Unit 1 Automotive Systems, Design Cycle and Automotive Industry Overview

9 lecture hours

• Overview of Automotive Industry: Leading players
• Automotive supply chain
• Global challenges
• Role of technology in Automotive Electronics and interdisciplinary design
• Tools and processes
• Introduction to Modern Automotive Systems and need for electronics in automobiles and application areas of electronic systems in modern automobiles
• Spark and Compression Ignition Engines: Ignition systems
• Fuel delivery systems
• Engine control functions
• Fuel control
• Electronic systems in engines
• Automotive transmissions: Transmission fundamentals
• Types MT, AT, CVT and DCT
• Vehicle Braking Fundamentals: Vehicle dynamics during braking
• Hydraulic brake system components
• Introduction to antilock braking systems ECU Design Cycle: V-Model development cycle
• Components of ECU, Examples of ECU on chassis, and in body electronics
• infotainment and clusters
• Overview of hybrid vehicles

Unit 2 Automotive Sensors and Actuators Systems Approach to Control and Instrumentation

• Concept of a system
• Analog and digital systems
• Basic measurement systems
• Analog and digital signal processing
• Sensor characteristics
• Sensor response
• Sensor error
• 9 Subject Code: 3735407 w.e.f
• AY 2018-19 Redundancy of sensors in ECUs
• Avoiding redundancy
• Sensor modeling
• Smart Nodes
• Examples of Sensors: Accelerometers
• Wheel speed
• Brake pressure
• Seat occupancy
• Engine speed
• Steering wheel angle
• Vehicle speed
• Throttle position
• Turbine speed
• Mass air flow (MAF) rate
• Exhaust gas oxygen concentration
• Throttle plate angular position
• Crankshaft angular position/RPM
• Manifold Absolute Pressure (MAP)
• Differential exhaust gas pressure and Air bag sensors
• Actuators used: Solenoids
• Various types of electric motors and piezoelectric force generators
• Examples of Actuators: Relays
• Solenoids and motors
• Chassis control systems and Automatic transmission control systems

Unit 3 Microcontrollers/Microprocessors in Automotive domain, Critical review and overview

9 lecture hours

• of development within the automotive context of microprocessors
• microcontrollers and digital signal processors (architecture of 8/16 bit microcontrollers with emphasis on Ports
• Watchdog timers and PWM)
• Criteria to choose the right microcontroller/processor for various automotive applications
• Understanding various architectural attributes relevant to automotive applications
• Automotive grade processors viz
• Understanding and working on tool chains for different processors
• Development of control algorithms for different automotive subsystems
• Look- up tables and maps
• Need of maps
• Procedure to generate maps
• Fuel maps/tables
• Ignition maps/tables
• Engine calibration
• Torque table

Unit 4 Basics of Data Communication Networks and Automotive Communication Protocols

9 lecture hours

• Need for networks
• Types of networks
• Need for standards
• TCP/IP model
• Error detection and correction mechanisms
• Encoding schemes
• Serial/parallel transmission
• Baud and bandwidth
• Synchronous and asynchronous
• Need and benefits of IVN, Classes of IVN protocols
• Multiplexed electrical systems
• Vehicle multiplexing
• Bitwise contention
• Network elasticity
• Error processing and management and Case Study

Unit 5 Controller Area Network (CAN) Protocol

• History and foundation of CAN, CAN Applications
• Main characteristics of CAN, CAN in OSI Reference Model
• CAN Data Link Layer
• Principles of data exchange in CAN, Arbitration
• Data Frame
• Remote Frame
• Error detection and management in CAN, CAN physical Layer
• Bit encoding
• Bit timing and synchronization
• Relationship between data rate and bus length
• Single wire and twin wire media
• CAN repeaters
• Medium-to-medium gateway
• Protocol handlers
• Micro- controllers and line drivers
• Time Triggered CAN (TTCAN)
• Comparison with other IVN protocols
• CANoe based applications development

Unit 6 CAN Higher Layer Protocols and LIN

• CAN Higher Layer Protocols: CAN in Automation (CiA)
• CANopen device model
• CANopen features
• DeviceNet Model
• Device Object Model
• DeviceNet Features
• Local Interconnect Network (LIN) Protocol: Introduction to LIN, LIN consortium
• LIN 6 Subject Code: 3735407 w.e.f