
Explore how automotive sensors and actuators enable engine management, vehicle control, and autonomous systems, covering sensor types, actuator technologies, reliability, and environmental challenges.
Explore how engine management relies on diverse sensors - speed, temperature, mass air flow, pressure, lamda and NOx sensors - feeding the control unit to optimize ignition and fuel delivery.
Explore how steering angle, rate, acceleration, and magnetic sensors, plus rain and light sensors, enable vehicle stability, ABS, ESP, and advanced driver assistance in modern control systems.
Explore how cameras, radar, ultrasonic, and LIDAR sensors enable autonomous vehicles to sense, detect, and locate objects using a multi-layer perception system, sensor fusion, and high-definition maps for safe driving.
Explore key sensor technologies for electric vehicle motors, focusing on rotor position and speed sensing, robust resolver solutions versus encoders, with emphasis on vibration, temperature, EMI, placement, and automotive safety.
Explore how automotive actuators translate electronic signals into mechanical motion, covering electromechanical, hydraulic, and electric motor actuators, including fuel injectors, transmission solenoids, ABS brakes, and electro hydraulic regulators.
This course is designed for giving a overall knowledge on various sensor and actuator technologies applied in the modern automotive systems like electric and autonomous mobility.
The course discusses in detail each physical principle behind every sensor and actuator technology by using good mixture of graphics and pictorial representations.
Realtime examples from the automotive systems and subsystems give a better understanding about the application of each sensor and actuator technologies.
The course also discusses on various demanding requirements for an ideal sensor and actuator technology in the automotive industry compared to the other industrial applications.
Various actuator mechanisms like electromechanical, electrohydraulic and electromagnetic that are applied in the automotive systems are also discussed in detail.
The course not only focuses on the application in the modern internal combustion engine technologies but also the application and requirements of these sensors in the new age mobility areas like electric and autonomous mobility.
The importance of three layered sensored approach in automated driving and the important topics like sensor fusion are also discussed.
Overall the intention of this course is to give the participant a complete awareness on the various science and technologies involved in the field of sensors and actuators for the automotive industry.
The candidates who attend this program will be able to apply the various physical principles learned throughout the course in a variety of fields.