manufacturers, electronic system integrators, renowned research institutes, and small-medium size enterprises (SMEs).
To develop advanced electronic components and systems for autonomous vehicles to provide fail-operational functions using novel architectures with increased reliability to manage and balance complexity, cost, robustness, and flexibility. The overall overview and most significant achievements of the AutoDrive are collected and presented in an easy, fun, and charming video, giving a clear picture of the top project results that were done within three years—making it entertaining, attractive, and informative.
8th Oct 2020
This video demonstrates the deployment of advanced electronic systems in use case scenarios for supporting safe fail-operational functions covering both V2V and V2I communication, which are; vulnerable road users warning (VRUW), intersection movement assists (IMA), green light speed advice/time to green (GLOSA/TTG), emergency electronic brake light (EEBL), forward collision warning (FCW), blind-spot warning (BSW), and lane change assistant (LCA).
The AutoDrive project brought together an innovative pan-European ecosystem consisting of 61 partners representing leading semiconductor companies, vehicle manufacturers, electronic system integrators, renowned research institutes, and small-medium size enterprises (SMEs).
To develop advanced electronic components and systems for autonomous vehicles to provide fail-operational functions using novel architectures with increased reliability to manage and balance complexity, cost, robustness, and flexibility. The overall overview and most significant achievements of the AutoDrive are collected and presented in an easy, fun, and charming video, giving a clear picture of the top project results that were done within three years—making it entertaining, attractive, and informative.
1st - 2nd September 2020 Graz, Austria
On the 1st-2nd of September 2020, the AutoDrive project was presented at 13. Graz Symposium Virtual Vehicle (GSVF) that was held in Seifenfabrik, Graz, Austria. Project partner VIF presented some of the project developments and results with the help of prepared posters and videos. One poster dedicated to the “Safety Gateway for Development vehicles”. Additionally to the poster, the custom made hardware board was shown in an HiL setup to interactively see the Gateway working. Visitors were able to test with a toy-steering wheel and a toy-acceleration and brake pedal to see velocity-dependent limitations.
The second poster showed an overview of the Virtual Vehicle automated driving demonstrator, its sensors, and the cooperative automated braking assistant. Both topics were supported by the video-presentation that has been shown to better explain the technical details to the interested audience.
19th - 21st November 2019 Helsinki, Finland
The AutoDrive project together with similar PRYSTINE, AI4DI and NewControl projects that are under Lighthouse mobility E. initiative umbrella were represented by the project partners in the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems (EFECS). A large joint project booth with posters and TV screen were organized as e result of excellent project partners cooperation regarding project dissemination.
EFECS is the international forum with a focus on ‘Our Digital Future’ along the Electronic Components and Systems value chain in Europe. The event was jointly organized by AENEAS, ARTEMIS-IA, EPoSS, ECSEL Joint Undertaking and the European Commission, in association with EUREKA. It was a very successful event with numerous opportunities to learn more about the latest developments, cooperation and funding possibilities in the ECS Community.
22th-24th October Riga, Latvia
On 22nd-24th of October, the AutoDrive core team organized the Final Run Meeting in Riga, Latvia, at the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science premisses. The Meeting was dedicated to address and discuss the Reviewers' comments from the 2nd review and start preparing for the Final Review, which is planned to be executed in 2020 summer in Malaga. The main purpose of this meeting was to accelerate the discussion to find the best way to present the projects' impact and exploitation. The event had a special guest, a key speaker- President of ARTEMIS-Industry Association, who gave a speech about the trends and challenges embedded intelligence & Automotive.
