This book presents the proceedings of Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2008. From systems that aid in the recognition of pedestrians to gesture-based human-machine interfaces, it details how smart systems enhance vehicle usability and safety.

With the total number of vehicles steadily increasing and soon approaching one billion, the world is facing serious challenges in terms of both safety of road transport and sustainability. Consequently the two major persistent issues for the automotive industry are improved safety and reduced emissions. The estimated number of road fatalities is about one million per year. Fast growth of mobility in the developing world and an accelerated urbanisation pose high demands to the automotive industry. Thanks to smart systems anticipating dangerous traffic situations road fatalities will have dropped by more than 30% from 2001 to 2010. Beyond intensive stock-rearing with 30% the major contributor to climate change road traffic is one of the main sectors contributing to climate change: exhaust gases from vehicle engines account for about 20% of the greenhouse gas emissions. Car industry is bearing this challenge and enormous progress has been achieved particularly during the last decade.

Microsystems contribute to any new automobile model's success and reliability Microsystems and their underlying technologies are in many cases even the driving forces in order to satisfy new customers' requirement The state of art of microsystems in automotive applications is represented in this book Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Market.- Advanced Safety Systems The Opportunity for Semiconductor Vendors.- Safety.- Dual Frequency Methods for Identifying Hidden Targets in Road Traffic.- Multi Spectral Pedestrian Detection and Localization.- Car Driver Monitoring by Networking Vital Data.- MDSI Range Camera Calibration.- Laserscanner Based Cooperative Pre-Data-Fusion.- Satellite-Based System for Predictive Control in Vehicles and its Field of Applications.- Results of the EC-Project INTERSAFE.- Powertrain.- Crank Angle Resolved Determination of Fuel-Concentration and Air/Fuel Ratio in a SI-Production Engine by Using a Modified Optical Spark Plug.- Two-Line LIF-Emission Thermometry for Gas-Temperature Determination in IC-Engines.- Comfort and HMI.- Human Vehicle Interaction Based On Electric Field Sensing.- Networked Vehicle.- Automotive 1 Gbit/s Link Goes Standard.- Components and Generic Sensor Technologies.- Imaging Millimeter Wave Radar with Phased Array Antenna.- Tungsten-Titanium as Advanced Material for RF-MEMS Switches.- Local Modification of Fired LTCC Substrates for High Frequency Applications.- Determination of Complex Permittivity of LRR Radome Materials Using a Scalar Quasi-Optical Measurement System.- Speed Sensors for Automotive Applications Based on Integrated GMR Technology.- Micro-Rotation Angle Sensor with Integrated Hall IC.- Scaled Test Bed for Automotive Experiments: Evaluation of Single Accelerometer Electronic Stability Control.- A New Micromechanical Pressure Sensor for Automotive Airbag Applications.- Trusting Your Senses.