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Innovation drives the future
Within its research projects, TraceTronic drives the innovations of the future. In cooperation with universities and partners, we develop the latest technologies and establish trends. Current research projects concentrate on new methods for validations testing, power management and the development of algorithms:
emTrace: Extended model-based trace analysis
Quality assurance for interconnected mechatronic vehicle systems is a key issue in the German automobile industry. Rising demands on security and comfort, an increasing number of variants as well as a continuously growing complexity of hardware and software open up new problems for ensuring reliability and complying with legal requirements throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle. A possibility to increase the test depth is runtime monitoring of the systems and subsequent evaluation of the data recorded (trace analysis). Goal of this project is to substantially increase the effectiveness of trace analyses through extensive improvement in the areas expressiveness, analysis performance as well as user interaction and user support.
CECC: Cool Energy Car Communication
As part of this project new technologies for energy savings during steering and operation of motor vehicles will be investigated. Based on the newest developments in telematics and communication technology energy-efficient driver assistance systems should be created for applications such as traffic light assistance, intersection assistance as well as column movement.
TraceSys: Extended Trace-Analysis in Test and Diagnosis
During the extensive, automated running tests of electronic control units in automotives, large amounts of time-based performance data, or so called Traces, are produced for the different test environments. This data can not be thoroughly analyzed due to the lack of supporting methods and tools, and the resource intensive and time-consuming nature of the work. The goal of the project TraceSys, is to cover all testing and diagnostic needs through an uniform methodology in the different stages of the life cycle.
OMSIS: On-the-fly-Migration and Instant-Start-up of Automated Systems
The goal of this joint project is to create a continuous tool chain for an integrated test-simulation environment of a manufacturing plant. This will simplify sub-tasks simulation, data collection (monitoring), test case generation and execution as well as system analysis and facilitates diagnosis. Thus, an efficient migration and commissioning of automated systems is possible.