24th- 26th September Brussels, Belgium
A major success in dissemination activities was AutoDrive’s participation in European Research and Innovation Days (European R&I Days), where project partners together with the ECSEL JU team cooperated to arrange the representative booth at the event. AutoDrive together with related PRYSTINE project were presented for over 200 visitors at the joint projects’ booth with several demonstrators in face to face discussions and in general for 3000 visitors auditorium via event wrap up video of the three days event. The culmination of the event was the AutoDrive pride- research demonstrator – glider, which was suspended under the ceiling of Kanal-Center Pompidou in Brussels and received exceptional attention from the visitors, including:
Ms. Maria da Graça Carvalho -Member of European Parliament;
Mr. Krasimir Valchev (Minister of Education and Science in Bulgaria),
Mr. David Talbot (European Research Coordinator for Transport for London),
Ms. Lauma Sika (Counsellor at Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia),
Ms. Lucie Beaumel (European Green Vehicles Initiative).
9-10th october 2019 Malaga, Spain
Once again, Malaga is home to S-Moving forum 9-10 oct 2019, dedicated to raise awareness of the latest technological advances in intelligent, autonomous and connected vehicle. From MCC,we understand that it is an ideal environment to show the progress of the project and to participate in its different events.
Please find attached info and registration link, and as soon as possible, we´ll send you different forms of participation (stands for particular participants, MCC corporate stand,technical papers) in the event.
17-18th July 2019 in Renningen, Germany
On the 17th – 18th of July 2019, AutoDrive partners met for the 2nd project review meeting at Robert Bosch GmbH Campus in Renningen, Germany. The meeting was attended by all partners from the project consortium and the Project Officer, as well as representatives from the ECSEL JU,and National funding authorities of Belgium and Germany. Leaders of the project’s Supply Chains and Work Packages presented the achieved results, deliverables, and milestones from the 2nd year of the project. Plans for the valorization of the AutoDrive technological results were discussed together with the reviewers to pave the way for impactful market introductions. Furthermore, the 2nd year review meeting culminated with a session of 13 AutoDrive technological demonstrators, including an aircraft drivetrain mock-up and a test drive around the Bosch campus with Lidar mounted on the car.
On 13th-15th of May the 2nd Review preparation meeting was held in Bilbao and San Sebastian, Spain, organised by project partner Tecnalia. Project’s Core Team gathered to discuss the overall status of the project ahead of the 2nd Review meeting. During this meeting, leaders of the project’s Supply Chains and Work Packages gave brief presentations about the work that was done during the second year of the project, including deliverables and milestones. Project partners demonstrated a great collaboration spirit, discussing the best ways to demonstrate the performed work and achieved results. A lot of time during this meeting was devoted to the discussion about how to best convey the shared vision and concise message about the project. This successful meeting was crowned with an impressive dinner with a marvellous view to bay of Biscay.
04-07 March 2019, Taiwan
AutoDrive delegation visited Taipei, Taiwan with the aim of meeting existing and potential project partners to discuss the best ways to continue, promote and develop cooperation between the European countries and Taiwan, as well as to generate new ideas and procedures for future projects.
Day one, 4th March
During the first day of the meetings AutoDrive partners gathered at Infineon Taiwan premises where they had a fruitful discussion about new ideas and approaches regarding smart driving and machine self- learning. The covered topics were the following: how to make a car think and behave like a human driver, capable of managing extremely difficult weather conditions, and basing its decisions on experience, context, and foreseen scenarios. Partners considered possibilities for creating a vehicle which will able to proceed with cognitive decision-making.
Day two, 5th March
During day two AutoDrive delegation had a workshop in Chung-Hsin in Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
Read more: AutoDrive CoreTeam Meeting and Workshop in Taipei
17-18 of June 2019, Bucharest
AutoDrive together with other Lighthouse Mobility.E projects PRYSTINE, AI4DI and NewControl was presented during the ECSEL JU Symposium 2019 ‘Shaping digital innovation’. The Symposium took place in Bucharest Palace of Parliament, Romania on the 17-18 of June 2019. The event gathered a wide range of European and global stakeholders in the Electronics Components and Systems domain, including industry representatives, research and financial experts, policy decision-makers, and key opinion leaders.
