85740 - Automotive Connectivity M

Learning outcomes

The aim of this course is to prepare students to set automotive communication systems, intra and inter vehicles, and between vehicle and infrastructures, which can be both terrestrial and satellite. Issues related to driver and passenger safety involving communications systems in the car will be addressed, too.

Course contents

The Automotive Connectivity goal is to enrich the students with the communications methodologies provided by nowadays vehicles. These communications strategies are used for connecting internal and external systems (intra-vehicle domains, other vehicles, road devices, network infrastructure nodes).
The students will have a clear picture of protocols and standards used to manage these communications.

The course is structured in three modules
MODULE 1:
The first module takes care of the internal vehicle system (inter-vehicular communications). It studies the sensors type, the vehicle hardware architecture and the applications contexts in which the sensors and each particular device operate.
Together with the architecture, also the typical vehicular signal bus will be studied.
We will investigate several protocols: CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, FlexRay, MOST and In-Car-Ethernet

MODULE 2:
The second module takes care of the inter-vehicular communications, i.e. the communications between the vehicle and the external world. It studies the protocol suite and the communication standards used to manage communications between vehicles and between a vehicle and the internet.
Protocols studied: Bluetooth, LoRa and IEEE 802.11p.
Even in this case, the focus will be on the applications on top of the communication system with an emphasis on the broadcast messages.

MODULE 3:
The third module completes the picture moving from theory to practice.
Arduino Yun nodes will be used in laboratory class for creating an inter-vehicular network for testing purposes, by using the real IEEE 802.11p protocol.

Readings/Bibliography

Vehicular Networking, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler

Teaching methods

All the lessons will be live, the material will be shared with the students.

Assessment methods

The exam methodology is a written+oral test.
The written test will cover modules 1 and 2 and it is mandatory.
The oral examination is non-mandatory and will cover all the modules.
A non-mandatory (up to the students) project based on Arduino Yun (or other hw/sw platforms) can be presented during the oral test.
Projects examples and ideas will be given during the class.

Teaching tools

Hands on Arduino-Yun devices. We will create real IEEE 802.11p networks.

Office hours

See the website of Carlo Augusto Grazia