CTAG collaborates with UVigo Motorsport on the development tests of the single-seater for Formula Student 2015

Posted on 16 June, 201517 June, 2015 by desarrollo

The collaboration between CTAG and the group of the University of Vigo, UVigo Motorsport, has focused on the impact tests on a part of the single-seater. The results obtained comply with the regulations of the Formula Student.

Frames of the energy absorption test in case of accident, conducted at CTAG on the deformable part

The part was tested at 6.47 m/s with a mass of 348 kg, in compliance with the regulations of Formula Student:

Energy Absorbed > 7350 J

Maximum acceleration < 40 g

Average acceleration < 20g

Formula Student is the most important inter-university motorsport competition in Europe.

This competition covers all aspects of an industrial company, from research and design through manufacturing and testing, to the management of teamwork, financial management and marketing management. All this will be evaluated by a jury of experts belonging to industries related to motorsport.

The first race of the competition will take place during the second week of July at the British circuit of Silverstone.

CTAG participates in the Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2015

Posted on 3 June, 201530 July, 2015 by desarrollo

CTAG will participate in the new edition of the Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2015, which will be held in Stuttgart from 16^th to 18^th June 2015. CTAG will be exhibiting in Hall 1, Booth 1552.

At the 17th Automotive Testing Expo Europe you will be able to see the very latest technologies and services that have been designed to ensure that the highest standards are met in terms of vehicle quality, reliability, durability and safety. Over 330 exhibiting companies will participate in this event, from test equipment manufacturers to testing services centres. For more information please visit http://www.testing-expo.com/europe/

CTAG will present its different laboratories’ capabilities to test equipment, systems and vehicle components. There will be a special focus on interior systems validation, engine systems and electronic systems: ADAS, autonomous driving, connectivity, etc.

This participation is supported by the IGAPE line IG208 “Ayudas a los organismos intermedios para la realización de actuaciones y estrategias de promoción e internacionalización de las empresas gallegas” and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund within the framework of the Operational Programme ERDF Galicia 2007-2013.

CTAG AWARDED FOR RESEARCH IN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN VEHICLES

Posted on 15 May, 20153 June, 2015 by desarrollo

At the tenth edition of the Barcelona International Motor Show Awards, CTAG, Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia, is one of the winning companies of the awards given to the best Innovations in Car Connectivity.

O Porriño, 8^th May 2015.- The first prize awarded to CTAG, today, Friday, 8^th May, belongs to the Car to Car category, focusing on communications between vehicles to improve their safety. CTAG is rewarded for the work performed within the SISCOGA project (Galicia Cooperative Systems), a smart cooperative corridor that integrates more than 100km on interurban roads in collaboration with the DGT and urban sections in collaboration with the City of Vigo. The objective of this permanent corridor, opened in 2011 and pioneering in Europe, is to conduct operational tests on new car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication systems.

This corridor is used in research projects, Field Operational Tests, and cooperative systems development and set-up projects and has become one of the test sites for vehicle-infrastructure communication of reference in Europe.

This corridor is currently part of two European pilot projects supporting the market deployment strategy of this type of technologies:

Compass4D, which aims to improve safety and energy efficiency for sustainable mobility in urban environments, especially in intersections http://www.compass4d.eu/
CO-GISTICS, which analyses how to improve truck logistics in cities in terms of energy efficiency using cooperative systems. (Help at intersections, recommendations to reduce CO2 emissions and facilitate truck parking) (http://cogistics.eu/)

The Barcelona International Motor Show Awards, with about thirty candidates, also rewarded Redbend and Grupo Volkswagen-Audi España for their innovations in vehicle connectivity. The aim of the awards is to promote innovation and excellence in the automotive industry by encouraging the automobile as an efficient, affordable, safe and sustainable means of transport.

1er Premio otorgado a CTAG en la categoría Car to Car

European Project DESERVE, in which CTAG collaborates, approaches culmination

Posted on 14 May, 201514 May, 2015 by desarrollo

Over 25 partners from throughout Europe, 3 years and 8 subprojects are the figures of DESERVE, whose main aim has been to facilitate the future development of ADAS Systems.