The ECSEL JU Symposium 2019 provided an excellent opportunity and space for the ECSEL JU projects to present their progress and results to date, to disseminate the scientific and technological achievements, and to cast light on their contributions to the programme. This year in line with the digitization theme, projects presented their results in digital form: videos, digital posters, project presentations, and photo displays.
AutoDrive was represented by project partners MetisBaltic, Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, AVL, Infineon Technologies, and TTTech.
During the Symposium, visionaries introduced new trends and new perspectives in the digital sector, focusing on how digital transformation will change the world. The audience was captivated by Martin Wezowski’s speech about digital society and digital transformation. Furthermore, fascinating insights about the impact of the ECSEL JU contribution to the EU synergy and complementarity strategy for the ECS sector were presented.
On the 8th – 10th of October 2018, 3Ccar partners met for the final project review meeting in Graz, Austria. The meeting was attended by all project partners, project officers, as well as representatives from ECSEL JU, and national and local governments.
The final review meeting culminated with a session of project technological demonstrators during the networking event ECA2030 Graz, held at the Hans-List Hall in Graz: Electric Connected Automated Cars invented for the 2030 Consumer. The outstanding event, as highlight of ECSEL JU project’s 3Ccar final review days, was organized by AVL LIST, Graz. During this event, Dr. Sabine Herlitschka, Chair of ECSEL Joint Undertaking Governing Board, CEO and CTO of Infineon Technologies Austria, gave an inspirational keynote speech presenting the vast achievements of ECSEL JU projects and encouraging future collaborations.
Get some impressions of the meeting here.
14th December 2017, Munich - Germany
AutoDrive Supply Chain 4 "Fail-operational 800V automotive powertrain",
led by ZF and represented by the SC4 partners, takes a giant step
forward at the M7 Meeting @Infineon Technologies.
5 - 7th December 2017, Brussles - Belgium
3ccar and Autodrive received the 1st Place Award at EFECS 2017 the second year in a row. The EFECS 2017, themed ‘Our Digital Future’, is a brand-new international forum supporting the Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) value chain in Europe. The European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems 2017 (EFECS) is abrand new event and a successor to the European Nanoelectronics Forum & the ARTEMIS technology Conference. It is jointly organised by the European Commission (DG CONNECT), the industry associations AENEAS, ARTEMIS-IA and EPoSS and the ECSEL Joint Undertaking.
16th - 18th Octobre 2017 Belgium
The Autodrive Vision meeting participated in Heverlee, Belgium in October 2017. The Agenda covered themes like advancing fail safe, fail aware and fail-operational electronic components and architectures for fully automated driving.
The project AutoDrive has started with the celebration of a two day kick-off meeting which took place on June 7 th -8 th, 2017, in parallel with the GreenCities 2017 Forum in Málaga.
The kick-off was inaugurated by the project coordinator Mr. Reiner John (IFAG) and Mr. Jaime Briales Guerrero (Ayuntamiento Málaga). A special guest of the kick-off was Executive Director of the ECSEL JU Mr. Bert De Colvenaer. WP Leaders presented the planning of their work packages for the first year of the project.
19-20th June 2018 Brussels, Belgium
3Ccar and AutoDrive projects were presented during the ECSEL JU Symposium 2018 ‘Shaping digital innovation’ at the common project booth with four technology demonstrators: 3Ccar Motor, Inverter, Harvester, and 3D MEMS Laser Scanner. The Symposium took place in Brussels, Belgium on the 19-20 of June 2018 and gathered a wide range of European and global stakeholders in the Electronics Components and Systems field, including industry, research and financial communities, policy decision-makers, and key opinion leaders.
26-28th June 2018 Vilnius, Lithuania
On 26-28th of June AutoDrive consortium had a 1st review preparation meeting in Vilnius, which was held in an inspiring environment of the Energy and Technology Museum. Project partners overlooked the overall project status after the first year, and discusses the challenges for the second year. Leaders of Supply Chains and Work Packages presented achieved results, deliverables and milestones, and gave a glimpse into near future plans and activities.
