[UCI-CalIT2] Seminar Feb 25 Distributed Systems in Automotive Applications

Stuart A ROSS STUROSS@uci.edu
Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:21:18 -0800


Cal-(IT)2 presents another seminar on intelligent transportation and
telematics:

"Challenges in the Use of Distributed Embedded Computing Systems in
Automotive Applications"

Dr. Luiz Bacellar *

Tuesday, February 25, 2003
11:00 AM - Noon
McDonnell-Douglas Engineering Auditorium


ABSTRACT:  The increasing exposure to the functionality provided by the
desktop computer environment has instigated the desire of vehicle occupants
to have similar functionality inside vehicles.  An open system architecture
for in-vehicle computing, called Advanced Vehicle Operating System (AVOS),
was devised to integrate such functionality with vehicles functions.  The
use of an open system architecture provides well-known benefits such as
system reconfiguration through plug'n'play and reduced development costs.
However, dependability issues that are often neglected in the desktop
environment need to be addressed for the vehicle environment.  In this
presentation the speaker will divide these issues into four areas
(reliability, availability, safety, and security) and discuss the design
techniques studied during the development of the Vehicle Computer (VCOM) and
their integration into the AVOS architecture.  The speaker will also address
some of the challenges ahead of the UCI's Autonet/ZEVNET research program
and will talk about the importance of using the object-oriented real-time
computing technology as a key building-block to enable economic and reliable
realization of several applications within the Autonet/ZEVNET domain.  The
use of techniques previously studied by the speaker, such as the
time-triggered message-triggered object (TMO) structure and the distributed
recovery block (DRB) scheme, in the realization of these applications will
be discussed.  Potentials of and research issues in using other relevant
technologies which the speaker studied in depth in recent years, e.g.,
Bluetooth, Windows CE OS, etc., will also be discussed.  The differences in
the way of exploiting these technologies between the Autonet/ZEVNET
application and other industrial application cases will be pointed out. 

SPEAKER:  Dr. Luiz Bacellar is a Principal Research Engineer at United
Technologies Research Center (UTRC).  UTRC is a world class industrial
research laboratory that has served as United Technologies Corporation's
central research facility for product innovation since 1929.  Dr. Bacellar
has been responsible for leading and managing several programs at UTRC in
the area of embedded computing systems and aftermarket service during the
past 7 years.  Among others, these include the design, development,
prototyping, and demonstration of vehicle computing systems, including the
Advanced Vehicle Operating System (AVOS) and the AutoPC programs.
Previously, Dr. Bacellar was a research engineer in the DREAM (Distributed
Real-Time Ever-Available Microcomputing) Laboratory at UC Irvine and project
manager on the development of an X Terminal for a multiprocessor computer
system at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.  He has
over 15 years of experience in research and development of real-time
distributed computing systems and embedded computing systems. He has
published over 25 papers and articles in journals and conferences.  Dr.
Bacellar received his BS in Electrical Engineering in 1985 and MS in
Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1990,
and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
California, Irvine in 1996.
 
*Dr. Bacellar is a candidate for the Cal(IT)2 faculty position in
Intelligent Transportation Systems and Telematics

Stuart A. Ross
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