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Automotive Computer Control Systems: a retrospective on the past 40+ years

9 July 2024
2:30 pm
San Francesco Complex - classroom 1

This talk, based on the 2023 ASME Oldenburger Medal lecture, will survey developments in automotive computer control systems during the past four decades, which incidentally and fortuitously coincided with the speaker’s career in this exciting and challenging field.

Starting in the late 70s and early 80s with just dozens or at most hundreds of lines of assembly code, the field saw exponential growth so that that by the time of his retirement in 2015 typical cars had dozens of processors with hundreds of thousands if not millions of lines of C code and similar constructs.

During the talk, the speaker will intertwine his personal experiences with some general facts, many of them focused around Ford, a company where he spent most of his career.

As time permits, the speaker will also venture some personal observations about present and future related developments and major trends, such as EVs, AVs and other Vs, for example.

 

Join at: imt.lu/aula1

relatore: 
Davor Hrovat, Ford Motor Company
Units: 
DYSCO