After almost three years’ work, the European Project DESERVE (Development platform for Safe and Efficient dRiVE) approaches its end within the initially previewed timeline. From its start in September 2012, DESERVE has aimed at the design and implementation of an ARTEMIS tool platform based on the standardization of interfaces, software re-use and a common developing methodology, which allows the safe integration of standardized hardware or software from different OEMs.

The project has involved the participation of over 25 partners and is divided among 8 subprojects. During this time, CTAG has collaborated in different work packages in 5 of these subprojects (in some of them the collaboration is still open), and led the work group devoted to work package 4.3, consisting in the development of functions for the detection and protection of vulnerable road users.

With just a few months ahead until the end of the project, most of the objectives have been covered. Those entities participating in the project have defined a common architecture which holds those ADAS functions either already developed or yet to be developed in future. The aforementioned architecture organizes in different layers the information reception from sensors and cooperative systems, the ADAS functions’ operations and the control over actuators and driver interfaces. Furthermore, a hardware platform for the development of ADAS systems through their successive stages has been defined and based upon the intertwined activity of a PC used in high level, an embedded controller and a FPGA.

This project has been co-financed by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism.

Aquitectura hardware Deserve — Generic hardware architecture for development within DESERVE project

CTAG and Borgwarner join their capabilities in a Joint Research Unit

Posted on 18 March, 201518 December, 2015 by desarrollo

The main objective of the creation of this research joint unit, as reflected in its name “Novos produtos e tecnoloxías de automoción para a redución de emisións” (New automotive products and technologies for emission reduction)”, is to create a pole of excellence in Galicia for the research and development of new products and technologies that contribute to sustainability of vehicles. To this end it has received support from the Axencia Galega de Innovación (Galician Innovation Agency) and from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) within the framework of the Estrategia Española de Innovación en Galicia (Spanish strategy of innovation in Galicia).

CTAG and Borgwarner offer the joint research unit their knowledge, experience and years of working together.

BorgWarner provides extensive experience in the manufacture of tubular components for the automotive industry and a track record of over 10 years of research and development in EGR coolers, which has placed it in a position of technological leadership in the manufacture of the products it offers to the market.

CTAG offers its know-how in testing and validation of engine components (EGR coolers, radiators, intercoolers…) and has the appropriate equipment for the specific needs of such components. It also has experience in virtual simulations and various technical capabilities in the field of electronic systems for automobiles.

During the launching of this Joint Unit in 2014, technology research activities, analysis of market trends and development of new concepts were carried out in order to establish a strategy for the development of cutting-edge technologies and products that enable the technology leadership of the Joint Unit in the sector. The design and manufacture of new testing equipment, specific for the new developments validation were also started, the first product designs were also worked on and virtual simulations were carried out for the optimisation of the proposed design, achieving a first prototype.

During this second year 2015, technology research activities will continue, and also the analysis of market trends, but especially the research team will focus on the development of new concepts to establish a strategy to develop cutting-edge technologies and products that enable the technology leadership of the Joint Unit in the sector. Furthermore, new testing equipment, specific for the validation of new developments, will be built and installed, product designs will be worked on and virtual simulations will be carried out for the optimisation of the proposed design with the objective of achieving and testing prototypes of various technologies.

SISCOGA Smart Corridor in European projects

Posted on 16 February, 201518 May, 2015 by desarrollo

The SISCOGA Smart Corridor, managed by CTAG, integrates more than 100km on interurban roads in collaboration with the DGT and urban sections in collaboration with the City of Vigo. The objective of this permanent corridor, pioneering in Europe, is to conduct operational tests on car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication systems.

This corridor is used in research projects, Field Operational Tests, pilot projects, and cooperative systems development and set-up projects with automotive companies.

This corridor is currently part of two European pilot projects supporting the market deployment strategy of this type of technologies:

Compass4D, which aims to improve safety and energy efficiency for sustainable mobility in urban environments, especially in intersections http://www.compass4d.eu/
CO-GISTICS, which analyses how to improve truck logistics in cities in terms of energy efficiency using cooperative systems. (Help at intersections, recommendations to reduce CO2 emissions and facilitate truck parking) (http://cogistics.eu/)

Cooperativos Road Map

CTAG leads FORTAPE, the new European Project

Posted on 16 February, 20152 March, 2015 by desarrollo

“FORTAPE: Research on efficient integrated systems for the manufacturing of complex parts based on unidirectional tapes for the automotive and aeronautical industry” starts in February 2015.

