Overview
- Establishment of a common multi-domain architecture and design platform for advanced multi-core hardware and middleware solutions for electrical vehicles to enable the flexible and evolvable interoperation of systems, including sensors, actuators, information systems, control systems across multiple domains and using a component based design methodology.
- Establishment of heterogeneous multi-domain architectures to produce integrable and interoperable sub systems to support real-time data-processing to be used in electrical vehicle design and development of reference designs to achieve energy efficient HW/SW architectures.
- Development of design tools and associated runtime support to enable composability, predictability, parallelisation, aggregation and management of systems according to a service driven or data-centric approach, performance and energy modelling and analysis, verification, scalability in electrical vehicle design while preserving systemlevel predictability and appropriate levels of safety.
- Development of architectures of networked embedded systems for electrical vehicle, employing heterogeneous devices and advanced communication technologies working in managed, safety critical and harsh environments, that require different safety and security schemes generated in different dynamic domains, and depending on the system properties such as reliability, dependability, maintainability, security, and survivability.
- New approaches to certification and qualification required to accommodate the new embedded system technologies for electrical vehicles.
The objective of POLLUX was to develop a distributed real time embedded systems platform for next generation electric vehicles, by using a component and programming-based design methodology. Reference designs and embedded systems architectures for high efficiency innovative mechatronics systems were addressed with regard to requirements on composability, networking, security, robustness, diagnosis, maintenance, integrated resource management, evolvability and self-organisation.
Next generation EVs will begin the convergence between computer and automotive architectures: future automobiles will be mechatronic systems comprising a multitude of plug-and-play and self configurable peripherals. Peripherals will be embedded systems containing hardware, algorithms, software. The architecture will be based on distributed energy while the propulsion systems will adopt radical new control concepts. Sensing, actuation, signal processing and computing devices will be embedded in the electronic equipment, electrical motors, batteries and the mechanical parts as well.
The systems used to control the chassis and the power train will form the computing engine that automates lower level tasks during vehicle use (driver assistance, terrain evaluation, predictive battery management) and will enable future higher level functionalities (auto pilot), by means of novel human-machine interfaces.
POLLUX addressed the embedded system needs for the next generation electric vehicles by exploiting the synergy with the ENIAC E3Car project which aimed to develop nano-electronics technologies, devices, circuits, and modules for EVs in preparation for the launch of a massive European EV market by 2015-2020.
The project considered both vertical integration and horizontal cooperation between OEMs, hardware/software/silicon providers to build a solid, embedded-systems European industry while establishing standard designs and distributed real-time embedded-systems platforms for EVs.
Approved in its amended version (JUGA amendment n 1) on 10/05/2012...