The upcoming change of costumers' preferences and state regulations towards safety, sustainability and comfort of a car is calling the automotive industry to make the necessary innovations available in order to accelerate its pace on the way out of the economic crisis. Smart miniaturized systems and ICT based solutions are considered the key enablers of future mobility technologies like novel power train concepts including electrical traction, cooperative safety systems, advanced driver assistance systems as well as car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication.

"The upcoming change of costumers' preferences and state regulations towards safety, sustainability and comfort of a car is calling the automotive industry to make the necessary innovations available in order to accelerate its pace on the way out of the economic crisis. Smart miniaturized systems and ICT based solutions are considered the key enablers of future mobility technologies like novel power train concepts including electrical traction, cooperative safety systems, advanced driver assistance systems as well as car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication.The International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA) has been an exclusive showroom of R&D activities in this domain for more than a decade. In 2009 its topic is "Smart Systems for Safety, Sustainability, and Comfort". The papers published in this book were selected from more than 40 submissions. Highlights include contributions on the scope of two European projects related to the Green Car, EE-VERT aiming at the development of energy-efficient vehicles for road transport, and E3Car doing research on nanoelectronics as a key enabler of electrical vehicles. Furthermore, several authors are reporting first results of the INTERSAFE-2 project that is dealing with cooperative intersection safety. Likewise prominent topics are a detector for left-behind occupants, novel driver assistance systems and several other highly integrated components for various applications in the automobile.Additional information is available on amaa.de"

Green Cars.- Energy Efficient Vehicles for Road Transport - EE-VERT.- Nanoelectronics: Key Enabler for Energy Efficient Electrical Vehicles.- Safety.- Left Behind Occupant Recognition Based on Human Tremor Detection via Accelerometers Mounted at the Car Body.- Novel Pre-Crash-Actuator-System based on SMA for Enhancing Side Impact Safety.- On the Feasibility of a Bistatic Radar for Detecting Bad Road Conditions.- Cooperative Intersection Safety - The EU project INTERSAFE-2.- Intersection Safety for Heavy Goods Vehicles.- V2X Communication and Intersection Safety.- Utilization of Optical Road Surface Condition Detection around Intersections.- Stereovision-Based Sensor for Intersection Assistance.- Object Recognition based on Infrastructure Laserscanners.- User Needs for Intersection Safety Systems.- Driver Assistance.- Evaluation of ADAS with a supported-Driver Model for desired Allocation of Tasks between Human and Technology Performance.- Lane Recognition Using a High Resolution Camera System.- Automatic Generation of High Precision Feature Maps of Road Construction Sites.- Laserscanner Based ADAS for Motorcycle Safety.- Graceful Degradation for Driver Assistance Systems.- Lane Departure Warning and Real-time Recognition of Traffic Signs.- Test-bed for Unified Perception & Decision Architecture.- Real-Time Camera Link for Driver Assistance Applications.- Components and Generic Sensor Technologies.- Miniaturised Sensor Node for Tire Pressure Monitoring (e-CUBES).- Development of a Single-Mass Five-Axis MEMS Motion Sensor.- MEMS Sensors for non-Safety Automotive Applications.- Fault-tolerant ASIC Design for High System Dependability.- Short PWM Code: A Step towards Smarter Automotive Sensors.- Low-cost Approach for Far-Infrared Sensor Arrays for Hot-Spot Detection inAutomotive Night Vision Systems.- Smart Sensors: Enablers for New Safety and Environment Initiatives.- Airbag Electronics: from Single Building Blocks to Integrated Solutions.- New Functions, New Sensors, New Architectures - How to Cope with the Real-Time Requirements.- Modular Inertial Safety Sensing Concepts for Functional and Environmental Fit.- System Architecture for Adaptive Radar Sensors.