Nowadays the manufacturing technologies to obtain carbon and glass fibre unidirectional continuous tape reinforced composites are not mature enough for a full industrial implementation. FORTAPE aims to solve the barriers related to the high consumption of resources and low rate of automation, through the development of an efficient and optimized integrated system for the manufacturing of complex parts based on unidirectional fibre tapes, for its application in the automobile and aeronautics sector, with the minimum use of material and energy.

With this project CTAG reaffirms its commitment to innovation in new materials and consolidates its position at European level as technology centre of reference in this field for the automotive sector.

Press release

CTAG participates in the JEC Europe Composites Show & Conferences 2015

Posted on 16 February, 201530 July, 2015 by desarrollo

Once again CTAG will participate in the JEC Europe Composites Show & Conferences, which will be held in Paris, from 10^th to 12^th March 2015.

This is the most important event in Europe concerning composites, where exhibitors will offer their proposals and present innovations in different sectors such as the automobile, aerospace, building, civil engineering industry, etc.

Since 2004, CTAG has a research team focused on exploring novel applications for new materials in the transport sector. This team, the CTAG-New Materials R&I Group, concentrates its activities on biocomposites, nanocomposites, lightweight and high-performance composites, smart materials and plastronic. These activities have enable CTAG-New Materials to participate and coordinate several European projects, being the most relevant ones:

– FORTAPE, a research project on efficient integrated systems for the manufacturing of complex parts based on unidirectional tapes for the automotive and aeronautical industry (H2020-FoF2-2014, GA nº636860), led by CTAG.

– NATURTRUCK, that aims to develop a new bio-composite from renewable resources with improved thermal and fire resistance for manufacturing a truck internal part with high quality surface finishing (FP7-SME-2013-1, GA nº 605658, www.naturtruck.eu).

– CARBOPREC, a project oriented to the development of new precursors, functionalization and processing routes for carbon fibres (FP7-NMP-2013-LARGE-7, GA nº 604215, www.carboprec.eu).

– ECOPLAST, a research project focused on new biomass-based composites from renewable resources with improved properties for vehicle parts moulding (FP7-NMP-2009-SME-3, GA nº 246176, www.ecoplastproject.com), led by CTAG.

CTAG will take part in the exhibition at the Spain Pavilion, Booth G62, Hall 7.3.

Incorporation of the latest technology into side impact dummies: WorldSID

Posted on 15 January, 20155 May, 2015 by desarrollo

CTAG-IDIADA has incorporated the new side impact dummy required by Euro NCAP 2015. This new unit, called WorldSID, allows the availability of up to two units of this dummy to face the development projects of the side retention systems. This, together with our dynamic intrusion simulation technology, places our facilities at the forefront of this technology.

Cooperative systems to improve safety

Posted on 8 January, 201518 January, 2016 by desarrollo

CTAG has been granted funding to conduct the research project called ” Desarrollo de nuevos sistemas y aplicaciones cooperativas para la mejora de la seguridad en entornos interurbanos basados en la comunicación v2x y fcd (floating car data)” – Development of new systems and cooperative applications to improve safety in intercity environments based on v2x communication and fcd (floating car data) – with reference number SPIP2014-01517 and call decision dated 19/12/2014. This project is funded by the Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT), Ministerio del Interior of Spain.

Based on the vision of the great potential of cooperative communication systems in the increasingly booming field of smart vehicles, connected not only to other vehicles but also to the road infrastructure, the DGT has included in the projects funded by its Área de Movilidad, with reference SPIP2014-01517, the new approach proposed by CTAG on the use of vehicles as traffic information mobile sensors, using the communication channel specified by ETSI for such purpose -G5-.

CTAG’s project uses such innovative technologies as C2X, cloud computing or FCD to achieve the “detection” of events that are potentially dangerous for driving where conventional sensors do not exist to that end.

The evaluation of the technical feasibility of the proposed idea with a view to leave an open door to a real use of this information by conventional systems and services has also been studied within this initiative.

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