Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2006
Looking back 10 years when the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Application (AMAA) started, enormous progress has been made in reducing casualties, emissions and in increasing comfort and performance. Microsystems in many cases
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Jürgen Valldorf · Wolfgang Gessner (Eds.)
Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2006
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Dr. Jürgen Valldorf VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH Steinplatz 1 10623 Berlin [email protected] Dr. Wolfgang Gessner VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH Steinplatz 1 10623 Berlin [email protected]
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Preface
The automotive industry with more than 2 million employees is not only one of the main pillars of European economy, it is also of all economic sectors the largest R&D investor in Europe, realising 20% of the R&D expenditures of the entire manufacturing industry. Through this it constitutes a major driver for the development and diffusion of new technologies and innovations throughout the economy. Looking back 10 years when the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Application (AMAA) started, enormous progress has been made in reducing casualties, emissions and in increasing comfort and performance. Microsystems in many cases provided the key functions for this progress. Although the issues the event concentrated on didn’t change significantly (safety, powertrain, comfort, etc.), considerable shifts of technological paradigms and approaches can be stated. This year the AMAA will celebrate its 10th anniversary, recapitulating objectives achieved and looking forward to new challenges for the automotive industry deriving from increasingly complex miniaturised systems driven by socio-economic requirements. The future of microsystems will consist of integrated smart systems which are able to diagnose a situation, to describe and to qualify it. They will be able to identify and mutually address each other. They will be predictive and therefore they will be able to decide and help to decide. Smart systems will enable the automobile to interact with the environment, they will perform multiple tasks and assist a variety of activ
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