A successful meeting was crowned with an impressive dinner with a marvellous view of the Trakai Castle with a music of live singing choir.
18-19th June 2018 Munic, Germany
0n 18-19th of July the 1st AutoDrive review meeting took place in Neubiberg, Germany. Supply Chain’s and Work Package’s leaders presented achieved results, deliverables and milestones after the first year of the project to the reviewers as well as gave a brief overview of planned future actions and activities of upcoming 2nd and 3rd year of the project. After two intensive days of powerful presentations the review gave initial feedback that the project has achieved most of it’s objectives and milestones for the 1st period.
20-22 November 2018 Lisbon, Portugal
On 20-22 November in Lisbon, the AutoDrive project together with similar 3Ccar and PRYSTINE projects that are under Lighthouse mobility.E initiative umbrella was represented by the project partners in the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems (EFECS). A large joint project booth with technical demonstrators (In-wheel motor and inverter, Highly integrated 4x4 MIMO 79GHz radar module) and posters were organized as e result of excellent project partners cooperation regarding project dissemination.
EFECS is the international forum with a focus on ‘Our Digital Future’ along the Electronic Components and Systems value chain in Europe. The event was jointly organized by AENEAS, ARTEMIS-IA, EPoSS, ECSEL Joint Undertaking and the European Commission, in association with EUREKA. It was a very successful event with inspiring speeches about latest developments, cooperation and funding possibilities in the Electronic Components and Systems Community given by the industry key people.
03/07/2019 - 04/07/2019, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (near Stuttgart Airport), Germany
AutoDrive will be present at the ECPE Workshop: Availability of Power Electronics by Fault-Tolerant Designs for Automotive and Aircraft
The automotive and aerospace industries demand power electronics systems with high-availability in order to guarantee full operational function over a long in-service time. Attaining high-availability becomes a challenge in particular for power-dense converters due to inevitable multi-physical interactions that impact adversely on the operational time. Fault tolerant design is a discipline that increases availability of a system. Fault tolerant power electronics converters detect and isolate faults and switch to safe operation.
Switching to safe operations are in particular important to autonomous electric cars and electric aircrafts/drones. Autonomy in cars is expressed in six levels starting from no automation to full autonomy. Where at lower autonomy levels redundancy may be considered at higher autonomy fault-tolerant design seem to be the solution.
The Workshop aims to discuss the state-of-the-art of fault-tolerant design including discussions on safety and reliability by describing requirements for autonomous cars and electric aircrafts followed by describing reliability issues of components and systems.
This workshop will also include results from the ongoing EU Project AutoDrive which aims for advancing fail-aware, fail-safe, and fail-operational electronic components, systems, and architectures for fully automated driving and automated flying to make future mobility safer, affordable and end-user acceptable. Results of the project will be discussed.
Two Panel sessions on Challenges of Autonomous Cars and Electric Aircraft will stimulate know-how exchange between different disciplines involved.
On 3rd – 4th of July 2019 ECPE Workshop ‘Availability of Power Electronics by Fault-Tolerant Designs in Automotive and Aircraft’ was held in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany.
The event was used as a dissemination opportunity for AutoDrive project, especially for Supply Chain 1 standing for Fully Automated Driving and Flying Systems Targeting SAE Level 5, and Supply Chain 4 dedicated to Fail-operational 800V automotive powertrain.
The audience amounted to over 80 participants from the European industry and academia working in the field of power electronics. AutoDrive was presented with 8 presentations (out of a total of 19 presentations at the event). Moreover, a special Panel Discussion was arranged to discuss the goals and results of AutoDrive with members of the audience. This session incited a high interest in the project’s technological developments, and a positive resonance. Thanks to this ECPE workshop it became apparent that the goals of AutoDrive are seen as key topics for future developments in automotive sector, and have significant synergy with the current challenges in avionics.
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