After three years of intense work by all the partners involved, the AutoDrive project has successfully come to an end. Prof. Luigi Piegari, responsible of the project on behalf of Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, has made a video to demonstrate the results achieved by him and his research team.
The aim of the AutoDrive project, that started on May 2017, was to provide fail-aware, fail-safe, and fail-operational integrated electronic components, electrical/electronic architectures as well as (deeply) embedded software systems for highly and fully automated driving to make future mobility safer, more efficient, affordable, and end-user acceptable.
In this framework, the research of Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria was focused in studying, designing and prototyping a fail-operational DC/DC converter 3kW 800 V-12 V to supply the onboard network of a fully electric bus.
AutoDrive gathered Europe’s leading semiconductor companies, suppliers, OEMs, and research institutes committed to create a pan-European eco-system with the critical mass to initiate standards and provide the components and subsystems for automated driving.
The project was funded by the ECSEL Joint Undertaking and has received support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.