85735 - Automotive Lighting Technology M

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Stefano Selleri
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-INF/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Stefano Selleri (Modulo 1) Annamaria Cucinotta (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Advanced Automotive Electronic Engineering (cod. 9238)

Learning outcomes

Advanced LED (light Emitting Diode), display, and augmented reality technologies are enhancing the driving experience and increasing safety. At the same time, they present new challenges to automakers and suppliers, who must quickly learn and adapt them for in-car use, while ensuring they meet customers’ high quality expectations. The aim of the course is to provide the students the basic knowledge needed to understand operation principles and relevant parameters, to design and manage issues related to use of LED and laser technology, illumination of multiple dashboard instruments, control and head-up displays and intelligent adaptive lighting.

Course contents

- Light source basics (wavelength, radiant intensity, radiant flux, brightness)

- LED and LASER principles of operation.

- The LED properties and technology for in-vehicle and external lighting systems.

- Organic LEDS.

- LED pixel lights.

- Intelligent adaptive systems.

- Laser Headlights, Pixel Laser Headlights

- Reflection, projection, lightguide, lenses.

- Gesture recognition and light dimming.

- IR sources for Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems.

- IR sources for night vision.

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